Podcast appearances and mentions of Freeman Dyson

Freeman Dyson imaginó en 1960 una estructura colosal que envolvería una estrella para capturar toda su energía. Hoy, esta teoría va más allá de la ciencia ficción: científicos ven en ella el camino hacia la inmortalidad y la resurrección digital. Este episodio conecta la fascinante teoría de la Esfera de Dyson con los visionarios modernos que buscan trascender la muerte, y rescata la historia olvidada de la Real Fraternidad de Maestros Metafísicos, que en los años 30 intentó crear un "bebé inmortal" mediante prácticas metafísicas. Un viaje por las ideas más ambiciosas sobre la eternidad humana, desde la megaingeniería cósmica hasta los experimentos sociales más extravagantes. Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

Bob samples from Alex O'Connor, Ben Shapiro, and Freeman Dyson to offer his latest understanding of the connection between free will, the self, and quantum uncertainty.Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest:Alex O'Connor debates Ben Shapiro on God.Freeman Dyson on free will and quantum physics.The double-split experiment showcasing uncertainty at atomic level.The BMS episode which outlines Bob's "red dot in a movie theater" analogy to reconcile human free will with God's sovereignty.The link for Monetary-Metals.com.Help support the Bob Murphy Show.

William (Will) Happer, the Cyrus Fogg Bracket Professor of Physics and one of the pioneers in the field of optically polarized atoms, transferred to emeritus status at the end of the 2014 academic year. Will is known for developing rigorous theories to analyze his elegant atomic physics experiments as well as for extensive service to Princeton and the U.S. government. His research has initiated several vibrant fields outside of atomic physics. He has published over 200 scientific papers. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. He was awarded the 1997 Broida Prize and the 1999 Davisson-Germer Prize of the American Physical Society. In this episode, Will Happer discusses the controversial and often politically charged field of climate science, critiquing its strong alignment with political agendas and the suppression of dissenting voices. He expresses hope for more rigorous scientific reviews and red team analyses under new leadership, drawing parallels to historical examples of scientific suppression and resilience. Happer also highlights his own scientific achievements, including the development of adaptive optics using sodium guide stars, and underscores the importance of practical experience and genuine scientific inquiry in fostering a more scientifically literate society. 00:00 Introduction and Guest Introduction 00:20 Trump's Impact on Climate Policy 01:52 Challenges in Climate Science 04:49 The Role of Government and Appointments 07:27 The Deep State and Administrative Challenges 30:16 The Importance of Practical Experience 34:21 Freeman Dyson and Influential Scientists 45:32 Greenhouse Gas Effect and Conclusion More about Will Happer: https://dof.princeton.edu/people/william-happer ========= AI summaries of all of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL89cj_OtPeenLkWMmdwcT8Dt0DGMb8RGR X: https://x.com/TomANelson Substack: https://tomn.substack.com/ About Tom: https://tomn.substack.com/about

En avancerad utomjordisk civilisation behöver stora mängder energi, resonerade fysikern Freeman Dyson. Ett sätt att hitta intelligent liv i rymden är därför att spana efter utomjordiska ingenjörsprojekt i rymden, som de så kallade Dysonsfärerna - enorma ”solfångare” som utomjordingarna använder för att tygla sin hemstjärnas kraft för sina behov. Enligt en färsk studie kan vi i princip redan ha observerat sju stycken sådana sfärer, i jordens relativa närhet. Redaktör: Marcus Rosenlund. E-post: kvanthopp@yle.fi

Join us on this mind-expanding journey as we dive deep into the cosmic concept of Dyson spheres! In this episode of The Stoner Budeez Podcast, we explore the theoretical megastructures that could harness the energy of entire stars. We also give a shoutout to the brilliant mind behind the idea, Freeman Dyson, a theoretical physicist and mathematician known for his groundbreaking work in quantum electrodynamics and his visionary ideas about space exploration. Whether you're a seasoned stoner or just curious about the universe, this episode will take your high thoughts to the next level. So, pack a bowl, sit back, and let your imagination soar through the stars with us. Tune in, light up, and get ready to explore the cosmos in a way only The Stoner Budeez can!

En este episodio, exploramos una de las ideas más fascinantes y ambiciosas de la astrofísica y la ciencia ficción: las Esferas de Dyson. Estas hipotéticas megaestructuras, propuestas por el físico Freeman Dyson, rodearían una estrella para capturar una gran parte de su energía. ¿Qué tan realistas son estas construcciones? ¿Podrían existir civilizaciones alienígenas avanzadas que hayan desarrollado tales tecnologías? Nos adentraremos en los principios científicos detrás de las Esferas de Dyson, desde sus fundamentos teóricos hasta los desafíos prácticos de su construcción. Analizaremos cómo estas megaestructuras podrían resolver problemas energéticos a escala planetaria y discutirán los posibles materiales y tecnologías necesarias para construirlas.

Por décadas, objetos ao redor de estrelas habitaram a ficção científica. Estruturas colossais envolvendo estrelas inteiras, capazes de capturar toda sua energia, foram imaginadas por Freeman Dyson em 1960. Hoje dois grupos de astrônomos encontraram sinais intrigantes em sessenta estrelas, inexplicáveis por processos naturais conhecidos, sugerindo a possível presença dessas megaestruturas. Estaríamos à beira de confirmar a existência de vida extraterrestre altamente desenvolvida?

Una civiltà avanzatissima riuscirebbe a chiudere una stella in una enorme struttura sferica per catturarne l'energia e usarla per le proprie necessità? Dovrebbe essere una sfera artificiale più grande della stessa stella. Una struttura ipotizzata per la prima volta nel 1960 da un astronomo visionario che per questo porta il suo nome: è la leggendaria sfera di Dyson. Un gruppo di astronomi ha annunciato di avere individuato sette stelle che potrebbero avere le caratteristiche anomale ma giuste per ospitare Sfere di Dyson. Ma in pochi sono d'accordo. E poi UFO e UAP e poi il Progetto SETI e il mitico Segnale WOW! Puoi votare DiscoScienza per il premio IlPod AmazonMusic qui. Le fonti. Le sette stelle di Dyson. Chi era Freeman Dyson. Una bella video animazione che spiega cosa sono le Sfere. UFO tra noi? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Megaestructuras extraterrestresJuan Jesús Vallejo habla sobre el físico Freeman Dyson, cuando en los años sesenta teorizó sobre la posibilidad que civilizaciones extraterrestres utilizarán la energía de una estrella completa; para esto había que hacer alrededor de la estrella, superestructuras para así poder absorber la energía. Esto  haría que las estrellas obserbadas desde la tierra mostraran diferente anomalías desde un telescopio. En este capítulo nos cuenta que la teoría de Dyson ha sido noticia, lo que probocó que diferentes grupos de investigación de universidades de prestigio mundial localizaran diferentes estrellas en el firmamento que podrían estar cubiertas con estas famosas megaestructuras.La ciencia lo que está haciendo ultimamente es buscar civilizaciones extraterrestres.Conoce más detalles sobre estas investigaciones.¡Descubre más sobre los hallazgos extraterrestres en este episodio fascinante!                                              

Welcome to the Crazy Wisdom Podcast! I'm your host, Stewart Alsop, and today I have the pleasure of speaking with Ash Jogalekar, a science writer, communicator, and product developer known for his profound insights on the history of science. We connected on Twitter, where I was drawn to his thoughts on various scientific and philosophical topics. Our discussion covers an array of intriguing subjects, from the visionary ideas of Freeman Dyson, including the famous Dyson sphere, to the exciting potentials and challenges in genetic engineering and the future of nuclear power. Ash's thoughtful reflections provide a deep dive into how today's science fiction could soon become tomorrow's reality. For more of Ash's insights, you can follow his monthly column on Three Quarks Daily and his blog, Curious Wavefunction. Check out this GPT we trained on the conversation! Timestamps 00:05 - Introduction to Freeman Dyson and his contributions to science, including the Dyson sphere and its implications for detecting extraterrestrial civilizations. 00:10 - Discussion on the potential and regulation of genetic engineering, Dyson's vision of a future where genetic modifications become a common hobby, and the balance needed between innovation and regulation. 00:15 - Insights into the historical development and future potential of nuclear power, the impact of environmental and regulatory challenges, and innovations like small modular reactors. 00:20 - The significance of nanotechnology, particularly in drug delivery, and how nanoparticles can improve the stability and efficacy of medications by targeting specific areas in the body. 00:25 - The importance of recognizing outliers in scientific research, how unique cases can lead to significant breakthroughs, and the need for better statistical techniques and AI tools to identify and explore these outliers. 00:30 - Exploration of the interplay between philosophy and science, the implications of quantum mechanics on deterministic views, and the importance of being open-minded to fringe ideas in scientific exploration. 00:35 - Conversation about the psychological and societal adjustments required for long-term space travel, the feasibility of human missions to Mars, and the concept of von Neumann probes in nanotechnology. 00:40 - Further discussion on the practical challenges and future possibilities of nuclear propulsion in space travel, including the idea of using nuclear explosions to propel spacecraft. 00:45 - Overview of Jogalekar's day job involving molecular simulations to improve the properties of various molecules, the role of the cloud in handling large datasets, and the use of physics-based tools in this research. 00:50 - Discussion on the importance of effective science communication, highlighting key science writers like Freeman Dyson, James Gleick, and Richard Rhodes, and the principles of engaging and educating the audience. 00:55 - Reflections on the significance of interdisciplinary approaches in science, the potential of AI in identifying unique scientific insights, and the role of novel statistical methods in enhancing scientific research. Key Insights Freeman Dyson's Visionary Ideas: Freeman Dyson, a mathematical physicist and polymath, is celebrated for both his rigorous scientific work and his far-out ideas. One of his most famous concepts is the Dyson sphere, a theoretical structure built around a star to harness its energy. Dyson proposed that we could detect extraterrestrial civilizations by looking for the heat they generate, as all advanced civilizations would produce waste heat detectable as infrared radiation. His work exemplifies the blend of imaginative thinking grounded in scientific calculations. Genetic Engineering and the Future: Dyson was also enthusiastic about genetic engineering, predicting that it would become as commonplace as computer hobbyism. He envisioned a future where children could grow their own genetically engineered organisms at home, fostering innovation and creativity. This idea underscores the importance of balancing regulation with the need to allow new technologies to develop and demonstrate their potential. Regulation and Innovation: The conversation highlighted the critical balance needed in regulating emerging technologies like genetic engineering and AI. Overzealous regulation can stifle innovation, but a lack of regulation can lead to unintended consequences. Dyson and Jogalekar advocate for a cautious approach, allowing some room for trial and error to understand the full potential and risks of these technologies before implementing stringent controls. Nuclear Power's Potential and Challenges: The discussion touched on the historical and future potential of nuclear power. While nuclear energy faced setbacks due to regulatory and environmental challenges, there is renewed interest in its potential to provide clean and reliable energy. Innovations like small modular reactors and advanced recycling techniques for nuclear waste are promising areas of development. The historical context, including the failures and successes of past nuclear projects, provides important lessons for future advancements. The Role of Nanotechnology: Nanotechnology holds significant promise, particularly in fields like drug delivery. By packaging drugs in nanoparticles, we can improve their stability and ensure they reach their target within the body without breaking down prematurely. This precision in drug delivery could revolutionize treatments and increase the efficacy of many medications, showcasing how nanoscale innovations can have a substantial impact on healthcare. Outliers in Scientific Research: Jogalekar emphasized the importance of paying attention to outliers in scientific data. These unique cases, often dismissed as anomalies, can lead to significant breakthroughs. For example, a clinical outlier led to the discovery of a new method to reduce cholesterol. This approach underscores the need for more sophisticated statistical techniques and AI tools to identify and explore these outliers effectively, which can lead to new insights and innovations. The Interplay of Philosophy and Science: The episode delved into the philosophical implications of scientific discoveries, particularly in quantum mechanics and consciousness. The probabilistic nature of quantum mechanics challenges traditional deterministic views and has inspired both scientific and philosophical exploration. Jogalekar advocates for an open-minded approach to these fringe ideas, recognizing that even seemingly far-fetched concepts can contribute to our understanding of reality and drive scientific progress.

