Best Cold Fusion Podcasts (2025)

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Could we end winter illness?; Cold fusion’s comeback; The delicious microbiome of chocolate 20:41

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Episode 317 Winter bugs are notoriously hard to vaccinate against. But as cold, flu and covid season is about to descend on us once more, one group researchers are working on an entirely new solution to the misery. A team out of Columbia University has been testing an mRNA-based treatment that could prime our immune systems to fight against any kin…

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Not cold fusion all over again 30:13

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A desktop nuclear fusion reactor that uses electrochemistry to up the ante. Also, a global survey of human wildfire exposures finds Africa burning ahead, plus tiny swarming robots and record-breaking 2024 ice melts from glaciers on Svalbard. Presenter: Roland Pease Producer: Alex Mansfield Production co-ordinator: Jana Holesworth (Photo: The Thunde…

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Fusion energy gets a boost from cold fusion chemistry 19:57

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00:46 Electrochemical fusion Researchers have used electrochemistry to increase the rates of nuclear fusion reactions in a desktop reactor. Fusion energy promises abundant clean energy, but fusion events are rare, hindering progress. Now, inspired by the controversial claim of cold fusion, researchers used electrochemistry to get palladium to absor…

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"What We Saw Changed Our Lives Forever": Multiple UAP Hearing Witnesses Describe Seeing Triangular Craft Over Their Bases. Plus, the Crop Circle Connection! 21:58

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On September 9, 2025, the House Oversight Committee’s Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets held a hearing titled “Restoring Public Trust Through UAP Transparency and Whistleblower Protection” (Room HVC-210). Members played a newly surfaced video, introduced by Rep. Eric Burlison (R-MO), that he said came from MQ-9 drones operating …

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The Future of Software Creation with Replit CEO Amjad Masad 42:01

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Amjad Masad is the co-founder & CEO of Replit, now valued at $3B after a recent $250M Series C. He's spent nearly a decade making programming accessible to all—and with the rise of AI, that vision is closer than ever.In this talk from AI Startup School on June 17, 2025, Amjad traces the arc of computing from mainframes to personal computers to a fu…

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Detecting gravitational waves 10:21

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In 2015, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) facilities in the US directly detected ripples in space-time, known as gravitational waves. These waves were produced by the final spiral of two orbiting black holes that smashed into each other, sending ripples across the Universe. In this podcast, Benjamin Thompson speaks to …

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Why we can't announce life on Mars (yet); The Romans' impact on the British economy; Link between exercise and your microbiome 29:59

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Episode 320 Was Mars once home to alien life? The evidence is stronger than ever, since NASA’s discovery of rocks marked by patterns similar to those made by microbes on Earth. Found in an area now named Bright Angel, these rocks give us a tantalising insight into Mars’ ancient past - but just how definitive is this finding? It’s long been thought …

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Asteroids, comets and where to find them 26:28

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Scientists’ latest plans for welcoming interstellar visitor 3I/Atlas next month, and arranging a rendezvous with comet Apophis in 2029, as heard this week at the EPSC-DPS international planetary science joint meeting in Helsinki. Presenter: Roland Pease Producer: Ella Hubber, with Alex Mansfield Production coordinator: Jana Bennett-Holesworth Image…

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Feeling the heat: fossil-fuel producers linked to dozens of heatwaves 36:39

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00:45 Attributing extreme heat events to major energy producers Major energy producers increased the likelihood and intensity of heatwaves, according to research published in Nature. Using data from an international disaster database, a team developed a methodology to investigate how much anthropogenic climate change had influenced heatwaves. They …

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Entropy is a Death Cult - Howard Bloom, DemystifySci #362 2:33:20

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Howard Bloom is an author, scientist, and former music industry publicist, who argues that entropy has been disastrously misapplied as a universal law across physics, cosmology, biology, information theory, and culture. In this episode we explore how a concept that was initially formulated in context of steam engines was used to create a story of u…

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The FDE Playbook for AI Startups with Bob McGrew 50:42

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Bob McGrew helped build some of the most influential technologies of the past two decades. Bob was an early engineer at PayPal, an early executive at Palantir, and was recently Chief Research Officer at OpenAI - where he led the development of ChatGPT, GPT-4 and the o1 reasoning model. During his time at Palantir, he was a pioneer of the Forward De…

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Research misconduct: how the scientific community is fighting back 52:13

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In 2016, Brian Wansink wrote a blog post that prompted scientific sleuths to investigate his work. They found evidence of data manipulation, and, after several news articles and two investigations by his institution, he would found to have committed misconduct, as defined by Cornell University. His work had been used to inform US policy around food…

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e528 — Monstrous Mice & Nano Bananas 30:59

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ChatGPT 5 generated image of a banana in the midst of an atom cloud generated 31 August 2025 Published 8 September 2025 e528 with Michael, Andy and Michael – stories about AI image editing with Nano Banana, GAN enabled LLM evolution with R-Zero, MentraOS open source smart glasses, automotive software, Making Monsters, Kazeta and a whole lot more. M…

