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Jan 2021

What If You Explored the Deepest Points of Earth? - with George Kourounis

Let NetSuite show you how they’ll benefit your business with a FREE Product Tour at www.netsuite.com/WHATIF We've explored a lot on this planet, but how deeply have we truly gone? The Earth's core is over 6000km deep...and the deepest we've drilled is roughly 12km! Not even 1%, a ... Show More

32m 35s

Jan 2021

What If You Only Ate Sugar for a Month? - with Gary Taubes

Go to the Great Courses Plus and receive the first month for FREE: thegreatcoursesplus.com/whatif Normally the idea of gorging yourself exclusively with sugar for 30 days would be a hypothetical, but over the holidays, it might not be. Peter and Richard and joined by the author o ... Show More

28m 35s

Dec 2020

What If We Settled on an Exoplanet? - with Didier Queloz

Go to www.greenchef.com/WHATIF90 and use code WHATIF90 to get $90 off, including free shipping. It's been a long strange journey for Nobel Prize winning astronomer Didier Queloz. In 1995, he and his team discovered the first "Exosolar Planet" i.e. an Earth-like planet orbiting a ... Show More

34m 49s

Nov 2025

95 - Would Aliens Have the Same Physics? (Ft. Daniel Whiteson)

If we met aliens, could we communicate through physics? Daniel Whiteson explores this question on today's episode. For more, check out his new book, Do Aliens Speak Physics?For ad-free episodes and exclusive ask-us-anything segments, join us for just $3 a ... Show More

43m 10s

Mar 2025

How to talk to aliens

Scientists have been searching for aliens for decades. But if we ever do get a signal someday, how will we communicate back? And will anyone out there be able to understand us? Guests: Doug Vakoch, president of METI, and Sheri Wells-Jensen, linguist at Bowling Green State Univers ... Show More

24m 57s

Apr 2021

Evolution: Animals, Aliens, and Ourselves

The search for and conjecture about alien life has evolved, from science fiction to just plain science. On this episode, host Lauren Richardson talks to Arik Kershenbaum, Ph.D, author of the new book “The Zoologist’s Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal about Alie ... Show More

38m 38s

Dec 2022

From the Vault: Daniel Whiteson, Time Traveler

In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe welcome back Daniel Whiteson, particle physicist and co-host of Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe. Tune in for a discussion of time travel, wormholes and more that will actually transport you roughly an hour into the ... Show More

1 h

Mar 2021

UFOs: Through the Wormhole Again

In 2017, a weird-looking space object called ʻOumuamua whipped past our sun. Now a Harvard scientist is suggesting it miiiight be an alien probe! So we’re revisiting this episode from a few years ago, where we ask: could aliens actually exist? Is there any chance they’ve visited ... Show More

36m 29s

Dec 2021

Daniel Whiteson, Time Traveler

In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe welcome back Daniel Whiteson, particle physicist and co-host of Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe. Tune in for a discussion of time travel, wormholes and more that will actually transport you roughly an hour into the ... Show More

1 h

Jul 2025

12 tiny worlds

If you went back 500 million years and re-ran evolution, would life be totally different today? Guests: Richard Lenski and Zachary Blount, evolutionary biologists at Michigan State University For show transcripts, go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠vox.com/unxtranscripts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ For more, go ... Show More

35m 40s

Jul 2024

Cosmic Queries – Strange Matter

What could we do to hide from the aliens? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice answer fan questions about human radio wave signals, strange matter, universes inside black holes, and other physics questions!NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can listen to this entire episode ... Show More

43m 14s

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