The DemystifySci Podcast

Dr. Mike McCulloch, physicist and author of Quantized Inertia, explains how this theory provides a cosmological explanation for Newton's first law. Topics include Unruh radiation, an interconnected universe, Casimir effects for novel propulsion, and engineering antigravity systems. Exciting discussions on galactic rotation, general relativity, and remembering fireflies.

Dr. Susan Blackmore is a Visiting Professor at the University of Plymouth with an interest in psychology, consciousness, memes, and anomalous experiences. We speak with her about the arc of her research into out of body experiences. We talk with her about her fruitless search for robust evidence of astral phenomena, her transition into psychological research, and how she squares the illusory self uncovered during meditation with the material evidence of consciousness. Support the scientific revolution by joining our Patreon: https://bit.ly/3lcAasB Tell us what you think in the comments or on our Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub (00:00:00) Go! (00:05:57) Consciousness (00:16:47) Dualism of Language (00:25:27) Illusion of Experience (00:39:40) Seeing through the illusion (00:49:23) A sense of self (00:55:45) Implications of Consciousness (01:00:08) What Makes Humans Special #consciousness #meditation #illusionofself 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 studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Michael Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Geoffrey Drumm is an Egyptologist and self-taught chemist who has theorized that several ancient Egyptian pyramids were not pharaonic burial chambers - they were industrial manufacturing plants for ammonia based fertilizer and the raw materials used for metallurgy. His presentation begins inside the red pyramid, whose three chambers mirror the three stages of nitrogen fixation used in the Haber-Bosch process we depend upon today. We talk about the physical evidence his investigations have uncovered, the difficulty of doing research in Egypt, and pervasive belief of a primitive history for ancient civilizations Support the scientific revolution by joining our Patreon: https://bit.ly/3lcAasB Tell us what you think in the comments or on our Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub (00:00:00) Go! (00:03:41) Pursuit of Ancient Secrets (00:08:09) Functional Architecture (00:26:25) History of Egyptology (00:53:31) Chemical Reactions of the Red Pyramid (01:07:37) Ancient Chemistry (01:22:15) Haber Bosch Process (01:51:40) The End of Excavation (02:17:18) The Pump Shaft (02:22:53) Chemical Composition of the Residue (02:34:34) Bent Pyramid & Great Pyramid (02:43:27) Acoustic Catalysis (03:05:02) Ancient Ireland (03:18:47) Coating of the Red Pyramid (03:26:21) Ultrasound and the Pyramids (03:31:31) Wrap #asdf 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 studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Michael Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Aella is a sex worker and survey artist turned data scientist of human sexuality. She’s accumulated an enormous amount of information on everything from sexual fetishes to threat tolerance, and has begun the long process of creating models for the development of people’s inner lives, relationships, and sexual preferences. We talk life paths, success in unconventional markets, the demarcation problem, and the limits and promises of what can be learned by asking people on the internet to fill out detailed questionnaires. Check out her twitter @Aella_girl, her substack at aella.substack.com and all her surveys at knowingless.com/surveys Support the scientific revolution by joining our Patreon: https://bit.ly/3lcAasB Tell us what you think in the comments or on our Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub #datascience #humansexuality #fetishes 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 studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Michael Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Michael Levin is the Vannevar Bush Chair of the Biology department and director the Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology at Tufts University who is focused on understanding the cellular motivations that govern biological systems. In other words, why do cells create the bodies that they do, and what are the environmental conditions that need to change in order to rewire the bodies that these cells will make? The successes of his work, including permanently altered body plants in planarian flatworms and synthetic bodies from frog skin cells, have significantly challenged our limited perspectives about the extent to which biological systems have wants and needs that can only be satisfied through the fulfillment of an inherent program. We talk new perspectives on the nature of bodies, teleophobia, the game of life, and much more. Support the scientific revolution by joining our Patreon: https://bit.ly/3lcAasB Tell us what you think in the comments or on our Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub (00:00:00) Go! (00:03:27) Impacts vs Aspiration (00:06:10) Theory vs Application (00:09:17) Philosophy vs Technology (00:18:32) Teleophobia (00:28:49) A meaningful universe (00:35:50) Idealism vs Materialism (00:39:44) Game of Life (00:43:03) Reductionism (00:49:46) Life & Death of Garage Science (01:00:15) Reciprocity of Will and Shape (01:09:25) What is human that's worth preserving & AGI (01:32:43) Is intelligence a useful notion? (01:41:16) Audience Questions #syntheticbiology #regenerativemedicine #teleophobia 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 studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Michael Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Dr. Glenn Borschardt is a geologist and philosopher of science who has written extensively on the irrational nature of the Big Bang, the religious roots of relativity, the infinite universe, and the ten assumptions of science. We sit down with him for a conversation on the staying power of the birth of the universe, reluctance among physicists to consider alternatives, push vs pull, and the art of science court. Support the scientific revolution by joining our Patreon: https://bit.ly/3lcAasB Tell us what you think in the comments or on our Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub Check out Dr. Borschardt's Books: https://amzn.to/3LkMFQG Check out Dr. Borschardt's Writing & Social Media: https://scientificphilosophy.org/https://thescientificworldview.blogspot.com/2007/06/welcome-to-scientific-worldview.htmlhttp://soiltectonics.com/aboutus.htmlhttps://medium.com/@glennborchardthttps://twitter.com/gborchardt (00:00:00) Go! (00:02:35) Religious Roots of the Big Bang (00:12:07) The Sagnac Experiment (00:22:53) Pound Rebka Experiment (00:27:45) Why a Particle Model? (00:40:11) Leaving the Big Bang (00:54:02) Shifting the overton window (01:05:47) Scientific Trials (01:16:10) Vortex Theories & Eternity (01:33:00) A Geological Foundation (01:45:25) the Big One (01:53:04) Closing thought #eternaluniverse #bigbangneverhappened #scientificrevolution 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 studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Michael Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Dr. Beatriz Villarroel is a researcher at the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics who is the brains behind the VASCO project - a study of Vanishing and Appearing Sources During a Century of Observation. The project asked a stunningly simple question - if we compare photographic plates of the cosmos taken in the 1950s with photographs taken in the last few years, would there be much of a difference? To their great surprise, Villarroel and colleagues discovered more than 100,000 mismatches between the two datasets. We talk to her about the missing objects, the art of astronomical observation, how to stay creative in a system that rewards incremental progress, and her ambitious goal of identifying and recovering an extraterrestrial object from within our solar system. Support the scientific revolution by joining our Patreon: https://bit.ly/3lcAasB Tell us what you think in the comments or on our Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub The VASCO project: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1911.05068.pdf Nine Transients: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-92162-7 VASCO Citizen Science: https://vasconsite.wordpress.com/ml-blink-2/ Dr. Villarroel on the violin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWLjGWzeTCY & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe31lEoUPsU00:00:00 Go! #vasco #vanishingstars #astronomy 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 studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Michael Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Visakan Veerasamy is a kindred spirit who is on mission is to build the greatest social graph of friendly, ambitious nerds that the world has ever seen. He's been studying the history of how great ideas come into being, how scenes are born and maintained, and is focused on using the knowledge he's gleaned from the exploration to bring together people ho are working on a new golden age for humanity. We talk about the attention economy, the art of becoming someone, and the version of localism that's possible in an increasingly global world. Support the scientific revolution by joining our Patreon: https://bit.ly/3lcAasB Tell us what you think in the comments or on our Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub Check out Visa's books on his website: https://visakanv.com/ Check out Visa's Twitter: https://twitter.com/visakanv Check out Visa's YT channel:  @visakanv  Further reading (affiliate links): Tribe, Sebastian Junger - https://amzn.to/3UASMUd The Courage to be Disliked, Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga - https://amzn.to/3MLCJkf The User Illusion, Tor Norretranders - https://amzn.to/43BIozn (00:00:00) Go! (00:02:56) The mystic and the psychotic (00:13:26) escaping obsolescence (00:27:55) How change happens (00:34:20) Makings of a golden age (00:44:28) Choosing a future (00:51:54) Critical Mass (01:02:58) Attention to attention (01:19:49) Rat park (01:31:42) What success looks like (01:40:46) Failure modes #friendlyambitiousnerd #goldenage #renaissance 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 studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Michael Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Dr. Patrick Moore was a founding member of Greenpeace who served as both director and president in the early days of the organization before leaving due to divergent philosophies about the future of the green movement. These days, his most controversial claim has to do with our obsession with CO2 as the sole marker of planetary health. We dive into the surprisingly robust science of why he thinks so, the world of politically motivated science, and uncover some significant disagreements along the way. Buckle up, it's a bumpy ride. Support the scientific revolution by joining our Patreon: https://bit.ly/3lcAasB Tell us what you think in the comments or on our Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub Support the Podcast by getting learned (affiliate links): Confessions of a Greenpeace Dropout, Patrick Moore: https://amzn.to/43A29Yc Fake Invisible Catastrophes and Threats of Doom, Patrick Moore: https://amzn.to/43yjy3w Unsettled, Stephen Koonin: https://amzn.to/41iiYWg (00:00:00) Go! (00:03:29) The Role of Stories (00:06:35) Natural vs Unnatural, Litter vs Pollution (00:27:53) The Days of Greenpeace Leadership (00:38:53) Positive aspects of plastic? (00:51:39) Breakdown of information channels (00:56:32) Politics of green (01:16:38) Costal risks (01:25:34) The Creation of a Movement (01:38:10) Garbage and Landfills (01:46:35) The internet Age (02:06:59) Victories of the movement (02:14:59) West Virginia vs EPA (02:27:25) Ocean Acidification (02:41:49) The Call is from inside the house (02:46:00) Climate change and polar bears #Greenpeace #netzero #royalscam 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 studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Michael Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Dr. James Garvin is the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Chief Scientist, currently focused on two main projects - massive terrestrial impacts, and the mysteries hidden beneath the clouds of Venus. Based off of lunar and Martian observations, Garvin believes that our models for the history of impacts on Earth might be nowhere near severe enough. Then there’s also the ambitious DAVINCI mission to Venus, which will launch in 2029 with the goal of getting a glance under Venus’ thick cloud atmosphere for the first time since the Soviet Venera landers of the 1970s. We talk impacts, solar system formation, oddities of tectonic activity in the solar system, and the twin history of Venus and Earth. Support the scientific revolution by joining our Patreon: https://bit.ly/3lcAasB Tell us what you think in the comments or on our Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub (00:00) Go! (00:03:53) 3D Revolution in Geosciences (00:07:10) Acceptance of Impact Theories (00:11:48) Earth Exceptionalism (00:22:51) Possible but Unfathomable (00:29:06) Stylistic Changes in Science (00:35:32) Going back to Venus (00:45:36) Changing timelines? (00:52:33) Day to Day at NASA (00:56:04) DAVINCI Mission Difficulties (01:07:23) Plate Tectonics & Vulcanism on Venus (01:17:44) Sending People? (01:23:19) The Millenium Plan for NASA (01:37:12) The Human Project (01:41:02) Tonga (01:49:17) End #Venus #asteroid #nasa 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 studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Michael Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671