The Best of the Origins Podcast, Part 1:

Selected clips from the first two years incl Noam Chomsky, Ricky Gervais, Brian May, Stephen Greenblatt, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Elizabeth Loftus, Dan Schrag, Martin Rees, Alan Stern, & AC Grayling

As promised at the beginning of this month, here is the first of two “Best of” selections from the Origins Podcast. I apologize that this hasn’t come out sooner, but the lazy days of August caught up with all of our production team. In any case, here, on the last day of August (in all US timezones), enjoy this collection of great clips from many of our exciting guests over the first two years of the podcast. These were all recorded before the pandemic and so we were able to travel to talk with my guests at their location, or bring them to our origins studio. As a result, they were all shot with 3 cameras, so the video record is better than one gets on zoom. I hope you enjoy watching them as much as we enjoyed putting this compilation together. This video version is available now to paid subscribers, and an audio version will be available to all subscribers. A Youtube version will be released later this week.

For those of you who are Origins veterans, we will give you a chance to relive the highlights from podcasts with some of the most remarkable scientists, artists, and writers on the planet. For those of you who are newer subscribers this will give you a chance to see some tidbits from some fascinating conversations with fascinating individuals, and perhaps encourage you to explore our backlist for the full discussions.

We will return with new content in September, and will release the second “Best Of” compilation sometime later in the fall. Once again, thanks for your support of Critical Mass, which remains an essential part of allowing The Origins Project Foundation to continue its programming.

Enjoy!