Best Demystifysci Podcasts (2025)

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Where Biology Goes Off the Rails - Dr. Michael Levin, DemystifySci #369 1:06:19

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Michael Levin is a synthetic biologist at Tufts University who believes that asking questions about “life” is a fruitless project. Instead, he argues that we ought to be trying to understand the emergence of cognition - a feature that he believes appears long before cells emerge. As part of this project, Levin has started to pull on a series of thr…

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Electrons, LENR, & Ancient High Tech - Dr. Max Fomitchev-Zamilov, DemystifySci #368 2:55:47

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Max Fomitchev Zamilov is a nuclear physicist, inventor, and bubble fusion reactor builder who has also been a central figure in the characterization of the predynastic vases from ancient Egypt. We sit down with him for a conversation that can only happen with an experimental physicist - about overlooked electrical phenomena that diverge from theory…

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Why You Shouldn't Fear Bad Ideas - SOLO! Drs. A.V. Bendebury & M.S. DeLay, DemystifySci #367 1:49:44

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Shilo and Nastia sit down for a wide-ranging conversation about engaging with controversial thinkers, the role of skepticism in uncovering truth, and the cultural resistance to uncomfortable ideas. We cover the limits of philosophy and science, the prevalence of propaganda on all corners of the internet, and the sacred cow ideas that shape our unde…

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1000 Year Plan to Crush Thought - Michael Vassar, DemystifySci #366 3:05:34

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Michael Vassar is a futurist philosopher who believes that our civilization has lost the ability to think clearly, as the result of a silent project to destroy education that has been running in the background for generations. At the core of his argument is that the modern world has been shaped by elites interested in taking over the world. Interes…

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60 Second Theories - Paradigm Drift #6, DemystifySci 2:23:16

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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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Unsolved Mysteries of Electrostatics - Dr. Andre Assis, DemystifySci #364 2:35:51

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Andre Koch Torres Assis is a professor of Physics at the University of Campinas in Brazil, who has been studying the history of electricity and electrodynamics for more than thirty years. As part of his research, he has assembled put together a collection of experiments that demonstrate some of the earliest experiences that natural philosophers had…

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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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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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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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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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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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Zero-Point Energy Unifies Physics - Nassim Haramein, DemystifySci #357 2:47:51

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Nassim Haramein, mathematical physicist and director of the International Space Federation, has spent three decades chasing the holy grail of science — unifying quantum mechanics and general relativity. Building on Einstein and Rosen’s 1930s equations, wormholes, and failed proton radius predictions, Haramein claims a simple tweak unlocks the secre…

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The Speed of Light is a Big Problem - Dr. C.S. Unnikrishnan, DemystiCon '25, DemystifySci #356 58:24

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Filmed at DemystiCon 2025 in Portugal, Dr. C.S. Unnikrishnan, from India's Tata Institute, reveals a very different take on the nature of light. Beyond the noise of headlines and textbooks, the speed of light's measurement isn't proving to be so simple. Drawing on years at the heart of experiments that listen for the universe’s faintest signals, he…

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Antennas Expose the Secrets of Light - Dr. Hans Schantz, DemystifySci #355 2:41:12

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From the copper spines of antennas to the invisible dance of light, our conversation with Dr. Hans Schantz traces the story of physics most students never hear about. Dr. Schantz, a theoretical physicist turned engineer who studied under John Wheeler, unpacks the forgotten role of physical mediators in electromagnetism and what modern antenna desig…

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Stellar Cold Fusion & CMB Suspicions - Dr. Patrick Vanraes, DemystiCon '25, DemystifySci #354 1:02:53

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At "Beyond the Big Bang" 2025, Dr. Patrick Vanraes, a plasma scientist at the University of Antwerp, delivers two quiet revolts against the reigning cosmological order. In the first talk, he develops Dr. Pierre Marie Robitaille's vision of the Sun not as a chaotic gas ball, but as a layered, liquid structure—dense enough to host fusion through latt…

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Can This Unlikely Man Unstick Physics? - Dr. Rick Doblin, DemystifySci #353 3:02:35

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The institutions are broken because their hearts are broken. In this conversation with Dr. Rick Doblin, president of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, we explore whether substances used to great effect in the treatment of PTSD can become the scalpel and the flame for stuck culture—cutting delusion, sparking communion. Physi…

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Why the CMB Is Evidence Against the Big Bang - Dr. André Assis, DemystiCon '25, DemystifySci #352 41:50

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What if one of modern cosmology’s greatest triumphs was built on a false story? In this talk from DemystiCon: Beyond the Big Bang, physicist and historian of science Dr. Andre Koch Torres Assis digs deep into the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the so-called “fingerprint” of the Big Bang, and uncovers a history that challenges the dominant narra…

