The Origins Podcast with Lawrence Krauss

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The Origins Podcast features in-depth conversations with some of the most interesting people in the world about the issues that impact all of us in the 21st century. Host, theoretical physicist, lecturer, and author, Lawrence M. Krauss, will be joined by guests from a wide range of fields, including science, the arts, and journalism. The topics discussed on The Origins Podcast reflect the full range of the human experience - exploring science and culture in a way that seeks to entertain, educate, and inspire. lawrencekrauss.substack.com lawrencekrauss.substack.com

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Nothing and Everything: From Antiquity to today: 5000 years of human inquiry into the Universe.

2026-11-02 · 1 hr 0 min

Many of the same questions that provoke our imagination about our universe today were asked by the ancients. How did the universe begin? What is it made of? etc. What is particularly interesting is how the ancients…
Physics for Everyone, Lecture 6. The Unification of Space and Time

2026-10-19 · 1 hr 22 min

Everything we have discussed in these lectures so far has brought us to this, the first 20th century revolution in physics. And that is the way it should be, but it is most definitely NOT the way it is normally taught…
What's New in Science with Sabine and Lawrence | AI Dreams and Nightmares, Dark Matter Discovered? and Fake Science News.

2026-09-23 · 1 hr 6 min

There has been a lot of doom and gloom combined with excitement, if that is possible, about AI in the science news lately. Sabine and I tried to deconstruct the hype associated with the highly touted Open AI solution of…
Searching for Aliens. The Wrong Way? A dialogue with John Gertz

2026-09-08 · 2 hr 25 min

John Gertz is a Renaissance Man. One might think that the President of Zorro Productions might be the last person to talk with about the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), and the last person to chair…
Physics for Everyone, Lecture 4. The Beating Heart of Modern Physics: The Dog Who Didn't Bark in the Night.

2026-08-18 · 1 hr 21 min

This lecture, recorded before lecture 5, which was released a month ago, actually more naturally follows it, which is why releasing it after lecture 5, while unintended, actually makes sense. In the last lecture I…
What's New in Science with Sabine and Lawrence | Cosmic oddities, Black Hole normalities, Quantum Batteries, and remote-controlled cockroaches

2026-08-03 · 1 hr 0 min

Happy August! . Heading back to North America as we just concluded our Origin Project Adventure to Cyrpus and Greece, where we felt the heat, and avoided some wildfires while having some amazing positive experiences as…
Saving a Family from Afghanistan

2026-07-29 · 23 min

I remember when my friend, journalist Claire Berlinski, first contacted me about a tragic situation regarding a family trapped in Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover. She knew that I had helped a young girl…
Physics for Everyone, Lecture 5: The Unification that Changed the World

2026-07-07 · 1 hr 55 min

I began this lecture by saying I was daunted by what I was about to talk about. There are several reasons for this. First, I will lead you through the development of what was certainly most important theoretical…
What's New in Science | Cosmic Surprises, Newton Supreme, A New Collider, and Feynman Dines Out?

2026-06-09 · 1 hr 12 min

I think this was one of my most enjoyable dialogues in our What’s new series. Maybe Sabine and I are getting more used to each other’s cadence and interests or maybe it was the subject matter. Either way, I think you…
Alvin Roth: Moral Economics, from Prostitution to Kidney Transplant Markets

2026-05-12 · 1 hr 42 min

Alvin Roth is a Nobel Prizewinning Economist whose work on designing markets has had real world impacts that may have saved thousands of lives around the world, while arousing strong emotions both for and against the…

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Oldest episode in feed: 06/2019 · over 7 years
Typical length: 1 hr 38 min
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