Una sfera di Dyson è un concetto ipotetico che propone la costruzione di una megastruttura, o uno sciame di strutture, intorno a una stella per catturarne l'energia. Ideata dal fisico Freeman Dyson, questa struttura avrebbe lo scopo di intercettare e utilizzare una porzione significativa o tutta l'energia emessa da una stella, soddisfacendo così le esigenze energetiche di una civiltà avanzata. La realizzazione di una sfera di Dyson comporta sfide immense: richiederebbe materiali avanzati per resistere alle condizioni estreme dello spazio e alla radiazione stellare, sistemi avanzati di automazione e robotica per la costruzione e manutenzione, e tecnologie di propulsione e di gestione dell'energia ancora non disponibili. La logistica di raccogliere, elaborare e trasportare risorse su scala interplanetaria o addirittura interstellare rappresenta un'altra sfida significativa. Lo scenario più probabile per avvicinarsi a questa impresa sarebbe lo sviluppo graduale di uno "sciame di Dyson", una serie di strutture indipendenti che orbitano intorno a una stella, ciascuna catturando una frazione dell'energia stellare. Questo approccio modulare e scalabile potrebbe consentire progressi incrementali, riducendo i rischi e permettendo l'uso di tecnologie via via più avanzate. Le implicazioni di riuscire in un'impresa del genere sarebbero rivoluzionarie, offrendo accesso a quantità quasi illimitate di energia, il che potrebbe trasformare radicalmente le capacità della civiltà umana, dalla colonizzazione dello spazio alla risoluzione dei problemi energetici sulla Terra.

I got to know George Dyson 23 years ago. When we started Blue Origin, one of the really cool and unusual things that happened is we hired a historian. We hired George to be there at the beginning and kind of see where this all began. We thought - not just because of hubris - we thought it was such a unique moment in history, to be able to try and make a go at going to space. George had us print shit out and stick it in a box. He said one of the big problems for historians is these days everything's digital and just floats away and disappears and nobody has access to it. We're losing this historical record, and I thought that was so interesting. The truth is, George is just one of the most delightful people I know. He's a wonderful human who has lived an absurdly unique life. An intense sense of humility, an intellect that I think is just world-class even though he opted not to take the route of building all the credentials. I learn a lot hanging out with George. As I'm sure most people know, he's the son of the famous physicist Freeman Dyson. And Freeman died about a year before we recorded this at age 99. Freeman was a wonderful human with an expansive mind that contributed to so many different areas in physics. A lot of the ideas that we are still trying to figure out how to do in the universe, came from Freeman. And so George grew up, obviously with Freeman, but at a time when Freeman was at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, with other luminaries in science. With John Von Neumann, with Einstein around, and so it made for George into a pretty unique guy. I'm just thrilled to finally share him with you. We recorded this at his Tavern in Bellingham, Washington. George Lived in a tree house in his twenties, barefoot. We talk about that a little bit, but then he ended up taking the earnings from his first book and buying this old Tavern in Bellingham. It still is still serves as his workshop. We recorded there and as you'll hear, it's by the train tracks and we get a lot of noise from the train tracks. I apologize for any audio issues. I really screwed up the audio and we did everything we could to try and clean it up and make it good for you. Important Links: Darwin Among the Machines Project Orion: The True Story of the Atomic Spaceship Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe Analogia: The Emergence of Technology Beyond Programmable Control The Starship and the Canoe Biographical Memoir of Freeman Dyson by the Royal Society

TLM - En 1960 Freeman Dyson propuso que las civilizaciones avanzadas podrían crear megaestructuras que encerraran su estrella, permitiéndoles aprovechar toda la energía de su estrella y multiplicar el espacio habitable que podrían ocupar. Ahora, un reciente trabajo, propone una idea mejor: mover planetas. Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

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In this episode, Dinesh traces the pattern of Joe Biden's whoppers and tall tales, culminating in the yarn he told in Hawaii about how his house burned down.  Dinesh examines Trump's pledge that, if elected to the presidency once again, he'll destroy the cartels in the same way that he destroyed ISIS during his first term.  Dinesh reviews the ideas of the renowned Princeton physicist Freeman Dyson, who dissents from climate orthodoxy on the basis of what he insists is sound science. Author Stella Morabito joins Dinesh to talk about her ideas about loneliness in the modern era, and how Hillary Clinton shamelessly plagiarized the theme of her recent book. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In Episode 185 of the CounterVortex podcast, Bill Weinberg reviews the Oppenheimer movie, and discusses the legacy of J. Robert Oppenheimer 78 years after Hiroshima. Manhattan Project dissidents like Leo Szilard petitioned to stop the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan. But such sentiment was overruled by Harry Truman's geopolitical imperatives—and what Freeman Dyson called the "technical arrogance" of Oppenheimer and his circle. Now, as open Russian nuclear threats continue to mount in Europe, we are poised at the brink of unparalleled catastrophe. Listen on SoundCloud or via Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/countervortex Production by Chris Rywalt We ask listeners to donate just $1 per weekly podcast via Patreon -- or $2 for our new special offer! We now have 57 subscribers. If you appreciate our work, please become Number 58!

Freeman John Dyson (15 December 1923 – 28 February 2020) was a British-American theoretical physicist and mathematician known for his works in quantum field theory, astrophysics, random matrices, mathematical formulation of quantum mechanics, condensed matter physics, nuclear physics, and engineering. He was professor emeritus in the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and a member of the board of sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Dyson originated several concepts that bear his name, such as Dyson's transform, a fundamental technique in additive number theory, which he developed as part of his proof of Mann's theorem; the Dyson tree, a hypothetical genetically engineered plant capable of growing in a comet; the Dyson series, a perturbative series where each term is represented by Feynman diagrams; the Dyson sphere, a thought experiment that attempts to explain how a space-faring civilization would meet its energy requirements with a hypothetical megastructure that completely encompasses a star and captures a large percentage of its power output; and Dyson's eternal intelligence, a means by which an immortal society of intelligent beings in an open universe could escape the prospect of the heat death of the universe by extending subjective time to infinity while expending only a finite amount of energy. Dyson disagreed with the scientific consensus on climate change. He believed that some of the effects of increased CO2 levels are favourable and not taken into account by climate scientists, such as increased agricultural yield, and further that the positive benefits of CO2 likely outweigh the negative effects. He was skeptical about the simulation models used to predict climate change, arguing that political efforts to reduce causes of climate change distract from other global problems that should take priority. Original video ⁠here⁠⁠ Full Wikipedia entry ⁠here⁠ Freeman Dyson's books ⁠here --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theunadulteratedintellect/support