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Fusion’s Fringe Is Getting Results - Bob Greenyer, DemystifySci #351 2:48:09

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Bob Greenyer is part of a dedicated crew of researchers who think they have cracked the holy grail of energy - sustainable fusion reactions that take place with ordinary elements at room temperature and pressure, with nothing but some copper wire and five volts of input. Greenyer is an active player in the emerging field of low energy nuclear react…

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Quantum Vacuum Propulsion - Dr. Mike McCulloch, DemystiCon '25, DemystifySci #350 51:24

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What if inertia isn't a built-in property of matter? What if it’s an interaction with the fabric of the universe itself? So says Physicist Dr. Mike McCulloch of the University of Plymouth, whose Quantized Inertia theory is a radical challenge to our understanding of motion, mass, and the very structure of the cosmos. In this talk at DemystiCon ’25,…

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Room Temperature Fusion is Here - Lawrence Forsley, NASA, DemystifySci #349 2:51:44

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For decades, fusion energy has been the promise that never arrives—always twenty years away. Despite billions poured into tokamaks, inertial confinement, and plasma reactors, the finish line keeps moving. But what if the answer was never in extreme heat... but in solid metal at room temperature?In this explosive episode, we sit down with NASA resea…

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No Bang. Just Currents - Eric Lerner, DemystiCon '25, DemystifySci #348 1:04:45

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Physicist and fusion researcher Eric Lerner presents a sweeping critique of the Big Bang theory and the standard model of cosmology at Demysticon 25. He builds on the foundations of plasma physics and the work of Nobel laureate Hannes Alfvén to outline an alternative cosmological framework rooted in known physical laws—gravity, nuclear fusion, and …

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The Physics of Stars is Broken - Steve Crothers, DemystifySci #347 2:40:52

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What if everything we think we know about stars is wrong? In this explosive conversation, mathematician Stephen Crothers dismantles the foundations of modern astrophysics, arguing that black holes, neutron stars, and gravitational waves are mathematical illusions built on misapplied thermodynamics and flawed logic. With the rigor of a forensic inve…

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Chris Lehto, Mike McCulloch, Gareth Samuel - Paradigm Drift LIVE @ DemystiCon '25 1:48:03

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DemystifySci presents Paradigm Drift, the show where theorists of all stripes present their ideas about how the world works. In this space it doesn’t matter where you came from, where you’re going, or what letters are after your name. The only thing that matters is that you’ve got a deep insight into the universe that you can explain in SIXTY SECON…

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This Tech is the Future of Tripping - Till Holzafpel, DemystifySci #346 1:52:48

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Till Holzafpel is an engineer, programmer, consciousness researcher, and hardware psychonaut who designs virtual reality systems that can evoke the transcendent components of psychedelics… without requiring the consumption any substances. Much of his work is based on fact that there appears to be a massive component of psychedelic experiences that …

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Ancient Delphi & Cycles of Collapse - Needle in the Hay #3, DemystifySci 17:33

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The Demystify Duo goes to Delphi! This is the place that used to be at the center of the ancient world, a bustling hub of commerce, politics, and religion. At the center of the place was the Delphic Oracle, an event as much as it was a location. Young girls ordained as Pythias would be locked into a room where they would huff volatile gases that em…

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Rethinking Physics Itself - Gareth Samuel, DemystiCon '25, DemystifySci #345 53:42

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We're back to it!!! DemystiCon 2025 was a smashing success, and we're thrilled to share it with you. The first talk we're posting is by Gareth Samuel, host of See the Pattern. His videos explore the frontier models of physics, where they break, and what that means for our understanding of the universe. At this year’s DemystiCon, Samuel gave an incr…

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60 Second Theories - Paradigm Drift #3, Ohio - DemystifySci 2:11:18

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Paradigm Drift is the show where we celebrate theories, theorists, and freedom of thought. Each theorist gets 60 seconds to present their idea of the world, followed by an interview with us an our panelist. This week’s episode was taped in Columbus, Ohio with Chris Ranney as panelist, Jay Smith on guitar, and Megan Ranney as supporting cast. Next o…

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Mistaking the Map for the Territory in Physics - Dr. Jacob Barandes, Harvard, DemystifySci #344 1:50:25

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Dr. Jacob Barandes is a professor of Physics at Harvard University who studies the foundations of physics. He has emerged as a leading skeptic of the idea that our universe is somehow fundamentally mathematical in nature, marking a full cycle of more than two thousand years of ink spilled about the nature of the universe. Barandes has found that th…

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Can Simple Rules Explain Reality? Dr. Stephen Wolfram, DemystifySci #343 3:00:16