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Tsetlin Machines, Literal Labs, and the future of AI, with Noel Hurley 35:54

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Our guest in this episode is Noel Hurley. Noel is a highly experienced technology strategist with a long career at the cutting edge of computing. He spent two decade-long stints at Arm, the semiconductor company whose processor designs power hundreds of billions of devices worldwide. Today, he’s a co-founder of Literal Labs, where he’s developing T…

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Nature goes inside the world’s largest ‘mosquito factory’ — here’s the buzz 10:57

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Raising mosquitoes to tackle disease might sound like an odd concept, but that’s what a facility in Brazil is aiming to do. Millions of mosquitoes are produced there every week, but these insects carry harmless Wolbachia bacteria that curbs their ability to spread deadly human viruses. Nature reporter Mariana Lenharo visited the facility and told u…

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Rationality Couldn't Replace God: What's Next? - Dr. Michael Hughes, DemystifySci #361 2:41:27

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Michael Hughes is a biochemist, water researcher and friend of the podcast with a passion for philosophy, mythology, and esoteric traditions. In this conversation, we explore the historical tension between priesthood and prophecy, the way science has replaced religion as a cultural authority, and ask why no society has ever thrived without a shared…

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First complete map of brain activity; Queen ant lays eggs of another species; The perils of scrolling while on the toilet 31:10

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Episode 319 Scientists have created the first complete activity map of a mouse’s brain. Combining brain images from multiple mice, researchers recorded more than 650,000 neurons while these mice manipulated little Lego steering wheels in a driving game. This complex behaviour has allowed scientists to examine the interplay between various parts of …

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Why Topical NAD+ May Be More Powerful Than IVs with Dr. Lamees Hamdan 56:21

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Send us a text Exploring how the skin can serve as a powerful delivery system for NAD+ to enhance energy, longevity, and cellular health. Dr. Hamdan shares the science behind her topical and oral NAD+ protocols, dispels myths about IV NAD+, and connects skin health to systemic wellness and stress resilience. Key Takeaways The Goldilocks Approach to…

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Why is Afghanistan so vulnerable to earthquakes? 28:22

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Despite the relatively low magnitude, earthquakes in Afghanistan this week have left more than1000 dead. Afghan researcher Zakeria Shnizai from the University of Oxford unpicks some of the main causes of the country’s vulnerability to earthquakes. Also this week, we talk to the climate scientist who led a 400+ page rebuttal to the US Department of …

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Episode 240 | September 2nd, 2025 27:35

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2025-09-02 - News - Episode 240 Hosts: Eric Peterson - Senior Developer at Ortus Solutions Jacob Beers - Senior Developer ar Ortus Solutions summary In this episode of the Modernize or Die Podcast, hosts Eric Peterson and Jacob Beers discuss the latest updates from Ortus, including new features in CommandBox and BoxLang, community contributions, an…

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Two ants, two species, one mother 27:06

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00:45 The ant queen that can produce two different species Researchers have made an unusual observation that appears at odds with biology: an ant, known as the Iberian Harvester Ant can produce offspring of two completely different species. Many ants need to mate with other species to produce workers that are a genetic mix of the two, known as hybr…

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Michael Truell: Building Cursor at 23, Taking on GitHub Copilot, and Advice to Engineering Students 27:55

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Michael Truell on June 17th, 2025 at AI Startup School in San Francisco.At 25, Michael Truell has already built Cursor into one of the fastest-growing companies in AI coding, hitting $100M ARR in just a year. In this fireside chat with YC General Partner Diana Hu, he shares the lessons that came from years of failed projects with his co-founders, w…

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Hidden Payoff of Civilizational Ruin - Dr. Dani Sulikowski, DemystifySci #360 2:17:45

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Danielle Sulikowski, professor of evolutionary psychology, presents a controversial theory on why global fertility rates and birth rates are collapsing. She argues that an evolutionary strategy known as female mate suppression—where dominant women repress the reproductive success of rivals—has shifted in humans into a modern form of antinatal socia…

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e527 — AI Taco Trolls 28:06

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Photo by Daniel Hooper 🌊 on Unsplash Published 1 September 2025 e527 with Andy, Michael and Michael – stories about AI restaurant experiences, historical LLMs, zoetropes and a whole lot more. After Michael R gives his impressions of the PhotoDome app, the team starts things off with a story about the AI powering Taco Bell’s drive through point of s…

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Ball Lightning, Plasmoids, and Fractals: Gateway to New Dimensions? 1:30:54

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This is my presentation to the Snippy 2025 Conference, Alamosa CO on Sunday, August 24th. Ball lightning is a mysterious yet not uncommon phenomenon often appearing as a free floating fire ball. It is thought to be the basis of geological activity, volcanoes, and alchemical transmutation at microscopic level. Though it occurs near thunderstorms in …

