Sabine Hossenfelder is a theoretical physicist and science communicator on YouTube who has written numerous papers on everything from quantum gravity to particle physics, cosmology, astrophysics, statistical mechanics, and quantum foundations. Her newest book, Existential Physics: A Scientists Guide To Life's Biggest Questions is available to purchase at https://www.amazon.com/Existential-Physics-Scientists-Biggest-Questions/dp/1984879456 . Her YouTube channel is https://www.youtube.com/channel/...
May 04, 2023•1 hr 2 min
With the first launch of the SpaceX Starship just days away, I thought it would be good to catch up with my old friend Tim Dodd, The Everyday Astronaut to catch up on what he's been doing, his plans for the first launch of Starship, and of course we talk about the upcoming Dear Moon mission he's been selected for. Check out Tim's channel at https://www.youtube.com/@EverydayAstronaut Visit his website at https://everydayastronaut.com See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California ...
Apr 16, 2023•2 hr 1 min
If you're familiar with the YouTube channel Not Just Bikes, there's a chance you've been "orangepilled." This is what fans of the channel have called the radical shift in worldview that they experienced once they found the channel. The host, Jason Slaughter, is on a mission to educate the world not just about the benefits of walkable cities, but about the absurdities that come along with the western suburban sprawl that millions of people have accepted as normal. He does a fantastic job of point...
Mar 07, 2023•1 hr 42 min
Scott Carney is an investigative journalist whose recent book, The Vortex, tells the almost unbelievable story of the deadliest storm in human history, which was followed by an even deadlier genocide and war that almost led to nuclear annihilation. Here we talk about this almost unknown disaster (to many in the West anyway), what we can learn about it, and his many other unique experiences as a journalist around the world for the past 20 years. You can find Scott and links to all of his books at...
Feb 07, 2023•1 hr 50 min
Derek Abbott is a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Adelaide in Australia who, along with genetic researcher Colleen Fitzpatrick, finally solved the mystery of the Somerton Man, an unidentified man found dead on a beach in Australia in 1948. He joins me to talk about his decades-long quest to find this man's identity, how the discovery was finally made, and the stunning advancement in DNA technology that has happened only in the last few years. See Privacy Policy at https:...
Jan 17, 2023•1 hr 57 min
Today I get a chance to sit down with Chris Anthony, Co-CEO of Aptera Motors, whose design philosophy is 100% centered around creating the world's most efficient car. Their most recent model reveal, Gamma, was well received at Fully Charged Live in September and has attracted industry players like Sandy Munro to their board. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Dec 23, 2022•1 hr 12 min
Matt Ferrell is the host of the YouTube channel Undecided With Matt Ferrell, where he talks about cutting edge technology, especially sustainable energy and battery advancements. You can find his channel at https://www.youtube.com/@UndecidedMF See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
Dec 03, 2022•1 hr 45 min
Damian Skinner is the founder of Camp Wonderment, a unique approach towards children's mental health. By walking kids through a fantasy narrative, they learn how to identify and minimize the impact of traumatic events in their lives. Here we talk about the power of narrative, the importance of the feeling of wonder, and the inspirations that led him to this idea. Find out more about Camp Wonderment on their website: https://www.wondermentcorp.com/ See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy ...
Oct 15, 2022•1 hr 8 min
Felix Schlang is the host of the YouTube channel What About It, where he covers space news, especially the testing and construction of the SpaceX Starship. Over the last few years, he has built his following to a quarter of a million fans and recently moved from his home in Germany to Florida to be closer to the space action. You can follow his channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/Whataboutit See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/priva...
Sep 23, 2022•1 hr 18 min
Hank Green is one of the first and most popular science communicators on YouTube, having started out with his brother, author John Green, on their channel Vlogbrothers, and growing an empire of science channels through his company, Complexly. Along the way, the two of them founded VidCon, now the largest online video conference in the world, and he's written two books, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing and A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor. He joined me to talk about all things science and YouTube, a ...
