On Being with Krista Tippett

Maria Popova and Natalie Batalha — Cosmic Imagining, Civic Pondering

Mar 29, 2018

51:51

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Maria Popova

Natalie Batalha

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The Evolution of Complexity

05:17

Is There Life Out There?

04:19

Is There a Spirituality in Science?

03:25

Introduction

4min

Is There a Spirituality in Science?

3min

The Greatest in the English Language Found Poetry Where Poetry Is Found

2min

The Voyager Spacecraft of the Golden Record

6min

Is Science Separated From Life?

3min

Is There Life Out There?

4min

Is There a Soul in the Cosmos?

4min

On Being - A Conversation With Maria Papova

6min

The Evolution of Complexity

5min

10.

How Can I Use My Small Influence to Help This Problem?

2min

11.

The Flip Side of Chance, Isn't It?

3min

12.

The Universe Inverse

3min

13.

The Cosmos Is Us

3min

14.

The Purpose of Poetry Is to Awaken Sleepers by Means Other Than Shock

4min

A literary thinker with a “telescopic view of time”; an astrophysicist with an eye to “cultural evolution towards good.” What unfolds between these two is joyous, dynamic, and unexpectedly vulnerable — rich with cosmic imagining, civic pondering, and even some fresh definitions of the soul. A live taping from the inaugural On Being Gathering at the 1440 Multiversity in California.

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