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#204 – Cumrun Vafa: String Theory

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July 26, 2021

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Episode 204 · July 26, 2021

#204 – Cumrun Vafa: String Theory

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#194 – Bret Weinstein: Truth, Science, and Censorship in the Time of a Pandemic

#195 – Clara Sousa-Silva: Searching for Signs of Life on Venus and Other Planets

#196 – Yeonmi Park: North Korea

#197 – Jocko Willink: War, Leadership, and Discipline

#198 – Sara Walker: The Origin of Life on Earth and Alien Worlds

#199 – Roger Reaves: Smuggling Drugs for Pablo Escobar and the Medellin Cartel

#200 – Michael Malice: Totalitarianism and Anarchy

#201 – Konstantin Batygin: Planet 9 and the Edge of Our Solar System

#202 – Rick Doblin: Psychedelics

#203 – Anya Fernald: Regenerative Farming and the Art of Cooking Meat

#204 – Cumrun Vafa: String Theory

#205 – Zach Bitter: Ultramarathon Running

#206 – Ishan Misra: Self-Supervised Deep Learning in Computer Vision

#207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength

#208 – Jeff Hawkins: The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence

#209 – Luís and João Batalha: Fermat’s Library and the Art of Studying Papers

#210 – Matt Walker: Sleep

#211 – Brian Muraresku: The Secret History of Psychedelics

#212 – Joscha Bach: Nature of Reality, Dreams, and Consciousness

#213 – Barry Barish: Gravitational Waves and the Most Precise Device Ever Built

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#215 – Wojciech Zaremba: OpenAI Codex, GPT-3, Robotics, and the Future of AI

#216 – Vincent Racaniello: Viruses and Vaccines

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#219 – Donald Knuth: Programming, Algorithms, Hard Problems & the Game of Life

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