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(Ad-free video) Greg Lukianoff: The Canceling of the American Mind. Free Speech and Academia

Greg Lukianoff: : The Canceling of the American Mind. Free Speech and Academia

Remembering Christopher Hitchens

(Ad-free video) Scott Aaronson: From Quantum Computing to AI Safety

Scott Aaronson: From Quantum Computing to AI Safety

Restoring the Sciences: Science Under Attack

A Letter from Pakistan

(Ad-Free Video): Dialogues with Richard Dawkins

Dialogues with Richard Dawkins

The Empire Strikes Back

From the Sublime to the Ridiculous: Two Vastly Different Perspectives on Religion

(Ad-Free Video) Carlo Rovelli: From Dante to White Holes

Carlo Rovelli: From Dante to White Holes

Happy Halloween: A video to watch after handing out treats.

(Ad-free Video) Robert Sapolsky: Science and the Illusion of Free Will

Robert Sapolsky: The Illusion of Free Will

We have met the enemy, and they is us!

(Ad-free Video) Peter Singer: From Animal Liberation to Effective Altruism

Peter Singer: From Animal Liberation to Effective Altruism

Guest Post: Fighting the Good Fight in an Age of Unreason—A New Dissident Guide

Leaving the American Mathematical Society: A letter from Alexander Barvinok

(Ad-free Video) Hakeem Oluseyi: An unexpected life in Science, and unpopular truths

Hakeem Oluseyi: An unexpected life in Science, and unpopular truths

In Praise of Charles Darwin

#5minPhysics

Free Audiobook for the next 20 ticket purchasers for Origins Project Foundation Events in Santa Ana Oct 15, and San Diego Oct 17.

The Human Side of Exclusion in the Name of Diversity...

The incredible shrinking man

Live Critical Mass Interactive Zoom Q&A: Live Critical Mass Interactive Zoom Q&A: Sept 16th @ 9AM PT

The Best of the Origins Podcast, Part 1:

The Best of the Origins Podcast, Part 1:

Guest post: Dorian Abbot on Conservative Conservation

Outrage against Outrage sometimes works!

Three New Origins Events, on either side of the Atlantic Sept 25, Oct 15, and Oct 17.

August Break 2023: Highlights from 4 Amazing Years.

Rejoicing in Uncertainty

(Ad-free Video) A Stellar Night of Cosmology

(Ad-free Video) Bart Ehrman: Revelations about Revelation...and more

Bart Ehrman: Revelations about Revelation...and more

A new US National Laboratory for What?

Guest Post-Jeffrey Sachs: A Mediator's Guide to Peace in Ukraine

CMiCT23, an AUK/Origins Event in London June 4, and the first live 'Known Unknowns' lecture.

The Ideological Subversion of Biology

Guest Post: Beatriz Villarroel on her personal experience with "Guilt by Association" harassment in Astronomy

Remembering Cormac McCarthy: 1933-2023. The background of his last interview, with highlights from that dialogue.

(Ad Free Video) Martin Rees: If Science is to Save Us, Part 2

Martin Rees: If Science is to Save Us, Part 2

(Ad-Free) Douglas Murray: From Poetry to Free Speech

Douglas Murray: From Poetry to Free Speech

A Dangerous Attack on the Scientific Process

A live online dialogue with Sabine Hossenfelder about my new book, May 26th.

(Ad Free Video) Andrei Linde: Inflation, Multiverses, and all that, from Mr. Eternal Inflation

Andrei Linde: Inflation, Multiverses, and all that, from Mr. Eternal Inflation

Publication Day: Excerpt 4 from The Edge of Knowledge/The Known Unknowns.

The Unbearable Whiteness of Being

A National Post Excerpt from The Edge of Knowledge: The Search for Other Dimensions

Excerpt 3 from Edge of Knowledge/The Known Unknowns: Life is Fine Tuned for the Universe, Not the Other Way Around

On Literary Science and the Bounds of Knowledge

(Ad Free Video) Boldly going where no podcast has gone before: William Shatner; Wonder, Awe, and Questions, Questions...

Boldly going where no podcast has gone before: William Shatner; Wonder, Awe, and Questions, Questions...

Second Excerpt From The Edge of Knowledge: The Hard Problem of Consciousness

Foreword: Lost in Math

Public Excerpt from The Edge of Knowledge

How I will use Substack Notes

(Ad Free Video) Martin Rees: If Science is to Save Us, Part 1

Martin Rees: If Science is to Save Us, Part 1

First Excerpt From The Edge of Knowledge: The Strange Flow of Time and the Unsung Father of Black Holes

Is Astrobiology in Trouble?

To Celebrate Presale of The Edge of Knowledge Audiobook

Guardian Masterclass, and a gift for Critical Mass subscribers

Special Opportunity for Critical Mass Subscribers to Book 2024 Galapagos trip

The Edge of Knowledge Book Party- NYC May 9

Guest Post: A Commentary on Equal Protection Under the Law, and Legal Discrimination in Canada.

Guest Post: Vinod Goel on Free Speech and Reason Responsiveness

One Year Anniversary: A Special Offer now for Critical Mass subscribers

The Edge of Knowledge/The Known Unknowns Book Tidbits 2: Indirect Knowledge that a Multiverse Exists?

Live Critical Mass Interactive Zoom Q&A: 3/19 @ 9AM PT

(Ad Free Video) Q&A following Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss Dialogue at the Orpheum Theater, Nov 15, 2022

Guest Post: Dorian Abbot's Fables on Science and Politics

(Ad Free Video) Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss Onstage at the Orpheum Theater, Nov 15, 2022

Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss Onstage at the Orpheum Theater, Nov 15, 2022

Francisco Ayala, March 12, 1934-March 3, 2023, Scientist, Scholar, and Religious Defender of Science

There is only one way of knowing about the natural world: Science

Artificially Intelligent Offense?

Helping a lovely Afghan family complete the road from hell to freedom

(Ad Free Video) John Preskill: From the Early Universe to the Future of Quantum Computing

John Preskill: From the Early Universe to the Future of Quantum Computing

To Woke or Not to Woke, That is the Question. Is the answer Fundamentalist Wokism?

The Edge of Knowledge/The Known Unknowns Book Tidbits 1: A Time Machine must also be a Space Machine

(Ad Free Video) Tim Palmer: The Primacy of Doubt

Tim Palmer: The Primacy of Doubt

The Silencing of Frances Widdowson continues...

One Step Forward, Three Steps Back

Live Interactive Critical Mass Event: Zoom Q&A 1/21 @ 9AM PT

A Statement from Scientists on the Use and Threats of Use of Nuclear Weapons

What I'm Reading, Science: New Year's edition

(Ad Free Video) Elizabeth Kolbert: Can human technology solve unintended consequences of human technology

Elizabeth Kolbert: Can human technology solve unintended consequences of human technology

Apparently Social Work may no longer be a legitimate field, at least at USC and in Michigan.