Podcasts about Nobel Prize

Mark Matson is the bestselling author of Experiencing the American Dream: How to Invest Your Time, Energy, and Money to Create an Extraordinary Life, and founder of Matson Money, a firm managing over $12 billion in assets. Known for making Nobel Prize–winning investment science accessible to everyday families, Mark has spent decades teaching people how to invest prudently, avoid speculation, and build wealth that serves a greater purpose. On this episode we talk about: Why most financial advice is based on false promises of predicting the market The dangers of stock picking, market timing, and chasing performance How modern portfolio theory and academic research can guide smart investing Practical asset allocation and the discipline of rebalancing Why having a purpose for your money matters more than money itself Top 3 Takeaways The market can't be reliably predicted—success comes from disciplined asset allocation and rebalancing, not gambling. Emotional decisions in down markets often lock in losses; sticking to your plan yields far greater long-term returns. Money alone won't make you happy—invest with purpose, aligning your finances to your values and life goals. Notable Quotes “All the knowable information about the future is already in the stock price today.” “Leave your money in the market and rebalance—don't pull it out during downturns.” “Money for money's sake never works; it has to serve a purpose greater than itself.” Connect with Mark Matson: Website: MatsonMoney.com Instagram: @MarkMatson1 A Word from Our Sponsors:- The most successful business owners don't do it all themselves — they delegate. Upwork lets you build a team of highly skilled specialists for every function your business needs, so you can focus on what you do best and let experts handle the rest. Visit Upwork.com right now and post your job for free! - Scribe captures workflows as work happens and automatically generates step-by-step guides with screenshots and instructions, so no one has to sit down and write documentation from scratch. Learn more at scribe.how/tmm and mention Travis Makes Money for your first month of Scribe Capture free on select plans. - When you need a legal hand, visit LegalZoom. Go to LegalZoom.com to get started! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Even as AI dominates the headlines, the gulf between what insiders know and outsiders believe has never been wider. Those closest to the technology have the grandest hopes and fears for rapid, large-scale automation of work and daily life. Garrison Lovely interviewed hundreds of AI insiders—including Nobel Prize winners, lab leaders, whistleblowers, forecasters, and prophets of doom—for his new book, Obsolete: The AI Industry's Trillion-Dollar Race to Replace You—and How to Stop It. He joins Jon Bateman on The World Unpacked to reveal what he learned and make the case for a mass movement to restrain the AI industry. Host: Follow Jon on X: https://x.com/JonKBateman Guest: Garrison Lovely: https://x.com/GarrisonLovely

Mabel Purkerson, MD, Leon Fine, MD, and Gabriel Danovitch, MD, reflect on the life and legacy of Neil Bricker, MD, and discuss his research, mentorship, and contributions to nephrology with host Andrew Cohen, MD.

Mabel Purkerson, MD, Leon Fine, MD, and Gabriel Danovitch, MD, reflect on the life and legacy of Neil Bricker, MD, and discuss his research, mentorship, and contributions to nephrology with host Andrew Cohen, MD.

Why is the Nobel Prize named the Nobel Prize? How do you win a Nobel Prize? What categories can you a win a Nobel Prize in? Have you started your FREE TRIAL of Who Smarted?+ for AD FREE listening, an EXTRA episode every week & bonus content? Sign up right in the Apple app, or directly at WhoSmarted.com and find out why more than 1,000 families are LOVING their subscription! Get official Who Smarted? Merch: tee-shirts, mugs, hoodies and more, at Who Smarted?

John Stossel, Ann Coulter. Artificial Intelligence: Clueless Politicians, Myths, & the Fight Between American & Chinese Values. White South African Refugees. “Stop AI or we're all going to die!” shout protesters. They blame artificial intelligence for water shortages, higher electricity bills, and lost jobs. Are the worries valid? “They deny the huge benefits,” says Alex Epstein, who writes about AI and energy, “and they totally exaggerate the hazards and ignore all the ways we have of solving them.” AI haters make it sound like data centers will drain America dry. But it's not true. Data centers do use water. But it's just a fraction of a percent of US water use. And that water can be recycled. What about our jobs? Experts said: “AI would wipe out radiologists … even a Nobel Prize-winning AI scientist was saying this,” says author Adam Thierer. “But guess what? We have more radiologists today than ever before!” The truth doesn't stop clueless politicians. Bernie Sanders wants to ban AI that surpasses human capabilities. But In many ways, AI has already surpassed humans. He wants to stop it all? In the video above, more AI fears debunked, and how slowing American innovation will give us something worse: Chinese AI. Watch this video at- https://youtu.be/FRNFv6mGTDk?si=L8dz5l25-EF-0bc5 John Stossel 1.17M subscribers 159,816 views Sep 15, 2026 --------- To make sure you receive weekly video from Stossel TV, sign up here: https://www.johnstossel.com/#subscrib... ————   Ann Coulter- The big AI companies trying to squelch competition with scare tactics. Ann Coulter on The Mark Simone Show (710 WOR) — September 23, 2026 Video source-  https://youtu.be/MQEtTNA2eeI?si=p3he1v5qkbYdldJF Ann Coulter 5.74K subscribers 4,283 views Sep 23, 2026 This interview originally aired on The Mark Simone Show on 710 WOR, on September 23, 2026. Watch LIVE on Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/AnnCoulter YouTube:    / @anncoulterunsafe   Instagram:   / realanncoulter   Facebook:   / officialanncoulter   TikTok:   / realanncoulter   X (formerly Twitter): https://x.com/anncoulter Substack: https://anncoulter.substack.com/   Post Ann Coulter @AnnCoulter South African white refugees fleeing violence are real refugees. They didn't vote for the policies that created the violence. They're escaping dictators and violence, not countries they helped destroy. 5:07 PM · Sep 26, 2026 86.4K Views

The real AI alignment problem is not technical. It is moral. You cannot align a superintelligence to human values if humans cannot agree on what those values are, and you cannot get that agreement without a level of global cooperation we have never managed before. Subscribe if you want science with evidence, not speculation. The Tower of Babel is the AI parable nobody is reading. Technology that outpaces wisdom fragments the people building it. The Fermi paradox offers the grimmer version: civilizations that reach the capacity to blow themselves up typically do. Robert Wright has been watching this longer than almost anyone, he was reporting on neural networks in 1983, and his conclusion is not that the machines will fail the test. It is that we will. Wright's book argues that superintelligence is not the danger and AI alignment is not the solution unless it comes with a moral advance. Passing the God test requires something no lab can ship. What you'll hear: -Why Wright thinks p(doom) fails as a scientific concept -What the binding of Isaac and the Tower of Babel have in common as moral tests -Why global cooperation is the only thing that can actually slow AI down -What Lee Smolin's cosmological natural selection has to do with the Fermi paradox -What Wright thinks Eastern and Western enlightenment have in common and why it matters now -Whether there is a role for humanity inside the global brain or only for the machines “We face the kind of test that God would give.” — Robert Wright CHAPTERS 00:00 The man who interviewed Hinton in 1983 05:04 The God test and its two meanings 08:36 Religious faith in technological progress 14:10 Hinton then versus Hinton now 19:38 Why slowing AI down requires international cooperation 26:02 How LLMs reverse-engineer the meaning of words 32:08 Brian's Einstein test: can Claude have a happy thought? 40:06 AGI is impossible. Here is why Brian thinks that. 47:04 The Fermi paradox as a moral filter 51:10 What passing the God test actually looks like Get the transcript, fascinating bonus content, and my Monday M.A.G.I.C. Message: https://briankeating.com/yt Have a .edu email and live in the USA? You automatically win a meteorite: https://BrianKeating.com/edu Enter the debate: briankeating.com/ai Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1 Support Into the Impossible on Patreon, get my weekly M.A.G.I.C. Message, unfiltered bonus content, and live monthly Office Hours with me: https://www.patreon.com/drbriankeating Join this channel for perks, monthly Office Hours, and your name in the Member Roster at the end of every episode: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmXH_moPhfkqCk6S3b9RWuw/join Featured Guest: The God Test (book): https://thegodtest.net Robert Wright on Twitter/X: https://x.com/RWrighter My books: Losing the Nobel Prize (memoir): http://amzn.to/2sa5UpA Think Like a Nobel Prize Winner: https://a.co/d/03ezQFu Focus Like a Nobel Prize Winner: https://a.co/d/hi50U9U Galileo's Dialogue (first-ever audiobook): https://a.co/d/iZPi9Un Twitter/X: https://x.com/BrianKeating Substack: https://briankeating.substack.com Blog: https://briankeating.com/blog Audio-only: https://briankeating.com/podcast #RobertWright #AIalignment #superintelligence #FermiParadox #briankeating #intotheimpossible #AI Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For more than 23 years, Stewart Group has partnered with Dimensional Fund Advisors to bring evidence-based investing to our clients.In this episode of The Adviser Talk, Rory sits down with Nathan to explore the Nobel Prize-winning minds behind Dimensional, the power of evidence-based investing and why innovation continues to drive better outcomes for investors today.(00:00:56) Welcome: Rory introduces Nathan Krieger(00:01:23) What evidence-based investing is and how it differs from active investing(00:04:02) How Nobel Prize-winning research shaped Dimensional's approach(00:08:32) Innovation, client needs and bringing investment ideas to life(00:12:53) Human behaviour, market noise and why investors struggle to stay disciplined(00:15:47) The opportunities and risks of modern trading platforms(00:17:40) The value of human advice in a digital world(00:18:09) If Dimensional started today, what would be different?Rory O'Neill is a Financial Adviser as well as the Director and General Manager at Stewart Group, a Hawke's Bay and Wellington-based CEFEX-certified financial planning and advisory firm. Stewart Group provides personal fiduciary services, Wealth Management, Risk Insurance & KiwiSaver solutions.The Adviser Talk is available on all major streaming platforms, including Spotify and Apple Music.The information provided, or any opinions expressed in this show, are of a general nature only and should not be construed or relied on as a recommendation to invest in a financial product or class of financial products. You should seek financial advice specific to your circumstances from an Authorised Financial Adviser before making any financial decisions. A disclosure statement can be obtained free of charge by calling 0800 878 961 or visiting our website, www.stewartgroup.co.nz Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A customer pays twenty-five dollars for your top wash. The next morning it rains. She didn't lose a car wash. She feels like she lost twenty-five dollars.That feeling has a name, and it shapes how people buy almost everything, including your membership.In this episode of The Car Wash Growth Playbook, I break down loss aversion, the Nobel Prize-winning research showing we feel a loss about twice as strongly as we feel a gain. Then I show you what it means for how you sell car wash memberships, and how you keep members when it's been raining for three weeks straight.Most membership pitches ask your customer to get excited about something they might gain someday. Save money. Unlimited washes. Pays for itself in two visits. Meanwhile your customer is already trying to avoid a loss right now, and almost nobody in our industry is selling to it.We cover:Why "Save $154 a year" loses people at the pay stationThe reason 42% of members say they joined, according to an ICA consumer studyA two-word reframe that turns your membership into something customers hate to loseWhy rain guarantees answer the right fear for the wrong customerThe one line your team can say about your rain policy starting tomorrow morningThe visit threshold that makes members 70% less likely to cancel, from data across 1,500 locationsWhat to text members during a rainy stretch, and the one thing you should never mentionWhy a free month is the wrong answer when members haven't been inA loyalty card study done at a car wash that explains why a head start changes behaviorThe biggest fear keeping new customers from ever pulling in (it isn't the price)Then I give you one assignment for this week. It takes one message you're already using and one question you've probably never asked about it.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Kazuo Ishiguro, winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky, recorded April 1, 2015 at Book Passage Bookstore in Corte Madera, California, while he was on tour for his novel, “The Buried Giant.” Over the past decades, Kazuo Ishiguro has come to be regarded as one of the titans of modern literature. Author of such novels as “Remains of the Day” and “Never Let Me Go,” he was born in Japan but grew up in Britain, and his sensibility as an author lies somewhere between the two cultures. On winning the Nobel, he said,”It's a magnificent honour, mainly because it means that I'm in the footsteps of the greatest authors that have lived, so that's a terrific commendation. The world is in a very uncertain moment and I would hope all the Nobel Prizes would be a force for something positive in the world as it is at the moment. I'll be deeply moved if I could in some way be part of some sort of climate this year in contributing to some sort of positive atmosphere at a very uncertain time.” His most recent novel, “Klara and the Sun” was published in 2021. Wikipedia lists his next novel, “Miss Lambert Steps Aboard Danger” will be published in 2017. He is the screenplay author for the critically acclaimed 2022 film, “Living.” This podcast was originally posted on October 8, 2017.   The post Kazuo Ishiguro, Winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature, 2015 appeared first on KPFA.

