Wunderdog
Episodes
Robert Revell: Composing for film, craft vs creativity
19 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Robert Revell’s grandfather was a poet who fled Mao’s China - and Robert tells the story of how he went back to find his family’s house, still u...
Terry Phan & Tomo Goto: Planet nine - finally detected?
14 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"Extreme trans-Neptunian Objects" - or chunks of rock that orbit the sun on average 250 times further away from the sun than Earth does - are moving i...
Noland Arbaugh, world's first Neuralink human: a pinky in the brain
29 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Noland is an affable Arizonian with an advanced piece of tech in his skull: A Neuralink. With it, Noland can see his own brainwaves and control his co...
Astrobiologist Maya D. Yanez: Could acetylene fermentation be an energy source for microbes on Titan?
14 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
NASA JPL intern Maya D. Yanez has recently defended her Ph.D. on acetylenotrophy. This is the ability to extract energy from acetylene, and only...
Vinay Gupta: We must not let the climate refugee situation turn into a global Gaza
06 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Blockchain is a mystery to me, so I don't usually talk about blockchain projects. But Vinay Gupta is awesome. He thinks about climate refugees ALL THE...
Kevin Fischer, founder and CEO of OpenSouls: Giving AI souls
27 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Note my NEW FORMAT: 10 minutes of quick questions first, then a deeper talk about ideas, motivation and process after. "I don't think it really matt...
Neil DeGrasse Tyson: "If noone in society is thinking that way, however realistic or unrealistic it is, then ... we're not going anywhere ever."
26 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
At 3 in the night at Starmus 2017 I finally managed to get ten minutes with astrophysicist, science communicator, director of the Hayden Planetarium. ...
Norwegian episode: Ingvild Bræin og ai-trøbbel for barnebokkritikk.no
26 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ein kommentar på nettsida www.barnebokkritikk.no vart illustrert med bilete genererte av Microsoft Ai Copilot. Eit bortimot samla korps av norske ill...
Vinay Gupta: Mattereum: A blockchain identity layer for things + Better refugee camps
29 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Vinay Gupta: Mattereum, giving our things a trackable identity layer. Bonus: Climate refugees! Vinay has a plan! Vinay used to work at Ethereum...
Robin Hanson: Grabby aliens, a horrifying solution to the Fermi Paradox
29 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"One of the most original thinkers in the world" (list of people who have said this at the bottom) is BACK for a second visit! Robin Hanson explains&n...
Anders Sandberg: Future of Life Institute
18 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Anders Sandberg talks volcano engineering, Freeman Dyson's computer at the end of everything, moving planets, how transparent society should get after...
Casey Handmer: Is cheap, giga-scaleable carbon capture possible?
31 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Casey Handmer: On leaving Hyperloop One and NASA to bet on cheap, giga-scaleable carbon capture. First he took a PhD in gravity waves, then he got ...
Jesse Moynihan: On creating FORMING, the Ice King from Adventure Time, the NFT-financed Jesus 2. part 1 of 2
31 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The second part of the Jesse Moynihan interview! Jesse Moynihan went from incredibly weird underground cartoonist to "household name" when his friend...
Jesse Moynihan: On creating FORMING, the Ice King from Adventure Time, the NFT-financed Jesus 2. part 1 of 2
31 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For the first non-space related episode of Wunderdog, I have a MASSIVE nugget of artistic GOLD. Jesse Moynihan went from incredibly weird undergroun...
Eugene Chudnovsky: How life could evolve inside stars
31 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 2020, the esteemed physics professors Eugene Chudnovsky and Luis Anchordoqui published thatr describes a theoretical form of life unlike anyth...
Ana Bonaca: Galactic bullet holes
06 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
While studying the stellar stream GD-1, Harvard astronomer Ana Bonaca made a literally enormous discovery: Cosmic "bullet holes" in our galaxy, severa...
Cynthia Phillips: Visiting Jupiter moons
31 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jupiter's moon Europa is the most exciting place in the solar system to look for life. Cynthia Phillips from NASA tells us why. Cynthia Phillips is a...
James Fallon + Jakob Løvstad: Psychopath professor vs MMA legend
07 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Professor James Fallon talks psychology and space travel for "psychopaths" with psychologist and for...
Robin Hanson: Mind uploads will be a bigger gamechanger than AI
07 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Robin Hanson on how mind uploads could make space irrelevant. The Fermi paradox is the mysterious lack of traces of alien civilized life. Profess...
Philip Lubin: Breakthrough Starshot, the world-saver laser, and how Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner took it closer to reality
07 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
NASA professor Philip Lubin and his potentially asteroid-deflecting and planet-saving laser, Breakthrough Starshot. Stephe...