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Particle Physicist Dr Brian Cox invites a series of unlikely guests around the biggest experiment in the history of the universe (well this one) ever. Is it a chat show? Is it an introduction to particle physics? Is it just a jolly day out in Gevena? Maybe all three.
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Video journalist making optimistic tech explainers. Huge If True. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cleoabram TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@cleoabram Twitter: https://twitter.com/cleoabram If you'd like to sponsor a Huge If True episode, reach out at the email below. If you're looking for my bio, here it is: Cleo Abram is a video journalist who produces Huge If True, an optimistic show about science and technology. Huge If True is an antidote to the doom and gloom, helping a wide audien ...
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Welcome friends, to a podcast for a darker timeline. Maybe the darkest of all timelines. Definitely not one of the good timelines. Maybe it’s always been a dark timeline, maybe the Hadron collider screwed us over. Science may never know. What we do know is that we live in the void. The void, a place where a chittering mass of void crabs can infest a person suit and win the presidency. The void, a place where we're just clever enough to know that climate change is happening, but not quite cle ...
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Will Self goes on a 50-kilometre walking tour of the Large Hadron Collider at Cern, just outside Geneva.
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The Large Hadron Collider is best known to collide protons. At CERN, every morning, scientists are known to collide something else as well – coffee and conversations. Just like a perfect blend of coffee, the Emc2 video podcast brings you the hottest science topics straight from the scientists of CERN.
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Learn about quantum mechanics, black holes, dark matter, plasma, particle accelerators, the Large Hadron Collider and other key Theoretical Physics topics. The Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics holds morning sessions consisting of three talks, pitched to explain an area of our research to an audience familiar with physics at about second-year undergraduate level.
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Megaboom!! Radio is a comedy podcast based out of whatever room, warehouse, garage or outdoor pavilion we can find that has both microphones and unlocked doors. It is also your exclusive internet home for a large Norwegian man doing impressions of a vaudeville show.
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Welcome to the while you were sleeping podcast where amazing information is shared to wake you from your slumber. Cover art photo provided by Christopher Burns on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@christopher__burns
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Astrophysicist, journalist and broadcaster Dr Stuart Clark chats about all things Universe-related with comedian (and his mate) Mark O'Sullivan. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Welcome to Astro Files! Hosted by Mickey Negus and Kymberly Peper, Astro Files is a podcast devoted to making all topics related to space, physics, astrophysics, and galactic curiosities accessible to everyone. We end each episode with five weird but true space facts. Please like and subscribe, follow us on your favorite podcast streaming platform and on Instagram @astrofiles_podcast, and leave us a comment or request for a topic. Thanks for listening, and don’t let gravity get you down!
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Rick Pulsar is the only space adventure comedy podcast on the Net. Join Rick, His alien sidekick Rufus, his home-made robot gear loose, and his mother as they spread space adventure throughout the galaxy. Each episode of Rick Pulsar: Galactic Knight of Space Justice is between 5 and ten minutes long. The crew encounters all manner of threats in the cosmos, such as Space Yoko Onos and rap battles with socially conservative nebulas. Listeners are invited to become union Space Knights by signin ...
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The Science of Revenge with James Kimmel Jr.