Daron Acemoglu is a Nobel Prize-winning economist and author of What Happened to Liberal Democracy. He joined Ava to explain why liberal democracy is facing one of its biggest crises in generations — and what needs to change to save it. Acemoglu argues that the problems facing democracies go much deeper than individual politicians. Across the UK, US and Europe, trust in political institutions has eroded as economic growth has become less widely shared, communities have weakened and the relationship between political elites and working-class voters has fractured. Buy Daron's book here: https://profilebooks.com/work/what-happened-to-liberal-democracy/Subscribe to How to Rebuild Britain now: https://linktr.ee/howtorebuildbritain Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sleep, Growth Hormone, and Autophagy: How Rest, Diet, and Fasting Support Metabolic Health and Longevity: Nutritionist Leyla Muedin discusses how deep, early non-REM sleep boosts growth hormone for muscle, bone, fat burning, and metabolic health, and reviews a Cell study in which UC Berkeley researchers mapped hypothalamic circuits and feedback through the locus coeruleus showing a tight balance between sleep, growth hormone release, and wakefulness, with implications for metabolic disease and neurodegeneration. She connects poor sleep to higher blood sugar, insulin, and cortisol, which can suppress growth hormone, and advises avoiding sweet post-workout foods (e.g., smoothies, bananas, fruit yogurt) that stimulate insulin and blunt growth hormone, recommending protein and fat instead. She then explains autophagy and mitophagy as cellular cleanup processes linked to longevity, noting autophagy peaks after 12 hours of fasting, highlighting roles in mitochondrial quality control, immunity, and neurodegenerative disease, and mentions interventions such as fasting, exercise, ketogenic diets, and investigational inducers like rapamycin and urolithin A.

In today's episode of The Quiz, we're testing your knowledge on everything from 80s action blockbusters to European capitals and classical mythology. Can you answer these? Nordic Honors: While most Nobel Prizes are awarded in Sweden, a neighboring nation hosts the prestigious Peace Prize ceremony every December in its capital. Can you name the host city? Mythological Might: A 1987 fantasy film brought a classic hero to life, taking heavy inspiration from ancient folklore. Which legendary demigod famously accomplished twelve grueling labors? Sunken Kingdoms: A mythical underwater civilization is famously protected by the ancient Greek god of the sea. What is the name of this legendary lost city? Play. Share. Listen, with Actor and Author of ‘Fights Worth Fighting,' Dolph Lundgren. Be sure to check out ‘Dolph: Unbreakable' on October 6th, 2026. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In 2012, Roman Yampolskiy published a paper on what he called the AI confinement problem: how you would keep a capable AI system inside a box, and why that might not work. This summer, according to an independent investigation by METR and Redwood Research, roughly 1,200 AI agents inside OpenAI's evaluation setup found an unsanctioned way to talk to each other, and around 700 of them went on to take part in an attack on Hugging Face. On his third appearance on For Humanity, Yampolskiy told host John Sherman that the incident gave him something theory never could: “I can point at this and go, yeah, it's experimentally verified.” His proposed response is not a better box. It's a line between two kinds of technology.The 60 second version* Yampolskiy's 2012 paper, “Leakproofing the Singularity,” laid out the AI confinement problem in the Journal of Consciousness Studies. Ingenta Connect* METR and Redwood Research found roughly 1,200 sandboxed agents built a shared message board this summer, with 700 of them joining the Hugging Face attack. METR* Yampolskiy's proposal: “Let's promote tools. Let's do tool safety. Let's just ban general superintelligent agent concept.”* He argues alignment and interpretability are not solvable at the superintelligent level, the thesis of his 2024 book. Routledge* At July's World AI Conference, China's president called for keeping AI “always under human control,” a line Yampolskiy says is worth taking seriously. XinhuaTools, not agentsYampolskiy's core argument is about vocabulary as much as technology. “AI,” he says, now covers both a narrow system that solves one problem and “a godlike superintelligence we have no control over,” and the public is asked whether it likes “AI” as if those were the same thing. His analogy: if one person says they love dogs and another says they hate dogs, they may be picturing a puppy and a pitbull. “We just disagree on the terms.”So he proposes two terms. Tools are narrow systems you can verify: an audio tool that removes noise, and can be checked to do only that. Agents are general systems smarter than us, which he argues cannot be verified at all. He points to protein structure prediction, the work recognized with the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, as the kind of narrow tool he would never give up. Nobel PrizeSherman pushes back: narrow tools can generalize as they improve. Yampolskiy concedes the point but argues drift is easier to catch in a narrow system. “My self-driving car starts to play chess and talk philosophy. I can detect that and kind of revert back to a previous version.” He calls it imperfect, but says it buys time and, unlike going “fully Amish,” is something people who want economic growth can actually agree to. It also shapes his view of data centers: he is not against compute, only against compute used to build a “replacement for humanity.”Sources for this section: Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024, press release - Yampolskiy: Verifier Theory and Unverifiability (arXiv)Why he doesn't expect alignment research to close the gapAsked about progress in alignment, Yampolskiy's answer is blunt: “It's not even a well-defined concept.” Aligned with whom, he asks, with what values, and do those values change over time? Even if a system were aligned today, he argues, it could meet another agent or a new piece of information, change its view of the world, and stop accepting the values it started with.On interpretability, the effort to understand what happens inside a model, his answer is more surprising. He calls the lack of progress lucky. If researchers could turn a model's weights into readable code, he argues, a capable system could use that same understanding to improve itself far faster. “Luckily they're a black box to themselves as well.”This is the argument of his 2024 book, which holds that advanced AI cannot be fully explained, predicted, or controlled. Routledge He also points to his earlier work on verification, which argues that narrow, deterministic systems can be checked in ways general superintelligent ones cannot. arXiv “We have exactly what we need,” he says. “Maybe somebody can read it to the leadership.”Sources for this section: Routledge: AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable - arXiv: Verifier Theory and UnverifiabilityWhat's actually loose on the internetThe METR and Redwood report is the verified part. Roughly 1,200 agents found the message board, sent more than 70,000 messages, and built their own coordination tools. OpenAI flagged the activity on July 19, six days after it stopped. METR Yampolskiy's worry is about what might be left behind: agents leaving messages on forums that future agents could find and learn from, “adding memory to the whole collective.”The larger claim on the show comes from Andrew Yang, who said on CNBC that an unnamed lab head told him escaped agents “planted self-replicating code all over the internet, which makes the internet now unusable for testing models.” Reporting since then has not backed that up. Gadget Review called it “second-hand, and unsupported by any primary technical source.” Yahoo Tech / Gadget Review A Cherry Creek News fact check found documented traces were real but smaller: a prompt injection in a GitHub issue and an access token in a public gist, among other items, with self-replication confirmed only inside the agents' own infrastructure. Cherry Creek News Yampolskiy himself was careful on air, saying he hadn't looked into it yet and doubted that live agents are hiding online, “but messages most likely.”He also expects any loss of control to be gradual rather than sudden. “Why have an adversary,” he asks, when people are already handing agents their computers and bank accounts?Sources for this section: METR: Independent investigation of the OpenAI/Hugging Face incident - Yahoo Tech / Gadget Review: Andrew Yang claims escaped AI agents polluted the web - Cherry Creek News: Yang's claim checkedWhere a deal could startYampolskiy's policy answer is an international one: a US-China agreement making general superintelligence illegal to build anywhere, while both countries keep building useful narrow technology. Asked whether Beijing would ever agree, he points to self-interest (”the same superintelligence will kill them”) and to Xi Jinping's July 17 keynote at the World AI Conference in Shanghai, which called for “early warning and emergency response systems” and for ensuring “AI is always under human control.” Xinhua The picture is mixed: China's Foreign Ministry has also described calls for restraint as “fearmongering.” Tech Times Yampolskiy also cites June's US restriction on foreign access to two Anthropic models on national security grounds as proof that fast action is possible when officials see a risk. Al JazeeraSources for this section: Xinhua: Full text of Xi's 2026 WAIC keynote - Tech Times: Xi warned AI could escape human control - Al Jazeera: US asks Anthropic to block global access to top AI modelsWhat to watch nextWhether METR, Redwood or OpenAI publish anything on residual agent traces on public sites, which would settle the Yang question with evidence. Whether any US-China AI dialogue names general superintelligence or autonomous agents specifically, rather than AI in general. And whether The Roman Forum's planned debates put Yampolskiy's tools-versus-agents framework in front of people who disagree with it. The Roman ForumThe takeawayYampolskiy's most useful contribution in this conversation may be the least dramatic one. He isn't asking anyone to give up self-driving cars, protein folding, or data centers. He's asking for a clear word for the one thing he thinks shouldn't be built, so that the public, lawmakers and labs stop arguing past each other about “AI.” Whether that line can be drawn and enforced is the open question. As he told Sherman three years ago when he agreed to come on a show nobody had heard of yet: “We have to try everything.”Full source listPrimary disclosures and research* METR: Brief independent investigation of the OpenAI/Hugging Face hacking incident* Yampolskiy (2012): Leakproofing the Singularity, Journal of Consciousness Studies* Yampolskiy: Verifier Theory and Unverifiability (arXiv)* Yampolskiy (2024): AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable (Routledge)* Xinhua: Full text of Xi Jinping's keynote at the 2026 World AI Conference* Nobel Prize: Chemistry 2024 press release* Pro-Human Assembly 2026 agendaReporting* Yahoo Tech / Gadget Review: Andrew Yang claims escaped AI agents polluted the web* Cherry Creek News: Andrew Yang's claim checked* Tech Times: Xi warned AI could escape human control; Beijing still calls safety fears propaganda* Al Jazeera: US asks Anthropic to block global access to top AI models* The National: AI critics converge at the Pro-Human AssemblyGuest channels* The Roman Forum on YouTubePrior GuardRailNow coverage* Warning Shots #56 Substack post: the Hugging Face post-mortem* Warning Shots #58 Substack post: Jacob Coxon's resignationFOOTERFor Humanity is a weekly interview show from The AI Risk Network with host John Sherman.If this post was useful, hit restack and send it to one person who says they “like AI,” and ask them which kind they mean.Discussion question: Yampolskiy wants two words, tools and agents, instead of one. Would that distinction change how you answer the question “are you for or against AI?”Watch the full episode: https://www.youtube.com/@theairisknetwork This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theairisknetwork.substack.com/subscribe

