Into the Impossible With Brian Keating
Think like a physicist. Wonder like a human. Into the Impossible is where Cosmic Conversations happen — uniting Nobel Prize winners, iconoclasts, authors, and technologists to explore reality’s deepest questions. From AI to aliens, from biophysics to the brain, from the cosmos to the multiverse, Brian Keating, Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor of Physics at UC San Diego covers it all.
If you’ve ever asked What’s out there? or What’s next?, this is where curiosity meets clarity.
Learn to think like this. 🎙 Full episodes, notes & more: briankeating.com/podcast
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 66 minutes
- Episodes
- 542
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Fadel Zeidan on the neuroscience of mindfulness, and his research on pain, anxiety and psilocybin (#057)
Producer Stuart Volkow interviews Dr. Fadel Zeidan, PhD, the Associate Director for Research at the UCSD Center for Mindfulness and Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at UCSD. He and his laborator…
00:57:38 |
Wed 15 Jul 2020
Janna Levin: Spots, Blues, and Madmen — revealing cosmic mysteries (#056)
Theoretical cosmologist Janna Levin is an-award winning author of both nonfiction and fiction. In her interview on the INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE podcast, she emphasizes the important role of creativity in …
01:03:56 |
Wed 15 Jul 2020
The Many Worlds of Ann Druyan: Matriarch of the Cosmos (#055)
Ann Druyan has brought the universe to millions around the world. The wife of the late Carl Sagan, Ann is a renowned science communicator and producer/writer and co-creator of the upcoming series Cos…
01:17:43 |
Wed 15 Jul 2020
Jim Simons: Life Lessons from the ‘World’s Smartest Billionaire’ (#054)
Mathematician, codebreaker, Professor, hedge fund pioneer, & philanthropist Jim Simons makes his first-ever podcast appearance on this episode of INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE with UC San Diego Professor Brian…
01:26:56 |
Sat 27 Jun 2020
Eric Weinstein Part 2: Parenting, Peak Prosperity, & Weinstein University (#052)
Part 2 of Brian Keating’s conversation with Eric Weinstein on the INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE podcast pivots from faith & family to the course catalog at “Weinstein University” (fictional, for now!) which wo…
00:58:47 |
Wed 17 Jun 2020
Stephon Alexander: The Jazz of Physics! (#051)
Physicist, jazz musician, & President of the National Society of Black Physicists, Stephon Alexander is this week’s guest on the INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE podcast. He discussed the foundations of the cosmo…
01:33:03 |
Thu 04 Jun 2020
Sarah Frier : No Filter — The Inside Story of Instagram (#050)
Sarah Frier is a prolific technology reporter for Bloomberg. Her new book, “No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram,” is both a compelling account of Instagram’s history and a record of the social m…
01:03:54 |
Tue 02 Jun 2020
Dr. Jud Brewer : Fear, Freedom, and his book The Craving Mind (#049)
Dr. Jud Brewer is a mindfulness expert, using his background in addiction psychiatry to help people around the world. In this interview with Brian Keating, on INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE, Brewer talks about …
01:13:45 |
Tue 02 Jun 2020
Eric Weinstein: Theories of Everything, Geometric Unity & Science’s Paths. Into the Impossible (#048)
Part 1 of Brian Keating’s fascinating interview with mathematician & economist Eric Weinstein on the INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast. Topics include Eric’s provocative new ideas on physics and science cu…
01:53:17 |
Wed 20 May 2020
Author, Filmmaker Tiffany Shlain discusses her films, book 24/6, and the human side of tech (#047)
#TechShabbat #character #neuroscience Filmmaker, and author Tiffany Shlain discusses her life, films and her book 24/6, about the neuroscience of how technology reshapes our brains and how the practi…
00:32:05 |
Wed 20 May 2020
Sasha Sagan: Cosmic Rituals (#046)
Sasha Sagan’s stirring debut book, “For Small Creatures Such As We: Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World,” is the topic of this week’s episode of INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE. Sagan is the daught…
01:13:41 |
Tue 19 May 2020
Peter Diamandis, Founder of the XPrize Foundation and Singularity University (#045)
Peter Diamandis is a remarkable entrepreneur, and futurist, best known as the Founder & Executive Chairman of XPRIZE Foundation. His new book, written with Steven Kotler, is “The Future is Faster Tha…
00:56:40 |
Fri 15 May 2020
Galileo & the Science Deniers with Mario Livio (#044)
Mario Livio is a renowned astrophysicist & best-selling author. His new book “Galileo and the Science Deniers” is the gripping first biography of Galileo Galilei written by an astronomer. Though Gali…
01:25:56 |
Thu 14 May 2020
Sarah Scoles, Journalist and Author of “They Are Already Here: UFO Culture and Why We See Saucers” (#043)
Science journalist and author Sarah Scoles talks about her new book “They Are Already Here: UFO Culture and Why We See Saucers”, a study of UFO culture and its critics. What makes people believe inte…
00:45:21 |
Tue 12 May 2020
Brian Keating & Dave Rubin — DON’T BURN THIS BOOK: using free speech to avoid a Sci Fi dystopia (#042)
Brian Keating interviews Dave Rubin (The Rubin Report) on the most interesting issues of the day: free speech and expression, classical liberalism, lessons from Jordan Peterson, and the imperative of…
01:09:55 |
Tue 05 May 2020
Stephen Wolfram, Founder & CEO of Wolfram Research, Computing the Cosmos (#041)
Stephen Wolfram, Founder & CEO of Wolfram Research, Creator of Mathematica, Wolfram Alpha, Author of A New Kind of Science, discusses computational science, his new Project to Find a Fundamental Theo…
02:36:57 |
Thu 23 Apr 2020
Greg Zuckerman, author of THE MAN WHO SOLVED THE MARKET: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution (#040)
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Brian Keating, Director of the Simons Observatory, interviews Greg Zuckerman, author of the bestselling biography of Jim Simons, “The Man Who Solved The Marke…
00:49:28 |
Mon 20 Apr 2020
A Conversation with Physicist and Science Fiction Author David Brin (#039)
http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2020/04/more-repercussions-in-plague-year-and.html
https://www.davidbrin.com
http://www.davidbrin.com/fiction/givingplague.html
A Conversation with Physicist and Sc…
00:52:58 |
Mon 13 Apr 2020
Giving the Devil His Due: a conversation with Michael Shermer & Brian Keating (#038)
Brian Keating Interviews Skeptic Magazine publisher and author of “Giving The Devil His Due” Michael Shermer. Get Michael Shermer’s Books here:
GIVING THE DEVIL HIS DUE
HEAVENS ON EARTH
THE MORAL…
01:58:05 |
Mon 13 Apr 2020
The Physics of Krav Maga with author and physics Professor John Eric Goff (#037)
https://www.mmaacademy.com
https://www.facebook.com/John.Eric.Goff.Sports.Physicist
http://johnericgoff.blogspot.com
https://www.lynchburg.edu
Krav Maga (“contact combat” in Hebrew) is a hard-hit…
00:37:36 |
Mon 13 Apr 2020
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