Wunderdog
Norway's fourth tallest cartoonist Øystein Runde asks scientists about the details behind their biggest ideas or craziest discoveries, like Ana Bonaca who found mysterious bullet holes through the Milky Way, or particle physicist Eugene Chudnovsky who has a theory of how life could exist inside stars.
Also, interviews with the occasional artist / creative / whoever I want, when i feel like it.
But mostly scientists.
Supported by NITRO STUDIOS, Oslo.
+ the patrons at patreon.com/runde
Jingle kindly donated by the talented Charky, aka Trop1ce.
- Update frequency
- every 14 days
- Average duration
- 86 minutes
- Episodes
- 20
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Robert Revell: Composing for film, craft vs creativity
Robert Revell’s grandfather was a poet who fled Mao’s China - and Robert tells the story of how he went back to find his family’s house, still untouched after fifty years.
Robert is a film and TV c…
00:51:57 |
Sat 19 Jul 2025
Terry Phan & Tomo Goto: Planet nine - finally detected?
"Extreme trans-Neptunian Objects" - or chunks of rock that orbit the sun on average 250 times further away from the sun than Earth does - are moving in strange ways. They seem to be clustered somewha…
00:22:08 |
Sat 14 Jun 2025
Noland Arbaugh, world's first Neuralink human: a pinky in the brain
Noland is an affable Arizonian with an advanced piece of tech in his skull: A Neuralink. With it, Noland can see his own brainwaves and control his computer ... somewhat. Often his powers are not ver…
00:56:48 |
Mon 29 Jul 2024
Astrobiologist Maya D. Yanez: Could acetylene fermentation be an energy source for microbes on Titan?
NASA JPL intern Maya D. Yanez has recently defended her Ph.D. on acetylenotrophy. This is the ability to extract energy from acetylene, and only a few species of bacteria (that we know of here on Ea…
02:46:19 |
Sun 14 Jul 2024
Vinay Gupta: We must not let the climate refugee situation turn into a global Gaza
Blockchain is a mystery to me, so I don't usually talk about blockchain projects. But Vinay Gupta is awesome. He thinks about climate refugees ALL THE TIME, and many of his projects, from the current…
02:41:26 |
Sat 06 Jul 2024
Kevin Fischer, founder and CEO of OpenSouls: Giving AI souls
Note my NEW FORMAT: 10 minutes of quick questions first, then a deeper talk about ideas, motivation and process after.
"I don't think it really matters if our profound connection happens with a dig…
"I don't think it really matters if our profound connection happens with a dig…
00:53:01 |
Mon 27 May 2024
Neil DeGrasse Tyson: "If noone in society is thinking that way, however realistic or unrealistic it is, then ... we're not going anywhere ever."
At 3 in the night at Starmus 2017 I finally managed to get ten minutes with astrophysicist, science communicator, director of the Hayden Planetarium. At it's purest, Wunderdog digs into one or two to…
00:13:43 |
Tue 26 Mar 2024
Norwegian episode: Ingvild Bræin og ai-trøbbel for barnebokkritikk.no
Ein kommentar på nettsida www.barnebokkritikk.no vart illustrert med bilete genererte av Microsoft Ai Copilot. Eit bortimot samla korps av norske illustratørar og teikneserieskaparar hoppa inn på Bar…
00:52:04 |
Tue 26 Mar 2024
Vinay Gupta: Mattereum: A blockchain identity layer for things + Better refugee camps
Vinay Gupta: Mattereum, giving our things a trackable identity layer. Bonus: Climate refugees! Vinay has a plan!
Vinay used to work at Ethereum. Now he's trying to develop Mattereum, a digital iden…
Vinay used to work at Ethereum. Now he's trying to develop Mattereum, a digital iden…
01:41:31 |
Mon 29 Aug 2022
Robin Hanson: Grabby aliens, a horrifying solution to the Fermi Paradox
"One of the most original thinkers in the world" (list of people who have said this at the bottom) is BACK for a second visit! Robin Hanson explains his "grabby aliens" idea.