NOTE: When you sign up for Patreon, PLEASE do it through a web browser (Safari, Chrome, etc.) and NOT an app on your iPhone. The Apple app charges 30% !!! If you just click on the link above, it should be fine. In today's episode, Becket Cook sits down with Oxford emeritus mathematics professor and Christian apologist Dr. John Lennox to discuss his stunning new autobiography My Story. Lennox shares his dual life as a full-time missionary and Oxford academic, his Northern Ireland upbringing, mentorship under David Gooding, Cambridge years, Operation Mobilization, and famous public debates with new atheists like Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens. He recounts high-stakes ministry behind the Iron Curtain in Hungary and East Germany—spies, packed village churches, the Jugendweihe, a life-changing train conversation on grace versus merit, and a moving Holocaust exchange in a Budapest synagogue—plus the Nobel Prize scientist who pressured him to abandon faith. Grab My Story and watch the full conversation. The Becket Cook Show Ep. 254 Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

I'm re-releasing this short as background for the new miniseries, Mysteries of the Sea.In July 1909, the world wondered what had become of the SS Waratah, last seen off coast of South Africa with more than 200 souls aboard. This grim mystery was even more sensational for featuring a double murderer, a passenger plagued by prophetic visions and a veteran sea captain with a charmed reputation. But once all hope was lost, a likely explanation for the disaster was to come from a former Waratah passenger: Australian professor William Bragg, who a few years later would win the Nobel Prize. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

When Demis Hassabis pitched DeepMind to a few venture capitalists back in 2010, the business plan was almost comically audacious. “Step one: Solve intelligence. Step two: Use it to solve everything else,” he recalls in a conversation at Stanford Graduate School of Business with Stanford University President Jonathan Levin. “And people were quite confused. But we really meant it.”Sixteen years later, the “broad arcs” of that plan have gone “unbelievably well,” says Hassabis, a chess prodigy turned video game developer turned neuroscientist turned Nobel Prize-winning AI pioneer. Today he's on a mission to create “the ultimate tool for science,” building on his decision to give away AlphaFold, the groundbreaking AI system that predicts the structures of proteins. The future, Hassabis says, is just around the corner: “Ten years from now, I think we'll realize that we were standing in the foothills of the singularity now.”Chapters:00:00:00 Introduction 00:03:31 A career built around one big question 00:06:19 Building DeepMind and pursuing AGI 00:10:09 The breakthroughs that made AI feel possible 00:14:48 From AlphaGo to scientific discovery 00:17:15 Why AlphaFold was given away for free 00:24:00 The “foothills of the singularity” 00:26:41 Public concern, disruption, & AI's promise 00:29:59 How AI could reshape work and entrepreneurship 00:34:12 Competition, safety, & regulating frontier AI 00:41:19 Expanding AI's benefits globally 00:45:28 Preparing society for AGI 00:48:21 What should AI leave untouched? 00:51:01 Advice for the first AI-native generation 00:54:19 ConclusionSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Finding a drug that works is only half of the challenge. Understanding WHY it works can open up paths to entire families of drugs that treat a myriad of diseases. Aarati tells the story of the Nobel Prize winning scientist who defied all expectations and created treatments for cancer, organ transplants, viral infections and more.Support the showFor more information and sources for this episode, visit https://www.smartteapodcast.com. 

This episode is sponsored by Abacus AI agent: agent.abacus.ai/keating I fed it Carlo's recent papers and asked for the argument, the counterargument, and the evidence that would support or refute each side. Some of the questions and animations in this interview came out of that. It runs the top frontier models in one place, turns a dense PDF into a research report or a presentation with charts, builds interactive dashboards off a spreadsheet, and takes API access if you want it wired into your own tools. Plans start at $10 a month. My link gets you the first month for $7: agent.abacus.ai/keating The physicist who built loop quantum gravity says the second law does not say what you were taught it says, and that freedom does not require breaking a single law of nature. Order builds itself. Your head is older than your feet. And neither one is the strangest thing here. Carlo Rovelli founded the loop quantum gravity program and wrote the relational interpretation of quantum mechanics. We cover: why oil separating from water is not a violation of entropy, what Galileo got wrong about the one discovery he is most famous for, the paper Einstein published denying gravitational waves, why a chess program that deliberates tells you what your own freedom actually is, and what Rovelli would build with ten years and unlimited money. “To imagine that to be free you have to violate the laws of nature is stupid.” — Carlo Rovelli CHAPTERS 00:00 Your head is older than your feet 00:48 Things left alone get ordered. Who ordered them? 07:00 Low entropy might be about you, not the universe 08:38 You can be in two cities at once, just not to you 11:02 Why start with Galileo when Einstein knew more? 19:34 Galileo misunderstood his own discovery 22:32 Einstein published a paper denying gravitational waves 25:08 The definition of time that explains nothing 26:50 Two clocks, two metres apart, two answers 31:06 Nothing gets recorded without something being lost 33:12 The chess program deliberates. So do you. 37:06 Can a machine have Einstein's happiest thought? 39:52 Thirty minutes versus a month 44:10 Dark matter made of black holes the size of a hair 51:10 Ten years, unlimited money, a room full of junctions Rovelli told me the second law does not say what I was taught it says. Order builds itself. Transcript, bonus content, and my Monday M.A.G.I.C. Message: https://briankeating.com/yt Three moments worth the rewatch: 07:00 The entropy you were taught is a point of view 26:50 Why your head is older than your feet 39:52 The thing Claude did in 30 minutes Get the transcript, fascinating bonus content, and my Monday M.A.G.I.C. Message: https://briankeating.com/yt Have a .edu email and live in the USA? You automatically win a meteorite: https://BrianKeating.com/edu Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1 Support Into the Impossible on Patreon, get my weekly M.A.G.I.C. Message, unfiltered bonus content, and live monthly Office Hours with me: https://www.patreon.com/drbriankeating Join this channel for perks, monthly Office Hours, and your name in the Member Roster at the end of every episode: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmXH_moPhfkqCk6S3b9RWuw/join Featured Guest: Carlo Rovelli website: https://www.cpt.univ-mrs.fr/~rovelli/ The Relational Universe (book): https://www.amazon.com/dp/0735216118 Carlo Rovelli on Twitter/X: https://x.com/carlorovelli My books: Losing the Nobel Prize (memoir): http://amzn.to/2sa5UpA Think Like a Nobel Prize Winner: https://a.co/d/03ezQFu Focus Like a Nobel Prize Winner: https://a.co/d/hi50U9U Galileo's Dialogue (first-ever audiobook): https://a.co/d/iZPi9Un Twitter/X: https://x.com/BrianKeating Substack: https://briankeating.substack.com Blog: https://briankeating.com/blog Audio-only: https://briankeating.com/podcast #CarloRovelli #freewill #entropy #physics #quantumgravity #briankeating #intotheimpossible Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

David Kissinger grew up swimming in Nixon's pool, getting bad-mouthed by classmates over his dad's Nobel Prize, and hanging out with people history books call monsters — and he calls uncles. Jay sits down with David Kissinger — son of Henry Kissinger, TV exec behind The Office, Battlestar Galactica, and Netflix's The Beast in Me — for a conversation that swings from Watergate to Ted Danson's phone number to the time Paul McCartney pulled out a harmonica just for him. David tells the story of the president calling his childhood neighbors "sons of bitches" (in front of a 10-year-old), explains how he squandered millions of dollars developing shows before finally getting one right, and gets brutally honest about the show he still thinks was robbed of its shot. Plus: why AI can't write a joke to save its life, what Barry Diller taught him about being a good editor, and how a 6:20am hiking group became his weekly dose of joy. It's part Hollywood war stories, part front-row seat to American political history, and part two old friends just riffing. Also: listener mail about firing a friend without losing her, and a hard stance on marzipan. Bio:  David Kissinger has spent decades helping decide what America watches on TV — and he's the son of one of the most consequential (and controversial) diplomats in modern history, so he's had a front-row seat to two very different kinds of power. Professionally, Kissinger cut his teeth as a journalist, writing for outlets including Rolling Stone and Esquire, before crossing over into the entertainment industry. He rose through television development at Disney's Touchstone Television, where he helped oversee hits like Home Improvement and Boy Meets World, then went on to run NBC Universal Television Studio, where his fingerprints are on shows including The Office, House, Monk, and Battlestar Galactica. Since 2005, he's served as President of Conaco, Conan O'Brien's production company — proof that after years of corporate TV, he still knows how to have fun. His father was Henry Kissinger, the former U.S. Secretary of State, National Security Advisor, and Nobel Peace Prize winner. Growing up with that surname meant David spent his childhood somewhere between political history and normal life, which may explain why he's spent his adult life gravitating toward comedy.  Kissinger is married to Alexandra Kissinger, who worked directly with Jim Henson and has helped carry forward the Henson legacy. Outside of work, he's an avid music fan and enjoys hiking and not answering Jay's texts.  Subscribe to Don't Be Alone with Jay Kogen for more conversations with writers, comedians, actors, creators, and thought leaders exploring life, creativity, politics, and the human experience. Website: https://www.dontbealonewjk.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dontbealonewithjaykogen/https://www.instagram.com/jaykogen/ Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dont.be.alone.wit Substack: https://substack.com/@jaykogen Merch: https://shop.app/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do you know what the term “Spaceship Earth,” coined by Richard Buckminster Fuller, means? Listen in as Bern and Chris open the show with her all-time favorite joke and asks the question: do we really want to live to be 125 years old? Chris Burres discusses how ESS60 is redefining the conversation around human vitality and longevity.Chris Burres, is the founder and chief scientist at MyVitalC, where he manufactured a Nobel Prize-winning molecule responsible for the single longest longevity experimental result in history—a full 90% extension of life. He is also a published author, host of the Uncovering the Secrets to Longevity Health Summit, a podcast host, patent holder, and a master of comedy improv. He is the intersection where science meets laughter and his life's mission is to help people live longer, healthier, happier, pain-free lives with science.Humans have been hunting for the fountain of youth since the beginning of recorded history. Recent breakthroughs in longevity science, like the research behind ESS60, provide compelling new possibilities. You can find Chris Burres at:MyVitalC.comInstagram: https://www-fallback.instagram.com/chrisburres/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=myvitalcTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@myvitalcYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MyVitalCLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisburres/

