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Cosmic Hall of Mirrors
Is the Universe infinite?
Feb 10
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Does the Universe Have Hidden Depths?
Finally, I’m going to write about higher dimensions.
Jan 22
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Death by Space Debris
Many years ago, my dear friend James Gleick (author of “Chaos,” “Genius,” and “The Information”) rang me up with a tentative invitation to the fabulous…
Jan 13
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AIs Are Zombies
Dec 9, 2025
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Do LLM's understand? AI Pioneer Yann Le Cun spars with DeepMind's Adam Brown
Nov 17, 2025
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Pioneer Works
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The Drawing that Earned Sir Roger Penrose a Nobel Prize
Sep 30, 2025
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"You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop."
Aug 6, 2025
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The Big Bang Theory Live with Mayim, Jonathan & Janna Levin
Oct 20, 2025
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Mayim Bialik's Breakdown
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Jonathan Cohen
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SCALE, a short film about the human brain
Dec 16, 2025
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Pioneer Works
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Whales Don't Want to Go to Mars (Audio)
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Jan 6
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Audio: Today is not the first day of anything, except the rest of your life
Audio Version.
Jan 2
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Today is not the first day of anything, except the rest of your life
There is nothing astronomically special about January 1, from a celestial mechanics standpoint.
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Audio: "You Are Not a Drop in the Ocean. You Are the Entire Ocean in a Drop"
Listen now | A friend of mine who spends most of her days painting in her studio, which she calls the spaceship, told me rather declaratively that I…
Dec 26, 2025
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SCALE, a short film about the human brain
This week, a scientific trip on three levels: human, micro, and macro.
Dec 16, 2025
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Pioneer Works
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AIs Are Zombies
For creatures whose minds can be geologically deep wells of suffering, we sure do rate consciousness highly.
Dec 9, 2025
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A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines
AI visionary Alan Turing set into motion our century of machine intelligence, yet his life was fraught with plot turns that outpaced fiction. Does his…
Nov 25, 2025
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Do LLM's understand? AI Pioneer Yann Le Cun spars with DeepMind's Adam Brown
The convo starts at around timestamp 13:00, though the prelude by DJ Black Helmet is a pleasure to watch too...
Nov 17, 2025
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Pioneer Works
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Penrose and me...in Oxford
Friends,
Nov 5, 2025
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