“An imaginative restructuring of a phantasmagoric life into an alternative phantasmagorical story. Oppenheimer fans will be intrigued.” —Martin J. Sherwin, co-author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the basis for Christopher Nolan's movie OppenheimerWhile J. Robert Oppenheimer and his Manhattan Project team struggle to develop the atomic bomb, Edward Teller wants something even more devastating: a weapon based on nuclear fusion — the mechanism that powers the sun. But Teller's research leads to a terrifying discovery: by the mid-21st century, the sun will eject its outermost layer, destroying the entire planet Earth.Oppenheimer combines forces with Albert Einstein, Hans Bethe, Freeman Dyson, Enrico Fermi, Richard Feynman, Leo Szilard, John von Neumann, and Kurt Gödel — plus rocket scientist Wernher von Braun — in a race against time to save our planet.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/houseofmysteryradio. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/houseofmysteryradio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Greg Bennick is BACK!!! For another great episode. Greg Bennick is the author of the upcoming official biography of Ernest Becker. Greg has been speaking on stages worldwide for over thirty years.  Greg is a performer thought provoker, punk rock singer, and world traveller who infuses ideas and action everywhere he goes. He is the Executive Director and founder of One Hundred for Haiti, a non-profit supporting development programs in rural Haiti, and he is a co-founder of the Portland Mutual Aid Network, which collectively supports the houseless and unsheltered community in Portland, Oregon. He lives in Seattle, Washington. Greg's previous episode with us is https://learningtodie.com.au/podcasts/3-dolphins-to-wwii-with-greg-bennick-on-the-work-of-ernest-becker/ Contact our guest Greg: https://gregbennick.com/ Check out our research study on dreams, death anxiety and religion. Open to all >18 years https://dreamteam.study/   Links from our discussion Podcasts Dr Rachel Menzies on her book about denial of death “Mortals” https://learningtodie.com.au/podcasts/27-dr-rachel-menzies-mortals-how-the-fear-of-death-shaped-human-society/ Freeman Dyson and Stephen Blackwood: On the Freedom of Thought and Nature https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSbY8I-3338   Books Ernest Becker books https://www.thriftbooks.com/a/ernest-becker/205137/ Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind by Tom Holland https://www.amazon.com.au/Dominion-Making-Western-Tom-Holland/dp/1408706954 Dr Iain McGilchrist “The Matter with Things” https://channelmcgilchrist.com/matter-with-things/ Rene Girard, Scapegoats https://www.amazon.com.au/Scapegoat-Ren%C3%A9-Girard/dp/0801839173 Yukio Mishima Sun and Steel   People Ernest Becker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Becker Freeman Dyson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeman_Dyson Alan Watts https://alanwatts.org/life-of-alan-watts/ Yukio Mishima Sun and Steel   Information: Religious affiliation in Australia https://www.abs.gov.au/articles/religious-affiliation-australia Academic paper: Riordan, D.V. The Scapegoat Mechanism in Human Evolution: An Analysis of René Girard's Hypothesis on the Process of Hominization. Biol Theory 16, 242–256 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13752-021-00381-y Follow us Ciaran on Substack https://substack.com/profile/23799980-quarrelsome-life The YouTube version of this episode has a video and some slides. Contact us at ian@learningtodie.com.au or ciaran@learningtodie.com.au.  

