Episode 33: Talking to Whales with Gašper Beguš
AI is getting us closer to translating whale communication. What happens if we succeed?
Listen to episode 33The Edge Episode 32: Enthralled
Poulomi Saha joins Editor-in-Chief Pat Joseph live onstage to discuss America’s long enthrallment with—and participation in—cults.
Listen to episode 32The Edge Episode 31: Bad Bunny with Petra Rivera-Rideau
How did a SoundCloud rapper singing entirely in Spanish become the most streamed artist in the world?
Listen to episode 31The Edge Episode 30: What If Seeing Is No Longer Believing?
Our talk with Cal professor and digital forensics expert Hany Farid on authenticating media in the age of increasingly credible fake news
Listen to episode 30The Edge Episode 29: Will AI Be Humanity’s Last Act? with Stuart Russell
The distinguished computer science professor explores the promises and perils of the AI revolution.
Listen to episode 29The Edge Episode 28: Robots with Jeff Mahler
What’s easy for humans is hard for robots, and vice versa. The co-founder of Ambi Robotics talks to us about the current state of embodied AI and how soon—if ever—we might see a full robot revolution.
Listen to episode 28The Edge Episode 27: Life, the Universe, and Everything with Alex Filippenko
Astrophysicist Alex Filippenko joins Editor-in-Chief Pat Joseph live onstage to discuss eclipse chasing, dark energy, and the abiding mysteries of the cosmos.
Listen to episode 27The Edge Episode 26: Psychedelics with Gül Dölen
Octopuses and humans have very little in common, but there’s one thing we do seem to share: MDMA makes us both a lot cuddlier.
Listen to episode 26The Edge Episode 25: The Heat with Jeff Goodell
The world just lived through the two hottest days ever recorded. We spoke to author Jeff Goodell about the most obvious but least discussed effect of global warming.
Listen to episode 25The Edge Episode 24: Long COVID with Dr. Kim Rhoads
With the end of the public health emergency and a sudden disappearance of the once-ubiquitous masks, it’s easy to feel like the pandemic is, well, over. But some would strongly disagree with that prognosis—and one group in particular: people suffering from the lasting effects of long COVID.
Listen to episode 24The Edge Episode 23: Cosmology with Sarafina Nance
Berkeley astrophysicist Sarafina El-Badry Nance, has dedicated her life to studying really big exploding stars and what they tell us about our ever-expanding universe. She joins us this episode to talk about her own path to star-gazing and the big, existential questions that keep her eyes to the sky.
Listen to episode 23The Edge Episode 22: The Edge Presents “Climate, Hope and Science” From the Science of Happiness
This month we’re back with something a little different. In the wake of this year’s historic floods, wildfires, and hurricanes, we asked ourselves: What would it look like to take a more optimistic attitude towards slowing climate change?
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