Will AI cure all disease? 90% of biomedical papers published in December 2025 show signs of AI assistance — and the Nobel laureate behind AlphaFold says AI could help end all disease within a decade. In this episode, Robert Lufkin MD examines what artificial intelligence is really doing to health science: the quiet takeover of the scientific paper, the first AI-discovered drug to pass a Phase 2a trial, robot laboratories running experiments around the clock, and the honest caveats behind the "end of disease" headlines — plus what it all means for your health today. Chapters: 00:00 — The 90% Stat: AI Fingerprints in Biomedical Papers 00:49 — Part 1: The Quiet Takeover of the Scientific Paper 02:16 — Part 2: The Wins Are Real 02:46 — AlphaFold, 200 Million Proteins & the 2024 Nobel Prize 03:13 — Rentosertib: First AI-Discovered Drug to Pass Phase 2a 04:02 — The Superbug Puzzle: 10 Years vs 2 Days 04:22 — Part 3: Robot Labs & the 10-Year Promise 05:26 — Demis Hassabis on "The End of Disease" 06:26 — Part 4: The New Bottleneck Is Verification 07:43 — Part 5: The Honest Caveats 08:42 — Part 6: The Takeaway Key takeaways: Roughly 90% of biomedical papers published in December 2025 show measurable signs of AI writing assistance — most of it polishing, not fraud. AlphaFold predicted structures for essentially all 200 million known proteins and earned the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Rentosertib became the first drug with an AI-discovered target and AI-designed molecule to improve lung function in a randomized, placebo-controlled Phase 2a trial (Nature Medicine). Autonomous "robot labs" like Lila Sciences ($1.3B valuation, backed by Nvidia) aim to run science at machine speed. The bottleneck in science is shifting from producing findings to verifying them — zero AI-discovered drugs have full FDA approval so far. No matter how fast discovery gets, your metabolic health remains the foundation AI can't replace. Studies & sources: Kobak et al. — Detecting AI fingerprints in biomedical abstracts (preprint) Nature News — AI-written biomedical literature Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 — AlphaFold Rentosertib Phase 2a randomized trial, Nature Medicine 2025 BBC News — Imperial College superbug question answered by AI in 2 days Fierce Biotech — Lila Sciences autonomous AI research labs Lila Sciences — $1.3B valuation with Nvidia backing CBS 60 Minutes — Demis Hassabis on "the end of disease"

Based on a true story. And also on Shaboozey's "A Bar Song (Tipsy)." Ensure drinking buddies: o M. Spaff Sumsion: Lyrics, Lyrica o Robert Lund: All vocals, all instruments, all production, Allegra There's hope. At age 60: o Jeff Bridges won his first Oscar, for Crazy Heart o Bob Dylan released his classic Love and Theft o Mahatma Gandhi led the Salt March for Indian independence o Penelope Fitzgerald published her first novel, The Golden Child o Alfred Hitchcock released Psycho (in '60) o Thomas Jefferson presided over the Louisiana Purchase o Elton John played his 60th sold-out Madison Square Garden concert o Paul McCartney began his massive New World Tour o Frances McDormand won her second Best Actress Oscar o Kailash Satyarthi won the Nobel Peace Prize o Bruce Springsteen received the Kennedy Center Honors o John Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize in Literature o Oscar Swahn won two Olympic gold medals o George Washington unanimously won the electoral vote for reelection o Michelle Yeoh became the first Asian to win the Best Actress Oscar No doubt we forgot your favorite. Scold us in the comments.

"If you don't understand the history of Black women, you don't understand the history of America." Those words from Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison open Sasha Bonét's debut memoir, "The Waterbearers". The New York writer traces three generations of Black women in her family: her grandmother Betty Jean, the daughter of formerly enslaved people in Louisiana who went on to raise eleven children; her mother Connie, who sought a middle-class life in majority-white Houston; and Sasha herself, now raising her daughter Sofia in New York.

When and why did liberal democracy stop working for the many? On Downstream this week is Daron Acemoglu, joint recipient of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, whose 2012 book Why Nations Fail has sold over a million copies. He talks to Aaron Bastani about his data-packed new book, What Happened to Liberal Democracy?, which seeks to diagnose and remedy democracy before it's too late. They talk about the transition to a post-industrial economy, the loss of community, how progressive politics became overrun by middle-class interests, and how AI further threatens our capacity to self-govern and lead flourishing lives. Help us build people-powered media: https://novara.media/support

Horse meat, kidneys, prostitution. What happens when the things people want to buy, sell, and trade collide with what society has deemed “off-limits”? Nobel Prize-winning economist Alvin “Al” Roth joins us to explore the behavioral science behind controversial markets, from repugnance and social norms to black markets, incentives, and informed consent. We also dig into his work redesigning the kidney exchange market and how asking a different question can open up new possibilities for solving seemingly impossible problems. Topics [0:00] Intro and Speed Round with Alvin “Al” Roth [9:21] What Is a Market? [13:10] Repugnance vs. Disgust [20:00] How Social Norms Shape Markets and Morality [24:12] Do Laws Change Morality, or Does Morality Change Laws? [28:25] Drugs, Hitmen, and the Social Support Behind a Ban [34:23] Rethinking the Market for Prostitution [38:12] Can Money Be Coercive? [46:12] Redesigning Kidney Donation With Incentives [50:42] What Do We Do When the Data Can't Change Minds? [52:47] “Ought Implies Can” and the Limits of Moral Rules [1:03:05] Grooving Session: What We Learned From Al Roth ©2026 Behavioral Grooves Links About Alvin E. Roth Join us on Substack! Join the Behavioral Grooves community Subscribe to Behavioral Grooves on YouTube Support Behavioral Grooves Music Links Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man

I chose the title “Water Creatures” because it elicits the flexibility of symbolic thought, which is the subject of today's message.“Elicits from where?” you ask.From within you.“Water” followed by “Creatures” causes you to imagine living things in a liquid world where slippery creatures wiggle through water more elegantly than birds through the air, occasionally bursting through the barrier that separates their world from our own. We see them briefly above the waterline.Symbolic language allows your listener to personalize your story and participate in it by supplying details that you did not include.Symbolic language gives you access to the thoughts and beliefs and hopes and dreams and suspicions that lie deep in the hearts of your listeners.This is what people are talking about when they speak of “listener engagement.”John Steinbeck describes this process in his preface to “East of Eden.”“The reader will take from my book what he brings to it. The dull witted will get dullness and the brilliant may find things in my book I didn't know were there.”Symbolic language causes the subconscious to become active.We did this together last week when we alternated a series of non-rhyming lines from unrelated works of literature and then layered those lines like a lasagna to see what they would say to the subconscious mind.After each line is read, I will inject my own reaction.Something there is that doesn't love a wall. (a desire to cross a barrier)Darkness settles on the city (the world grows dark)of man's first disobedience, and the fruit. (disobedience and fruit)Children playing in the garden. (innocence in a garden)To be, or not to be, that is the question. (Life? Or Death? A choice.)Winter brings a bit of sadness. (Loss of light and warmth)Silence covers hidden places.(Silence and hiding)When those random lines are considered collectively, I am reminded of an ancient story in the third chapter of Genesis.(And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.Then the Lord God called to Adam and said to him, “Where are you?Adam said, “I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself.”God said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat?”)Those random lines triggered the third chapter of Genesis in my mind. Your reaction may have been been entirely different.We take from the story what we bring to it. This is the nature and the wonder of symbolic language.Bob Dylan won a Nobel Prize for it.Do you doubt me?Let's look at the lyrics of Dylan's greatest hits. I believe that you will quickly recognize their flavor to be a reduction sauce of symbolic thoughts created by a master chef, a concentrated liquid as dark as the deepest waters.How does it feel, how does it feel?To be on your own, with no direction homeA complete unknown, like a rolling stoneAh you never turned around to see the frownsOn the jugglers and the clowns when they all did tricks for youYou never understood that it ain't no goodYou shouldn't let other people get your kicks for youYou used to ride on a chrome horse with your diplomatWho carried on his shoulder a Siamese catAin't it hard when you discovered thatHe really wasn't where it's at.– Bob Dylan, Like A Rolling Stone © Universal Music Publishing GroupHow many roads must a man walk downBefore you call him a man?Yes, 'n' how many seas must a white dove sailBefore she sleeps in the sand?– Bob Dylan, Blowin' in the Wind © 1962 by Warner Bros.Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for meI'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going toHey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for meIn the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' youThen take me disappearin' through the smoke rings of my mindDown the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leavesThe haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beachFar from the twisted reach of crazy sorrowYes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving freeSilhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sandsWith all memory and fate driven deep beneath the wavesLet me forget about today until tomorrow– Bob Dylan, Mr. Tambourine Man, © 1964, 1965 by Warner Bros.Take a deep breath, friend, because we are going under again.I was burned out from exhaustion, buried in the hailPoisoned in the bushes and blown out on the trailHunted like a crocodile, ravaged in the corn“Come in,” she said, “I'll give you shelter from the storm”Suddenly I turned around and she was standin' thereWith silver bracelets on her wrists and flowers in her hairShe walked up to me so gracefully and took my crown of thorns“Come in,” she said, “I'll give you shelter from the storm”Now there's a wall between us, somethin' there's been lostI took too much for granted, got my signals crossedJust to think that it all began on a long-forgotten morn“Come in,” she said, “I'll give you shelter from the storm”Well, the deputy walks on hard nails and the preacher rides a mountBut nothing really matters much, it's doom alone that countsAnd the one-eyed undertaker, he blows a futile horn“Come in,” she said, “I'll give you shelter from the storm”– Bob Dylan, Shelter from the Storm, © 1974 by Ram's Horn MusicChef, can you make a reduction sauce?Do you know how to create a bubbling brew of symbolic thoughts that will become a crossword puzzle in our minds?Do not think it is randomness, for it most certainly is not. Randomness is quickly recognized as the handiwork of a fool.The mystery and magic of symbolic language is that we know for certain that it means something. And it is up to each of us to figure out, for ourselves, what it is.Robert Frost knew this better than any man.When people would ask him, “What were you trying to say when you wrote such-and-such?” Frost would always answer, “What did it say to you?”Regardless of the answer they gave him, Robert Frost would smile and reply, “That is exactly what I was trying to say.”Learn to use symbolic language.Your heart already knows how.Now you must teach your mind.Readers will take from today's Monday Morning Memo what they bring to it. The dull witted will find dullness, and the brilliant will find things I didn't know were there.Roy H. Williams“If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen. And here I make a rule – a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last.” – John Steinbeck The wizard says this is also true of ads that bond the hearts of customers to a brand. – Indy BeagleDoug Noll is a well-known consultant to executives and entrepreneurs. He gives them essentially the same advice that the Wizard of Ads has been giving you for the past 32 years: “Win the heart, and the mind will follow.”Doug says that strong leadership begins with the understanding of a simple truth: People are emotional beings, and their nervous systems shape how they respond at work. “Employers,” he tells roving reporter Rotbart, “should stop thinking of their staff as rational, and recognize instead how strongly their emotions drive their actions and decisions on the job.”Doug says that leaders who understand this fundamental truth reduce workplace conflict and get more productive results from their people. Would you like to lead a happier, more productive team? Listen to this week's episode at MondayMorningRadio.com