TRANSCRIPT   Listen to ASCO's Journal of Clinical Oncology essay, “Cemetery Rounds” by David Steensma, a hematologist-oncologist in Boston. The essay is followed by an interview with Steensma and host Dr. Lidia Schapira. Steensma describes the complex emotions that result from encountering graves of former patients on walks through a cemetery in his New England hometown. Narrator: Cemetery Rounds, by David Steensma, MD, FACP  In the summer of 1784, the body of a 4-month-old infant named Sally was the first to be laid in the earth of the hill next to my home. The gravedigger's backhoe still cuts into the ground about once a week in what has become the largest cemetery in this Massachusetts town. During the recent pandemic, the graveyard was an open place with no need to wear a mask, so I often walked its quiet paths in the evening to stretch my legs after long hours hunched over a computer. These unhurried ambles were a chance to reflect on the day's events and make plans for future days—and sometimes to ruminate on life and how it ends. Little Sally's simple slate marker, with a willow and urn carved above the names of her parents and a short, grim epitaph—“A pleasant plant, a blooming flower, Cut down & wither'd in an hour”—has been joined by thousands of other tombstones over the past two centuries. After a dozen years living in this Boston suburb, I now recognize some of the names on these memorials: Stones that mark the final resting place of people who were once friends or fellow members of the same Congregational church that Sally's family belonged to long ago, and stones with surnames shared by nearby schools and streets.  There are too many gravestones that recall young people who were once classmates of our children in the town's schools. Walking past those memorials means remembering moments of shock and sadness: news about car wrecks and ski accidents, suicides, sudden collapses on hockey or football fields, and the other disasters that take the lives of the young. Stones for the 21st century children are all in the newest part of the cemetery, with its memorials for those who died within living memory. In that part of the cemetery, visitors still often leave toys, Boston Bruins or New England Patriots pennants, lacrosse sticks, and horse reins.  Sally's stone, in contrast, is the oldest part of the cemetery. It is surrounded only by close cropped grass and stout trees. Once I saw a freshly cut flower laying on Sally's grave, and I wondered who left it. It is rare to see those ancient graves get special attention—a bracing reminder that no matter how bright our star might shine in our own era, we will all eventually be forgotten. The largest and most prominent gravestone in the cemetery recalls the grandson of a local eccentric. This boy drowned in New Hampshire's Lake Sunapee at age 17 while trying to save another teenager who had fallen from a boat. It was the second time a close family member of the man had drowned: In 1893, as a child, he watched his older sister slip beneath the swift water of the Annisquam River. He reacted to this pair of tragedies by declaring a lifelong war on gravity.  Grief is not always rational, although it may be productive. The eccentric man became wealthy—by predicting the 1929 stock market crash and by starting a successful business analysis firm—and he created a well-funded private foundation to understand and combat gravity. This Gravity Research Foundation sponsored important conferences attended by Albert Einstein and other luminaries and awarded prizes to Stephen Hawking, Freeman Dyson, and a half-dozen Nobel laureates in physics. Gravity, however, remains unconquered and incompletely understood. All of us will eventually be pulled into the earth by its unrelenting grip. A growing number of gravestones bear the names of people who were once my patients at a Boston cancer institute. Some days it is hard to see those stones on my evening walks, noticing name after name that once graced a clinic schedule or hospital rounding list, and to be so starkly reminded of how our best efforts ultimately failed them.  Most of the time, though, what I recall are the happier moments with these patients, which keeps these walks from being morbid. Cancer centers are not known for being joyous places, yet surprisingly, often there is laughter in clinic rooms or on morning hospital rounds. We oncologists celebrate milestones with our patients: remissions achieved, college degrees completed, new grandchildren, and long awaited weddings attended. We know that graves like these await all of us, but for a while, we can put that aside and not just live but thrive. In one corner of the cemetery, a small marble bench faces a stone that marks the final resting place of one memorable former patient: A young woman with a wicked sense of humor who, as a grieving relative said at her funeral, was wise beyond her years, and taken before her time. When I rested on that bench last night, I was reminded of what French vascular surgeon Ren´e Leriche wrote in 1951, at the end of his long career: Every surgeon carries within himself a small cemetery, where from time to time he goes to pray-a place of bitterness and regret, where he must look for an explanation for his failures. For me that cemetery is a physical place as well as metaphorical.  Yet when I think of her, I always smile, remembering who she was, and the happiness she brought to those around her. When she was alive, her hospital room was a place of laughter and hope rather than bitterness and regret. Even after a long day in the clinic, when I made hospital rounds in the evening, it was a joy to see her and discuss the events of the day. I do not know how she kept it up for so long in the face of so many disappointments and frustrations. Everything we tried to treat her cancer eventually failed her—every antibody, cell therapy, and drug after drug after drug. Even when new treatment regimens were declared at national meetings to be active, well tolerated, and worthy of further study, she always seemed to be one of those who had not responded or who suffered intolerable side effects. One door after another closed so that soon the only available doors were the ones that took her back home, with the support of a kind and skilled hospice team. At times, she could sense my sense of failure as I sat by her bedside and would try to reassure me as if the sorrow was mine instead of hers. It's all right, it will be OK. We did what we could. You did what you could. Now it's time to move on. Where did she get the strength? Eventually, as evening turned to night, it grew cold in the cemetery. I moved on, buoyed by her memory. Saying good night to Sally, I headed home. Dr. Lidia Schapira: Hello, and welcome to JCO's Cancer Stories: The Art of Oncology, which features essays and personal reflections from authors exploring their experience in the field of oncology. I'm your host, Dr. Lidia Schapira, Associate Editor for Art of Oncology and a Professor of Medicine at Stanford University. Today we're joined by Dr. David Steensma, who currently leads hematology early development for a biotech company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was for many years a faculty member in the Leukemia Program at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, and also a past Editor for Art of Oncology. In this episode, we'll be discussing his Art of Oncology article, “Cemetery Rounds.”  Our guest disclosures will be linked in the transcript. David, welcome to our podcast and thank you for joining us.  Dr. David Steensma: Thank you for having me. Dr. Lidia Schapira: I'd like to start by asking you a little bit about your process for writing. You have published beautiful essays in JCO and in other venues, and I know you've always been a writer. Talk a little bit about that, especially for some of our younger listeners  Dr. David Steensma: This is the first article that I've submitted to the Art of Oncology in a number of years, actually, and this one was a long time in gestation. One of the things that I found over the years is that whether I'm writing and how much progress I'm making is a really good barometer of where I'm at mentally. And I think the fact that this took the better part of three years to write probably illustrates how difficult these last few years have been for me as they have for so many of us. Sometimes writing happens very quickly. You get a germ of an idea, something maybe you've been mulling over for a long time and it all falls into place. But much more often, it's a process in which one is trying to express what is very difficult sometimes to say appropriately. Dr. Lidia Schapira: Some of your articles, including this one, have elements of history in it, and I think that's something that you've always been interested in, not only medical history but history in general, sort of what was happening at a time when somebody was ill or an illness was first described, or in this case, people were buried. Tell us a little bit about that, about combining your interest in history with your medical writing.  Dr. David Steensma: I think I like to tell stories and really always have. If I didn't do medicine, one of the other two alternatives was journalism. And I've always been interested in how things got to be the way that they are. So I think that naturally is reflected in the writing.  Dr. Lidia Schapira: I know you're also an avid reader, so what would I find now on your night table or on the desk alongside the medical journals that probably are unopened? Dr. David Steensma: Wow. I have some science. I have Ed Yong's amazing book about the microbiome. I just started reading I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy, a former child actor, which has just got rave reviews, so reading about her difficult upbringing in this memoir and her mother's death from breast cancer. And so the third one over on the shelf over there that I have off is ASCO-SEP because I'm doing the 10-year medical oncology board renewal next week. I've been doing the LKA for hematology, but I've also kept up MedOnc and internal medicine. It was just too painful to think about all three. So I have all these NTRK and ROS1 inhibitors and pathways for advanced cervical cancer jumbling around in my head right now, which I'm sure a lot of our listeners could relate to. Dr. Lidia Schapira: I can relate to the anxiety I felt the last time I was recertified, and I swore it would be the last time. So thank you for spending a little time with us. Maybe it's a distraction from the other. Yeah.  I wanted to talk about “Cemetery Rounds.” We were so happy to get your paper after all these years. A reviewer said, “Oh, thank goodness, Steensma's writing again.” Tell us a little bit about this quiet, meditative practice of walking along the cemetery near your home, especially during the pandemic. Dr. David Steensma: Well, the pandemic did so many weird things, and just everything was different, from the way we bought food to the way that we caught up with loved ones to the way we structured our days. Everything changed, and one of the things we ended up doing was spending even more time in front of our computers. And I'm kind of fidgety, always have been. So by the end of the day, I'd had a lot of energy I needed to get out and thought about where I could walk nearby that was a good place to stretch my legs. And we lived right around the corner from an old cemetery and quite a large one, a cemetery that actually got quite busy during COVID, so I didn't really think about that part of it. But they brought in at the beginning of the pandemic, all kinds of extra materials for digging graves and cleared out some additional area. It was really quite striking just seeing that happen.  But one of the things I think I didn't prepare myself for mentally, walking through that cemetery, which is a beautiful place, very respectful, and well kept, was how many patients and other people I would recognize. And just walking past stone after stone with names that I recognized, people who had been my patient or those of colleagues that I'd interacted with on inpatient services over the years, a number of children who had been our kids' classmates in the town's public schools and who had sadly run into one tragedy or another. It was really quite striking how many of the people I felt like in a very old cemetery, how many names I recognized. There were a lot, of course, I didn't, but their surnames were on the streets nearby and the town founders. And this sort of made me reflect, particularly when I noticed that we don't normally see our patients' graves. We may attend their funerals or their memorial services, but even that often the last time we see them is when they're going home to a hospice setup or to an inpatient hospice or sometimes just at a last clinic visit, and then something sudden happens.   So this seemed like something that could have been very sad. But I think partly because of the tranquility of the place and the mindset of the pandemic, there was actually a lot of reflection of positive things, interactions with these patients - the happiness sometimes that we brought to each other, conversations that had been difficult, but also events that have been happy milestones that they got to see because of our care. And then also the hard realization that ultimately modern cancer care failed them that's why they were there. So just a lot to reflect on in a time when it seemed like death was all around anyway because of the pandemic. So I thought, gosh, this would be something I think people could relate to.  Dr. Lidia Schapira: It struck me that you describe your approaching these gravestones as an intimate space that we normally don't get to be part of, that sort of belongs to the family and the friends and the community, but the clinician is often not there. And it struck me also that the immediate thing you talk about was how therapies have failed them. And I just wondered if you could talk a little bit more about that. Maybe because we're both part of the same culture, it's so easy immediately to think that we did something wrong and that's why they ended up there. But can you reflect a little bit more about that particular aspect of our work? Dr. David Steensma: Yeah, just because an outcome was sad doesn't mean that mistakes were made, but may reflect the limitations of the science and art of medicine as they currently are. I think surgeons wrestle with this a lot. And in fact, I included a quote in the essay by Rene Leriche, a well-known French vascular surgeon in the 1950s, who talked about how each surgeon has their own personal cemetery of a place that they go to reflect from time to time. And that's something that in M&M conferences I was always shocked as a student and trainee just how brutal they were on each other and on themselves. It's part of this surgical culture. But I think surgery naturally lends itself to thinking that somehow you did something wrong.   And perhaps in medicine, we're a little bit more in touch with the fact that we followed the guidelines perfectly. We got advice from colleagues, patients were presented at conferences. We enrolled them in clinical trials of things that seemed interesting and promising and just that the disease just kept coming back. And so that's not necessarily a personal failure. And I think in that circumstance, there's maybe a little bit more space, a little bit more permission to connect with the memory of that person in a positive way and reflect on who they were and what they meant for their families and for the others that they interacted with. And so when I see these stones, I don't think, "Oh man, I really screwed up, and that's why they're here." Never, never. I think about, "Gosh, we tried so much, and he or she went through so much, and yet this was where they ended." Dr. Lidia Schapira: It seems to me a very healthy approach, certainly. And I loved the surgeon's quote here in the essay, that every surgeon carries within himself a small cemetery, not just the surgeon. I think, as you said, we do as well. I also love the framing of the fact that it's not so much guilt but sorrow that we carry for them and also that they affect our lives. I remember when you talked about your patients, I remember the article you published about Michaela, the little girl who played the cello on the Leukemia ward and got to be famous. And in this particular article, you talk about a young woman who somehow seemed to think that she needed to comfort you and reassure you that you did everything that you could. Those are such beautiful memories, and you have such a talent for sort of paying tribute to your current and past patients that this is really so beautiful to read. And with that, I just wanted to ask a personal question, if I may, and that is, do you miss the clinical work? Dr. David Steensma: I do, definitely. So, yes, I am always impressed by the strength of patients and of their families often, and people manifest that in different ways. But I've just seen so many amazing things over the years. When I decided that I wanted to try to influence cancer care and hematology care in a different way and move to direct hematology and early development in a research institute affiliated with a company, I, unfortunately, had to step back from seeing patients at Dana-Farber because it was considered a conflict of interest. It hadn't been until just a few months before but, you know, new rules. So I do miss that. And I've been thinking a lot about ways to get back to making those connections because, yes, it is meaningful to be developing new medicines, but there's something also very immediate about being there for a person in a time of need. And those relationships that you build, by far, that was the hardest part of making the job transition with so many patients that I had long-term relationships with; that was hard.  Dr. Lidia Schapira: So my last question is more philosophical. I am teaching a course for undergraduates that involves explaining how people experience illness. So I've been reading a lot of illness memoirs throughout my career, and I was looking for scholars who had worked on this and found, of course, Arthur Frank and his themes of how illness is portrayed by patients, stories of shipwrecks and catastrophes or quests or restitution of meaning. And I wondered if you had given any thought to the same sort of narratives that oncologists play in their heads of how they treat patients. What do you think are the most important themes in the way oncologists think of and remember the patients they've treated? Dr. David Steensma: One of the things that's special about oncology is that even though it's a profession that is very much scientifically based, that we connect with patients at a point in their narrative and often get to know them over months, years, and that narrative and who each of us is along that journey change over time. So I think that's what makes our field really compelling. At least it was very attractive to me. That's very much true. I think of other fields as well, where you do have longitudinal care of a patient, but there is something special about a cancer diagnosis and what that makes people think and how their families and people around them react. That I think, is unique.   It really is an honor to be with patients through this narrative, and Arthur Frank has written about that and about the sort of patient story and how that evolves. And I think that's a healthy way of thinking about what people go through. And we also have to remember it's their story that we're fortunate to be able to witness. And when you walk past a tombstone, you know maybe a little bit about how that story ends, but there's always a birth date and there's a death date, and there's a dash in between, and we know very often very little about that dash. Maybe we were a little part of it, but that encompasses their whole lived experience.  Dr. Lidia Schapira: I think that's a beautiful way to end this. I tend to think of us when we're in our clinician roles as co-editors of that story if we are invited to play that part, and that's such an honor and privilege.   David, thank you so much. I hope and ask that you please continue to write. We all have so much to learn from you.   Until next time thank you for listening to JCO's Cancer Stories: The Art of Oncology. Don't forget to give us a rating or review and be sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode. You can find all ASCO shows at asco.org/podcast. The purpose of this podcast is to educate and to inform. This is not a substitute for professional medical care and is not intended for use in the diagnosis or treatment of individual conditions.   Guests on this podcast express their own opinions, experience, and conclusions. Guest statements on the podcast do not express the opinions of ASCO. The mention of any product, service, organization, activity, or therapy should not be construed as an ASCO endorsement.  Show Notes:  Like, share and subscribe so you never miss an episode and leave a rating or review. Guest Bio:  Dr. David Steensma is a hematologist-oncologist in Boston, and formerly long-time faculty member in the leukemia program at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School. Additional Reading: A Cello for Michayla, by Steensma

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Pablo Peniche does front-end engineering, marketing, and design. Wears many hats at Viennahypertext Twitter: https://twitter.com/PabloPeniche https://vienna.earth/ What do Mexicans think about Central Americans? What is the relationship between urbit and vienna hypertext? What is vienna hypertext? An information network Create different canvases with blocks Why is vienna hypertext hard to build on urbit? Does engineering advance science or does science advance engineering? What is the relationship between science and engineering? What is the difference between hard sciences and soft sciences? How do you build a tool for the humanities? What effect will that have on engineering and science? What is the anti-anti-anti-anti liberalism speech from Peter Theil? https://youtu.be/fQ4rc7npiXQ What are the false idols of Scientism? What is the relationship between millenarianism and scientism cults? Why do human beings fall under homo religious rather than homo sapiens the thinking primate? Lets do space travel! Why is Elon Musk right and why is he wrong? Why should the pope declare a space crusade? What is the kardashev scale? type 1 is all the resources of one planet type 2 is another the sun type 3 is multiple stars Why do atheists believe that collecting books is the way to western enlightenment? How did Charlemagne invent the book with his codexes? How are all historians revisionists? If the news fake, imagine history? Lets talk about climate change What do the models measure? Physics of fluids Movements in the atmosphere and the oceans Can't get quality of soil or animals dying or matter outside of that Topsoil captures carbon Can you be pro-environment and pro-immigration at the same time in terms of top-soil? Can you look at the global scale and actually change anything meaningful? How do you deal with unknown unknowns? Can computers ever discover what we don't know we don't know? How is the stock market an example of the way things are getting done? All models are incorrect but some are useful sometimes Are humans due for another ice age? Who is Freeman Dyson? What is a dyson sphere? What is the relationship between Feynmen and Freeman? Why do you specifically have the ability to question heretical answers? How is the internet the most powerful tool that humans have ever created? How is contrarianism the secular antidote to the problem knowledge? How did René Gerard decide that Christianity is the way to solve the problem of unknown unknowns and mimetic rivalry? What did Gerard say about scapegoating? How did Gerard meme himself into being Christian? Why you shouldn't fight on the minutiae of mimetic rivalry? How do you measure carbon in the topsoil? How can we build personal biological computers? Who is John von Neumann? How did he build a machine for war? How did Liberia end up in such a different place from the US even though they have almost the same constitution?