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Stephen Wolfram is a physicists, mathematician, and programmer who believes he has discovered the computational rules that organize the universe at the finest grain. These rules are not physical rules like the equations of state or Maxwell’s equations. According to Wolfram, these are rules that govern how the universe evolves and operates at a leve…

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Tetralogue on the Liquid Sun Revolution- Dr. P.M. Robitaille & Jim Keller, DemystifySci #342 2:53:56

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What if we’re wrong about the sun? Current consensus in the astrophysics community suggests that our planet orbits a burning ball of gaseous plasma - but there’s compelling evidence that suggests the sun is actually made out of liquid metallic hydrogen. If this is true, it isn’t just that we have a new model of the sun. All of astrophysics, from th…

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Rewriting Plasma Physics - Dr. Patrick Vanraes, DemystifySci #341 2:18:32

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Patrick Vanraes is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Antwerp whose research into liquid plasmas has led him to believe that we have radically, completely, totally misunderstood what it means for something to be “plasma.” All presentations on the subject begin with a rote recitation of the fact that plasma is a fourth state of matter - …

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What Happened Here? - Needle in the Hay #1, DemystifySci 12:12

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We found some strange, and extensively networked, piles of rocks in the Southern Oregon woods. We take you into the woods with us as we try to figure out if there’s some natural explanation for what we’ve found, or if we have stumbled on some man-made structures that predate the presence of Western settlers. Along the way we try to read how the lan…

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Is the Brain a Quantum Receiver? Dr. Tiffeny Todd, DemystifySci #340 2:29:22

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Tiffeny Todd is a physics professor and filmmaker who became obsessed with the nature of consciousness after having an out of body experience and discovering that her field had absolutely no way of explaining the experience of mind separate from body that she had. This set her on a quest to discover the theoretical basis for what had happened to he…

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Source Code of Mystical Experiences - Andrés Gomez Emilsson, QRI, DemystifySci #339 3:22:59

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Andrés Gomez Emilsson is the director of the San Francisco–based Qualia Research Institute (QRI), a nonprofit developing formal models of consciousness and emotional valence. QRI’s research aims to untangle the harmonic, computational, and symmetry-driven mechanisms underlying phenomenological experience. They approach the optimization of subjectiv…

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The Electric Universe Inside You - Dr. Michael Hughes, DemystifySci #338 2:02:18

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Michael Hughes is a postdoctoral researcher at St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital who studies the overlooked role of water in living systems. His work builds on a growing body of research suggesting that water is not just a passive solvent, but a highly structured, information-rich medium. Hughes proposes that under normal biological conditions, water’…

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The Big Bang Never Happened? Eric Lerner, DemystifySci #337 2:59:34

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Eric Lerner is a popular science writer, plasma physicist, and long-time collaborator of the late Nobel laureate Hannes Alfvén. He’s also one of the featured speakers at our Beyond the Big Bang event this summer in Sesimbra, Portugal. For over thirty years, Lerner has been a leading voice in plasma cosmology and a critic of Big Bang cosmology, who …

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Missing History, MH370, Kurt Cobain's Killer + More - Matt Beall, DemystifySci #336 2:23:58

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Matt Beall is the host of the Limitless Podcast, where he explores everything from the impossibly precise predynastic vases, to ancient civilizations, planetary catastrophes, nuclear explosions on Mars and, most recently, the suspicious circumstances of Kurt Cobain’s death. Our conversation spans the meta of the weird space we all find ourselves in…

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Can Electricity Fill Gravity's Gaps? - Gareth Samuel, DemystifySci #335 2:52:03

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Gareth Samuel is host of the @SeethePattern YouTube channel, where he explores theories of physics that have been neglected by the mainstream. He’s one of the speakers at our BEYOND THE BIG BANG meeting this summer in Sesimbra, Portugal, and joins us now for a conversation about what it’s going to take to unseat the Big Bang, why no one’s managed t…

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Cosmic Catastrophes & Prehistoric Resets - George Howard, DemystifySci #334 2:46:11

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George Howard is a weaver of ideas who runs the Cosmic Tusk blog and organizes the Cosmic Summit annual gathering. He’s also one of the longest-lived players in the Comet Research Group, a heterodox collection of theorists and scientists that has been working on the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis since the 1990s. We talk with Howard about bone bed…

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Why Did We Really Abandon the Aether? - Dr. Adam Forrest Kay, DemystifySci #333 2:20:40

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Adam Forrest Kay is the author of Escape From Shadow Physics, a rip-roaring tour through the history of physics that suggests the quantum world might be a lot less legible than anyone realizes. Much of his work is informed by the logic of Hydrodynamic Quantum Analogs, which are classical systems whose behavior can be described by same mathematics t…

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Formscapes | Andrés Gomez Emilsson | Michael Hughes – Paradigm Drift #2 2:06:45

