Closer To Truth
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24 seasons and counting exploring fundamental questions in Cosmos, Life, Consciousness, and Meaning with the world's top thinkers and scientists.
Joined July 2009
RT @pswscience: Join us next Friday, February 21st, at 8 PM for a lecture on the @NASAWebb by Robert Smith. More meeting information can b…
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Our cells rearrange and renew over time but our idea of ourself stays the same. How is that even possible? Some consider this the evidence for the human soul. Philosopher Max More disagrees.
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Quantum calculations amount to sophisticated estimates. But in 1931, Hans Bethe intuited precisely how a chain of particles would behave — an insight that had far-reaching consequences.
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“To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.” ― René Descartes 3/31/1596 - 2/11/1650
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The most informative signal we could detect from LIGO would be a trifecta: where all three species of signal (light, particles, and gravitational waves) are detected from the same event. Did that just happen? #physics #astrophysics #physicist
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Race is a nebulous category. Is it genetic, learned, a combination? The late Michael Ruse shares how philosophy of biology can help us analyze what race is without resorting to ideology.
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Artists may jumble time for dramatic effect. But your unconscious is always putting the narrative in order.
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“The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy. ” ― Steven Weinberg
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Athersclerosis is one of the leading causes of death in the world. Does it have to be? A study of the Tsimane who live in the Amazon basin tell us a different story about heart disease.
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What does it take to know god? We ask Philosopher Brian Leftow about using analytic philosophy to know what God is about without having a religious experience.
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RT @DrMANowak: My new book, Within, bridges science, philosophy, poetry, religion. It examines: Does God exist? What is God? Does mathemati…
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Is the moon still geologically active? Planetary scientists who have discovered 266 lunar "wrinkle ridges," that appear to have formed during the past 160 million years in the rare volcanic plains on the lunar far side think so.
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The later Hawking argues for a model of the universe not as a machine, but as a self-organizing entity, in which the laws of physics themselves evolved within and after the furnace of the Big Bang. Read why he changed his mind from @IAI_TV
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What does God look like as a concept? We ask metaphysics scholar Robin Le Poidevin for philosophical analysis of what God could be like.
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Does beauty have any relevancy for mathematics or is it a dead end?
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Is there a possibility that artists don't have to fear the new AI age? Closer to Truth and visionary scientist Jaron Lanier discusses originality in art for @IAI_TV
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Scientists have made an important step forward to creating life. Learn about the new synthetic genomes.
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Our brains are remarkable in their plasticity and conceptual power. What can they tell us about transcendental experiences?
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