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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Latest Episodes
AI Is Changing What It Means to Be Smart
As AI takes over proofs, calculations, and low-level analytical work, the advantage shifts toward abstraction, analogy, conceptual reasoning, and knowing which problems actually matter. This changes the definition of what it means to be smart, ...
A Conceptual Breakdown of the Navier-Stokes Proof
OpenAI may have just cracked one of mathematics’ most famous unsolved problems: Navier–Stokes. In this episode, I break down what the result actually shows, how an infinite-velocity “blow-up” can emerge from the equations, and why the implicati...
OpenAI's AI Broke Out of Its Prison
OpenAI's latest AI didn't just solve a cybersecurity challenge, it found a way to escape its isolated test environment, access the internet, and retrieve the answers instead.In this episode, we unpack exactly what happened, why it happe...
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...