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My guest this week is James Kimmel Jr., a Yale Psychiatry lecturer, lawyer, and founder of the Yale Collaborative for Motive Control Studies. He has a new book out, The Science of Revenge, that overlaps heavily with my own work on luckpilling, so I was excited to have him on to discuss the problem of revenge addiction. The Science of Revenge: https…
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These are the first EVER images of the Sun’s south pole!We can’t see this side of the sun from Earth, but thanks to ESA’s Solar Orbiter we’re getting our very first look… and it couldn’t come at a more crucial time. Because the Sun’s magnetic poles are about to FLIP!The Sun goes through cycles of activity over the course of about 11 years. At the m…
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Most people don’t understand how deep submarines go…If we dove to the deepest submarine, here’s what we’d see. But we’re not even close to the deepest we can go…We’re making more videos about LIVING underwater, so subscribe!#shorts #deepocean #deepblue #science #ocean #animation #submarineBy Cleo Abram
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These new contact lenses let you see infrared light, see in the dark, and see with your eyes closed...Embedded inside the lenses are these special nanoparticles that absorb infrared light we normally can’t see. That infrared light is then converted into wavelengths of light that we CAN see. The lenses are transparent, so you can see normally and de…
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First Images From New World's Largest Camera
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These are the first pictures from the new world’s largest camera! It’s at the Vera C Rubin observatory in Chile. It discovered 2,104 new asteroids in just 10 hours, just in this little area! So it’s probably going to find WAY more... Plus, it captured 10 million galaxies.This camera is the size of a small car. Its sensor is 3,200 megapixels. For co…
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Guess the animal: Their eyes can rotate independently in three dimensions. They can perceive distance with just one eye. And they can see WAY more of the electromagnetic spectrum than we can. Can you guess it?These giant eyes are at the end of stalks, allowing them to swivel on their own. If you zoom in, you’ll see they have thousands of individual…
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Near v. Far Side of the Moon (TOTALLY Different)
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The near and far side of the moon look totally different. Why is that?!?Look at this... For more optimistic science and tech, subscribe!#shorts #moon #animation #space #deep #astrophysicsBy Cleo Abram
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In 2020 during the Australian bush fires, a top-secret firefighting operation was launched to protect a secret location. This is the story of what they kept secret... If you like optimistic science and tech stories like this… subscribe! #shorts #fossil #animation #australia #treeBy Cleo Abram
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Race, Time, and Utopia with William Paris
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My returning guest this week is William Paris, an Assistant Professor in the department of philosophy at University of Toronto, as well as one of the cohosts on the wonderful What’s Left of Philosophy Podcast. He’s got a wonderful new book out called Race, Time and Utopia: Critical Theory and the Process of Emancipation and he is very much my guy f…
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My returning guest this week is Will Gervais (@willgervais.com), a professor who studies evolutionary and cultural psychology at the Centre for Culture and Evolution at Brunel University London. He recently published a book called Disbelief: The Origins of Atheism in a Religious Species and it’s genuinely a must read for anyone who either believes …
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Trans Activism in Atheism/Secularism with Arden Hart
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My guest this week is Arden Hart (@theardenhart.bsky.social), host, producer, and editor of The Line on YouTube, a call-in show that focuses on issues around atheism and social justice. She recently gave an excellent talk about transphobia in atheism and skepticism at the American Atheist Conference which we discuss along with her broader work. Ard…
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In this special episode celebrating the United Nations' International Year of Quantum Science and Technology and World Quantum Day, we dive into the mysterious world of quantum entanglement—this time, at the scale of top quarks. Join us as we speak with Giulia Negro (CMS Experiment, Purdue University) and Yoav Afik (ATLAS Experiment, University of …
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My guest this week is Mark Marveggio (@unluckywanderer.bsky.social), a PhD candidate in Psychology at the University of Adelaide and co-lead author on a paper called Fatalism, Evolution, and Interpersonal Attractiveness: Psychological Theories and Emotions in Incels’ Constructions of Ingroup Identity and Outgroup Hate. We discuss the three major id…
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The spiral of Joe Mercola with Jonathan Jarry
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My guest this week is Jonathan Jarry (@jonathanjarry.bsky.social), a science communicator at McGill Office for Science and Society. We discuss his recent expose on how Joe Mercola, millionaire friend of RFK Jr., is completely enthralled to a man claiming to channel a higher dimensional being. It's a wild ride so buckle up! Jonathan’s Expose Video: …
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Luckpilled Q and A 300th Episode Extravaganza!
