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#80 – Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum, Cryptocurrency, and the Future of Money

Posted March 16, 2020 • 01:35:31

Vitalik Buterin is co-creator of Ethereum and ether, which is a cryptocurrency that is currently the second-largest digital currency after bitcoin....

#79 – Lee Smolin: Quantum Gravity and Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution

Posted March 7, 2020 • 01:10:19

Lee Smolin is a theoretical physicist, co-inventor of loop quantum gravity, and a contributor of many interesting ideas to cosmology, quantum field...

#78 – Ann Druyan: Cosmos, Carl Sagan, Voyager, and the Beauty of Science

Posted March 5, 2020 • 01:09:40

Ann Druyan is the writer, producer, director, and one of the most important and impactful communicators of science in our time. She co-wrote the 1980...

#77 – Alex Garland: Ex Machina, Devs, Annihilation, and the Poetry of Science

Posted March 3, 2020 • 01:11:37

Alex Garland is a writer and director of many imaginative and philosophical films from the dreamlike exploration of human self-destruction in the movie...

#76 – John Hopfield: Physics View of the Mind and Neurobiology

Posted February 29, 2020 • 01:13:16

John Hopfield is professor at Princeton, whose life’s work weaved beautifully through biology, chemistry, neuroscience, and physics. Most crucially,...