Send us a text When headlines turn science into a battlefield, who decides what counts as truth—and at what cost? We sit down with veteran science reporter and editor, Dan Vergano, now back on the DC science beat to unpack how politics, platforms, and power steer public understanding of vaccines, climate, and gender care. He explains why culture war flashpoints rarely start at the kitchen table, but are manufactured by media ecosystems and political fundraising that thrive on outrage, l...
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Send us a text When headlines turn science into a battlefield, who decides what counts as truth—and at what cost? We sit down with veteran science reporter and editor, Dan Vergano, now back on the DC science beat to unpack how politics, platforms, and power steer public understanding of vaccines, climate, and gender care. He explains why culture war flashpoints rarely start at the kitchen table, but are manufactured by media ecosystems and political fundraising that thrive on outrage, l...
Diamond Mind #9: Stuart Hameroff on Pleasure, Evolution, Microtubules and Consciousness
Diamond Mind
1 hour 11 minutes
8 months ago
Diamond Mind #9: Stuart Hameroff on Pleasure, Evolution, Microtubules and Consciousness
Stuart Hameroff takes us on a mind-expanding journey through his revolutionary theory of consciousness, drawing from his 49 years as an anesthesiologist and decades of groundbreaking research into the quantum foundations of awareness. Challenging the dominant view that the brain is merely a classical computer and neurons are simple switches, Hameroff reveals how microtubules—protein structures inside neurons—perform quantum computations that may be the actual basis of conscious experie...
Diamond Mind
Send us a text When headlines turn science into a battlefield, who decides what counts as truth—and at what cost? We sit down with veteran science reporter and editor, Dan Vergano, now back on the DC science beat to unpack how politics, platforms, and power steer public understanding of vaccines, climate, and gender care. He explains why culture war flashpoints rarely start at the kitchen table, but are manufactured by media ecosystems and political fundraising that thrive on outrage, l...
