PHILOSOPHY

Dr Max Baker-Hytch is Senior Tutor in philosophy at Oxford University. He specialises in epistemology and philosophy of religion, is the author of the Cambridge Elements work God and the Problem of Evidential Ambiguity and has published many research articles in philosophy. He is a teaching fellow at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford University. He did his PhD at Oxford University and did a postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of Notre Dame in the USA.

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Here I respond to another pseudoscience video, this time by an American religious apologetics ministry called Reasons For Hope. These two men come across as warm and likeable and are quite talented wordsmiths, but as is so often the case their science is woefully inadequate and misinformed. Like much American apologetics they recite the incorrect mantras of Intelligent Design verbatim without any idea of how wrong it is. The desire to pit science against religion is unnecessary and a false endeavour.

I share a little bit from my own research as well as a few observations of what creationist pseudoscience all has in common.

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Polymath World # Episode 20 - BRITISH INTERPLANETARY SOCIETY

I interview former president of the British Interplanetary Society, Alistair Scott, about the history and work of the oldest space advocacy group on the planet. BiS has been active for almost a century, founded by the legendary Arthur C. Clarke. As meetings, research and publications grew, BiS was discussing moon landings 30 years before Apollo even happened. Today BiS continues to bring together and publish world-leading research on human spaceflight and exploration of the universe. Alistair tells us about its origins, growth and all that happens today. We hope you will be inspired and consider joining this historic organisation and pursuing the cause of human space exploration.

Find out more at https://www.bis-space.com/

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PLANT GENETICS

Solving world hunger through potatoes! Dr Compton is associate professor of genetics at the University of Birmingham where she is based at the Centre for Computational Biology. Her research is in plant genetics using the potato as her model organism. Using modern genetics her hope is to tackle world hunger and malnutrition through efficient genetic research. This work has spanned the globe with collaborations in North and South America. She is on the board of the Genetics Society UK and has published much research in her field.

Through the use of modern genetic tools we can tackle serious challenges of drought, pests, unnecessary food wastage, viruses and climate change. Lindsey's amazing work is at the forefront of this effort.

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SPACE ELEVATORS

Dr Peter Swan is the Chief Architect of the Space Elevator Consortium and a Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society. He has a PHD in engineering from UCLA where his thesis was on space tethers. He is a partner of Zodiac Planetary Services and has been advocating and leading research on the feasibility and execution of the space elevator concept for decades. An accomplished engineer, university lecturer and academic, he has published a phenomenal amount of research on easier access to orbit as well as the solar system and sits on the board of engineering and space science for several universities. He formerly built and launched satellites commercially and lectures globally on the space elevator concept. He owns several patents in space engineering.

He has co-authored the book ""Road to the Space Elevator era": Space Elevator Books — International Space Elevator Consortium

He introduces the concept and answers my questions on the concept of space elevators. Enjoy!

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SPACEX ASTRONAUT

Chris Sembroski flew in 2021 on the historic Inspiration4 mission. It was the first all-civilian space flight and is the subject of Netflix's documentary Inspiration4. Chris is an engineer for Blue Origin working on the New Glenn rocket and is a lecturer in aviation at Embry-Riddle University (his alma mater).

Inspiration4 flew to 364 miles, the highest altitude flown since the Hubble repair missions. During the 3-day flight the crew conducted science missions, earth observation and a number of vehicle tests as it was one of the earliest crewed flights of the Dragon.

Chris advocates for space wherever he can and enjoys science communication.

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Religious apologist Dr Frank Turek (from Cross Examined) gives his 4 best arguments against evolution. Are they any good?

Frank has a PhD in Christian Apologetics but has no science background and is well-known for advocating for Intelligent Design Creationism which is pseudoscientific. Despite the overwhelming scientific evidence for evolution, and a long history of support for it from Christians including Charles Spurgeon, CS Lewis, Billy Graham and many more, apologists still fight it with all their passion (which is a shame).

Original video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBvn5pRXAjk&t=19s

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Polymath World # Episode 16 - Professor Paul Heslop

MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS

Professor Paul Heslop is professor of mathematical physics at Durham University. A prolific researcher in his field, he has published over 80 papers across subdisciplines such as supersymmetric field theory and supergravity. We discuss his research including subjects like scattering amplitudes and AdS/CFT as well as his thoughts on unified theories and quantum gravity.

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