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Invited theorists: Kehlan Morgan (Formscapes), Andrés Goméz Emilsson, Michael HughesRandom theorists: Edwin's Basye, Wendi Gardiner, Ricky Cisco, Philip Sportel, Jack Neefus, David de Hilster, Casey BrophyPanel: Kate Owlsley, Anastasia Bendebury, Michael Shilo DeLayLearn how to think, not what to think! Paradigm Drift is the show where we celebrate…

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We've Been Wrong About Cancer For 100 Years - Dr. Thomas Seyfried, Boston College, DemystifySci #332 2:02:04

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Cancer is one of the most terrifying illnesses of our age - a sudden change that happens silently inside our bodies and slowly eats away at us until there’s nothing left. It’s also one of the biggest failures of the pharmaceutical age - somewhere between 90 and 97% of all cancer drugs fail at clinical trials. Which is why we’re unbelievably excited…

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New Physics of Galaxies, Earthquakes, and the Sun - Dr. Anne Hofmeister, Wash. U., DemystifySci #330 1:54:15

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MAKE HISTORY WITH US THIS SUMMER:https://demystifysci.com/demysticon-2025PATREON https://www.patreon.com/c/demystifysciPARADIGM DRIFThttps://demystifysci.com/paradigm-drift-showAnne Hofmeister is an applied physicist, mathematician, and theorist at Washington University, whose heterodox approach to physics has not made her a lot of friends, but has…

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Living in Cosmic Myths of the Future - Formscapes, Kehlan Morgan, DemystifySci #329 2:24:56

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MAKE HISTORY WITH US THIS SUMMER:https://demystifysci.com/demysticon-2025PATREON https://www.patreon.com/c/demystifysciPARADIGM DRIFThttps://demystifysci.com/paradigm-drift-showPATREON: get episodes early + join our weekly Patron Chat https://bit.ly/3lcAasBMERCH: Rock some DemystifySci gear : https://demystifysci.myspreadshop.com/allAMAZON: Do your…

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Delusions of Cosmic Expansion - Dr. André Koch Torres Assis, DemystifySci #328 2:22:34

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MAKE HISTORY WITH US THIS SUMMER:https://demystifysci.com/demysticon-2025PATREON https://www.patreon.com/c/demystifysciPARADIGM DRIFThttps://demystifysci.com/paradigm-drift-showPATREON: get episodes early + join our weekly Patron Chat https://bit.ly/3lcAasBMERCH: Rock some DemystifySci gear : https://demystifysci.myspreadshop.com/allAMAZON: Do your…

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Bergson's Harmonic Theory of Consciousness - Dr. Jack Bagby, DemystifySci #327 2:48:00

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MAKE HISTORY WITH US THIS SUMMER:https://demystifysci.com/demysticon-2025PATREON https://www.patreon.com/c/demystifysciPARADIGM DRIFThttps://demystifysci.com/paradigm-drift-showPATREON: get episodes early + join our weekly Patron Chat https://bit.ly/3lcAasBMERCH: Rock some DemystifySci gear : https://demystifysci.myspreadshop.com/allAMAZON: Do your…

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A Case for Scientific Anarchy - Jim Keller, DemystifySci #326 2:21:03

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MAKE HISTORY WITH US THIS SUMMER:https://demystifysci.com/demysticon-2025PATREON https://www.patreon.com/c/demystifysciPARADIGM DRIFThttps://demystifysci.com/paradigm-drift-showPATREON: get episodes early + join our weekly Patron Chat https://bit.ly/3lcAasBMERCH: Rock some DemystifySci gear : https://demystifysci.myspreadshop.com/allAMAZON: Do your…

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9 Theorists Try to Blow Our Minds in 60 Seconds! - Paradigm Drift #1 (Pilot) 2:00:31

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Invited theorists: Ogi Ogas, Michael Hughes, David Ian Howe. Random theorists: James McGinn, Zarrin Leff, Austin Baldinger, Matthew Fox, Joe Cook, Shane SimonsenPanel: Doug Lee, Anastasia Bendebury, Michael Shilo DeLayLearn how to think, not what to think! Paradigm Drift is the show where we celebrate the principles of scientific anarchy. Anything …

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The Real Telepathy Tapes - Dr. Diane Hennacy Powell, DemystifySci #325 2:09:20

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MAKE HISTORY WITH US THIS SUMMER:https://demystifysci.com/demysticon-2025 Dr. Diane Hennacy Powell is an independent researcher into the telepathic ability of non-speaking autistic children, whose research was the basis of the wildly popular Telepathy Tapes (TT) podcast. She is a Johns Hopkins trained neuropsychiatrist, former Harvard faculty membe…