Science in Perspective
🌌 Science in Perspective
Science in Perspective examines what research actually shows, not what headlines say it shows. Each episode starts from real work and asks what patterns remain when the hype is stripped away. The focus is on the organizing principles that recur across various domains of science, and on why those principles so rarely survive the journey from journal to public conversation.
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Science in Perspective
Latest Episodes
AI for Science? Yes. But First, Fix Science.
The White House just announced a $5 billion AI for Science initiative. Great idea, but there's a problem.In this episode, we explore why many of today's biggest scientific challenges no longer stem from understanding individual parts, b...
AI Won't End Work. Here's Why.
Artificial intelligence is changing work faster than ever, but does that really mean jobs disappear?In this episode, I explore the science of innovation, abstraction, and complexity to argue that AI doesn't eliminate scarcity, it reloca...
They're Now Ranking Embryos by IQ
For over a century, IQ has been treated as one of psychology's most reliable findings. Now companies are using DNA to rank IVF embryos by predicted IQ.But what if IQ isn't actually measuring intelligence at all?In this episode, ...
Ivermectin Was Never the Real Story
Ivermectin is back in the headlines, but this episode isn't really about ivermectin.It's about a deeper problem: how society confuses discoveries with proof, petri dishes with people, and early evidence with established fact. Using iver...
Did Scientists Torture the Data to Save Dark Energy?
Dark energy is supposed to make up roughly 70% of the universe.But what if it's not really an explanation at all?Recent cosmological measurements are raising new questions about one of the biggest ideas in modern physics. Is dar...
