Into the Impossible With Brian Keating
A podcast about how we understand the world, scientifically and as humans. Each conversation brings together visionaries from the worlds of arts, sciences, humanities, and technology discussing the nature of reality and how we collaborate to create the future. Hosted by Dr Brian Keating, Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor of Physics at UC San Diego. For show notes go to: https://briankeating.com/podcast
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Sasha Sagan: Cosmic Rituals (#046)
Sasha Sagan’s stirring debut book, “For Small Creatures Such As We: Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World,” is the topic of this week’s episode of INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE. Sagan is the daughter of late astronomer/author Carl Sagan and writer/prod
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Peter Diamandis, Founder of the XPrize Foundati...
Peter Diamandis is a remarkable entrepreneur, and futurist, best known as the Founder & Executive Chairman of XPRIZE Foundation. His new book, written with Steven Kotler, is “The Future is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Tran
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Galileo & the Science Deniers with Mario Livio ...
Mario Livio is a renowned astrophysicist & best-selling author. His new book “Galileo and the Science Deniers” is the gripping first biography of Galileo Galilei written by an astronomer. In this discussion with Dr. Brian Keating, Livio recounts Gal
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Sarah Scoles, Journalist and Author of “They Ar...
Science journalist and author Sarah Scoles talks about her new book “They Are Already Here: UFO Culture and Why We See Saucers”, a study of UFO culture and its critics. What makes people believe intelligent alien life has visited the Earth? Fresh off thi
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Brian Keating & Dave Rubin — DON’T BURN THIS BO...
Brian Keating interviews Dave Rubin (The Rubin Report) on the most interesting issues of the day: free speech and expression, classical liberalism, lessons from Jordan Peterson, and the imperative of tolerance. More about Dave Rubin: https://daverubin.co
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Stephen Wolfram, Founder & CEO of Wolfram Resea...
Stephen Wolfram, Founder & CEO of Wolfram Research, Creator of Mathematica, Wolfram Alpha, Author of A New Kind of Science, discusses computational science, his new Project to Find a Fundamental Theory of Physics, and more. Over the course of 4 deca
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Greg Zuckerman, author of THE MAN WHO SOLVED TH...
Brian Keating, Director of the Simons Observatory, interviews Greg Zuckerman, author of the bestselling biography of Jim Simons, “The Man Who Solved The Market”. Portfolio/Penguin has published Greg Zuckerman’s latest book, THE MAN WHO SOLVED THE MARKET
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A Conversation with Physicist and Science Ficti...
A Conversation with Physicist and Science Fiction Author David Brin about his work and his recent post:More repercussions in a plague year... and some long term (excerpted here) :And yes, some foresee all this accelerating the exodus of the uber-
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Giving the Devil His Due: a conversation with M...
Brian Keating Interviews Skeptic Magazine publisher and author of Giving The Devil His Due Michael Shermer. Get Michael Shermers Books here:GIVING THE DEVIL HIS DUEHEAVENS ON EARTHTHE MORAL ARC: Find Show Notes and Links hereDr. Michael She
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The Physics of Krav Maga with author and physic...
Krav Maga (contact combat in Hebrew) is a hard-hitting and efficient form of self-defense that was popularized by Israeli soldiers. Stressing practical, real-world fighting and a philosophy of self-defense, its popularity has grown worldwide over the pas
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Brian Keating interviews Professor Elena Aprile...
Elena Aprile is UCSD’s Margaret Burbidge Visiting Professor at UC San Diego and Professor of Physics at Columbia University. She is the founder and spokesperson of the XENON Dark Matter Experiment. Aprile is well known for her work with noble liquid dete
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SETI and Beyond: A discussion with Brian Keatin...
This discussion describes a strategy of looking for ETI artifacts. It proposes both passive and active observations by optical and radio listening, radar imaging and launching probes. We might even broadcast to them. But what if we find nothing there? Th
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Brian Keating interviews Sir Roger Penrose: The...
Books mentioned in this episode: The Emperors New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of ConsciousnessSir Roger Penrose OM FRS (born 8 August 1931) is an English math
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UC San Diego Alumni discuss their careers & Qua...
Dr. Stefano Spagna, PhD. and Ivy Lum Fipps, MS are both alumni of UC San Diego Physics. Dr. Spagna is Chief Technology Officer and Mrs. Fipps is Final Test Engineer specializing in dilution refrigerators. Since its inception in 1982, Quantum Design Inter
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Brian Keating Interviews Richard Panek about Th...
Richard Panek is most recently the author of The Trouble with Gravity: Solving the Mystery Beneath Our Feet, published in July 2019 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. His previous book, The 4% Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the R
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UC San Diego Alumnus, Nanome.ai Co-Founder & CE...
Steve McCloskey is an Alumni from the first class of Nanoengineering at the University of California, San Diego. Steve’s work is focused on emerging technologies applied to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). During his time at UC S
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Brian Keating Interviews Jim Gates about Provin...
Jim Gates is the Ford Foundation Professor of Physics, and the Director of The Brown University Theoretical Physics Center. He is a 2013 recipient of the National Medal of Science He was a Distinguished University Professor, University System of Maryland
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Brian Keating interviews Sean Carroll about his...
Sean M. Carroll is a Research Professor of Physics at CalTech. He is a theorist who thinks about the fundamental laws of nature, especially as they connect to cosmology. His research involves theoretical physics and astrophysics, especially cosmology, fi
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Dan Hooper discusses his book At The Edge of Ti...
Professor Hooper focuses on the interface between particle physics and cosmology. Particle physics explores the fundamental nature of energy and matter, while cosmology is the science of the universe itself, including its composition, history and evoluti
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Innovator Series – Additive Rocket Corporation ...
Stuart Volkow interviews two of the founders of The Additive Rocket Corporation (ARC), CSO Riley Weekes and CTO Kyle Adriany. ARC was started at UC San Deigo and utilizes state of the art metal additive manufacturing techniques coupled with advanced desi
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The Origins of Life and the Work of Primo Levi ...
Primo Levi was deeply interested in the fascinating mystery of the Origin of Life. In particular, in his essay “Asymmetry and Life” he deals with the questions related to the Origin of Homochirality. Which are the prebiotical processes that, starting fro
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A Discussion of Quantum Theory and the book “Wh...
This podcast is about the book, What Is Real? The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics. The conversation was part of the Into the Impossible podcast at the UC San Diego Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination, featuring a discussion
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Julian Guthrie Discusses Alpha Girls (#024)
Co-Director of the Clarke Center Professor Brian Keating interviews bestselling author Julian Gurthrie about her latest book Alpha Girls. The stories of 4 women who achieved prominence in the male-dominated world of Silicon Valley venture capital. How d
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Matthew Stanley & Einstein’s War (#023)
How history can shape science, and how science can change the tide of history? NYU Professor Matthew Stanley is our guest, here to discuss about his latest book: Einsteins War: How Relativity Triumphed Amid the Vicious Nationalism of World War I . Brian
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Journalist & Author Annalee Newitz (#022)
Meet Annalee Newitz, nonfiction and fiction author, science-journalist, and co-host of the podcast series Our Opinions are Correct. Winner of the Lambda Literary Award and nominee for the Nebula and Locus awards, her ability to use her scientific knowled
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