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Death by Space Debris
Many years ago, my dear friend James Gleick (author of “Chaos,” “Genius,” and “The Information”) rang me up with a tentative invitation to the fabulous…
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Whales Don't Want to Go to Mars (Audio)
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Audio: Today is not the first day of anything, except the rest of your life
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Do LLM's understand? AI Pioneer Yann Le Cun spars with DeepMind's Adam Brown
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The Drawing that Earned Sir Roger Penrose a Nobel Prize
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The Big Bang Theory Live with Mayim, Jonathan & Janna Levin
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SCALE, a short film about the human brain
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Today is not the first day of anything, except the rest of your life
There is nothing astronomically special about January 1, from a celestial mechanics standpoint.
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Audio: "You Are Not a Drop in the Ocean. You Are the Entire Ocean in a Drop"
Listen now | A friend of mine who spends most of her days painting in her studio, which she calls the spaceship, told me rather declaratively that I…
Dec 26, 2025
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SCALE, a short film about the human brain
This week, a scientific trip on three levels: human, micro, and macro.
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AIs Are Zombies
For creatures whose minds can be geologically deep wells of suffering, we sure do rate consciousness highly.
Dec 9, 2025
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A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines
AI visionary Alan Turing set into motion our century of machine intelligence, yet his life was fraught with plot turns that outpaced fiction. Does his…
Nov 25, 2025
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Do LLM's understand? AI Pioneer Yann Le Cun spars with DeepMind's Adam Brown
The convo starts at around timestamp 13:00, though the prelude by DJ Black Helmet is a pleasure to watch too...
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Penrose and me...in Oxford
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Science v Fiction: Both in Gary Shteyngart's Novels and in My Life
In case you're not one to enjoy the ambience as the audience drifts in, the music plays, the slides loop, the conversation begins at timestamp 11:00...
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Nobel Laureate Adam Riess and Janna Levin on the Crisis in Cosmology
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