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Wunderdog

Øystein Runde & Nitro

Norway"s fourth tallest cartoonist Øystein Runde asks scientists about the details behind their biggest ideas or craziest discoveries, like Ana Bonaca who found mysterious bullet holes through the Milky Way, or particle physicist Eugene Chudnovsky who has a theory of how life could exist inside stars. Also, interviews with the occasional artist / creative / whoever I want, when i feel like it. But mostly scientists. Supported by NITRO STUDIOS, Oslo. + the patrons at patreon.com/runde Jingle

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00:51:57

Robert Revell: Composing for film, craft vs creativity

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2025/07/19

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. Robert is a film and TV composer with a side gig: The band Blood Money, and reflects on the state of film music and the difference between work-for-hire and work that nourishes the heart. We get the story of how his father, Graeme Revell (former leader of industrial rock group SPK, then composed music for films like

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00:22:08

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

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2025/06/14

"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 seem to be clustered somewhat, and Brown / Batygin suggested in 2016 that an explanation could be a hidden ninth planet in our solar system, around 5-10 earth masses. Terry Long Phan, astronomy graduate student at National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan, has led a study to look for this extremely far away planet in a new

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00:56:48

Noland Arbaugh, world's first Neuralink human: a...

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2024/07/29

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. Often his powers are not very much more than what anyone with a hand could do ... but as he mentioned on Joe Rogan two weeks ago, he has one crazy power: He has an aimbot in his head. How does this work? Why is his precision so high? What will the future bring for Neuralink? As Noland says: "This is as bad as it's ever

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02:46:19

Astrobiologist Maya D. Yanez: Could acetylene...

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2024/07/14

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 bacteria (that we know of here on Earth) have it. They aren't very studied, and there's never been astrobiology studies specifically about this - so Maya's Ph.D. represents a whole new possibility for life to exist on other worlds.Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction and the Potential for Life on Titan 02:06 Titan's Unique

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02:41:26

Vinay Gupta: We must not let the climate refugee...

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2024/07/06

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 his projects, from the current most used housing system for Burning Man participants, the Hexayurt, to his ambitious website http://myhopeforthe.world/ are made to give climate refugees more tools. On top of these practical ideas, Vinay is also the founder of Mattereum. Mattereum is a blockchain technology, and it aims to

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00:53:01

Kevin Fischer, founder and CEO of OpenSouls: Giving...

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2024/05/27

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 connection happens with a digital or a physical intelligence" says Kevin Fischer, quantum physics pHd turned OpenSouls Ai CEO. And ... as offputting as this statement felt to me in the beginning, our conversation quickly got very spiritual. I can't wrap my head around his quantum physics, and I'm not going into the

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00:13:43

Neil DeGrasse Tyson: "If noone in society is thinking...

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2024/03/26

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, Wunderdog digs into one or two topics and goes deep, like Vinay's refugee cities, Casey's carbon capture, Ana's cosmic bullet holes, and Eugene's star-based life. This isn't that! This is, me grabbing hold of someone very smart and trying to squeeze fun answers out of them on as many topics as I could.We talk about CRISPR,

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00:52:04

Norwegian episode: Ingvild Bræin og ai-trøbbel for...

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2024/03/26

Ein kommentar på nettsida www.barnebokkritikk.no vart illustrert med bilete genererte av Microsoft Ai Copilot. Eit bortimot samla korps av norske illustratørar og teikneserieskaparar hoppa inn på Barnebokkritikk sine facebooksider for å skjelle ut valget, deriblant eg. Ansvarleg redaktør Ingvild Bræin tok kontakt for å få lufta litt kva ho hadde tenkt, og sidan eg også hadde tankar å lufte, og temaet er litt uhandterleg, lagde vi berre ein podcast av det. Dette bringer neppe diskusjonen til

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01:41:31

Vinay Gupta: Mattereum: A blockchain identity layer...

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2022/08/29

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 develop Mattereum, a digital identity layer (based on blockchain technology) that can tell us with more precision where a product is in its lifecycle, and how safe it is to buy. The intention: To make us reuse stuff more, with higher trust, thus rewarding quality products over cheap, one-time use stuff.

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01:54:34

Robin Hanson: Grabby aliens, a horrifying solution to...