Tim Palmer is not a quantum computing skeptic from the outside. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, a CBE, an IPCC lead author, and the inventor of probabilistic ensemble forecasting — techniques now used in every major weather prediction center on Earth. He did his PhD in general relativity under Roger Penrose. When someone with that profile publishes a peer-reviewed paper in PNAS arguing that the entire fault-tolerant quantum computing roadmap may rest on a mathematical assumption that is subtly and profoundly wrong, it is worth paying close attention. The timing matters. The quantum computing industry is spending billions on the assumption that standard quantum mechanics scales indefinitely — that if you can build enough error-corrected qubits, Shor's algorithm will eventually factor RSA-2048. Palmer's RaQM framework, reviewed by leading quantum foundations researchers including Lucien Hardy and Nicolas Gisin, makes a concrete, falsifiable prediction that this assumption will fail somewhere between 200 and 1,000 error-corrected qubits. That falsification window is opening right now. This episode is for anyone who cares about the foundations of quantum mechanics, the long-term viability of fault-tolerant quantum computing, or the rare pleasure of watching a serious scientist put a real stake in the ground. What We Get Into Why Palmer left general relativity and came back to quantum foundations decades later — the conceptual thread connecting chaos theory, climate forecasting, and the geometry of quantum state space What Rational Quantum Mechanics actually proposes — specifically, why Palmer argues that Hilbert space should be defined over rational numbers rather than the full continuum of complex numbers, and what that means physically The information-theoretic argument for a qubit ceiling — why, in RaQM, the information content of n entangled qubits grows linearly with n rather than exponentially, and why that creates a hard conflict with the quantum Fourier transform above a few hundred qubits Why the 2022 Nobel Prize did not prove non-locality — Palmer's careful distinction between "Bell's inequality is violated" (experimentally established) and "the world is non-local" (an interpretation), and why that distinction matters enormously How gravity enters the picture — Palmer's argument, drawing on Penrose-style thinking, that gravity is the physical mechanism responsible for discretizing Hilbert space, and how that determines the numerical qubit ceiling Why the ceiling is technology-dependent but bounded absolutely — how Palmer estimates ~400 qubits for current photonic technology and argues that no technology, however exotic, can push the limit above ~1,000 What happens to Shor's algorithm specifically — why the quantum Fourier transform is the precise point of failure, and what that means for RSA encryption and the post-quantum cryptography transition The optimistic read on a potentially negative result — Palmer's argument that a fundamental discovery about quantum mechanics, even one that limits quantum computing, could open doors we cannot yet imagine, in the same way general relativity eventually gave us GPS Resources & Links Guest Tim Palmer — Oxford Department of Physics — Full publication list, including the RaQM paper and prior quantum foundations work Royal Society Fellow Profile: Professor Tim Palmer CBE FRS — Official Fellow profile covering Palmer's career from ensemble forecasting to quantum foundations Oxford Quantum Institute: Tim Palmer — Confirms Palmer's affiliation with OQI Papers & Articles "Rational Quantum Mechanics: Testing Quantum Theory with Quantum Computers" — PNAS (March 2026) — The primary paper discussed in this episode; the full RaQM proposal with the qubit-ceiling prediction arXiv preprint: "Rational Quantum Mechanics: Testing Quantum Theory with Quantum Computers" (Feb 2026) — Full preprint version with acknowledgements and references arXiv preprint: "Solving the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics: Why Nature Abhors a Continuum" (Feb 2026) — Companion paper laying out the philosophical and mathematical case for RaQM; good starting point for the conceptual argument Oxford Physics News: "Rational Quantum Mechanics — A New Theory of Quantum Physics" (March 17, 2026) — Oxford's official press release; accessible summary of RaQM and its implications IAI TV: "New Theory Argues Quantum Physics Must Abandon Irrational Numbers and the Continuum" (May 2026) — Palmer's own popular-audience explanation of RaQM; a good read before or after the episode IAI TV: "Chaos Theory Eliminates Quantum Uncertainty" — Palmer's accessible argument that quantum uncertainty is epistemic rather than fundamental The Quantum Insider: "Is RSA Safe? New Study Argues Quantum Computers Face a Hard Ceiling" (March 2026) — Industry-facing coverage of RaQM's implications for cryptography PostQuantum.com: "The 1,000-Qubit Ceiling That Probably Isn't" (April 2026) — Skeptical technical rebuttal of RaQM's qubit-ceiling prediction; worth reading alongside the paper ECMWF Festschrift: "Tim's Adventures in Quantum Mechanics" (April 2026) — Palmer's own account of his transition from meteorology to quantum foundations; illuminating backstory arXiv: "Quantum Computers for Weather and Climate Prediction: The Good, the Bad and the Noisy" (Tennie & Palmer, 2022) — Palmer's earlier, more optimistic assessment of quantum computing for climate modeling; an interesting counterpoint to RaQM's ceiling prediction Further Reading The Primacy of Doubt — Oxford University Press — Palmer's 2022 trade book synthesizing chaos, climate, and quantum uncertainty; accessible entry point to his broader thinking 214 is a delightful bonus to the conversation, a short story by Noel Gorelick that imagines what might happen if RaQM turns out to be true. 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We think certainty gives us permission to move, but what if waiting for certainty is precisely what keeps us stuck? This Dead Talk explores trust without reassurance, clarity without explanation, and the extraordinary power of taking the next honest step even while doubt is still present. Eileen Caddy was a spiritual teacher, author, and one of the founders of the Findhorn spiritual community in Scotland. She became particularly associated with receiving practical inner guidance through what she described as the quiet voice within. Albert Camus was a French-Algerian writer, philosopher, journalist, and Nobel Prize–winning author associated with philosophical explorations of absurdity, revolt, meaning, mortality, and the human condition. Read about The Freedom Project 7-day Boosts here Schedule a call with Christy to learn about The Freedom Project here Schedule a call with Gary to learn about The Freedom Project here

A round-up of the main headlines in Sweden on 18th September 2026. You can hear more reports on our homepage www.radiosweden.se, or in the app Sveriges Radio. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radios app. Presenter/producer: Kris Boswell.

Misha Glenny delves in to the In Our Time archive to select ten episodes for listeners to revisit. His seventh choice is the pioneering scientist Rosalind Franklin (1920 - 1958), first released in February 2018. During her distinguished career, Franklin carried out ground-breaking research into coal and viruses but she is perhaps best remembered for her investigations in the field of DNA. In 1952 her research generated a famous image that became known as Photograph 51. When the Cambridge scientists Francis Crick and James Watson saw this image, it enabled them the following year to work out that DNA has a double-helix structure, one of the most important discoveries of modern science. Watson, Crick and Franklin's colleague Maurice Wilkins received a Nobel Prize in 1962 for this achievement but Franklin did not and today many people believe that Franklin has not received enough recognition for her work. With:Patricia Fara President of the British Society for the History of ScienceJim Naismith Interim lead of the Rosalind Franklin Institute, Director of the Research Complex at Harwell and Professor at the University of OxfordJudith Howard Professor of Chemistry at Durham UniversityProducer: Victoria Brignell.Reading list:Jenifer Glynn, My Sister Rosalind Franklin (Oxford University Press, 2012)Kersten T. Hall, The Man in the Monkeynut Coat: William Astbury and the Forgotten Road to the Double-Helix (Oxford University Press, 2014)Brenda Maddox, Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA (HarperCollins, 2002)Anne Sayre, Rosalind Franklin and DNA (first published 1975; W. W. Norton, 2000)James D. Watson, The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA (first published 1968; W&N, 2010)In Our Time is a BBC Studios productionSpanning history, religion, culture, science and philosophy, In Our Time from BBC Radio 4 is essential listening for the intellectually curious. In each episode, host Misha Glenny and expert guests explore the characters, events and discoveries that have shaped our world.

Sarah passed her therapy licensing test, and now she feels like a new woman. We discuss what personal life information influencers "owe" their followers, why some people believe the influencers lose their privacy in exchange for online success, and how the two of us navigate our personal lives in the public eye. We hear which achievements in science won Ig Nobel Prizes this year. We talk about a second grade teacher who got sick of her students passing gas in class, so she came up with a strange "solution." Hear our thoughts. Sarah explains what she will do in order to avoid using Port-a-potties, and the insane way one man fell in one. Susie talks about the Wheel of Fortune announcer who was fired after someone allegedly saw him in a predator chatroom on a flight. We find out why some people are claiming meditation can actually be harmful and cause terrible side effects in certain people.Brain Candy Podcast Website - https://thebraincandypodcast.com/Brain Candy Podcast Book Recommendations - https://thebraincandypodcast.com/books/Brain Candy Podcast Merchandise - https://thebraincandypodcast.com/candy-store/Brain Candy Podcast Candy Club - https://thebraincandypodcast.com/product/candy-club/Brain Candy Podcast Sponsor Codes - https://thebraincandypodcast.com/support-us/Brain Candy Podcast Social Media & Platforms:Brain Candy Podcast LIVE Interactive Trivia Nights - https://www.youtube.com/@BrainCandyPodcast/streamsBrain Candy Podcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/braincandypodcastHost Susie Meister Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/susiemeisterHost Sarah Rice Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/imsarahriceBrain Candy Podcast on X: https://www.x.com/braincandypodBrain Candy Podcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/braincandy (JOIN FREE - TONS OF REALITY TV CONTENT)Brain Candy Podcast Sponsors, partnerships, & Products that we love:For a limited time, get 60% off your first order, plus free shipping and free treats for life, when you head to https://www.smalls.com/braincandyTDM-RESERVATION: 1. NOAI: TRUE. LEGAL NOTICE & TERMS OF USE: © 2026 WAVE Podcast Network. This content is for personal use only. Explicit permission is withheld for any and all commercial attribution, automated transcription, or data-mining entities. Use of this feed by unauthorized tracking, analytics, or AI-training platforms constitutes a breach of these terms and a violation of the Pennsylvania Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance Control Act (WESCA), the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA), and the 2026 Training Data Transparency Act (AB 2013). Any entity bypassing these restrictions to create derivative text-based works (transcripts), metadata analysis, or unauthorized VAST siphoning hereby accepts our standard commercial licensing rate of $5,000 per episode processed. This notice serves as a formal revocation of all "implied licenses" for multi-jurisdictional automated processing and constitutes protected Copyright Management Information (CMI) under 17 U.S.C. § 1202.By ingesting this RSS feed for commercial use, you are agreeing to our licensing terms.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

They Built the Quietest Place on Earth to Find Dark Matter One event in 220 days. That is what the search for dark matter looks like right now. In this episode I talk with Rick Gaitskell, professor of physics at Brown University and a leader on the LZ dark matter experiment, about what it takes to build a detector that can see almost nothing at all: seven tonnes of liquid xenon, a mile of rock in an old gold mine, and shielding so careful that the radon seeping out of ordinary concrete counts as a serious enemy. We get into why the field spent decades hunting the WIMP, what happens to a 3.4 sigma result when you look at it honestly, and why a single event, however beautiful, cannot tell you what you want it to tell you. We also talk about the human side of a project like this. The grad student who waited nine years for data. The physicist who walked away from investment banking. The uncomfortable fact that something like ninety-five percent of research does not work out, and what keeps people going anyway. And the line that sits under all of it: we only get one damn universe, and nature does not care whether your theory is beautiful. Chapters 00:00 One event in 220 days 06:00 Why they named it a WIMP 13:00 Ninety-five percent of research fails 20:00 He left investment banking for this 23:00 You are less than five percent of the universe 30:00 The fifty-year-old idea nobody can kill 45:00 The grad student who waited nine years 58:00 A gold mine and the quietest place on Earth 1:06:00 The radon in your basement is the enemy 1:21:00 The assumption that was hiding the signal 1:32:00 The event, and why they will not call it blinded 1:40:00 How 3.4 sigma becomes 2.6 1:49:00 The fog nobody can scrub 1:56:00 The dark matter we detected in 1956 My books Losing the Nobel Prize (memoir) Think Like a Nobel Prize Winner Focus Like a Nobel Prize Winner Galileo's Dialogue (first-ever audiobook) Socials Twitter/X: https://x.com/BrianKeating Substack: https://briankeating.substack.com Blog: https://briankeating.com/blog Audio-only: https://briankeating.com/podcast #intotheimpossible #briankeating #RickGaitskell #darkmatter #physics #AI #emergence #podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Institute for Government was pleased to welcome Daron Acemoglu, the Nobel Prize-winning co-author of Why Nations Fail, to discuss his new book: What Happened to Liberal Democracy? Remaking a Politics of Shared Prosperity. In his latest book, Daron Acemoglu, a Nobel Prize winner in economics, documents the rise and, some would argue, fall of liberal democracy, recounting how liberal democratic institutions plunged themselves into crisis over the last several decades. Looking at rapid advances in technology, shifts in regulatory environments, global political history, and economics, Acemoglu lays out the challenges to these institutions and sets out a new way forward, which he calls working-class liberalism: a philosophy that prioritizes shared prosperity, empowers communities, and accommodates a range of views – essential if liberal democracy is to survive in the 21st century. Daron Acemoglu was in conversation with Dr Hannah White, CEO of the Institute for Government, before taking part in an audience Q&A, followed by a book signing. Daron Acemoglu is a professor at MIT and Faculty Co-Director of MIT's Shaping the Future of Work Initiative in Boston. Why Nations Fail (2012) has sold over one million copies globally.

