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  • #022 - Crossover episode with Complexity Pod: Gary Bengier

    Learn more about what was discussed in this episode by clicking on the links below:

    • Gary’s homepage.
    • Unfettered journey
    • Dan Dennett
    • Eugene Wigner
    • Michael's Complexity Podcast interview with David Kinney
    • 2019 IPFest World Building panel discussion
    • Geoffrey West’s Scale
    • Hanson's Age of Em
    • SFI Symposium AI and the Barrier of Meaning
    • ACtioN Climate Change seminar - Complexity of Sustainability
    • Peter Turchin
    • Bob May's 1972 paper: "Will a Large Complex System be Stable?"
    • Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged
    • Paul Smaldino's work on covert signaling
    • Peter Watt’s Blindsight
    • Asimov’s Foundation trilogy
    1 hr 1 min
  • What are the best strategies for finding life in space? #021 with Natalie Grefenstette?

    To learn more about items mentioned in this podcast:

    • Natalie's homepage
    • Co-Ordination: On Time Between Worlds - An InterPlanetary Panel discussion on Complex Time
    • Chris Kempes's Alien Crash Site Interview on life detection
    • "Towards a more universal life detection strategy" as submitted to the Planetary and Astrobiology Decadal Survey
    • Arrival
      • Ted Chiang's "The Story of Your Life"
    • Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
    1 hr 4 min
  • How does size shape our understanding of and search for life? #020 with Chris Kempes

     

    • Generalized Stoichiometry and Biogeochemistry for Astrobiological Applications
    • Multiple Paths to Multiple Life
      • Watch Chris Kempes and David Krakauer discuss multiple life in episode 2 of "Andromeda Strain and the Meaning of Life"
      • Watch Sara Walker's critique of Multiple Life in episode 4 of "Andromeda Strain and the Meaning of Life"
    • Allometric scaling of production and life-history variation in vascular plants, by West, Enquist, Brown and Charnov.
      • A related lecture by Geoffrey West
    • Atlantis Dispatch 009, in which we contemplate cultural origins...
    • Past related ACS episodes - Heather Graham and Cole Mathis on what Chris calls “Chemical Complexity.”
      • Their co-authored paper, Identifying molecules as biosignatures with assembly theory and mass spectrometry.
    49 min
  • What to look for, when we don't know what we're looking for? #019 with Heather Graham

    Learn more about everything referenced in this episode by clicking the links below:

    • Identifying Molecules as Biosignatures with Assembly Theory and Mass Spectrometry.
    • Generalized Stoichiometry and Biogeochemistry for Astrobiological Applications.
    • Time Team
    • Elemental Cycles
    • DNA has Four Bases. Some Viruses Swap in a Fifth
    • Bennu
    • Hayabusa Mission
    • Alien Crash Site Episode 015, with Cole Mathis on Assembly Theory.
    • Determination of Azimuth
    • Atlantis Dispatch 001, in which we contemplate the meaning of “past” life.
    • Viking missions
    • 84001
    • Isua
    • Bob Hazen
    55 min
  • What Governance Structure Best Suits an InterPlanetary Humanity?" #018 with Timiebi Aganaba

    Learn more about things discussed in this episode, by clicking on the links below: 

    • Timiebi Aganaba's home page
      • And LinkedIn
      • And Twitter
    • Global Space Treaty
    • Artemis Accords
    • Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
    • Lindy Elkins-Tanton of Arizona State University's InterPlanetary Project
      • And the Psyche Mission
    • The Court Case: Viasat, Inc (Appellant) Vs. Federal Communications Commission (Appellee) re: Space Exploration Holdings, LLC (Movant-Intervenor).

     

    1 hr 1 min
  • What lies in the space between? #017 with Aerospace Engineer Ryan McGranaghan

    To learn more about the items discussed in this interview, click through the links below. 

    • Ryan’s website
    • Ryan on Twitter
    • The Carrington Event
    • Parker Solar Probe
    • Mars MAVEN
    • Ushering in a New Frontier in Geospace through Data Science 
    • Dictionary of Obscure sorrows
    • What is an Individual?
    • Jorge Luis Borges
    • “Talk on Indolence” by the Avett Brothers
    • "Machine Gun" by Jimi Hendrix
    56 min
  • How Do Artifacts Inform Cultural Evolution? #016 with Vanessa Ferdinand

    For more information on items mentioned in this interview, click through the links below.

    • Vanessa’s Website
    • InterPlanetary 2018 Festival panel "Intelligent Systems and Cognitive Assistance" featuring Vanessa, David Krakauer, Jonah Nolan, Graham Spencer & Kurt Squire.
    • Dan Sperber 
    • Norman Rockwell's painting "The Gossips" 
    • Giant dragonfly - Meganeura
    • Alien Crash Site interview with Tamara van der Does
    • Dune witches
    • Buena Vista Social Club - Chan Chan 
    • Jil Jilala
    • Nass El Ghiwane

     

    50 min

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A new InterPlanetary interview series from the Santa Fe Institute takes a page from the Strugatsky brothers' classic Soviet sci-fi novel, Roadside Picnic, to discuss a variety of transformative alien artifacts.