Aug 19, 2022•1 hr 19 min
Robert Llewellyn is the host of the YouTube channel Fully Charged thought he might be better known by some as the actor who plays Kryten in the British sci-fi comedy series Red Dwarf. He joined me today for a causal chat about all things electric vehicles and sustainability along with a bunch of other random stuff. Enjoy! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Aug 05, 2022•1 hr 7 min
YouTube version - https://youtu.be/dKJo1GcE9Ok Christian Ready is an astronomer and professor at Towson University in Maryland, he worked previously at the Space Telescope Science Institute and NASA's Goddard Spaceflight Center, and he shares his expertise and excitement for all things space on his YouTube channel, Launch Pad Astronomy. Today, he joins me to take a deeper look at the first images to come out of the James Webb Space Telescope, talk about what a big deal this is, and basically ner...
Jul 21, 2022•1 hr 24 min
Moriba Jah is a world-renowned astrodynamicist who specializes in tracking the thousands of pieces of space debris currently orbiting our planet and possibly threatening to disrupt our satellite networks if nothing is done to fix it. He is a professor at the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at the University of Texas in Austin and recently co-founded Privateer Space with Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple. Their goal is to create a platform that will allow for th...
Jul 04, 2022•48 min
Pat Flynn is an author and host of the long-running personal business podcast Smart Passive Income, where he teaches people how to be successful in business without killing yourself in the process. And he's one of the people I listened to for years before I was able to break away from office life to do YouTube full time. So I was thrilled to get to meet him and talk about his ideas and share a little about his passions (we go down a rabbit hole on bass fishing). If you want to learn more and lis...
Jun 04, 2022•1 hr 8 min
Laura Krantz is the host of the Wild Thing Podcast which is just about to launch season 3, this one focusing on nuclear energy. The pros, the cons, and everything in between. So we talk about about what she learned along the way, the mixed bag that is nuclear energy in general, and learn a little bit about the background that gave her the tools to be a podcaster today. You can hear all three seasons of Wild Thing (yours truly makes an appearance in a bonus episode of season 2) at https://www.fox...
May 19, 2022•1 hr 15 min
Today's guest is one of the people who inspired me to get into science communication, Trace Dominguez. Trace has been doing science on YouTube for over a decade, you might have seen him on Seeker or D News back in the day, he's worked with The Discovery Channel and of course there's his own channel, Uno Dos of Trace. Trace joined me for a very laid back conversation about anything and everything. This is literally just a couple of guys hanging out. Hopefully that's entertaining for you. :) See P...
May 02, 2022•1 hr 47 min
Amy Shira Teitel is a historian and journalist who made a name for herself as a blogger and YouTube creator focusing on mid 20th-century history, specifically the space race with her YouTube channel, Vintage Space. But her interests go well beyond rockets and moon landings (she can read ancient Greek, which is insane). Today we talk about the frustrations of being an online creator, the dangers of being pigeonholed, and the amazing past and future of space travel. Her newest book, Fighting For S...
Apr 21, 2022•1 hr 11 min
Dr. Brian Cox is a science presenter for the BBC in Britain and one of the most in-demand science communicators in the world. Today, he sat down with me to talk about a wide range of topics, from extraterrestrial life, to how he got interested in science growing up, to the absurd scale of the universe and our small but very important place in it. He also talks about his upcoming 50-city tour this summer in North American, Ireland, and the UK called Horizons: A 21st Century Space Odyssey, where t...
Apr 05, 2022•1 hr 31 min
Dr. James Mault is a surgeon and inventor who has founded multiple medical device companies and serves on the board of several corporate boards as the chief medical officer. His latest venture is BioIntelliSense, a company making tiny wearable health monitoring devices that, combined with AI, allow doctors to monitor patients' progress at home in real-time. This both cuts down on time spent in the hospital but also increases the amount of data doctors have to diagnose and treat patients. He join...
