- 05-28#380 – Neil Gershenfeld: Self-Replicating Robots and the Future of Fabrication131 分钟
- 00:00Introduction
- 05:37What Turing got wrong
- 11:02MIT Center for Bits and Atoms
- 24:08Digital logic
- 30:44Self-assembling robots
- 41:12Digital fabrication
- 52:07Self-reproducing machine
- 59:53Trash and fabrication
- 1:04:49Lab-made bioweapons
- 1:09:04Genome
- 1:20:56Quantum computing
- 1:25:28Microfluidic bubble computation
- 1:30:49Maxwell’s demon
- 1:39:35Consciousness
- 1:46:35Cellular automata
- 1:51:07Universe is a computer
- 1:55:53Advice for young people
- 2:05:10Meaning of life
- 05-24#379 – Randall Kennedy: The N-Word – History of Race, Law, Politics, and Power194 分钟
- 00:00Introduction
- 06:11The N-word
- 41:55The three N-words
- 1:08:28Education
- 1:21:31Critical race theory
- 1:32:05Racism and policing
- 1:39:25Racial profiling
- 2:08:57Racism in US history
- 2:26:55Affirmative action
- 3:10:22Martin Luther King Jr.
- 05-18#378 – Anna Frebel: Origin and Evolution of the Universe, Galaxies, and Stars143 分钟
- 00:00Introduction
- 05:26First elements
- 12:35Milky Way
- 16:11Alien worlds
- 19:16Protogalaxies
- 24:29Black holes
- 29:27Stellar archeology
- 38:42Oldest stars
- 46:32Metal-poor stars
- 1:02:05Neutron capture
- 1:07:01Neutron stars
- 1:12:30Dwarf galaxies
- 1:17:10Star observation
- 1:45:27James Webb Space Telescope
- 1:51:17Future of space observation
- 1:54:26Age of the universe
- 2:07:34Most beautiful idea in astronomy
- 2:11:23Advice for young people
- 2:20:17Meaning of life
- 05-16#377 – Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech115 分钟
- 00:00Introduction
- 06:23Freedom of speech
- 28:04Bureaucracy in Universities
- 44:18Clash of ideas
- 47:56Public education is broken
- 59:33Jeffrey Epstein
- 1:12:26Freedom of thought and liberal arts
- 1:23:30Interviewing controversial people
- 1:27:14Alan Dershowitz
- 1:30:28Donald Trump
- 1:37:27FBI
- 1:45:52Criminal justice system
- 1:48:20Advice
- 05-09#376 – Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation260 分钟
- 00:00Introduction
- 06:45WolframAlpha and ChatGPT
- 26:26Computation and nature of reality
- 53:18How ChatGPT works
- 1:53:01Human and animal cognition
- 2:06:20Dangers of AI
- 2:14:39Nature of truth
- 2:36:01Future of education
- 3:12:03Consciousness
- 3:21:02Second Law of Thermodynamics
- 3:44:36Entropy
- 3:57:36Observers in physics
- 4:14:27Mortality
- 05-06#375 – David Pakman: Politics of Trump, Biden, Bernie, AOC, Socialism & Wokeism216 分钟
- 00:00Introduction
- 06:42Political ideologies
- 16:10Twitter drama
- 31:07Biden vs Trump
- 38:07AOC
- 40:47Bernie Sanders
- 48:55Donald Trump: Pros and cons
- 1:14:46Joe Biden: Pros and cons
- 1:21:08Hate for politicians
- 1:37:29RFK Jr
- 1:50:48Republican voters
- 1:57:30Conspiracy theories
- 2:02:26January 6th
- 2:11:31Hunter Biden’s laptop
- 2:15:46Tucker Carlson
- 2:18:44Wokeism and censorship
- 2:37:11ChatGPT and universities
- 2:43:10Libertarianism
- 2:46:47Elon Musk
- 2:55:14Dealing with attacks
- 2:59:56Truth
- 3:05:47Israel and Palestine
- 3:09:41Ukraine war
- 3:17:42Books
- 3:28:22Mortality
- 3:30:33Advice for young people
- 3:32:05Hope for the future