This episode has a new …
This episode has a new …
01:54:34 |
Mon 29 Aug 2022
Anders Sandberg: Future of Life Institute
Anders Sandberg talks volcano engineering, Freeman Dyson's computer at the end of everything, moving planets, how transparent society should get after quantum computers, and what is the best type of …
01:51:54 |
Thu 18 Aug 2022
Casey Handmer: Is cheap, giga-scaleable carbon capture possible?
Casey Handmer: On leaving Hyperloop One and NASA to bet on cheap, giga-scaleable carbon capture.
First he took a PhD in gravity waves, then he got a position at Hyperloop One because of some truly…
First he took a PhD in gravity waves, then he got a position at Hyperloop One because of some truly…
02:40:46 |
Thu 31 Mar 2022
Jesse Moynihan: On creating FORMING, the Ice King from Adventure Time, the NFT-financed Jesus 2. part 1 of 2
The second part of the Jesse Moynihan interview!
Jesse Moynihan went from incredibly weird underground cartoonist to "household name" when his friend and colleague Tom Herpich suggested Pendleton Wa…
Jesse Moynihan went from incredibly weird underground cartoonist to "household name" when his friend and colleague Tom Herpich suggested Pendleton Wa…
01:57:46 |
Thu 31 Mar 2022
Jesse Moynihan: On creating FORMING, the Ice King from Adventure Time, the NFT-financed Jesus 2. part 1 of 2
For the first non-space related episode of Wunderdog, I have a MASSIVE nugget of artistic GOLD.
Jesse Moynihan went from incredibly weird underground cartoonist to "household name" when his friend …
Jesse Moynihan went from incredibly weird underground cartoonist to "household name" when his friend …
01:42:18 |
Thu 31 Mar 2022
Eugene Chudnovsky: How life could evolve inside stars
In 2020, the esteemed physics professors Eugene Chudnovsky and Luis Anchordoqui published thatr describes a theoretical form of life unlike anything else.
Eugene and Luis suggested that a combinati…
Eugene and Luis suggested that a combinati…
01:20:29 |
Thu 31 Mar 2022
Ana Bonaca: Galactic bullet holes
While studying the stellar stream GD-1, Harvard astronomer Ana Bonaca made a literally enormous discovery: Cosmic "bullet holes" in our galaxy, several light years across. Something with around a mil…
01:04:49 |
Sun 06 Mar 2022
Cynthia Phillips: Visiting Jupiter moons
Jupiter's moon Europa is the most exciting place in the solar system to look for life. Cynthia Phillips from NASA tells us why.
Cynthia Phillips is a planetary geologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab…
Cynthia Phillips is a planetary geologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab…
01:08:01 |
Sat 31 Oct 2020
James Fallon + Jakob Løvstad: Psychopath professor vs MMA legend
Professor James Fallon talks psychology and space travel for "psychopaths" with psychologist and former coach of the Norwegian MMA national team, Jakob "the striking viking" Løvstad.
This podcast i…
This podcast i…
00:51:25 |
Wed 07 Oct 2020
Robin Hanson: Mind uploads will be a bigger gamechanger than AI
Robin Hanson on how mind uploads could make space irrelevant.
The Fermi paradox is the mysterious lack of traces of alien civilized life.
Professor Robin Hanson invented a term to describe that …
The Fermi paradox is the mysterious lack of traces of alien civilized life.
Professor Robin Hanson invented a term to describe that …
02:02:46 |
Wed 07 Oct 2020
Philip Lubin: Breakthrough Starshot, the world-saver laser, and how Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner took it closer to reality
NASA professor Philip Lubin and his potentially asteroid-deflecting and planet-saving laser, Breakthrough Starshot.
Stephen Hawking's last speeches were often about his gigantic dream project, fun…
Stephen Hawking's last speeches were often about his gigantic dream project, fun…
00:58:19 |
Wed 07 Oct 2020
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