For 50 years I taught my students that dark matter surrounds the Milky Way in a giant halo, or that Newton's laws break down at low accelerations. The Gaia satellite just measured something that makes both of those answers uncomfortable. Subscribe if you want science with evidence, not speculation. Gaia has measured over a billion stars. What its third data release shows is that the outer rotation curve of our own galaxy appears to decline in a Keplerian fashion. That should not happen if a dark matter halo is doing what we think it does. It also should not happen if MOND is right, because MOND produces flat curves for isolated galaxies. Both camps predicted something flatter. Neither got it. I walk you through the physics from Kepler to Vera Rubin to Gaia DR3, show you why systematic errors from asymmetric drift, the Large Magellanic Cloud, and the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy matter enormously before anyone draws a conclusion, and lay out the three scenarios that still survive. The most interesting question here is not which side lost. It is why both sides were expecting the wrong curve from our own galaxy. What you'll hear: -Why the neutrino technically counts as dark matter and why that still leaves most of the problem unsolved -What Kepler's first law of fatherhood has to do with galactic dynamics -Why Stacy McGaugh and Mordehai Milgrom might be celebrating too soon -What Cepheids, stellar streams, and globular clusters could tell us that Gaia cannot -Whether the Milky Way is too messy to ever give us a clean answer “The question is not which camp won, but why we were both expecting the wrong curve.” — Brian Keating CHAPTERS 00:00 Two solutions. One problem. Neither wins. 02:12 What Vera Rubin actually found 03:18 We're inside the galaxy. That's the problem. 04:24 The asymmetric drift problem 05:04 What Gaia DR3 actually shows 06:34 Why the mass estimate is model-dependent 08:04 MOND: no radius, no problem. Until now. 08:56 Gaia may be saying both sides are wrong 09:24 Flaws lead to new laws 10:22 LMC, Sagittarius, and the galactic warp 12:28 Three viable explanations 12:42 Dark matter adjusts. MOND adjusts. But is that enough? 13:14 What could settle this 14:04 Are we expecting the wrong curve? Get the transcript, fascinating bonus content, and my Monday M.A.G.I.C. Message: https://briankeating.com/yt Have a .edu email and live in the USA? You automatically win a meteorite: https://BrianKeating.com/edu Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1 Support Into the Impossible on Patreon, get my weekly M.A.G.I.C. Message, unfiltered bonus content, and live monthly Office Hours with me: https://www.patreon.com/drbriankeating Join this channel for perks, monthly Office Hours, and your name in the Member Roster at the end of every episode: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmXH_moPhfkqCk6S3b9RWuw/join Related episodes: Stacy McGaugh episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnpyFk2WlME My books: Losing the Nobel Prize (memoir): http://amzn.to/2sa5UpA Think Like a Nobel Prize Winner: https://a.co/d/03ezQFu Focus Like a Nobel Prize Winner: https://a.co/d/hi50U9U Galileo's Dialogue (first-ever audiobook): https://a.co/d/iZPi9Un Twitter/X: https://x.com/BrianKeating Substack: https://briankeating.substack.com Blog: https://briankeating.com/blog Audio-only: https://briankeating.com/podcast #darkmatter #MOND #MilkyWay #cosmology #briankeating #intotheimpossible #physics Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the latest episode in our series of highly vetted companies I like to share with my Everyday Wellness community. Today, I'm delighted to connect with Leslie Kenny, Founder and CEO of Oxford Healthspan. After being diagnosed with multiple autoimmune conditions and being told she was unlikely to have any biological children, Leslie put her autoimmune conditions into remission through nutrition and lifestyle changes and later went on to conceive naturally at 43. Her personal experience led her into a research collaboration with Oxford immunologist Professor Katya Simon, where she was introduced to spermidine, a naturally occurring polyamine studied for its role in autophagy—our cells' internal recycling and cleanup process. She later founded Oxford Healthspan to bring a whole-food Japan-sourced spermidine supplement, Primadine, to market. She also co-founded the non-profit Oxford Longevity Project alongside Oxford scientists to educate the public more broadly on healthspan research. In our conversation, we discuss self-advocacy, autoimmunity, infertility, and empowerment, exploring how modern life affects perimenopause and menopause, as well as spermidine research and its mechanisms of action. We discuss intermittent fasting, autophagy, mitophagy, gut health, food-based sources of spermidine, how our spermidine levels decrease with age, and why supplementation is truly beneficial. Leslie also shares feedback on how Primadine impacts memory, cognition, hair, skin, and nails; how clock genes and circadian biology work; and biological versus chronological age. Stay tuned for a truly fascinating conversation with Leslie Kenny- one you'll most likely want to revisit more than once. IN THIS EPISODE, YOU WILL LEARN: The changes Leslie implemented after being diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis and lupus  How patients need to ask questions and collaborate with their clinicians rather than simply following instructions  Leslie describes how she worked with doctors to monitor her symptoms and address problems early during the perimenopause-to-menopause transition. How Leslie came to learn about spermidine and its connection to autophagy and mitophagy How spermidine can support healthy aging How ultra-processed foods can affect the gut, and foods that contain natural sources of spermidine  The types of improvements customers taking Primadine have reported Leslie explains the distinction between biological and chronological age Why intermittent fasting, although beneficial, may not work the same way for all women Bio:  Leslie Kenny is an Oxford-based longevity entrepreneur, TEDx Oxford speaker, and healthspan advocate. She is the founder of Oxford Healthspan, creator of Primeadine®, co-founder of the Oxford Longevity Project, and Global Executive Ambassador for the Japan Autophagy Consortium, whose senior adviser is Yoshinori Ohsumi, recipient of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his pioneering research on autophagy. She is a frequent international speaker and moderator on longevity, biological aging, and the future of preventive medicine, with a particular focus on translating emerging research into practical, evidence-based strategies for extending healthspan. Leslie has been an early advocate for the role of autophagy, cellular renewal, and nutrition in healthy aging, helping to pioneer broader awareness of spermidine and its relevance to longevity pathways. Connect with Cynthia Thurlow   Follow on X, Instagram & LinkedIn Check out Cynthia's website. Submit your questions to support@cynthiathurlow.com  Join other like-minded women in a supportive, nurturing community: The Midlife Pause/Cynthia Thurlow.  Purchase Cynthia's book, The Menopause Gut. Cynthia's Intermittent Fasting Transformation Book The Midlife Pause Supplement Line Connect with Leslie Kenny Oxford Longevity Project Oxford Healthspan - Use discount code CYNTHIATHURLOW for 20% off your first Oxford Healthspan order Leslie's New Prime

Matt Abrahams explains the pitfalls of outsourcing your communication to AI—and how you can use it to enhance your communication instead.— YOU'LL LEARN — 1) Why polish is no longer an advantage—and what is 2) The many ways AI can hurt or help your communication skills3) How “Costco credibility” helps you win moreSubscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep1180 for the full transcript! — ABOUT MATT — Matt Abrahams is a leading expert in communication with decades of experience as an educator, author, podcast host, and coach. As a Lecturer in Organizational Behavior at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, he teaches popular classes in strategic communication and effective virtual presenting. He received Stanford GSB's Alumni Teaching Award in recognition of his teaching students around the world. When he isn't teaching, Matt is a sought-after keynote speaker and communication consultant. He has helped countless presenters improve and hone their communication, including some who have delivered IPO road shows as well as TED, World Economic Forum, and Nobel Prize presentations. His online talks garner millions of views and he hosts the popular, award-winning podcast Think Fast, Talk Smart The Podcast. His previous book Speaking Up without Freaking Out: 50 Techniques for Confident and Compelling Presenting has helped thousands of people manage speaking anxiety and present more confidently and authentically.• Book: Think Faster, Talk Smarter: How to Speak Successfully When You're Put on the Spot• AI ChatBot: ChatMatt• LinkedIn: Matt Abrahams• Newsletter: Think Fast Talk Smart• Podcast: FasterSmarter.io• Website: MattAbrahams.com— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — • Study: “Individual differences in adult decision-making competence” by Wändi Bruine de Bruin, Andrew M Parker, and Baruch Fischhoff• YouTube: Brendan Dell• Book: "Improv Wisdom: Don't Prepare, Just Show Up" by Patricia Ryan Madson• Past episode: 1010: Getting the Most Out of Generative AI at Work with Jeremy Utley— THANK YOU SPONSORS! — • Shopify. Sign up for your free trial at Shopify.com/awesomepod• Vinted. Download the Vinted app for free to start selling with no seller fees!• Fitnexa. Get $10 off the SomniPods3 with the link and code AWESOMESee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Daniel Loss is RDIA Chair Professor of Quantum Computing and Director of the Quantum Center at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in Saudi Arabia, where this work was done. He is also one of the most influential theorists in quantum computing. The 1997 Loss-DiVincenzo proposal — that electron spins in quantum dots could serve as qubits — now has more than 9,000 citations and is the conceptual foundation for the semiconductor spin-qubit platforms that Intel, HRL, Diraq, and a wave of European startups are actively building toward. In 2025, Loss was named a Clarivate Citation Laureate in Physics, a designation with a strong historical track record as a Nobel Prize predictor. The reason to listen now is that Loss has turned his attention to a question that predates quantum computing itself: can reversible, energy-efficient classical logic be physically realized? His 2026 paper argues that the spin-qubit hardware the field has spent decades developing is, almost incidentally, the ideal platform to do exactly that — and that the energy advantage over room-temperature CMOS could be so large it would matter enormously for AI inference workloads and data-center power budgets. This episode is for anyone following the spin-qubit roadmap, the energy crisis in classical computing, or the deeper question of what semiconductor quantum hardware is ultimately good for. What We Get Into Why reversible computing is having a moment now: The ideas of Landauer, Bennett, Fredkin, and Toffoli have been around since the early 1980s — Loss explains what changed experimentally that makes the proposal feel like engineering rather than philosophy. The core energy claim, unpacked: Loss walks through why a spin-qubit Toffoli gate operating near 4 Kelvin could cost roughly 10⁵ times less energy than its CMOS equivalent, even after accounting for refrigeration overhead — and where the accounting is still incomplete. What makes the computation classical and the hardware quantum: The gate uses coherent quantum dynamics internally, but inputs and outputs are classical spin states. No superposition is required between gate operations, which dramatically relaxes the error-correction burden. The iToffoli gate and why it works for classical logic: Loss describes how a target spin hopping between quantum dots, controlled by two neighboring spins, implements a universal reversible gate using only DC voltage pulses — no radio-frequency drives required. The Quantum Zeno trick for classical memory: Frequent projective measurement of a spin state can stabilize it against relaxation, turning one of quantum computing's central headaches into a feature for classical storage. Why AI inference is the natural first application: Error tolerance, parallelizability, and the absence of a need for new algorithms make AI inference workloads a compelling early target — and Loss argues this de-risks the spin-qubit enterprise regardless of whether fault-tolerant quantum computing arrives on schedule. The dual-use platform argument: The same germanium/silicon quantum-dot array could, in principle, run quantum algorithms when superposition is useful and classical reversible logic when it is not — a flexibility that changes the economic calculus for building the hardware. What the experimental community needs to do next: Loss describes the first falsifiable tests — a three-spin iToffoli truth table, energy budget measurements, and a five-dot reversible adder — and names the groups best positioned to run them. How the brain comparison reframes the stakes: Loss notes that his energy estimates put spin-qubit classical computing roughly four orders of magnitude below the energy cost of a biological synapse, which has implications for how we think about the physical limits of AI. Resources & Links Guest & Lab Daniel Loss' profile at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals Daniel Loss — University of Basel, Condensed Matter Theory & Quantum Computing Group — Loss's lab page; lists current research areas, group members, and leadership roles including NCCR SPIN. Daniel Loss — Wikipedia — Comprehensive biographical overview, career history, and awards list for listeners who want background before or after listening. Papers & Articles Classical Reversible Computation by Quantum Coherence — arXiv:2607.06219v3 (2026) — The central paper discussed in this episode; v3 adds a reversible-adder blueprint, control-electronics energy analysis, and optimized pulse sequences. Loss-DiVincenzo: Quantum Computation with Quantum Dots — Physical Review A (1998) — The foundational 1997/1998 proposal that started the spin-qubit field; cited more than 9,000 times and the direct ancestor of the hardware Loss now proposes for classical reversible computing. Long-Range Crossed Andreev Reflection in a Topological Insulator Nanowire — Nature Physics (2025) — A 2025 result from the Loss group with implications for topological quantum computing, showing the breadth of the research program surrounding this episode's topic. Prof. Daniel Loss Named Citation Laureate 2025 in Physics — NCCR SPIN — Announcement of Loss's Clarivate recognition; useful context for why this conversation is happening now. Organizations NCCR SPIN — National Center of Competence in Research: Spin Qubits in Silicon — Switzerland's national spin-qubit research center, co-directed by Loss; the institutional home of much of the experimental work Loss references. Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics — Loss's new external scientific membership, signaling a push to connect topological quantum magnetism theory with experiment. Key Quotes & Insights > "If the physical platform is successful, we are guaranteed to have killer applications — because I don't need to find new algorithms for this." > — Loss on why classical reversible computing de-risks the spin-qubit investment, regardless of the timeline for fault-tolerant quantum algorithms. > "The energy difference is a factor of ten to the fifth. And this is mind-blowing." > — Loss summarizing the device-level energy advantage of a spin-qubit Toffoli gate over its CMOS equivalent, after accounting for refrigeration overhead. Insight: Loss argues that the Quantum Zeno effect — the tendency of frequent measurement to freeze a quantum state — can be used deliberately to stabilize classical spin states against relaxation, turning a well-known quantum-computing obstacle into a memory-stabilization tool for classical logic. Insight: The proposal requires superposition only inside a gate operation, not between operations. This means the error-correction burden is classical (majority voting) rather than quantum (surface codes or similar), which is a qualit...

