Wunderdog

Robert Revell: Composing for film, craft vs creativity

Robert Revell’s grandfather was a poet who fled Mao’s China - and Robert tells the story of how he went back to find his family’s house, still untouched after fifty years

Terry Phan & Tomo Goto: Planet nine - finally detected?

"Extreme trans-Neptunian Objects" - or chunks of rock that orbit the sun on average 250 times further away from the sun than Earth does - are moving in strange ways. They

Noland Arbaugh, world's first Neuralink human: a pinky in the brain

Noland is an affable Arizonian with an advanced piece of tech in his skull: A Neuralink. With it, Noland can see his own brainwaves and control his computer ... somewhat.

Astrobiologist Maya D. Yanez: Could acetylene fermentation be an energy source for microbes on Titan?

 NASA JPL intern Maya D. Yanez has recently defended her Ph.D. on acetylenotrophy. This is the ability to extract energy from acetylene, and only a few species of bacteri

Vinay Gupta: We must not let the climate refugee situation turn into a global Gaza

Blockchain is a mystery to me, so I don't usually talk about blockchain projects. But Vinay Gupta is awesome. He thinks about climate refugees ALL THE TIME, and many of h

Kevin Fischer, founder and CEO of OpenSouls: Giving AI souls

Note my NEW FORMAT: 10 minutes of quick questions first, then a deeper talk about ideas, motivation and process after. "I don't think it really matters if our profound

Neil DeGrasse Tyson: "If noone in society is thinking that way, however realistic or unrealistic it is, then ... we're not going anywhere ever."

At 3 in the night at Starmus 2017 I finally managed to get ten minutes with astrophysicist, science communicator, director of the Hayden Planetarium. At it's purest, Wund

Norwegian episode: Ingvild Bræin og ai-trøbbel for barnebokkritikk.no

Ein kommentar på nettsida www.barnebokkritikk.no vart illustrert med bilete genererte av Microsoft Ai Copilot. Eit bortimot samla korps av norske illustratørar og teiknes

Vinay Gupta: Mattereum: A blockchain identity layer for things + Better refugee camps

Vinay Gupta: Mattereum, giving our things a trackable identity layer. Bonus: Climate refugees! Vinay has a plan!  Vinay used to work at Ethereum. Now he's trying to dev

Robin Hanson: Grabby aliens, a horrifying solution to the Fermi Paradox

"One of the most original thinkers in the world" (list of people who have said this at the bottom) is BACK for a second visit! Robin Hanson explains his "grabby aliens" i

Anders Sandberg: Future of Life Institute

Anders Sandberg talks volcano engineering, Freeman Dyson's computer at the end of everything, moving planets, how transparent society should get after quantum computers,

Casey Handmer: Is cheap, giga-scaleable carbon capture possible?

Casey Handmer: On leaving Hyperloop One and NASA to bet on cheap, giga-scaleable carbon capture. First he took a PhD in gravity waves, then he got a position at Hype

Jesse Moynihan: On creating FORMING, the Ice King from Adventure Time, the NFT-financed Jesus 2. part 1 of 2

The second part of the Jesse Moynihan interview! Jesse Moynihan went from incredibly weird underground cartoonist to "household name" when his friend and colleague Tom H

Jesse Moynihan: On creating FORMING, the Ice King from Adventure Time, the NFT-financed Jesus 2. part 1 of 2

For the first non-space related episode of Wunderdog, I have a MASSIVE nugget of artistic GOLD. Jesse Moynihan went from incredibly weird underground cartoonist to "hou

Eugene Chudnovsky: How life could evolve inside stars

In 2020, the esteemed physics professors Eugene Chudnovsky and Luis Anchordoqui published thatr describes a theoretical form of life unlike anything else. Eugene and Lu

Ana Bonaca: Galactic bullet holes

While studying the stellar stream GD-1, Harvard astronomer Ana Bonaca made a literally enormous discovery: Cosmic "bullet holes" in our galaxy, several light years across

Cynthia Phillips: Visiting Jupiter moons

Jupiter's moon Europa is the most exciting place in the solar system to look for life. Cynthia Phillips from NASA tells us why. Cynthia Phillips is a planetary geologist

James Fallon + Jakob Løvstad: Psychopath professor vs MMA legend

Professor James Fallon talks psychology and space travel for "psychopaths" with psychologist and former coach of the Norwegian MMA national team, Jakob "the striking viki

Robin Hanson: Mind uploads will be a bigger gamechanger than AI

Robin Hanson on how mind uploads could make space irrelevant. The Fermi paradox is the mysterious lack of traces of alien civilized life. Professor Robin Hanson in

Philip Lubin: Breakthrough Starshot, the world-saver laser, and how Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner took it closer to reality

NASA professor Philip Lubin and his potentially asteroid-deflecting and planet-saving laser, Breakthrough Starshot. Stephen Hawking's last speeches were often about