Think like a physicist. Wonder like a human. Into the Impossible is where Cosmic Conversations happen â uniting Nobel Prize winners, iconoclasts, authors, and technologists to explore realityâs deepest questions. From AI to aliens, from biophysics to the brain, from the cosmos to the multiverse, Brian Keating, Chancellorâs Distinguished Professor of Physics at UC San Diego covers it all.
If youâve ever asked Whatâs out there? or Whatâs next?, this is where curiosity meets clarity.
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Think like a physicist. Wonder like a human. Into the Impossible is where Cosmic Conversations happen â uniting Nobel Prize winners, iconoclasts, authors, and technologists to explore realityâs deepest questions. From AI to aliens, from biophysics to the brain, from the cosmos to the multiverse, Brian Keating, Chancellorâs Distinguished Professor of Physics at UC San Diego covers it all.
If youâve ever asked Whatâs out there? or Whatâs next?, this is where curiosity meets clarity.
Learn to think like this. đ Full episodes, notes & more:Â briankeating.com/podcast
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In a sweeping conversation sparked by his new book The War on Science, Lawrence Krauss charts how well-intentioned campus DEI bureaucracies, politicized funding mandates, and âlanguage-as-violenceâ taboos are eroding the core scientific virtues of open inquiry and empirical scepticism, while drawing historical parallels from Lysenkoism to todayâs hiring rubrics and challenging listeners to defend freedom of thought with the same passion they reserve for social justice. He then pivots from diagnosis to remedy, outlining a five-point rescue planâslashing ideological litmus tests, restoring merit-based evaluation, insulating grant agencies from mission creep, teaching students to steel-man opposing views, and benchmarking success against Chinaâs unencumbered research surgeâarguing that only by re-centering evidence over ideology can science remain humanityâs most reliable truth-seeking enterprise.
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Key Takeaways:Â
00:00 IntroÂ
01:04 The most dangerous idea threatening science today
02:35 The role of universities and academic freedomÂ
10:26 Tenure and indirect costs in academiaÂ
14:58 Sanctions against free speechÂ
17:39 The problem with tuitionÂ
18:42 Decolonializing STEMÂ
23:57 What Trump is doing to address these issuesÂ
28:03 Free market education?
36:46 Judging a book by its cover
38:44 The distortion of science during COVIDÂ
44:12 Inequality in scienceÂ
48:43 If Lawrence were president of the USÂ
52:33 Audience questionsÂ
55:28 Outro
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Into the Impossible With Brian Keating
Think like a physicist. Wonder like a human. Into the Impossible is where Cosmic Conversations happen â uniting Nobel Prize winners, iconoclasts, authors, and technologists to explore realityâs deepest questions. From AI to aliens, from biophysics to the brain, from the cosmos to the multiverse, Brian Keating, Chancellorâs Distinguished Professor of Physics at UC San Diego covers it all.
If youâve ever asked Whatâs out there? or Whatâs next?, this is where curiosity meets clarity.
Learn to think like this. đ Full episodes, notes & more:Â briankeating.com/podcast