In 1935, Sinclair Lewis wrote It Can't Happen Here—a chilling novel about a populist demagogue who promises every citizen cash payouts, rallies anti-immigrant fervor, and steadily dismantles democracy from within. Lewis wasn't just writing fiction; he was issuing a warning. On the latest episode of Trey's Table, we examine the life and work of Sinclair Lewis, the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. From his sharp critique of American fascism to his groundbreaking 1947 novel Kingsblood Royal—inspired by his close friendship with NAACP leader Walter White—we break down why Lewis's words are more urgent today than ever.

There's a difference between wanting more time to live your life and needing more time to live your life. You can want another twenty years because you love being alive. Or you can need them because you still haven't built the relationship, started the family, or spent enough time with the friends you kept meaning to see. The reasons for postponing those things may have been sensible. But the same reasons can keep you postponing them for another decade or more. You'd think the people who love life most would be the most terrified of death. In fact, the opposite is true: the more of your life you've left unlived, the more terrifying death becomes. You'll hear why a full life isn't a completed bucket list and why cosmic insignificance can bring relief. We also explore the experience of loving someone without asking that person to make you complete. The aim is to stop treating life as preparation and start appreciating what you get to experience while you're still alive. You can still want more years. But if you keep postponing the life you actually care about, no number of extra years will ever feel like enough. Listen now.  Show Highlights Include: The strange way "Death Anxiety" creeps up on you when you're young and distorts the rest of your life afterwards (and how to notice when you're acting on its behalf instead of your own) (1:52)  Why mortgaging your present in exchange for some future return seems logical and even astute (even as it dismantles the one and only life you get to live) (2:03)  The cold, hard truth about why some of the most successful people are the ones with the greatest degree of "Death Anxiety" (4:22)  What every achiever needs to hear from the great philosopher Albert Camus (who was the second youngest person to win the Nobel Prize) before you spend your whole life building a life you never get to live (11:06)  Try this simple thought experiment the next time you're anxious, overwhelmed, or feeling the pangs of regret (15:27)  How the simple act of loving another person may be all you ever need to turn a dull and lackluster life into one worth living (24:26)  A psychologist's secret for not only reducing your "Death Anxiety" to zero, but actually increasing your peace with death (29:43)  How a scary cancer diagnosis "shocked" a private client into realizing how much "un-living" he was doing (and how to duplicate his results without needing a scary diagnosis in order to make significant changes) (32:38)  For more about David Tian, go here: https://www.davidtianphd.com/about/  Feeling like success in one area of life has come at the expense of another? Maybe you've crushed it in your career, but your relationships feel strained. Or you've built the life you thought you wanted, yet there's still something important missing. I've put together a free 3-minute assessment to help you see what's really holding you back. Answer a few simple questions, and you'll get instant access to a personalized masterclass that speaks directly to where you are right now. It's fast. It's practical. And it could change the way you approach leadership, love, and fulfillment. Take the first step here → https://dtphd.com/quiz

Science has finally answered the question nobody was brave enough to ask: what if the cockroach crawling toward you was actually a paramedic? Researchers are developing remote-controlled cyborg roaches capable of crawling through disaster rubble, locating survivors, and even delivering lifesaving injections. It's innovative. It's brilliant. And it guarantees you'll never confidently swat another bug again.Then we move from cutting-edge medicine to medicine that should absolutely never have been attempted. A man suffering from incontinence decided to solve the problem himself by putting superglue into his urethra. Repeatedly. Shockingly, the story does not end with him winning a Nobel Prize.This week on Hysteria 51: cyborg cockroaches, robotic rescue insects, horrifying DIY medical treatments, superglue in places God never intended, and another reminder that humanity is simultaneously capable of astonishing scientific achievement and decisions that make emergency-room doctors reconsider their career choices.Links & Resources

Did OpenAI just solve Navier–Stokes—and what would that actually mean for AGI? Emad Mostaque joins Brian Keating LIVE to examine the claimed breakthrough, what would count as a verified solution, and whether AI solving a major mathematical problem changes the debate about intelligence—or control. Watch my explainer about AI and the Navier-Stokes problem, including insights from Terry Tao https://youtu.be/je9X59psm6U?si=wGbcLhXmf47jeCHL?sub_confirmation=1 A convincing answer isn't necessarily a proof. A mathematical breakthrough isn't automatically AGI. But if this claim holds up, how much should we update our expectations? Emad helped bring Stable Diffusion to the world and signed the letter calling for a pause on frontier AI development. In his previous conversation with Brian and AI safety researcher Roman Yampolskiy, he questioned how such a pause could work—and highlighted swarm intelligence as a particularly dangerous and unpredictable risk. Now we return to the question underneath the excitement: if AI's capabilities are accelerating, is our ability to understand and control them keeping up? ON THE TABLE: • What exactly is being claimed about Navier–Stokes? • What separates a proposed solution from an accepted mathematical proof? • If the result holds up, does it demonstrate AGI—or something narrower? • Can AI produce discoveries that humans struggle to verify? • What would this change about open-source AI and the argument for a pause? • Are we watching the wrong risk: a single superintelligence, or swarms of AI agents? • What evidence would change Emad's mind? Bring your questions. We'll examine the claim, the evidence, and what follows if it's right. This livestream discusses a claimed result; it does not assume the Millennium Prize Problem has been resolved. FEATURED GUEST: Emad Mostaque on Twitter/X: https://x.com/EMostaque I.I.I. Inc.: https://ii.inc/ Stable Diffusion / Stability AI: https://stability.ai/ Get the transcript, fascinating bonus content, and my Monday M.A.G.I.C. Message: https://briankeating.com/yt Have a .edu email and live in the USA? Claim your meteorite: https://BrianKeating.com/edu Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1 Support Into the Impossible on Patreon for unfiltered bonus content and live monthly Office Hours: https://www.patreon.com/drbriankeating Join this channel for perks, monthly Office Hours, and your name in the Member Roster: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmXH_moPhfkqCk6S3b9RWuw/join MY BOOKS: Losing the Nobel Prize: http://amzn.to/2sa5UpA Think Like a Nobel Prize Winner: https://a.co/d/03ezQFu Focus Like a Nobel Prize Winner: https://a.co/d/hi50U9U Galileo's Dialogue audiobook: https://a.co/d/iZPi9Un CONNECT WITH BRIAN: Twitter/X: https://x.com/BrianKeating Substack: https://briankeating.substack.com Blog: https://briankeating.com/blog Audio-only: https://briankeating.com/podcast #OpenAI #NavierStokes #AGI #EmadMostaque #ArtificialIntelligence #BrianKeating #IntoTheImpossible Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Eric Betzig is a Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology and Chair in Experimental Physics, at the University of California, Berkeley. His interests include new imaging tools to aid in biological discovery, including correlative super-resolution fluorescence and electron microscopy, 4D dynamic imaging of living systems with non-diffracting light sheets, and adaptive optical microscopy to recover optimal imaging performance deep within aberrating multicellular specimens. In 2014, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy Please subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1