Mar 18, 2022•1 hr 20 min
Marc Scott Zicree is a science fiction writer who has worked on some of the most classic science fiction series going back decades, including Star Trek, The Next Generation, Star Trek Deep Space Nine, Babylon 5, Sliders, the list goes on and on. He's also one of the definitive experts on the Twilight Zone and worked recently with Gulliermo Del Toro. He also runs a YouTube channel called Mr. Sci Fi where you can watch his new fan-funded series, Space Command. He joined me to talk about his career...
Mar 03, 2022•1 hr 18 min
Pecos Hank is a musician and YouTuber who makes a living chasing and photographing severe storms, especially tornadoes. Over the years he has captured some amazing tornado footage and he's had a front row seat to some devastating natural disasters. I've been fascinated by what he does since I first found his YouTube channel and was thrilled to have him come on the podcast and talk about some of his experiences. Here he tells some amazing stories and gets into the science of why tornadoes form. A...
Feb 17, 2022•1 hr 21 min
Dr. Becky Smethurst (Rebecca to her mother) is an Oxford astrophysicist who educates viewers on her excellent YouTube channel, appropriately titled Dr. Becky. She joined me to talk about the James Webb Space Telescope, how the launch was so perfect that we could get generations of discoveries out of it, and what it means to science as we know it. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Feb 02, 2022•1 hr 13 min
Today I talk with KB, the creator behind the YouTube channel Knowing Better, about his experience as a YouTuber that covers social/political content, the shifts he's made in his thinking over the years informed by his experience in the military and as an educator, and the reckoning the US is currently experiencing over the more unsavory elements of our collective past. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Jan 12, 2022•2 hr 12 min
In this episode I had the pleasure to meet with Neil Degrasse Tyson, who gives me the lowdown his life as a science communicator, the incredible explosion of technology that we're all living through, and the little inspirations that guided his career along the way. It's a fascinating look at what drives one of the most famous science communicators in the world. You can find Neil's book, A Brief Welcome to the Universe: A Pocket-Sized Tour here: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691...
Dec 20, 2021•1 hr 3 min
We’re making some changes around here and thought I’d let you know what’s going on. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
Dec 14, 2021•2 min
Dr. Janja Lalich is a world-renowned expert on cults. Not only has she studied the subject for more than 30 years, she was once in a cult herself. In today's conversation, she tells her story and discusses how the weird times we're living in are not just fertile ground for cults, but seems to be creating a whole new kind of cult - one with wide-ranging implications for society. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-...
Dec 11, 2021•1 hr 10 min
Today I catch up with friend of the channel, Andy Weir. We talk in depth about his latest novel, Project Hail Mary. MASSIVE SPOILER WARNING - If you haven't read the book and want to go in blind, you might want to skip this. But if you have, and you want some serious behind the scenes on the science behind the story, we get into it here. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Nov 04, 2021•1 hr 11 min
Today I tackle questions from viewers on Patreon about Tesla's Full Self Driving and the future of autonomy, why dogs tilt their heads when you talk to them, our place in the universe, the gulf stream, and the craziest way to terraform Mars. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
Nov 01, 2021•22 min
Supervolcanoes are bigger than you think, and there are more of them than you think. There are, in fact, eight supervolcanoes around the world that have changed the geography of continents and caused mass extinctions. What are these volcanoes? What causes them, and most importantly, could we survive one? Today we take a deep dive into one of the most destructive forces on the planet. And if you think that supervolcanoes have been over-hyped... trust me, they haven't. See Privacy Policy at https:...
Oct 25, 2021•18 min
What do you "see" in your mind's eye? Is it as real as looking at a photo? Or do you not see any images at all? It turns out there are 3-5% of the population who don't have the ability to form images in their heads. It's a condition called "Imagination blindness" or Aphantasia, and it was only recently discovered. Along with Aphantasia is the opposite end of the spectrum, Hyperphantasia, where the mind's eye is so vivid, it's hard to distinguish between what's real and what's imagination. It ope...
Oct 21, 2021•16 min
