
Hi all. We’re Sam and Eric - the Boltzmann Brains! (Is that a thing? You bet it is! We’ll eventually do an episode to explain it.) Sam is a philosopher. Eric is a physicist. And we both love popular culture. We’ll talk about science, philosophy, how we’ve lived it, and how it all shows up through the lens of television and movies. Got a topic you’d like to hear the experts talk about? You can emai... more
| Publishes | Twice monthly | Episodes | 6 | Founded | 3 months ago |
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In this episode Sam takes the lead to discuss two of his favorite "paradoxes" from probability.
The Monty Hall problem is a much-discussed challenge concerning the best strategy to win a car on a game show.
The Sleeping Beauty problem describes a s... more
In this episode Sam and Eric discuss the evidence that our universe began about 14 billion years ago in a very hot, dense state, then gradually expanded and cooled. As late as 1920, Einstein thought this idea was obviously nonsense. Fifty years later... more
In middle school, most of us were taught the "scientific method" – a simplified list of steps meant to help kids understand how scientists approach the world. But how accurate is it, really? In this episode, we get to talking about the history of sci... more
In this episode, Eric starts us off with an oldie but a goodie: In a Star Trek episode from 1989, Commander Data (an android) is put on trial by the Federation for refusing to be disassembled. Is Data just a man-made appliance, or is he a new kind of... more
BBrains pod: Is Philosophy Useful?
Hi all! We’re Sam and Eric - the Boltzmann Brains. Sam is a philosopher, so of course he thinks philosophy is super-useful. But Eric has seen philosophers drift into irrelevance more than once, so maybe not? We're ... more
Hi all! We’re Sam and Eric - the Boltzmann Brains. Today we’re doing dueling TV shows! Sam is a philosopher who loves The Good Place. Eric is a physicist who loves The Big Bang Theory. We’re going to discuss whether these shows look anything like rea... more









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