Please support the podcast by taking our short listener survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/intotheimpossible For that last four years of his life, Freeman Dyson would spend winters in La Jolla, and work alongside physicists at UC San Diego (as well as the super-secret scientific advisory group known as the JASONS). This video was from my last conversation with Freeman at UC San Diego in 2018. Freeman Dyson was Professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study. Mathematician, physicist, philosopher and iconoclast Freeman Dyson was one of the most influential, far-reaching and unconstrained minds of our age. His explorations -- ranging from fusion power to star-encapsulating energy collectors called 'Dyson Spheres' -- stimulated thinkers around the globe. Boldly speculating ahead trillions of years, Dyson has been called the top theologian of the 20th century. Always unabashed, he has raised controversy from all ends of the political spectrum with unusual ideas about climate change. Dyson came to Cornell University as a graduate student in 1947 and worked with Hans Bethe and Richard Feynman, producing a user-friendly way to calculate the behavior of atoms and radiation. Though he never formally received his PhD, Dyson's work was incredibly influential and diverse. He worked on fields ranging from nuclear reactors, to solid-state physics, to ferromagnetism, astrophysics, and biology, looking for situations where elegant mathematics could be usefully applied. Dyson's books include Disturbing the Universe, Origins of Life, The Scientist as Rebel, and most recently. Dyson was a fellow of the American Physical Society, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a fellow of the Royal Society of London. In 2000, he was awarded the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion. Topics include Freeman's final book, Maker of Patterns: A Life in Letters:: https://amzn.to/3auNIbG , science and religion, and the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI). In 2019 Freeman and Greg Benford (UCSD PhD 1967) had a conversation, moderated by me and hosted at UCSD about the deep future of humanity. Find that video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riPDQ3VJBCI Lastly, please see here for a nice retrospective on Freeman by San Diego Union-Tribune reporter, Gary Robbins: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/science/story/2020-02-28/remembering-famed-physicist-freeman-dyson-and-his-la-jolla-years Connect with Professor Keating:

Marcelo Gleiser is the Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy at Dartmouth, a world-renowned theoretical physicist and public intellectual. He's authored hundreds of technical and nontechnical papers and essays, and six books in English translated to 15 languages, the latest being Great Minds Don't Think Alike. His popular writings explore the historical, religious, and philosophical roots of science. Marcelo is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a recipient of the Presidential Faculty Fellows Award from the White House, and founder and past director of the Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement at Dartmouth. He co-founded NPR's 13.7 Science and Culture blog, and currently writes weekly for BigThink.com. He is the 2019 Templeton Prize laureate, an honor he shares with Mother Tereza, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Dalai Lama, and scientists Freeman Dyson, Jane Goodall, Francis Collins, and Sir Martin Rees.In this episode we talk about: What first drew Marcelo to physics in his childhoodOn his first encounters with beauty in scienceWhy Marcelo finds asymmetries in the world beautifulWhy scientific models can be misleadingCan we view science as the absolute truth?On the problem with ultimate theories of everythingHow can realizing science is limited actually fuel our pursuit for more knowledge?How does our lost connection with nature affect us as a society?What is the relationship between science and spirituality?How can one overcome corrosive institutional pressures in science?To learn more about Marcelo's work, visit: https://marcelogleiser.com Resources Mentioned:The blind spot: https://aeon.co/essays/the-blind-spot-of-science-is-the-neglect-of-lived-experienceThis episode is sponsored by Templeton Religion Trust as part of a grant on the aesthetic dimensions of science (TRT0296). To learn more about them, visit www.templetonreligiontrust.orgThis episode is also sponsored by the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies, a global research center located at the University of Southern California. IACS works to create dialogue, spark ideas and sustain academic research on Catholic thought, creative imagination and lived experience. Learn more at iacs.usc.eduSupport us on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/BeautyatWorkPodcastSupport the show

I am joined by environmentalist and 'climate heretic' Pablo Penietzsche to discuss the possible benefits of a warming planet. Topics include: climate acceleration, Freeman Dyson, methane trees, a green Sahara, global pastoralism, climate science vs. climate dogmas, terraforming, Open Source GMOs, Bitcoin Space Race, Catholic monasteries on Mars. https://vienna.earth/plate/pablo/trees-produce-methane https://twitter.com/viennahypertext ONCE AGAIN I AM ASKING YOU TO BECOME A PATRON AND GET EVERY EPISODE EARLY AS WELL AS BONUS CONTENT

It's hard to predict how personality traits will affect behavior in new situations.We don't have a good grasp of the difference between a “new situation” and “a variant of an old situation.”Small differences in the situation (like recent good luck) can make a big difference in how traits like “helpfulness” are expressed. So you'll probably need to try it and see ("probe-sense-response"), rather than assume you can find out enough to predict ("sense-analyze-respond").Summary sources:John M. Doris, Lack of Character: Personality and Moral Behavior, 2005. (This is focused on questions in the philosophical idea of "virtue ethics". Unless you care about that, this is mostly a place to find primary sources.)Walter Mischel, "Toward an Integrative Science of the Person", 2004Also cited or used:Theodore Newcomb, The consistency of certain extrovert-introvert behavior patterns in 51 problem boys, 1929. (Not available online. Link is to the University of Illinois Library copy. All hail interlibrary loan!)Alice M. Isen and Paula F. Levin, "Effect of feeling good on helping: cookies and kindness", 1972. (The pay phone experiment)John M. Darley and Daniel Batson, "'From Jerusalem to Jericho': A Study of Situational and Dispositional Variables in Helping Behavior", 1973 (the seminarian experiment).John M. Digman, "Personality Structure: Emergence of the Five-Factor Model", 1999 Walter Mischel, Personality and Assessment, 1968David J. Snowden and Mary E. Boone, "A Leader's Framework for Decision Making", Harvard Business Review, 2007. (I used this for quotes and claims about the Cynefin framework, which is pronounced "kuh-NEV-in", as it's a Welsh word.)Freeman Dyson, Infinite in All Directions, 1998Miscellaneous: “Always try to get data that's good enough that you don't need to do statistics on it.”What 0.14 correlation looks likeCreditsTwo-slot postage stamp vending machine image courtesy the Smithsonian Museum. Public domain.

We're back and it's 2023. Let's kick off the year with an episode discussing some of my favorite books I read last fall. There's a bit of SpaceX news at the beginning too, so give it a listen. I'd love if you could support the work I do here by checking out my website, Starlight and Gleam. (https://www.starlightandgleam.com/shop) Thank you for listening and I appreciate the support! Subscribe to The Space Shot on Substack for emails delivered directly to your inbox. Check it out here (https://thespaceshot.substack.com/p/coming-soon?r=5tgvq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=copy) Let me know if you have any questions, email me at john@thespaceshot.com. You can also call 720-772-7988 if you'd like to ask a question for the show. Send questions, ideas, or comments, and I will be sure to respond to you! Thanks for reaching out! Do me a favor and leave a review for the podcast if you enjoy listening each day. Screenshot your review and send it to @johnmulnix or john@thespaceshot.com and I will send you a Space Shot sticker and a thank you! You can send me questions and connect with me on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter, by clicking one of the links below. Facebook (https://m.facebook.com/thespaceshot/) Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/johnmulnix/) Twitter (https://twitter.com/johnmulnix) Episode Links: The Age of Radiance by Craig Nelson The Age of Radiance: The Epic Rise and Dramatic Fall of the Atomic Era (https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Age-of-Radiance/Craig-Nelson/9781451660449) Wingless Flight by R Dale Reed. Give the full PDF a read via NASA History. (https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4220.pdf) R Dale Reed NASA Biography- https://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/news/X-Press/50thanniversary/drivingforces/drivingforcesp-r.html Mayday Over Wichita by D.W. Carter Mayday Over Wichita: The Worst Military Aviation Disaster in Kansas History (Hardcover) (https://www.watermarkbooks.com/book/9781540208491) Piatt St. Park- https://www.wichita.gov/ParkandRec/CityParks/Pages/Piatt.aspx The Age of Eisenhower- by William Hitchcock The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s (https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Age-of-Eisenhower/William-I-Hitchcock/9781451698428) Uravan Colorado- http://www.uravan.com/ Project Orion- Death of a Project, by Freeman Dyson- https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.149.3680.141 Book- Project Orion: The True Story of the Atomic Spaceship (https://www.amazon.com/Project-Orion-Story-Atomic-Spaceship/dp/0805059857) Nuclear Pulse Propulsion: Orion and Beyond- https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20000096503

Virtual reality has taken off in recent years. But what if the virtual worlds of VR are real -- just as real, perhaps, as the physical world we see around us? And... is it possible we're living in a simulation right now? Philosopher David Chalmers probes these questions in his provocative new book, Reality+. And on the nightstand: A new biography of physicist Freeman Dyson, called Well, Doc, You're In, edited by David Kaiser; and As Gods, by Matthew Cobb.