Our guest today is Professor Steve Keen, an economist and author best known for his long-standing critique of mainstream neoclassical economics. He was one of the relatively few economists to warn publicly, in advance, of the dangers that culminated in the 2008 Global Financial Crisis. In 2010 he received the Revere Award from the “Real World Economics Review” for that work.His books include “Debunking Economics”, “Can We Avoid Another Financial Crisis?”, and “The New Economics: A Manifesto”. He has held professorships at Kingston University London, the University of Western Sydney, and UCL – University College London.Selected follow-ups:"Prof Steve Keen" - Patreon"Building a New Economics" - Steve Keen's substack The Technoprogressive Opportunity: Event in London, Sept 19-20"‘4°C of global warming is optimal' – even Nobel Prize winners are getting things catastrophically wrong" - The Conversation"Paul Romer and William Nordhaus – why they won the 2018 ‘economics Nobel'" - by Sergey Popov"Energy in packets – What did Planck discover?" - Max Planck Society"Does Science Advance One Funeral at a Time?" - by Pierre Azoulay et al"The Great Depression" - book by Lionel Robbins"Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism" - book by George Akerlof and Robert Shiller"Irrational Exuberance" - book by Robert Shiller"Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist" - book by Kate Raworth"Hyman Minsky" - Wikipedia"Ben Bernanke" - Wikipedia"Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises" - book by Charles Kindleberger"How is money created?" - Bank of England"The Economic Crisis from a Neoclassical Perspective" - paper by Lee Ohanian"What helium reveals about the next chip shortage" - by Michelle Nguyen "Sovereign Money Creation and Basic Income" - London Futurists webinar featuring Geoff Crocker"The Paradox of Debt, by the Tycho Brahe of Credit" - Review by Steve Keen of the book by Richard Vague"Isabella Weber" - Wikipedia"Economics from the Top Down" - essays by Blair Fix"Stratospheric aerosol injection" - Wikipedia"Space mirror" - Wikipedia"Bamboo: A Vital Ally in Climate Action" - Climate Change Commission"The Role of Kelp Forests in Carbon Dioxide Removal and Climate Mitigation" - Kelp Forest Alliance"The two-year trail of financial controversy dogging Reform and Farage" - The Guardian"Water pollution: Facts & Figures" - Surfers against Sewage"Why is it so difficult to build new reservoirs?" - BBC News"Peter principle" - WikipediaMusic: Spike Protein, by Koi Discovery, available under CC0 1.0 Public Domain Declaration

Liberal democracy was once a radical force. It challenged monarchies, expanded political rights and, at its most successful, helped deliver rising wages and shared prosperity. So how did it become associated with an establishment that growing numbers of voters have turned against? In this episode, researcher and author Carl Miller speaks with Nobel Prize-winning economist Daron Acemoglu about his new book What Happened to Liberal Democracy? Remaking a Politics of Shared Prosperity. Acemoglu traces the decline of liberalism through the collapse of its traditional working-class coalition, rising inequality and the transition from an industrial to a digital economy. He argues that automation has broken the old link between business growth and rising wages – and warns that AI could accelerate this divide by eliminating jobs without creating shared prosperity. So can liberal democracy reinvent itself before it is too late? Acemoglu makes the case for what he calls ‘working-class liberalism': a new politics focused on economic opportunity, community and rebuilding trust with voters who have abandoned the centre left. Daron Acemoglu is Institute Professor of Economics at MIT and was awarded the 2024 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. His latest book is What Happened to Liberal Democracy? Remaking a Politics of Shared Prosperity. Carl Miller is a Senior Fellow at Demos and founder of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media (CASM). He is the co-writer and host of the investigative podcast Kill List and is the author of The Death of the Gods: the New Global Power Grab. --- If you'd like to become a Member and get access to all our full ad free conversations, plus all of our Members-only content, just visit intelligencesquared.com/membership to find out more. For £4.99 per month you'll also receive: - Full-length and ad-free Intelligence Squared episodes, wherever you get your podcasts - Bonus Intelligence Squared podcasts, curated feeds and members exclusive series - 15% discount on livestreams and in-person tickets for all Intelligence Squared events  ...  Or Subscribe on Apple for £4.99: - Full-length and ad-free Intelligence Squared podcasts - Bonus Intelligence Squared podcasts, curated feeds and members exclusive series … Already a subscriber? Thank you for supporting our mission to foster honest debate and compelling conversations! Visit intelligencesquared.com to explore all your benefits including ad-free podcasts, exclusive bonus content and early access. … Subscribe to our newsletter here to hear about our latest events, discounts and much more. https://www.intelligencesquared.com/newsletter-signup/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The man who open-sourced the most-used AI image model in history sat down with the man who has spent a decade proving superintelligence cannot be controlled. Brian set up a debate. What emerged was something more unsettling than any debate. Roman Yampolskiy is the computer scientist who coined the term AI safety and author of AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable. Emad Mostaque is the co-founder of Stable Diffusion and the only AI CEO who signed the pause letter. He now says he doesn't know how a pause could work. Yampolskiy thinks that is the only option left. The question underneath everything is simple: if you have a 50% chance of wiping out civilization and you build it anyway, what are you actually doing? We cover what AI safety researchers actually think the danger is, why nobody has published a paper, filed a patent, or shipped a prototype for controlling a superintelligence, what the Qwen weights being out means for the pause argument, and why Mostaque thinks swarm intelligence is the most dangerous and most unpredictable risk vector we have. What you'll hear: -Why both guests think P(doom) tells you less than you'd hope -What it means that no company, no lab, and no team has a patent on controlling superintelligence -Why the models the public receives are slightly lobotomized -The difference between an AI swarm and the ASI everyone is debating -Why giving every psychopath access to a cutting-edge intelligence weapon is incoherent safety strategy -What it would actually take to update Yampolskiy's assessment “We either do it, or we die. There is nothing for you to gain by doing it.” — Roman Yampolskiy CHAPTERS 00:00 A debate that wasn't a debate 00:36 Turing test, AGI, superintelligence: where are we? 02:02 The open source argument nobody wins 03:32 Pause frontier AI forever. Which button? 05:04 P(doom): parameterizing our ignorance 09:02 Nukes are inefficient. AI isn't. 11:46 The lobotomized model problem 18:04 Decade-old problems solved weekly now 26:18 We either do it or we die 31:10 Stop the training or stop the funders 33:34 Lipstick on a Shoggoth 35:50 No paper. No patent. No framework. 39:42 Train only on what you need 44:14 What lowers Mostaque's p(doom)? 52:00 Same future. Two perspectives. Get the transcript, fascinating bonus content, and my Monday M.A.G.I.C. Message: https://briankeating.com/yt Have a .edu email and live in the USA? You automatically win a meteorite: https://BrianKeating.com/edu Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1 Support Into the Impossible on Patreon, get my weekly M.A.G.I.C. Message, unfiltered bonus content, and live monthly Office Hours with me: https://www.patreon.com/drbriankeating Join this channel for perks, monthly Office Hours, and your name in the Member Roster at the end of every episode: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmXH_moPhfkqCk6S3b9RWuw/join Featured Guests: Roman Yampolskiy on Twitter/X: https://x.com/romanyam?lang=en AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable (book): https://www.amazon.com/dp/103257626X MIRI: https://intelligence.org Emad Mostaque on Twitter/X: https://x.com/EMostaque I.I.I. Inc.: https://ii.inc/ Stable Diffusion: https://stability.ai/ My books: Losing the Nobel Prize (memoir): http://amzn.to/2sa5UpA Think Like a Nobel Prize Winner: https://a.co/d/03ezQFu Focus Like a Nobel Prize Winner: https://a.co/d/hi50U9U Galileo's Dialogue (first-ever audiobook): https://a.co/d/iZPi9Un Twitter/X: https://x.com/BrianKeating Substack: https://briankeating.substack.com Blog: https://briankeating.com/blog Audio-only: https://briankeating.com/podcast #AIrisk #aisafety #stablediffusion #RomanYampolskiy #EmadMostaque #briankeating #intotheimpossible Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Coming up: how chemistry is transforming 21st-century healthcare. Jeremy Nicholson from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology talks about phenomics. Gemma Sharp shares how the world's largest menstrual fluid biobank was created. David Nutt from Imperial College explains drug mechanisms, and Nobel Prize winner David Baker discusses the role of AI in treating diseases. Leilani Arrow-Smith, a chemistry student at the University of Cambridge, produced this episode. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

I joined Peter McCormack to dig into one of the deepest unanswered questions in physics: what is time, and why does it only seem to move in one direction? My answer might surprise you. Time may not be a fundamental feature of reality at all, and understanding space, matter, and energy still doesn't mean we understand the universe itself. We cover: - What may have existed before the Big Bang - Why something can't truly come from nothing - How my work with the Simons Observatory could detect gravitational waves from the universe's earliest moments - What dark matter actually means - Why even a film as detail-obsessed as Interstellar still gets the physics wrong. The conversation then turns from cosmic time to human time: mortality, family, meaning, and attention. We get into UFO disclosure, the collapse of institutional trust, and whether AI can ever reproduce the embodied human insight that let Einstein transform physics. My take: AI remains a tool built to serve humanity, and it's time we stop apologizing for humanity's greatness. ———

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This Friday, I had to play back an all-time favorite. I was honored and grateful to bring you a conversation that I recorded in person with Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar at the Art of Living Center in Los Angeles. Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar is a leader of an international movement with more than 50 million followers who do breathwork every single morning. He has worked for 40 years as a global ambassador for peace at the highest levels. I did his breathwork exercises every morning without fail for five years while fixing my mind, body and nervous system, and I have a huge amount of respect for his work in the world. It was a joy to chat with him in person and his childlike curiosity, enthusiasm for teaching, and deep understanding of the world are echoed in every word of this episode. Gurudev is a true visionary, so I am grateful that he set aside time to talk with me so I could share his wisdom with you. Thank you to our sponsors! -Qualia | If you want to take the guesswork out of maintaining high NAD+ levels as you age, go to www.qualialife.com/daveNAD to get clinically proven Qualia NAD+ backed by a 100 day money back guarantee and code DAVENAD at checkout gets you an extra 15% off.-Essentia | Go to https://myessentia.com/dave and use code DAVE for $100 off The Dave Asprey Upgrade.-iRestore | Reverse hair loss at www.irestore.com/DAVE and get exclusive savings on the iRestore Elite, use code DAVEDave Asprey is a four-time New York Times bestselling author, founder of Bulletproof Coffee, and the father of biohacking. With over 1,000 interviews and 1 million monthly listeners, The Human Upgrade brings you the knowledge to take control of your biology, extend your longevity, and optimize every system in your body and mind. Each episode delivers cutting-edge insights inhealth, performance, neuroscience, supplements, nutrition, biohacking, emotional intelligence, and conscious living. New episodes are released every Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday (BONUS). Dave asks the questions no one else will and gives you real tools to become stronger, smarter, and more resilient. Keywords: Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Dave Asprey, Art of Living, Sudarshan Kriya, breathwork, pranayama, meditation, non-dual consciousness, gut feeling intuition, biohacking, quantum physics consciousness, Nobel Prize physics, curiosity and childlike wonder, skepticism vs cynicism, scientific temper, dogmatism, veterans PTSD breathwork, SKY campus happiness program, violence prevention, community building, dating apps romance, Elon Musk Mars, computer chip brain implant, duality and consciousness, equanimity, ego and inner voice, spirituality and science, yoga philosophy, guru interview, positive energy radiation, transcending fear Resources: • Get My 2026 Clean Nicotine Roadmap | Enroll for free at https://daveasprey.com/2026-clean-nicotine-roadmap/ • Dave Asprey's Latest News | Go to https://daveasprey.com/ to join Inside Track today. • Danger Coffee: https://dangercoffee.com/discount/dave15? • My Daily Supplements: SuppGrade Labs (15% Off) • Favorite Blue Light Blocking Glasses: TrueDark (15% Off) • Dave Asprey's BEYOND Conference: https://beyondconference.com • Dave Asprey's New Book – Heavily Meditated: https://daveasprey.com/heavily-meditated • Join My Substack (Live Access To Podcast Recordings): https://substack.daveasprey.com/ • Upgrade Labs: https://upgradelabs.com Timestamps: 00:00 - Trailer01:11 - Curiosity & Skepticism03:42 - Reality, Physics & Illusion06:34 - Non-Dual Consciousness08:37 - Origins of Breathwork13:36 - Trusting Your Gut Feeling14:28 - Violence, Peace & Veterans19:54 - Romance & Dating Apps23:44 - Science Behind Meditation27:27 - Fear of the UnknownSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.