The Escaped Sapiens Podcast
Conversations with the researchers and explorers pushing the boundaries of what is humanly possible.
Discussions about the rich, exciting, connected, sustainable, and scientifically literate future of humanity.
Supported by the Andrea von Braun Stiftung.
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Popular Episodes
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
Episode List
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.