Dr. Corsi received his Ph.D. from Harvard University's Department of Government in 1972, when he was 20 years old. From 1972-to 1982, he worked as a university professor, with his final faculty appointment at the University of Denver. There, Dr. Corsi conducted a National Science Foundation randomized field test proving telephone hearings met due process standards in unemployment and welfare fair hearings. He also published game-theoretic articles in scientific journals and received a national security clearance to work with the U.S. State Department on terrorism. For the next 25 years, Dr. Corsi worked in financial services, where he created two bank marketing companies that each reached sales totals of $1 billion a year in annuities and $1 billion in mutual funds. Since 2004, Dr. Corsi has written 30 books on politics and economics, two of which were #1 New York Times bestsellers. He has retired from active involvement in day-to-day politics to devote more time to writing. He is also currently working with his wife, Monica Corsi, to create HablaConUnMD.com, a telemedicine Internet company providing Spanish-speaking medical doctors to conference remotely with Spanish-speaking patients. Author of the 2022 book: The Truth About Energy, Global Warming and Climate Change: Exposing Climate Lies in an Age of Disinformation." https://drjeromecorsi.com/ http://www.wnd.com/author/jcorsi/ Corsi mentions Thomas Gold's "The Deep Hot Biosphere: The Myth Of Fossil Fuels". Foreword by Freeman Dyson. —— Tom Nelson's Twitter: https://twitter.com/tan123 Substack: https://tomn.substack.com/ About Tom: https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2022/03/about-me-tom-nelson.html Notes for climate skeptics: https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2019/06/useful-notes-for-climate-skeptics.html ClimateGate emails: https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/p/climategate_05.html

Arik Korman is on a journey to learn from superhumans - people who have done remarkable things or have remarkable ideas to share - so that he can be the best dad he can be for his son, AJ. The Arik Korman Show on iHeartRadio, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts features conversations with thought leaders from the arts, sciences, academia, and more. Previous guests have included newsmakers Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, Robert Reich, Rahm Emanuel, Congressman Eric Swalwell, author Salman Rushdie, dance icon Misty Copeland, Tiger Mom Amy Chua, former CIA operative Valerie Plame, and pollster Nate Silver; actors Gary Oldman, Henry Winkler, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Carrie Fisher; Nobel Prize-winners Richard Thaler and Joseph Stiglitz; scientists Freeman Dyson, E.O. Wilson, and Brian Greene; and musicians Elle King, Itzhak Perlman, Esperanza Spalding, and Melissa Etheridge. Find and support Arik Korman online: Website: https://arikonline.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/arikkorman Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArikKorman For more information on how you can Own Your Awkward with Andy Vargo, check out https://www.awkwardcareer.com/ #podcast #awkward #ownyourawkward #acceptance #authentiicity #motivation #inspiration #Tacoma #seattle #radio #football #wenatchee #podcast #host #guest #broadcast #career #interview #fail --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/own-your-awkward/support

Arik Korman is on a journey to learn from superhumans - people who have done remarkable things or have remarkable ideas to share - so that he can be the best dad he can be for his son, AJ. The Arik Korman Show on iHeartRadio, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts features conversations with thought leaders from the arts, sciences, academia, and more. Previous guests have included newsmakers Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, Robert Reich, Rahm Emanuel, Congressman Eric Swalwell, author Salman Rushdie, dance icon Misty Copeland, Tiger Mom Amy Chua, former CIA operative Valerie Plame, and pollster Nate Silver; actors Gary Oldman, Henry Winkler, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Carrie Fisher; Nobel Prize-winners Richard Thaler and Joseph Stiglitz; scientists Freeman Dyson, E.O. Wilson, and Brian Greene; and musicians Elle King, Itzhak Perlman, Esperanza Spalding, and Melissa Etheridge. Find and support Arik Korman online: Website: https://arikonline.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/arikkorman Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArikKorman For more information on how you can Own Your Awkward with Andy Vargo, check out https://www.awkwardcareer.com/ #podcast #awkward #ownyourawkward #acceptance #authentiicity #motivation #inspiration #Tacoma #seattle #radio #football #wenatchee #podcast #host #guest #broadcast #career #interview #fail --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/own-your-awkward/support

Freeman Dyson (1923–2020)—renowned scientist, visionary, and iconoclast—helped invent modern physics. Not bound by disciplinary divisions, he went on to explore foundational topics in mathematics, astrophysics, and the origin of life. General readers were introduced to Dyson's roving mind and heterodox approach in his 1979 book Disturbing the Universe, a poignant autobiographical reflection on life and science.  "Well, Doc, You're In": Freeman Dyson's Journey through the Universe (MIT Press, 2022) (the title quotes Richard Feynman's remark to Dyson at a physics conference) offers a fresh examination of Dyson's life and work, exploring his particular way of thinking about deep questions that range from the nature of matter to the ultimate fate of the universe. The chapters—written by leading scientists, historians, and science journalists, including some of Dyson's colleagues—trace Dyson's formative years, his budding interests and curiosities, and his wide-ranging work across the natural sciences, technology, and public policy. They describe Dyson's innovations at the intersection of quantum theory and relativity, his novel nuclear reactor design (and his never-realized idea of a spacecraft powered by nuclear weapons), his years at the Institute for Advanced Study, and his foray into cosmology. In the coda, Dyson's daughter Esther reflects on growing up in the Dyson household. “Well, Doc, You're In” assesses Dyson's successes, blind spots, and influence, assembling a portrait of a scientist's outsized legacy. Contributors: Jeremy Bernstein, Robbert Dijkgraaf, Esther Dyson, George Dyson, Ann Finkbeiner, Amanda Gefter, Ashutosh Jogalekar, David Kaiser, Caleb Scharf, William Thomas. Matthew Jordan is a university instructor, funk musician, and clear writing enthusiast. He studies the history of science and technology, driven by the belief that we must understand the past in order to improve the future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Freeman Dyson (1923–2020)—renowned scientist, visionary, and iconoclast—helped invent modern physics. Not bound by disciplinary divisions, he went on to explore foundational topics in mathematics, astrophysics, and the origin of life. General readers were introduced to Dyson's roving mind and heterodox approach in his 1979 book Disturbing the Universe, a poignant autobiographical reflection on life and science.  "Well, Doc, You're In": Freeman Dyson's Journey through the Universe (MIT Press, 2022) (the title quotes Richard Feynman's remark to Dyson at a physics conference) offers a fresh examination of Dyson's life and work, exploring his particular way of thinking about deep questions that range from the nature of matter to the ultimate fate of the universe. The chapters—written by leading scientists, historians, and science journalists, including some of Dyson's colleagues—trace Dyson's formative years, his budding interests and curiosities, and his wide-ranging work across the natural sciences, technology, and public policy. They describe Dyson's innovations at the intersection of quantum theory and relativity, his novel nuclear reactor design (and his never-realized idea of a spacecraft powered by nuclear weapons), his years at the Institute for Advanced Study, and his foray into cosmology. In the coda, Dyson's daughter Esther reflects on growing up in the Dyson household. “Well, Doc, You're In” assesses Dyson's successes, blind spots, and influence, assembling a portrait of a scientist's outsized legacy. Contributors: Jeremy Bernstein, Robbert Dijkgraaf, Esther Dyson, George Dyson, Ann Finkbeiner, Amanda Gefter, Ashutosh Jogalekar, David Kaiser, Caleb Scharf, William Thomas. Matthew Jordan is a university instructor, funk musician, and clear writing enthusiast. He studies the history of science and technology, driven by the belief that we must understand the past in order to improve the future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/mathematics

Freeman Dyson (1923–2020)—renowned scientist, visionary, and iconoclast—helped invent modern physics. Not bound by disciplinary divisions, he went on to explore foundational topics in mathematics, astrophysics, and the origin of life. General readers were introduced to Dyson's roving mind and heterodox approach in his 1979 book Disturbing the Universe, a poignant autobiographical reflection on life and science.  "Well, Doc, You're In": Freeman Dyson's Journey through the Universe (MIT Press, 2022) (the title quotes Richard Feynman's remark to Dyson at a physics conference) offers a fresh examination of Dyson's life and work, exploring his particular way of thinking about deep questions that range from the nature of matter to the ultimate fate of the universe. The chapters—written by leading scientists, historians, and science journalists, including some of Dyson's colleagues—trace Dyson's formative years, his budding interests and curiosities, and his wide-ranging work across the natural sciences, technology, and public policy. They describe Dyson's innovations at the intersection of quantum theory and relativity, his novel nuclear reactor design (and his never-realized idea of a spacecraft powered by nuclear weapons), his years at the Institute for Advanced Study, and his foray into cosmology. In the coda, Dyson's daughter Esther reflects on growing up in the Dyson household. “Well, Doc, You're In” assesses Dyson's successes, blind spots, and influence, assembling a portrait of a scientist's outsized legacy. Contributors: Jeremy Bernstein, Robbert Dijkgraaf, Esther Dyson, George Dyson, Ann Finkbeiner, Amanda Gefter, Ashutosh Jogalekar, David Kaiser, Caleb Scharf, William Thomas. Matthew Jordan is a university instructor, funk musician, and clear writing enthusiast. He studies the history of science and technology, driven by the belief that we must understand the past in order to improve the future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/biography

Freeman Dyson (1923–2020)—renowned scientist, visionary, and iconoclast—helped invent modern physics. Not bound by disciplinary divisions, he went on to explore foundational topics in mathematics, astrophysics, and the origin of life. General readers were introduced to Dyson's roving mind and heterodox approach in his 1979 book Disturbing the Universe, a poignant autobiographical reflection on life and science.  "Well, Doc, You're In": Freeman Dyson's Journey through the Universe (MIT Press, 2022) (the title quotes Richard Feynman's remark to Dyson at a physics conference) offers a fresh examination of Dyson's life and work, exploring his particular way of thinking about deep questions that range from the nature of matter to the ultimate fate of the universe. The chapters—written by leading scientists, historians, and science journalists, including some of Dyson's colleagues—trace Dyson's formative years, his budding interests and curiosities, and his wide-ranging work across the natural sciences, technology, and public policy. They describe Dyson's innovations at the intersection of quantum theory and relativity, his novel nuclear reactor design (and his never-realized idea of a spacecraft powered by nuclear weapons), his years at the Institute for Advanced Study, and his foray into cosmology. In the coda, Dyson's daughter Esther reflects on growing up in the Dyson household. “Well, Doc, You're In” assesses Dyson's successes, blind spots, and influence, assembling a portrait of a scientist's outsized legacy. Contributors: Jeremy Bernstein, Robbert Dijkgraaf, Esther Dyson, George Dyson, Ann Finkbeiner, Amanda Gefter, Ashutosh Jogalekar, David Kaiser, Caleb Scharf, William Thomas. Matthew Jordan is a university instructor, funk musician, and clear writing enthusiast. He studies the history of science and technology, driven by the belief that we must understand the past in order to improve the future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

