Produced and directed by Corey Eisenstein. Transcript coming soon. (video link) Our previous episode of Edge of Knowledge peeped back in time a few billion years to explore the particular origins of life on Earth , but now we aim our lens in a different direction. Rather than looking at the distant past to see […]
Produced and directed by Corey Eisenstein. Click here for transcript. (video link) After spending three episodes looking to the heavens—first at dark matter, then Mars, then black holes—our intrepid host Paul Sutter now turns his gaze to a more terrestrial topic: Why are we here? And I don’t mean in a Nietzschean sense (and if […]
Produced and directed by Corey Eisenstein. Click here for transcript. (video link) Of all the amazing and varied phenomena in the cosmological zoo, black holes are among the most mysterious. They are zombies—the all-devouring corpses of dead stars, made of trillions of tons of stellar ash compressed into an infinitely dense point called a “singularity.” […]
Produced and directed by Corey Eisenstein. Click here for transcript. (video link) Welcome to the second episode of “Edge of Knowledge,” our science explainer series starring astrophysicist Paul Sutter. In part one, Paul took us on a journey to the edges of our galaxy and talked about dark matter, the strange stuff that appears to […]
Produced and directed by Corey Eisenstein. Click here for transcript. (video link) Greetings, Arsians! We have something special for you today: the premiere of a new science series we’re creating, called Edge of Knowledge. We’ve recruited physicist and author Dr. Paul Sutter (Google Scholar link) to be our host and guide on an eight-episode romp […]