Dr. Starkid

Life on Earth Might Have Started on Mars

You might be a Martian. In this installment of the Dr. Starkid astrobiology series, I’m making the case that life on Earth may have actually started on Mars first. This

Physics Is At Play In Your Personal Life

Momentum is a basic concept in physics: mass in motion, moving in a particular direction. But it also provides an interesting way to think about how a human life takes sh

The Worst Thing You Can Lose Is Hope in Yourself

Dr. Dakotah Tyler reflects on the lowest periods of his life, finding purpose through football, losing that identity after a knee injury, and eventually starting over aca

The Cosmic History of the Atoms Inside You | Astrobiology Series Part IV

Stars do much more than light up the universe. They create the environments where planets form, provide energy to those planets, manufacture new elements through fusion,

Two Football Players Go Deep on Physics, God & the Universe | Arian Foster, NFL Running Back

Arian Foster is a former NFL running back who played for the Houston Texans and Miami Dolphins. He also studied philosophy and, after reaching the NFL, developed a deep i

Evolving an Alien Civilization on a World Without Trees | Astrobiology Series

Could an advanced civilization evolve on a planet where trees and wood never existed? In this speculative astrobiology episode, Dr. Dakotah Tyler constructs a rocky supe

Aliens Offer To Fix America in Exchange for Every Black Citizen | The Space Traders

The Space Traders by Derrick Bell pdf: https://blog.richmond.edu/criticalracetheory/files/2019/02/The-Chronicle-of-the-Space-Traders.pdf Derrick Bell was a civil rights

How the Universe Created the Conditions for Life | Astrobiology Series Part III

In Part 3 of the Dr. Starkid astrobiology series, Dr. Dakotah Tyler traces the history of the universe from the Big Bang to the formation of worlds capable of supporting

Earth Life Isn't the Center of the Universe | Astrobiology Series Part II

This is Part 2 of the Dr. StarKid astrobiology series. Before we can talk seriously about life beyond Earth, we have to understand how humans figured out Earth was not t

Funny People Love Space | Tony Baker, Comedian

This version has the corrected audio Tony Baker is a comedian, actor, creator, and lifelong astronomy fan who came into this conversation ready with the National Geograp

Will We Actually Find Alien Life In Our Lifetime? | Dr. Natasha Latouf, NASA Astrobiologist

Dr. Natasha Latouf is an astrobiologist, NASA Fellow, and PhD physicist studying how we could detect Earth-like life on nearby Earth-like planets. Expect to learn what a

Science, Faith, and Intelligent Life | Qasim Rashid, Human Rights Attorney

Qasim Rashid is a human rights and civil rights attorney, author, advocate, and the founder of Let’s Address This. His work focuses on justice, democracy, human rights, a

Why Life Might Be Almost Impossible to Kill | June Sass, M.Sc. Microbiology

June Sass is a public health scientist and microbiologist with a master’s from Johns Hopkins in molecular microbiology and immunology. Her work connects fungal biology, p

What Counts as Life | Astrobiology Series Part 1

This is the first installment in the astrobiology series, adapted from the astrobiology course Dr. Dakotah Tyler taught at university. Expect to learn what astrobiology a

Space Biology and Recreating Human Hearts | Dr. Suh, Microbiologist

Dr. Dakotah Tyler sits down with Dr. Suh for a wide-ranging conversation on biomedical engineering, organs on chips, how biology behaves in space, stem cells, evolution,

Your Future Might Already Exist According To Relativity

What would alien astronomers see if they pointed an impossible telescope at Earth from millions of light-years away? This episode uses that thought experiment to explain

My PhD Was About Alien Worlds

This episode starts with the story behind the science: how a football injury, a lost sense of identity, and a Cosmos documentary helped send me toward astronomy and exopl

How We Went From 5 Planets To 5 Trillion

How did we go from knowing a handful of planets in our own solar system to confirming thousands of worlds around other stars? This episode traces the story of exoplanets

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