Freeman Dyson (1923–2020)—renowned scientist, visionary, and iconoclast—helped invent modern physics. Not bound by disciplinary divisions, he went on to explore foundational topics in mathematics, astrophysics, and the origin of life. General readers were introduced to Dyson's roving mind and heterodox approach in his 1979 book Disturbing the Universe, a poignant autobiographical reflection on life and science.  "Well, Doc, You're In": Freeman Dyson's Journey through the Universe (MIT Press, 2022) (the title quotes Richard Feynman's remark to Dyson at a physics conference) offers a fresh examination of Dyson's life and work, exploring his particular way of thinking about deep questions that range from the nature of matter to the ultimate fate of the universe. The chapters—written by leading scientists, historians, and science journalists, including some of Dyson's colleagues—trace Dyson's formative years, his budding interests and curiosities, and his wide-ranging work across the natural sciences, technology, and public policy. They describe Dyson's innovations at the intersection of quantum theory and relativity, his novel nuclear reactor design (and his never-realized idea of a spacecraft powered by nuclear weapons), his years at the Institute for Advanced Study, and his foray into cosmology. In the coda, Dyson's daughter Esther reflects on growing up in the Dyson household. “Well, Doc, You're In” assesses Dyson's successes, blind spots, and influence, assembling a portrait of a scientist's outsized legacy. Contributors: Jeremy Bernstein, Robbert Dijkgraaf, Esther Dyson, George Dyson, Ann Finkbeiner, Amanda Gefter, Ashutosh Jogalekar, David Kaiser, Caleb Scharf, William Thomas. Matthew Jordan is a university instructor, funk musician, and clear writing enthusiast. He studies the history of science and technology, driven by the belief that we must understand the past in order to improve the future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/science

Freeman Dyson (1923–2020)—renowned scientist, visionary, and iconoclast—helped invent modern physics. Not bound by disciplinary divisions, he went on to explore foundational topics in mathematics, astrophysics, and the origin of life. General readers were introduced to Dyson's roving mind and heterodox approach in his 1979 book Disturbing the Universe, a poignant autobiographical reflection on life and science.  "Well, Doc, You're In": Freeman Dyson's Journey through the Universe (MIT Press, 2022) (the title quotes Richard Feynman's remark to Dyson at a physics conference) offers a fresh examination of Dyson's life and work, exploring his particular way of thinking about deep questions that range from the nature of matter to the ultimate fate of the universe. The chapters—written by leading scientists, historians, and science journalists, including some of Dyson's colleagues—trace Dyson's formative years, his budding interests and curiosities, and his wide-ranging work across the natural sciences, technology, and public policy. They describe Dyson's innovations at the intersection of quantum theory and relativity, his novel nuclear reactor design (and his never-realized idea of a spacecraft powered by nuclear weapons), his years at the Institute for Advanced Study, and his foray into cosmology. In the coda, Dyson's daughter Esther reflects on growing up in the Dyson household. “Well, Doc, You're In” assesses Dyson's successes, blind spots, and influence, assembling a portrait of a scientist's outsized legacy. Contributors: Jeremy Bernstein, Robbert Dijkgraaf, Esther Dyson, George Dyson, Ann Finkbeiner, Amanda Gefter, Ashutosh Jogalekar, David Kaiser, Caleb Scharf, William Thomas. Matthew Jordan is a university instructor, funk musician, and clear writing enthusiast. He studies the history of science and technology, driven by the belief that we must understand the past in order to improve the future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Freeman Dyson (1923–2020)—renowned scientist, visionary, and iconoclast—helped invent modern physics. Not bound by disciplinary divisions, he went on to explore foundational topics in mathematics, astrophysics, and the origin of life. General readers were introduced to Dyson's roving mind and heterodox approach in his 1979 book Disturbing the Universe, a poignant autobiographical reflection on life and science.  "Well, Doc, You're In": Freeman Dyson's Journey through the Universe (MIT Press, 2022) (the title quotes Richard Feynman's remark to Dyson at a physics conference) offers a fresh examination of Dyson's life and work, exploring his particular way of thinking about deep questions that range from the nature of matter to the ultimate fate of the universe. The chapters—written by leading scientists, historians, and science journalists, including some of Dyson's colleagues—trace Dyson's formative years, his budding interests and curiosities, and his wide-ranging work across the natural sciences, technology, and public policy. They describe Dyson's innovations at the intersection of quantum theory and relativity, his novel nuclear reactor design (and his never-realized idea of a spacecraft powered by nuclear weapons), his years at the Institute for Advanced Study, and his foray into cosmology. In the coda, Dyson's daughter Esther reflects on growing up in the Dyson household. “Well, Doc, You're In” assesses Dyson's successes, blind spots, and influence, assembling a portrait of a scientist's outsized legacy. Contributors: Jeremy Bernstein, Robbert Dijkgraaf, Esther Dyson, George Dyson, Ann Finkbeiner, Amanda Gefter, Ashutosh Jogalekar, David Kaiser, Caleb Scharf, William Thomas. Matthew Jordan is a university instructor, funk musician, and clear writing enthusiast. He studies the history of science and technology, driven by the belief that we must understand the past in order to improve the future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/science-technology-and-society

Freeman Dyson (1923–2020)—renowned scientist, visionary, and iconoclast—helped invent modern physics. Not bound by disciplinary divisions, he went on to explore foundational topics in mathematics, astrophysics, and the origin of life. General readers were introduced to Dyson's roving mind and heterodox approach in his 1979 book Disturbing the Universe, a poignant autobiographical reflection on life and science.  "Well, Doc, You're In": Freeman Dyson's Journey through the Universe (MIT Press, 2022) (the title quotes Richard Feynman's remark to Dyson at a physics conference) offers a fresh examination of Dyson's life and work, exploring his particular way of thinking about deep questions that range from the nature of matter to the ultimate fate of the universe. The chapters—written by leading scientists, historians, and science journalists, including some of Dyson's colleagues—trace Dyson's formative years, his budding interests and curiosities, and his wide-ranging work across the natural sciences, technology, and public policy. They describe Dyson's innovations at the intersection of quantum theory and relativity, his novel nuclear reactor design (and his never-realized idea of a spacecraft powered by nuclear weapons), his years at the Institute for Advanced Study, and his foray into cosmology. In the coda, Dyson's daughter Esther reflects on growing up in the Dyson household. “Well, Doc, You're In” assesses Dyson's successes, blind spots, and influence, assembling a portrait of a scientist's outsized legacy. Contributors: Jeremy Bernstein, Robbert Dijkgraaf, Esther Dyson, George Dyson, Ann Finkbeiner, Amanda Gefter, Ashutosh Jogalekar, David Kaiser, Caleb Scharf, William Thomas. Matthew Jordan is a university instructor, funk musician, and clear writing enthusiast. He studies the history of science and technology, driven by the belief that we must understand the past in order to improve the future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Willie Soon, an astrophysicist and geoscientist, is a leading authority on the relationship between solar phenomena and global climate. In this 32+ years of singular pursuit, he seeks to understand the Sun-Earth relations in terms of not only meteorology and climate, but also in terms of orbital dynamics of Sun-Earth-other planets interactions, magmatic (volcanoes) and tectonic (earthquakes) activities. His discoveries challenge computer modelers and advocates who consistently underestimate solar influences on cloud formation, ocean currents, and wind that cause climate to change. He has faced and risen above unethical and often libelous attacks on his research and his character, becoming one of the world's most respected and influential voices for climate realism. In 2018, he founded the Center for Environmental Research and Earth Sciences (CERES-science.com) in order to tackle a wider range of issues and topics without fears nor prejudices. Dr. Soon was an astrophysicist at the Solar, Stellar and Planetary Sciences Division of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, from 1991-2022. He served as receiving editor for New Astronomy from 2002-2016, astronomer at the Mount Wilson Observatory from 1992-2009. He is also on the editorial board of Geoscience, an MDPI publication since 2020 as well as serving as Review Editor of Frontiers in Earth Science starting 2022. Dr. Soon has also held the role of visiting professors at various institutions including University of Putra, Malaysia, Institute of Earth Environment of Xian, China and State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science at Xiamen University. Since September 2021, Dr. Soon is also affiliated with Hungary's Institute of Earth Physics and Space Science. Dr. Soon earned bachelor's and master's degrees in science and a Ph.D. in aerospace engineering from the University of Southern California. "The whole point of science is to question accepted dogmas. For that reason, I respect Willie Soon as a good scientist and a courageous citizen.'' — Freeman Dyson in the Boston Globe, November 5, 2013 About Willie Soon: https://www.ceres-science.com/willie-soon 103 of his peer-reviewed papers: https://lweb.cfa.harvard.edu/~wsoon/ “How much has the Sun influenced Northern Hemisphere temperature trends? An ongoing debate”: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1674-4527/21/6/131 CERES news: https://www.ceres-science.com/news Please help support independent science by donating to CERES-science.com: https://www.ceres-science.com/support-us —— Tom Nelson's Twitter: https://twitter.com/tan123 Substack: https://tomn.substack.com/ About Tom: https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2022/03/about-me-tom-nelson.html Notes for climate skeptics: https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2019/06/useful-notes-for-climate-skeptics.html ClimateGate emails: https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/p/climategate_05.html

Isaac Arthur joins Rod Pyle to discuss alien megastructures in detail. If an alien civilization is sufficiently advanced, physicist and visionary futurist Freeman Dyson theorized they might build a livable structure that would be large enough to encompass their own star. Called a Dyson Sphere, the idea was popularized in episodes of Star Trek. Credit: Adam Burn https://www.artstation.com/adamburnart Host: Rod Pyle Guest: Isaac Arthur Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-space. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit

