The Escaped Sapiens Podcast

What is money, who rules the world, and why doesn't the EU have big tech?

Artificial Intelligence, Alignment, Game Theory, Future of Humanity

Regenerative biology, synthetic organisms, curing cancer.

Complex Numbers, Quantum Mechanics, and Symmetry.

Economics, politics, and the environment.   

Sexuality, cannibalism, disgust sensitivity, sex differences. 

Building fairer, more empathetic, and more egalitarian societies

Genetic Biocontrol and de-extinction

Housing deregulation, environmental impact of housing regulation.

Brain implant hardware, neural networks, decoding speech.

Mathematics and reality, complex numbers, beauty in mathematics.

Nuclear Energy, reactor design, renewables, energy cost.

Marx, Capitalism, and Neoclassical Economics 

Economics, Politics, and the Environment

Avoiding the threat of Artificial Intelligence

narcissism, relationship breakdown, success. 

Constructing synthetic life from scratch

Origin and history of life, biology and geology

open and citizen science, scientific literacy and democracy 

Ethics and Practice of plastic surgery, social media pressure 

Blockchain technology, distributed autonomous organization 

Marine ecology, aquaculture, and the economics of seafood 

Genetic Biocontrol and de-extinction

Artificial Intelligence, Alignment, Game Theory, Future of Humanity

What science learned from the covid pandemic

Diplomacy, cold war politics, maintaining peace.

Vertical farming, sustainable agriculture. 

Medical Technology,  prosthetics, implants.

A refugee's story

Morality as a social engineering tool.

Moral Myopia, Political Division, Missinformation and "bull$&%t"

Human Organ Trade, organ transplantation, kidney failure. 

What is money, who rules the world, and why doesn't the EU have big tech?

Extinct Languages,  Sending Messages Into the Far Future, Linguistics

Building fairer, more empathetic, and more egalitarian societies

Collapsing fish populations and Sustainable fisheries, 

Engineering life and consciousness, the danger of artificial super intelligence 

Eye health, healthy populations, clinical science.

The role of controlled violence and Maintaining peaceful societies

Big history, living for impact, soft power, civilization.

Mars rovers,  geology, life in the solar system, exploration.

Regenerative biology, synthetic organisms, curing cancer.

Life support, space exploration, Antarctica, future of humanity.  

Animal  communication, cognition, self awareness and personhood.  

Nuclear proliferation, strategy, deterrence, modern weapons.   

Insects and murder, data protection laws, Sustainability.

Forensic techniques, wealth and the law, psychopaths. 

Planetary protection, re-directing asteroids, DART mission.

Religion and war, technological and social development. 

Survival At Sea, Endurance, Sustainability, Meaning Of Life.

climate change, peak carbon, individual responsibility. 

Sexuality, cannibalism, disgust sensitivity, sex differences. 

Diet choices and their impact on the environment. 

advertising, corporations, health research,  the environment.

Origins Of Life, Search For Aliens,
Biochemistry, Evolution.  

Disgust Sensitivity, Sex, Politics, Life, Covid, Evolution. 

Climate change, fossil free future, lifestyle changes. 

Survival At Sea, Endurance, Sustainability, Meaning Of Life.

Deep Fakes, Manipulated Media, Missinformation, Dissinformation. 

New Species, Climate Change, Sustainability, Living A Good Life.

Space Junk, Space Politics, SpaceX, Satellites, Sustainability in Space.

Bee Extinction, Pollination, neonicotinoids, Sustainability.

De-extinction, Sustainability, Passenger Pigeon, Gene Editing.