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Thursday, June 12, 2025 A New Cosmological Beginning Registration & Welcoming Reception (15:00 – 17:00) Conference Center Veranda Refreshments & Snacks (15:30 – 16:00) Opening Remarks (15:50 – 16:00) Cosmological Speed Friending (16:00 – 17:00) Session A Keynote Talks (17:00 – 19:00) Dinner (19:00 – 21:00) Marluso Restaurant — Friday, June 13, 2025 Cosmic Microwave Background Session B Invited Ta…

DSPod #206 - Foundational Reality of Minds - Dr. Bernardo Kastrup, Essentia Foundation Embark on a thought-provoking journey into the realms of metaphysical idealism and artificial intelligence with Dr. Bernardo Kastrup, a distinguished philosopher and computer engineer. In this engaging long-form conversation, we delve into the intricacies of consciousness, exploring topics from the philosophica…

DSPod #203 - How Finance Capitalism Ruined the World - Dr. Michael Hudson & Dr. Steve Keen Dr. Michael Hudson is an American economist, Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri–Kansas City and a researcher at the Levy Economics Institute at Bard College, former Wall Street analyst, political consultant, commentator and journalist. Dr. Steve Keen is an Australian economist and author. …

DSPod # 167 & 168 - Debt, Empires, Oligarchs and a More Perfect State: Michael Hudson Dr. Michael Hudson is a professor of Economics at the University of Missouri Kansas City, political consultant, commentator, and journalist. His career has focused on the study of debt, both external and internal, with an eye on what happens when the exponentially growing debts of a society outstrip the profits …

the Elastic Atomic Web This blog follows a series on the history of the death of the luminiferous aether and opens a new series about the reconception of the physical universe, including quantum fields and spacetime, as a true material with evident elastic properties. This is not a new theory, but a reimagining of extant theory and mathematics. In this introductory piece, I’m first going to expla…

Why Is Light Speed Limited? Recently, we looked into the notion of time-travel and the notion of time itself. This investigation led to the realization that the laws inscribing the behavior of bodies in motion, including clocks, breakdown when their speed approaches that of light. Today I want to briefly talk a bit about the speed-of-light, and consider physical interpretations of what this limit…

Grocer on Elm Street The grocery store is a place that forces shoppers to decide what kind of people they want to be on the most literal level imaginable. The raw material stocked in neat pyramids gets picked, rung, bagged and carried home, where it transforms into living, breathing flesh. Selecting what to eat is a momentous occasion, since it literally decides what we will become. Despite the f…

Censorship of Plandemic Pt. 1 When a friend asked us to look into analyzing Plandemic, a ~20 minute documentary on the orchestrated nature of the COVID19 lockdowns, we were surprised to find that it wasn’t in any of the usual places. There were only links to criticism of the movie available on Google, Facebook, Youtube, Twitter. An afterimage of the documentary itself, a residual effect of algori…

Evaluating a Scientific Presentation: The Virome This week, we stumbled across a video that outlines a paradigm shift in the way that humans see viruses in the context of germ theory. The traditional explanation of disease is that it’s caused by microbial colonization of a healthy body. The immune system, then, is there to mount a defense against that pathogen. Since their discovery in the early …

Temperance of Group Rivalry This week, we YouTubed an interview with Dr. Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair - a Norwegian evolutionary psychologist (also available in podcast format). Though our conversation was largely centered on behavioral differences between men and women, there were some pieces from the conversation that were quite interesting, and constitute a larger theme that has come up in seve…

What is a Conspiracy Theory? This week, we’re going to try out something a little different. Rather than writing blogs on two separate topics, we (Nastia and Shilo) are going to have an open conversation about the ideas we stumbled into during this week’s Demystifying Science interview with author of Conspiracy Theories, Dr. Quassim Cassam. On the show, Micky & Quinn had a conversation with Dr. Q…

Freedom from Aging Imagine a world where death is either a choice or an accident. A world where aging is not synonymous with decline and decay. This is not a mere science fiction fantasy, but rather the very technical goal of Dr. Aubrey de Grey and his associates at the SENS (Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence) Research Foundation. Dr. de Grey views aging like any other common medica…

The Origins of Multicellularity Part IV At long last, we return to the exploration of multicellularity that was started a few weeks ago. In Part I, I discussed the fact that multicellularity, the ability of many cells to act as one, is something that can evolve when a single-celled organism experiences selective pressure, like predation. Part II was an exploration of multicellular behaviors, and …

Math is the Compelled Speech of Physics: How This Limits Progress Science — the provision of natural explanation for phenomena — is one of the most reliable and benevolent institutions that humans have erected. Science is, afterall, a monument to objective understanding. If we imagine it as an actual edifice, the foundation of that building is physics. Biologists explain interactions in terms of …

Serving the Promise of Your Future Self Here at Demystifying Science, we aspire to greatness. We want to bring you higher and higher quality articles, animations, and podcasts. In that sense, we can outdo our former selves, but will this actually lead us to greatness? Dr. Agnes Callard, a philosopher at the University of Chicago points out in her latest book Aspiration: the Agency of Becoming tha…

Age Later: Health Span, Life Span, and the New Science of Longevity Immortality vs Aging Later For all our high-tech cities, complex financial products, and cutting edge medicine, humans have not managed to push back very much against the one certainty that awaits all of us - death. Though we live longer now than we did in the 1950s, much of this increase can be attributed to significant improvem…

The Life and Death of the Aether (Part IV) The Abominable Aberration of Starlight This is the fourth installment of an ongoing saga concerning the history of the aether. Where possible, I’ve included the words of the relevant scientists that sought cause for the invisible actions-at-a-distance — light, electromagnetism, and gravity. For several thousand years, the search for mechanism centered on…

Urban Growth, Social Death Since COVID-related social restrictions have swept the world, there has been widespread speculation on the effect that lockdowns will have on our mental health - especially as they extend from weeks into months. One pressing concern was that sheltering-in-place with a romantic partner would lead to another baby boom, reversing decades of birth control advocacy as lightl…

Citizen Science The Heroism of Citizen Science Though many may not realize it, science has only recently entered the professional realm. Prior to industrialization, science was a pursuit of pure love – most scientists, from Leonardo DaVinci to Huygens, Darwin, and Jefferson nurtured and communicated science as a respite from their engineering, civil, or medical duties. Often, scientists of the pa…

Rat Dystopia So far, we have discussed the origins of multicellularity, the many paths to multicellularity, and circled back to ask the question - what is life? This week, we’ll look at another aspect of multicellularity, one that manifests on a community level, rather than the individual level. To do this, we are going to take a closer look at a paper by John B. Calhoun called Population Density…