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The DemystifySci Podcast

Support Us! https://www.patreon.com/DemystifySci DemystifySci is Dr. Michael Shilo DeLay and Dr. Anastasia Bendebury. Together they untangle complex theories of nature, making analysis accessible through conversations with exceptional thinkers. Each week they interview a new theorist about the ideas that are going to rewrite our understanding of the world. Power them via Patreon: @demystifysci

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01:05:49

Techno-futurist SkyGod & UAP Mania - Dr. M.S Delay...

The DemystifySci Podcast ·

2024/04/19

On the road between Austin and Santa Fe we make a pit stop in Roswell, New Mexico and sit down to make heads or tails of the UAP phenomena. Both of us are skeptics who want to believe, but are cursed by a nature that prevents us from committing to a single perspective. Instead, we dive into the mythological signifiers that surround the phenomenon, the deep yearning for someone who can take care of us, and the psychological innovations that are driven by the fear of living on a planet whose uncaring

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02:21:02

Climate is Changing, But... - Dr. Steve Koonin, NYU -...

The DemystifySci Podcast ·

2024/04/14

Dr. Steven Koonin is a theoretical physicist, former Chief Scientist at BP, former Under Secretary for Science at the Department of Energy in the Obama administration, and is currently a professor of Civil and Urban Engineering at NYU. He is also the author of Unsettled, a book about the abilities and limits of climate science. We talk with him about the great distance between the scientific reports and public conception, the social unrest that's seeded by unwarranted fear of impending

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00:01:31

DEMYSTICON Livestream This Weekend!

The DemystifySci Podcast ·

2024/04/06

Get your DEMYSTICON 2024 tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/demysticon-2024-tickets-727054969987Sign up for a yearly Patreon membership for discounted conference tickets: https://bit.ly/3lcAasB Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD

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01:28:59

Is Tech Causing Human Speciation? Drs. M.S. DeLay &...

The DemystifySci Podcast ·

2024/04/04

Get your DEMYSTICON 2024 tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/demysticon-2024-tickets-727054969987 This is our second week on the road and we're broadcasting from uber-sunny Joshua Tree, California. Today we start out with the observation that a dominant faction of the techno-futurist community seems to believe that if our civilization maximizes intelligence, everything will be just fine in the end. We intuitively balk at this promise - and in general, we are skeptical at the lack of

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02:40:48

Is Water the Dark Matter of Biology? Dr. Michael...

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2024/03/31

Get your DEMYSTICON 2024 tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/demysticon-2024-tickets-727054969987 Today we are hanging out with our friend Dr. Michael Hughes, a post-doctoral fellow at St. Jude's Research Hospital in Memphis. Michael has a long history of trying to understand the role that water plays in fundamental biological operations from structural assembly to diseases like Alzheimers and Prion disorders. Presently, he is hard at work on a biological theory of everything where water

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01:21:47

The Invisible Foundations of Truth - Dr. Michael...

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2024/03/28

Get your DEMYSTICON 2024 tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/demysticon-2024-tickets-727054969987 We are finally en route to DEMYSTICON 2024! While we're on the road we've decided to take a moment each week to review and articulate our own insights the past year's podcast conversations. In our first On Tour Solo Edition we're examining how a theorist's metaphysics shape their inquiry. We establish metaphysics as the underlying assumptions that allow for the logical

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01:48:45

Are the Pyramids Made of Synthetic Stone? - Dr....

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2024/03/24

Get your DEMYSTICON 2024 tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/demysticon-2024-tickets-727054969987 Dr. Michel Barsoum is a materials scientist at Drexel University who is the champion of a controversial theory about the great pyramids of Giza, which says the pyramids were not fully carved from natural stone, but were cast from a geopolymer concrete mixture. For decades, Egyptologists have dismissed the notion that the pyramids incorporated any human-made cement-like materials. But

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02:16:42

Is Quantum Spookiness the Result of a 300 Year Old...

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2024/03/21

Get your DEMYSTICON 2024 tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/demysticon-2024-tickets-727054969987In this episode we are exploring the origins of the metaphysics that underpin the modern approach to a scientific understanding of nature with Dr. Helen De Cruz, who is the Danforth Chair in the Humanities at Saint Louis University. Professor De Cruz' research focuses on philosophy of cognitive science and philosophy of religion, with an eye for historic progressions through ideologies

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02:22:50

Did Newton & Einstein Get Gravity & Inertia All...

The DemystifySci Podcast ·

2024/03/17

Get your DEMYSTICON 2024 tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/demysticon-2024-tickets-727054969987 This is our second conversation with esteemed physics professor, Dr. Andrê Koch Torres Assis. Following our earlier discussion of Weber's electrodynamics, we now move into Professor Assis' other passion: Machian dynamics. Mach is perhaps one of the most well-known behind-the-scenes players in the saga of modern physics. Einstein and others often point to Mach as inspiring their ideas but

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02:34:23

The Shakespeare Conspiracy - Dennis McCarthy, Michael...

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2024/03/14

Get your DEMYSTICON 2024 tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/demysticon-2024-tickets-727054969987The true identity of the person who wrote Shakespeare's plays has long been debated. At least 87 potential authors - from Daniel Defoe to Sir Francis Drake to Anne Hathaway to Sheikh Zubar - have been proposed as candidates, but all of these proposals suffer from the same problem - they don't quite fit the historical facts and so have to be stretched, ill fitting, to even be considered

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02:41:37

Did the Flavian Emperors Invent Christianity? -...

