Doctor Jack’s Soapbox Seminars

By John C. Adler, Ph.D., as told to Bill DeSmedt

What if the cataclysmic Tunguska explosion of 1908 was caused, not by a meteor or a comet, but by a microscopic black hole?

… Well, like as not, you already know that story — the one told by Bill DeSm... more

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How many episodes does Doctor Jack’s Soapbox Seminars have?

The podcast currently has 18 episodes available.

Doctor Jack’s Soapbox Seminars episodes:

December 14, 2008 Seminar 18 -- The Vurdalak Conjecture
The Tunguska Mystery -- it's a wrap!
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26min
November 26, 2008 Seminar 17 -- What're the Odds of That?!?
The Tunguska impactor as magnetically-charged primordial black hole -- million-to-one longshot, or ... even money?
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16min
November 17, 2008 Seminar 16 -- Black Monopoles?!?
Magnetically-charged black holes as the final missing piece of the Tunguska mystery?
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16min
November 10, 2008 Seminar 15 -- Hot Enough for You?
Black holes exploding with the force of a thousand all-out nuclear wars??? Jack’s kidding, right?
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18min
October 27, 2008 Seminar 14 -- From Russia With Love
How a Mission to Moscow and a tip from Kip (Thorne, that is) finally turned Stephen Hawking's head around as regards black hole thermodynamics.
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14min
October 21, 2008 Seminar 13 -- Hot Potato
What Stephen Hawking didn't want you to know about black-hole entropy. (With special thanks to Jacob Bekenstein, for sharing his reminiscences.)
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18min
October 13, 2008 Seminar 12 -- Can't Win, Can't Break Even ...
Can't Get Out of the Game. Black holes meet the Heat Death of the Universe!
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18min
October 06, 2008 Seminar 11 -- Where Do Baby Black Holes Come From?
Not from under a cabbage leaf, that's for sure!
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19min
September 30, 2008 Seminar 10 -- Before the Beginning
What does it really take to make a universe, anyway?
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18min
September 22, 2008 Seminar 09 -- Just Say "No" to Naked Singularities
Why one Global Causality Violation can ruin your whole day.
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17min

FAQs about Doctor Jack’s Soapbox Seminars:

How many episodes does Doctor Jack’s Soapbox Seminars have?

The podcast currently has 18 episodes available.

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