Isaac Arthur joins Rod Pyle to discuss alien megastructures in detail. If an alien civilization is sufficiently advanced, physicist and visionary futurist Freeman Dyson theorized they might build a livable structure that would be large enough to encompass their own star. Called a Dyson Sphere, the idea was popularized in episodes of Star Trek. Credit: Adam Burn https://www.artstation.com/adamburnart Host: Rod Pyle Guest: Isaac Arthur Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-space. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit

Frank Close is Professor Emeritus of Theoretical Physics, and Fellow Emeritus at Exeter College. He was formerly Head of Theoretical Physics Division at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, vice President of the British Science Association and Head of Communications and Public Understanding at CERN. He was awarded the Kelvin Medal of the Institute of Physics for his 'outstanding contributions to the public understanding of physics' in 1996, an OBE for 'services to research and the public understanding of science in 2000, and the Royal Society Michael Faraday Prize for communicating science in 2013. He is the only professional physicist to have won a British Science Writers Prize on three occasions. Author of 20 books about science, the latest "Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass", marks the 10th anniversary of the discovery of the Higgs Boson. On July 4, 2012, the announcement came that one of the longest-running mysteries in physics had been solved: the Higgs boson, the missing piece in understanding why particles have mass, had finally been discovered. On the rostrum, surrounded by jostling physicists and media, was the particle's retiring namesake—the only person in history to have an existing single particle named for them. Why Peter Higgs? Drawing on years of conversations with Higgs and others, Close illuminates how an unprolific man became one of the world's most famous scientists. Close finds that scientific competition between people, institutions, and states played as much of a role in making Higgs famous as Higgs's work did. Topics Discussed Include: The mystique and character of Peter Higgs A brief history of CERN and the LHC The influence of Freeman Dyson. What part did the Nobel Prize play in motivating Peter Higgs? A brief history of particle physics and super-colliders. The Large Electron Positron (LEP) Collider, precursor to the LHC. The Nobel Prize for the Higgs Boson: Was it given fairly? Who deserves credit? Frank's advice to his younger self for going into the impossible.

Esther Dyson is the executive founder of Wellville, a 10-year national nonprofit project aimed at achieving equitable wellbeing for people . She is a leading angel investor focused on health care, open government, digital technology, biotechnology, and outer space. During the personal computer days, when I was Apple in the 1980s, she was the most powerful and prestigious analyst in the business. She was a king and queen maker. You prayed that she'd cover your product in her newsletter, Release 1.0 or invited you to her conference, but you feared a negative review or getting drilled on stage. People like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, if they didn't fear her, at the very least, realized they better suck up to her. She may not even realize how intimidating she was back then. Esther is the daughter of physicist Freeman Dyson and mathematician Verena Huber-Dyson. She obtained her bachelors in economics from Harvard, She is the author of the bestselling book, Release 2.0: A Design for Living in the Digital Age.

This ID the Future continues Miracle of Man author Michael Denton's conversation with host Eric Anderson about his latest book. The focus of this capstone work in his Privileged Species series is, as the subtitle explains, The Fine-Tuning of Nature for Human Existence. Here Denton and Anderson dive deeper into the book's argument that science has uncovered multiple ensembles of fitness for creatures much like ourselves—land-going, airbreathing, intelligent bipeds capable of controlling fire and developing new technologies. In other words, it's not just a handful of things about nature that appear fine tuned for our existence. It's a long list of things, and indeed, a long list of interdependent ensembles of prior fitness—what Denton sometimes refers to as a “primal Read More › Source

David, Sara, and Ed are back for the final episode of Season Three, a special ask-us-anything episode dedicated to your audience questions. From nature-based solutions, to environmentally-responsible oil, hydrogen, geothermal, and more, they dig into a wide variety of topics.EPISODE NOTES: @2:27 Accounting Emissions to Consume with Care @3:53 The forests backing California's carbon offsets are burning up @8:20 EvC S1E7 Are Nature-based Solutions a Natural Policy Choice? @9:18 Can we control the CO2 in the atmosphere? Freeman Dyson @7:34 Delta Airlines Carbon Offsets Now Letting Passengers Fly Green @17:17 Oilsands are high-carbon fuel source @22:22 EvC S2E5 Decarbonizing Transportation @24:02 Figure: SPM.7 @25:14 20% of commuters commute

What solutions exist to fix climate change? On this Earth Day, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice answer Qs about real-world solutions and aspects of climate change you might not be thinking about, with atmospheric scientist Katharine Hayhoe, PhD. NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can watch or listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://www.startalkradio.net/show/cosmic-queries-climate-solutions-with-katherine-hayhoe-phd/Thanks to our Patrons Georgeanne Lavery, Pete Key, Barbara Perlik, Taurohylax, Matt Berry, Frank B, Scott Allen, Jason Cidras, Alan Of Wales, and kathy jo kroener for supporting us this week.Photo Credit: NASA

Once we cover that animals provide the best nutrition for humans, many people ask whether it's sustainable for the planet to have all 8.6 Billion of us eating that way. Or more often, they shout that it isn't. Well, if you're in that camp, that answer may well surprise you dramatically. Watch my summary of the data, and then see the links below for the real experts and hear it from the horse's mouth. Enjoy!   Simon Lewis is the Founder of McKenzie's Meats and How To Carnivore, you can reach him here: McKenzie's Meats https://www.instagram.com/mckenziesmeats/ https://mckenziesmeats.com.au/ How To Carnivore https://www.instagram.com/howtocarnivore/ https://www.howtocarnivore.com/   FOLLOW AND CONTACT ME AT: INSTAGRAM: Dr. Anthony Chaffee, MD (@anthonychaffeemd) • Instagram photos and videos TWITTER: @Anthony_Chaffee TIKTOK: @plantfreemd For more of my interviews and discussions, as well as other resources, go to my Linktree at: https://linktr.ee/DrChaffeeMD OR my website at: www.TheCarnivoreLife.com The Carnivore Bar https://carnivorebar.com/ And please like and subscribe to my podcast here and Apple/Google podcasts, as well as my YouTube Channel to get updates on all new content!   Other Links: Sustainability of meat on the environment: Peter Ballerstedt: ruminants and the environment https://youtu.be/sP_19aj4-3A Peter Ballerstedt, more https://youtu.be/4u-jvxEA0p0 TED talk: Alan Savory grazing herds to save environment and reverse desertification https://www.ted.com/talks/allan_savory_how_to_green_the_world_s_deserts_and_reverse_climate_change#t-1320542 Alan Savory (more) https://youtu.be/q7pI7IYaJLI   Environmental experts: Professor emeritus of atmospheric physics at MIT . https://www.prageru.com/video/climate-change-what-do-scientists-say/  Nobel prize winner in physics Ivar Gaiver https://youtu.be/SXxHfb66ZgM  Freeman Dyson (world famous mathematician) . https://youtu.be/BiKfWdXXfIs "How to think about climate change." Dr William Happer, Professor emeritus of physics, Princeton.  https://youtu.be/CA1zUW4uOSw "Inconvenient facts about climate change" https://youtu.be/SUtU1mGKCC8 Background on some of the political aspects of climate change by Mark Steyn, co-author of a book called "Climate change the facts," that he did with several world renowned climate scientists . https://youtu.be/6bARjABDqok Hockey stick and climate gate https://youtu.be/SqzcA7SsqSA Climatologist Professor Willie Soon . https://youtu.be/4YMttEhtgpk Meteorologist and founder of The Weather Channel discussing the history of climate science and later global warming proclamations, including the less than brilliant student Al Gore. https://youtu.be/SyUDGfCNC-k Professor Tim Ball https://youtu.be/jpcUnVi9Nz4 https://youtu.be/zEsbVoxnE84 https://youtu.be/Owm25OHGglk   Some shorter ones: Co-founder of Greenpeace, and only scientist among the founders https://www.prageru.com/videos/what-they-havent-told-you-about-climate-change https://www.prageru.com/videos/truth-about-co2 Paris climate Accord https://www.prageru.com/videos/paris-climate-agreement-wont-change-climate "97% of climate scientists agree" . https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexepstein/2015/01/06/97-of-climate-scientists-agree-is-100-wrong/?sh=629a60e53f9f https://www.prageru.com/videos/do-97-climate-scientists-really-agree Issues with solar and wind power . https://www.prageru.com/videos/can-we-rely-wind-and-solar-energy (Also note, because wind is so dilute, you would have to build a wind farm the size of England every year simply to keep up with the increasing power demands of the world. Not to start replacing other sources of energy, but simply to match the average annual increase in energy needs.) Here's an article supporting the above statement https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/05/wind-turbines-are-neither-clean-nor-green-and-they-provide-zero-global-energy/ Fossil fuels https://www.prageru.com/videos/fossil-fuels-greenest-energy More Articles: 118 peer-reviewed articles in 18 months between 2016 and 2017, 58 of which were in 2017, all specifically going counter to the claims of massive global, man-made climate change. http://notrickszone.com/2017/05/29/80-graphs-from-58-new-2017-papers-invalidate-claims-of-unprecedented-global-scale-modern-warming/#sthash.ktF0tSb7.VzCR1nyR.dpbs https://www.livescience.com/40451-volcanic-co2-levels-are-staggering.html https://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2014/02/18/5-scientific-reasons-that-global-warming-isnt-happening-n1796423

Imagine flying through the galaxy, minding your own business and suddenly you see a structure that is very large. It's so big, in fact, that it surrounds a star! It's a Dyson Sphere! This week we explore the concept of a Dyson Sphere, first seen in the Star Trek universe in the Season 6 episode "Relics" from The Next Generation. First proposed in 1937, the concept was first scientifically theorized by futurists Freeman Dyson in 1960. This week hosts Kelly Casto and Bob Turner talk about this concept and what it might actually look like, scientifically speaking. ***

The concept of a Dyson Sphere was first proposed in a scientific way by late physicist Freeman Dyson. It consists of an idea where an advanced extraterrestrial civilization would have reached the technological level to build a structure (called a Dyson Sphere) that could extract the energy from a star or group of stars. Such activity might be readily detectable by Earth's instruments. What is the history of the concept of the Dyson Sphere, and how close are we to actually detecting one at this time?