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Scientists discovered a 100,000-year-old organism; Breakthrough brain implant uses AI to treat pain; How climate change leads to revolutions 25:50

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Episode 318 An ancient organism has been discovered that has been alive for at least 100,000 years. Found in the Siberian permafrost, this lifeform doesn’t appear to have just remained dormant - but instead has actually been growing extremely slowly. Our understanding of life is already quite fuzzy, and this finding adds to the idea that life itsel…

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GPT-OSS vs. Qwen vs. Deepseek: Comparing Open Source LLM Architectures 12:31

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OpenAI recently released its first open-weights model since GPT-2, entering a field led by DeepSeek and Alibaba's Qwen.YC's Ankit Gupta breaks down everything you need to know about these top OSS models, including what sets them apart under the hood. He’ll compare their approaches to mixture-of-experts, long-context training, and post-training tech…

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Audio long read: How to detect consciousness in people, animals and maybe even AI 19:57

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The search for signs of consciousness has expanded, thanks to advanced neuroimaging techniques. These tools allow researchers to detect consciousness in unresponsive humans, and now researchers are looking to develop tests that work in animals and perhaps even artificial intelligence systems of the future. This is an audio version of our Feature: H…

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How Fear Spreads 37:16

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What can modern epidemiological methods tell us about French Revolutionary history? Also, the origins of horse riding, solar systems, and star dust itself. Presenter: Roland Pease Producer: Alex Mansfield Production Coordinator: Jana Bennett-Holesworth (Image: Storming of the Bastille Paris France 1789 illustration. Credit: Grafissimo via Getty Ima…

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If Telepathy Happens, By What Physics? - Helanê Wahbeh, DemystifySci #359 2:36:47

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What if telepathy isn’t fantasy, but an undiscovered frontier of biophysics? In this conversation, Helené Wahbeh of the Institute of Noetic Sciences joins us to explore how mind-to-mind communication could be studied through neuroscience, quantum theory, and consciousness research. We’re not obsessed with whether it’s real — we’re asking how it wou…

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Viral spread: how rumours surged in revolutionary France 24:44

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00:48 How the 18th-Century 'Great Fear’ spread across rural France In the late 1700s, rural France was beset with rapidly spreading rumours of aristocratic plots to suppress revolutionary ideas. But how, and why, these rumours were able to spread so quickly has puzzled historians. Now, using modern epidemiological modelling, a team suggests that a …

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How This 25-Year-Old Built A $675M Legal AI Startup (With No Legal Experience) 45:25

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In this episode of Founder Firesides, YC General Partner Gustaf Alströmer is joined by Max Junestrand, co-founder and CEO of Legora, one of the fastest-growing legal AI startups in the world. In just 13 months, Max and his team scaled from 10 to 100 people, raised $80M, and cracked the challenge of selling to one of the most skeptical industries. M…

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e526 — Beans and Bricks 35:24

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Photo by Michael Martine, Chapel Hill, NC August 2025 Published 25 August 2025 e526 with Andy and Michael M – stories about focus – finding things that are missing, reducing distractions with apps like Focus Friend and Brick, viewing photo collections and a whole lot more. Andy and Michael M get things rolling while Michael R is away, starting with…

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If Teleportation Happened, By What Physics? - Ashton Forbes, DemystifySci #358 2:45:39

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What if Flight MH370 wasn’t just lost, but simply became hidden from view? In this episode with controversial youtuber Ashton Forbes, we take the mystery seriously: not as magic, but as a challenge to what we think we know about plasma, quantum mechanics, and fusion. The question isn’t about belief, but about possibility: if teleportation happened,…

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60 Second Theories - Paradigm Drift #5, DemystifySci 2:10:23

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DemystifySci is the place where we bring people together in search of the theories that will change the world, and Paradigm Drift is your chance to have a hand in that future. Theorists, randomly chosen, get 60 seconds to present their revolutionary idea... and then we see if it's gonna stand the test of time or if it's back into the tank for a lit…

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Episode 239 | August 19th, 2025 25:05

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2025-08-19 — News — Episode 239 Hosts: Daniel Garcia - Senior Developer at Ortus Solutions Jacob Beers - Senior Developer at Ortus Solutions Summary In this episode of the Modernize or Die Podcast, hosts Daniel Garcia and Jacob Beers discuss the latest updates from Ortus Solutions, including the introduction of CBWire, advancements in BoxLang, and …

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e525 – See Thru Wooden Pixels 29:02

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Photo by John Cameron on Unsplash The Michaels take some time to talk about AI, Apple and Gaming this week, while Andy is out. While we are not an all Michael podcast, we did see a few Mike posts on Mastodon from Mike Elgan. We start with one of our favorite topics Lego Bricks! Robots are able to create using BrickGPT, creating new builds from a pr…