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2022/08/29

"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 explainshis"grabbyaliens"idea. This episode has a new jingle, by @trop1ce -whoI found on Twitter.Itcontains asample froma certainblackhole soundpublishedbyNASA.Thank you! As usual, the podcast exists because of my amazing sponsors from www.patreon.com/runde Todayletmehighlightthe followingPatrons: SunnivaGylver(welcome!) ThomasNøkleby

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01:51:54

Anders Sandberg: Future of Life Institute

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2022/08/18

Anders Sandberg talks volcano engineering, Freeman Dyson's computer at the end of everything, moving planets, how transparent society should get after quantum computers, and what is the best type of geoengineering! Anders is a futurist and transhumanist, but also deeply concerned with the ethics and risks of all the wild technology he believes will happen. He works at Nick Bostrom's Future of Life Institute, and calls himself an "academic jack of all trades". This episode is me trying to

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02:40:46

Casey Handmer: Is cheap, giga-scaleable carbon...

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2022/03/31

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 Hyperloop One because of some truly shocking problem-solving skills (as far as I can tell, just listen to the episode and see if you agree), and THEN he worked at NASA JPL, where the literal rocket science happens. Every single one of these topics could have been their own 2 hour 40 minute podcast - but we hardly go there. This

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01:57:46

Jesse Moynihan: On creating FORMING, the Ice King...

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2022/03/31

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 Herpich suggested Pendleton Ward hired Jesse to join as a storyboarder/writer/artist/art director at the end of the first season of the soon-to-be legendary animated show Adventure Time. On the side of the enormous body of work that is Adventure Time (currently on HBO max), Jesse has also made his own, weird, spiritual,

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01:42:18

Jesse Moynihan: On creating FORMING, the Ice King...

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2022/03/31

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 "household name" when his friend and colleague Tom Herpich suggested Pendleton Ward hired Jesse to join as a storyboarder/writer/artist/art director at the end of the first season of the soon-to-be legendary animated show Adventure Time. On the side of the enormous body of work that is Adventure Time (currently on HBO max),

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01:20:29

Eugene Chudnovsky: How life could evolve inside stars

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2022/03/31

In 2020, the esteemed physics professors Eugene Chudnovsky and Luis Anchordoqui published thatrdescribes a theoretical form of life unlike anything else. Eugene and Luis suggested that a combination of cosmic stringsandmagneticmonopolescould perform the tasks of DNA at asubatomiclevel. Eugene Chudnovsky received his undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral education at Kharkiv University in Ukraine, and has been engaged in human rights for years, among many other things as Co-Chair of

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01:04:49

Ana Bonaca: Galactic bullet holes

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2022/03/06

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. Something with around a million times the mass of our sun has punched enormous holes in our galaxy. What is the "bullet" here? Is it a supermassive black hole, of the kind we only see in the center of a galaxy? Or is it a cluster of stars? Or is it something even stranger, a "bullet" made of dark matter? 00.06.26What

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01:08:01

Cynthia Phillips: Visiting Jupiter moons

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2020/10/31

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 at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), where she serves as the Europa Clippermission’s project staff scientist and project science communications lead. She is also the deputy project scientist for the Europa Lander mission concept. This podcast is possible because of Nitro Studios, Oslo. It's also funded by my

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00:51:25

James Fallon + Jakob Løvstad: Psychopath professor vs...

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2020/10/07

ProfessorJamesFallontalkspsychology and space travelfor"psychopaths"withpsychologistandformer coachof theNorwegianMMAnationalteam,Jakob "thestriking viking"Løvstad. This podcast is a collaboration with Nitro studio, Oslo. Theme song: Jan Krey aka Jkreyzy Extra material and my art for patrons at www.patreon.com/runde- special thanks to my 5$ and up patrons: Maren Struksnæs Adrian Kaxrud Berntsen Jo Christiansen Halvor Harnæs Lund Øystein Borgersen Are Edvardsen Maisen Pedersen Kyle

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02:02:46

Robin Hanson: Mind uploads will be a bigger...

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2020/10/07

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 invented a term to describe that something may doom all civilizations to die before they go interplanetary (and become visible from earth). He coined this unknown factor "The Great Filter". Today, the term Great Filter has become quite mainstream and understandable - just look at Elon Musk's pinned tweet since august: "We must

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00:58:19

Philip Lubin: Breakthrough Starshot, the world-saver...

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2020/10/07

NASA professorPhilip Lubin and his potentially asteroid-deflectingandplanet-savinglaser,Breakthrough Starshot. Stephen Hawking's last speeches were often about his gigantic dream project, funded by physichist and billionaire Yuri Milner: The Breakthrough Initiative. It is mindblowing in scope and ambition. Professor Philip Lubin is one of the minds that inspired one part of this initiative: Breakthrough Starshot. This podcast is a collaboration with Nitro studio, Oslo.Theme song: Jan

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