Giant Leap with Taylor Wilson
Episodes
Q+A • Season 1 Finale
18 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Thank you for joining us this season. In this season 1 finale we take listener questions! What's the most dangerous experiment Taylor's ever done...
The Search for New Elements | Jacklyn Gates at Berkeley Lab
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of Giant Leap, the search for elements beyond the end of the periodic table. Taylor and Joey visit the Heavy Element group at Lawrence...
Call for Questions
23 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We're wrapping up production of Giant Leap Season 1.Before we go, we're taking listener questions at [email protected] or Video is prefe...
Is Evolution Linear? | Biologist Shane Campbell-Staton
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How are species are evolving in response to climate change, ecosystem loss and humanity as a whole? On this episode we speak with evolutionary biologi...
Are Carlsbad Caverns Radioactive?
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Giant Leap, Joey and Taylor discuss Taylor’s recent trip to Carlsbad Caverns and why he was radioactive when he left. They discus...
What’s Under the Ice? The science of ice cores | Joe McConnell
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What’s under the ice?Trapped in the ice below the vast glacial ice fields, a frozen time capsule records the history of our planet’s atmosphere. F...
The Lead Problem
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve all been told about the dangers of the element lead, but why is lead toxic and why is it so present in our environment? In this short episode ...
The Day Earth Short Circuited | Massive solar storms and their effect on our planet.
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Giant Leap is a new podcast hosted by nuclear physicist Taylor Wilson and journalist Joey Lovato. Shot in Taylor's lab, the show digs into hard scienc...
The Next Big Volcano | Clive Oppenheimer
29 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Website | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | PatreonWhat can volcanoes tell us about our past, and future, as a species? Should we fear the destruct...
The Methane Problem
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We hear a lot about CO2 and it's warming effect on the Earth's climate. What about Methane? In this episode of Giant Leap, Taylor talks about the meth...
Should Humans Still Go to Space? | Astronaut Chris Hadfield
25 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Hadfield, former commander of the International Space Station, talks with Taylor Wilson and Joey Lovato about the future of human space flight. ...
Dude, where's my hydrogen car?
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Electric cars are growing in popularity, but what about hydrogen cars? On this episode of Giant Leap, Joey and Taylor discuss Hydrogen and examine its...
Is A.I. Conscious? | Neuroscientist Anil Seth
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What is consciousness...and, is it changing? On this episode of Giant Leap Taylor Wilson and Joey Lovato talk about the future of the brain with world...
Could we stop an asteroid?
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of Giant Leap, Joey and Taylor discuss the various impacts that Earth has endured, and ask: "are we prepared for the next?". Website: ...
Life as we Don’t Know it | Ellen Stofan (Smithsonian, NASA)
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A few years back, Taylor Wilson snowmobiled into Yellowstone National Park in the dead of winter with Ellen Stofan, then chief scientist of NASA, now ...
Trailer
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Subscribe on youtube, or on your podcast app: https://www.giantleappodcast.org/subscribeAs Carl Sagan once said, "We live in a society absolutely depe...
Coming Soon | Giant Leap with Taylor Wilson
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Announcing the podcast Giant Leap. Subscribe to be the first to hear the upcoming Trailer and first episodes.Giant Leap is a new show that explores th...