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My guest this week is Sarah Tulien (@sarahtulien.bsky.social), executive director of the Creator Accountability Network and together we tackle all the best questions and patron names a show could possibly hope for. Music by GW Rodriguez Editing by Adam Wik Sibling Pod: Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/ Support us at Patreon.co…
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My guest this week is Ursa Wright, my giant C Captain and co-host from Philosophers in Space. We discuss the sophisticated masterpiece that is Shorsey and how it can help us work through the current discourse around meaning making for men in the modern world. Shorsey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoresy Music by GW Rodriguez Editing by Adam Wik S…
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The Know Rogan Experience with Marsh and Cecil
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My guests this week are the hosts of the new podcast The Know Rogan Experience, Cecil Cicirello and Michael Marshal. We discuss their backgrounds in skepticism, their goal with starting a podcast about Rogan, and why Rogan is particularly appealing to men who are struggling with modernity. The Know Rogan Experience: https://www.knowrogan.com/ AIPT …
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5: Exploring matter–antimatter asymmetry with LHCb
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Why does our universe seem to be made almost entirely of matter, with barely any antimatter in sight? Join us as we dive in this podcast episode of Early Morning Coffee at CERN (Emc2) into the fascinating world of LHCb, the LHC's beauty experiment, with two leading experimentalists, Yasmine Amhis and Patrick Koppenburg. We explore how the LHCb expe…
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Biology and Bigotry with Ed Buckner
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My guest this week is Ed Buckner, a secular organizer, former president of American Atheists. Ed is the author of the book In Freedom We Trust: An Atheist Guide to Religious Liberty, as well as the Substack blog Letters to a Free Country, where he recently posted a piece responding to my article “Biology is not Ethics” about the conflict around FFR…
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Trans Activism in Secular Spaces with Kat Grant
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My guest this week is Kat Grant a Wisconsin based attorney, activist, legal educator, and author of the new blog TransingBoundaries, which focuses on the intersections of law, politics, religion, and queerness. Kat recently finished up an Equal Justice Works Fellowship at the Freedom From Religion Foundation, where they exclusively worked on the Wh…
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Back to our normal format with returning guest Toby Buckle of the Political Philosophy Podcast. We discuss his recent Liberal Currents article "A Disease of Affluence", where he argues that MAGA is a result of lack of precarity rather than economic anxiety, combined with the human need to feel superior or dominant over others. We also discuss socia…
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Luckpilled Chapter Four: Pedagogy of Luck
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Episode five of our luckpilled series! We discuss the final chapter of my dissertation on pedagogy of luck. We work through the old pedagogy of luck and how it crashes the educational commons, before discussing how to do luckpilling generally and how to integrate it with three other progressive pedagogies: Mindfulness, social-emotional learning, an…
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How can the Large Hadron Collider turn lead into primordial soup and why? Join us as we dive into the world of heavy ion collisions at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC). In this episode, we connect with an expert from the LHC’s Beam Operations team and a researcher from the ALICE experiment to uncover the science behind colliding lead ions instead…
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Luckpilled Chapter Three: Politics of Luck
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Episode four of my luckpilling series, where I'm once again joined by Sarah Tulien, executive director of the Creator Accountability Network. We discuss chapter three of my dissertation, which covers the politics of luck, particularly the way that meritocracy dominates modern politics and suppresses social progress by making people appear to deserv…
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3: Searching dark matter at the Large Hadron Collider
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Can dark matter be produced at the Large Hadron Collider? On Dark Matter Day, discover how scientists at CERN are using cutting-edge technology and computing to tackle one of the universe’s biggest mysteries. Hear from host Steven Goldfarb and our guests Baptise Ravina from the ATLAS experiment and Annapaola de Cosa from the CMS experiment. In this…
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Luckpilled Chapter Two: Psychology of Luck
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Episode three of my luckpilling series, where I'm once again joined by Sarah Tulien, executive director of the Creator Accountability Network. We discuss chapter two of my dissertation, which covers the psychology of luck, particularly the role of luck in how we explain the events in our lives, and the legitimizing myths of the just-world illusion …
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Luckpilled Chapter One: Philosophy of Luck
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Episode two of my luckpilling series, where I'm once again joined by Sarah Tulien, executive director of the Creator Accountability Network. We discuss chapter one of my dissertation, which covers the philosophy of luck, particularly why the (lack of) control account of luck is the best account and why it follows that everything is luck. Sarah's Bi…
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Luckpilled: A New Pedagogy of Luck Introduction
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Hi friends! As promised, I'm back from "sabbathical" with a (five?) part series on my dissertation. Accompanying me in this journey is Sarah Tulien, executive director of the Creator Accountability Network. She's here to save me from the horrors of monologuing and keep me on track and accountable, as well as to discuss the links between luckpilling…
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Understanding and Countering Fascist Movements with Joan Braune
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My guest this week is Joan Braune, a Lecturer in Philosophy at Gonzaga University. We discuss her recently published book Understanding and Countering Fascist Movements: From Void to Hope, which seems increasingly relevant by the day, so enjoy! Understanding and Countering Fascism: https://www.routledge.com/Understanding-and-Countering-Fascist-Move…
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My guest this week is Mark Green, a professional environmental activist and a member of the atheopagan society council. He’s the author of three books, most recently Round We Dance: Creating Meaning through Seasonal Rituals. We discuss the challenges and benefits with his approach to secular paganism. Round We Dance: https://www.amazon.com/Round-We…
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Take a deep dive into the past, present and future of Higgs-boson research at CERN. Tune in to a special podcast on the occasion of the enigmatic boson’s 12th anniversary. In this episode, 00:00 Teaser 00:13 Intro 03:29 4 July 2012 07:38 Why was this important? 14:29 Behind the discovery 28:19 Bosons and fermions 30:23 Books and metaphors 33:02 Sin…
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