The DemystifySci Podcast ·

2024/03/10

Get your DEMYSTICON 2024 tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/demysticon-2024-tickets-727054969987How did Christianity go from persecuted sect to the official religion of the Holy Roman Empire in just 300 years? The details of how a sidelined theology became the mainstream have always been obscure but fascinating, an indication of a powerful hold that a spiritual movement exerted in just a few generations. But what if thinking about the emergence of Christianity as a folk tradition is all

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01:57:33

An Eye for Evidence: Identifying 4,000 Scientific...

The DemystifySci Podcast ·

2024/03/07

Get your DEMYSTICON 2024 tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/demysticon-2024-tickets-727054969987Elisabeth Bik is a Dutch microbiologist who has a talent for identifying duplicated patterns. She turned her attention to the question of scientific integrity more than a decade ago, and has since been responsible for the retraction of more than a thousand papers that have blatant image manipulation in them. We talk to her about the work of image sleuthing, the nature of science that induces

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01:38:49

How Toxic Herbicides Wreck Our Mitochondria - Dr....

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2024/03/03

Get your DEMYSTICON 2024 tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/demysticon-2024-tickets-727054969987Dr. Stephanie Seneff is a Senior Research Scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, who turned her attention to an infamous neurodevelopmental epidemic when a friend’s child was suddenly diagnosed with the condition. Using her technical knowledge of natural language processing systems, Seneff set out to untangle the biological literature to see if it was

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02:47:45

Physical Laws Explain Nothing - Daniel Joachim...

The DemystifySci Podcast ·

2024/02/29

Get your DEMYSTICON 2024 tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/demysticon-2024-tickets-727054969987 Daniel Joachim Kleiven is a philosopher and economist with a fondness for Aristotle and St. Thomas who we found through a recent IAI article entitled “The Laws of Nature Explain Very Little.” In it, Joachim makes an argument that mathematics are a poor substitute for true understanding, and so cannot be considered ground truth of the universe. We discuss the philosophical path that brought him

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02:14:17

Constants of Nature are False Gods of Physics - Dr....

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2024/02/25

Get your DEMYSTICON 2024 tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/demysticon-2024-tickets-727054969987Dr. Alexander Unizicker is a writer, teacher, and host of Unzicker’s Real Physics ( @TheMachian ) , who is back for a fourth conversation on the DemystifySci Podcast. In this episode we discuss the origin of the mathematical constants found throughout physics, which ones of them are truly fundamental, which ones can be further simplified, and try to figure out if the constants are telling us

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02:27:36

Cult of the Chosen: How Power Rewrote Biblical...

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2024/02/22

Get your DEMYSTICON 2024 tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/demysticon-2024-tickets-727054969987 Today we are setting sail on a captivating journey through biblical scholarship and linguistic analysis with biblical scholar Dr. Jennifer Grace Bird. Dr. Bird brings a wide range of disciplines to her analysis from mathematics to theology and especially direct translations from antiquity. Discover the evolution of sacred texts over millennia, shaped by power dynamics, cultural influences, and

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02:12:26

Refresh Rate of Perception & Entity Encounter...

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2024/02/18

Get your DEMYSTICON 2024 tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/demysticon-2024-tickets-727054969987 Today we're going deep into the complex world of consciousness and perception with Andres Gomez Emilsson, from the Qualia Research Institute. Join us as we engage in tasty conversation surrounding the neural mechanics of hallucination, exploring the intersections of meditation, psychedelic experiences, and altered states of consciousness. We glean insights into the mysteries of the mind and

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02:25:36

Interest Rates and Economic Crises - Edward...

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2024/02/16

Get your DEMYSTICON 2024 tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/demysticon-2024-tickets-727054969987 Edward Chancellor is a British financial historian who, in a previous life, was an investment banker in New York and Boston from the early 1990s through 2014. He has been named as “one of the greatest financial historians alive” by Fortune magazine, as a result of his prediction of the last two economic bubbles, detailed in his books Devil Take Hindmost, about financial speculation during the

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02:08:14

Losing Sight of the End of Science - John Horgan,...

The DemystifySci Podcast ·

2024/02/11

Get your DEMYSTICON 2024 tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/demysticon-2024-tickets-727054969987 John Horgan is a journalist and author who has written books on quantum physics, consciousness, war, sex, attention, and mysticism. He was a columnist for Scientific American for 11 years, until they fired him for his 1995 book, The End of Science. In it, Horgan argues that increases in human knowledge have reached an asymptotic phase of marginal improvements, and the future of science is going

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01:58:40

Rethinking Solar System Formation; Exoplanetary...

The DemystifySci Podcast ·

2024/02/08

Get your DEMYSTICON 2024 tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/demysticon-2024-tickets-727054969987 Today we're on an astronomical journey with astrophysicist Dr. Amaury Triaud, a prolific discoverer of over a hundred exoplanets, who shares insights gained from his extensive observatory visits in the Atacama desert and his recent adventure building a telescope in Antarctica. Jump into the revolutionary world of exoplanetary astronomy as Dr. Triaud unravels mysteries surrounding changing

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