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Andrew Knoll, professor of natural history, geology and biology at Harvard University and author of A Brief History of Earth, talks about falling in love with Earth sciences, the nature of scientific research, Earth's history, origins of life, plate tectonics, earthquakes, volcanoes, life on Mars and global warming.

Andrew: https://eps.harvard.edu/people/andrew-h-knoll

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TIMELINE0:00 Introduction

1:24 Falling In Love With Earth Sciences

3:53 Nature of Scientific Research

11:42 A Brief History of Earth

21:03 Carbon Dating

23:35 Entropy

28:37 Origin of Life

36:06 Rare Earth Hypothesis

39:27 Life on Mars

47:14 Plate Tectonics, Volcanoes & Earthquakes

57:11 Global Warming

1:11:52 Lego Interpretation

1:12:23 Inspirations (Books, Movies, Role Models)

1:15:37 Legacy & Meaning of Life

#naturalhistory

Sahil Bloom, author of The Five Types of Wealth, talks about his journey, living a life by design (against a life by default), the five types of wealth: time, social, mental, physical and financial wealth, productivity and luck!

Sahil's book: https://a.co/d/fBZjUvv

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TIMELINE

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1:22 Time Wealth

4:47 Life By Design vs. Life By Default

13:57 Wrong Scoreboard For Success

16:51 Time Wealth (Contd.)

19:22 Social Wealth

26:37 Mental Wealth

19:47 Physical Wealth

32:42 Financial Wealth

37:01 Productivity Hacks

41:39 Luck

43:35 Reinventing Yourself

46:21 Lego Interpretation

46:44 Positive Influences (Books, Movies, Role Models)

47:28 Letter To Future Self

48:05 Legacy & Meaning of Life

#personaldevelopment

Vijay Prashad, historian, journalist, author of Washington Bullets and The Darker Nations, executive director of Tricontinenal, talks about Calcutta, Marxism, socialism, communism, capitalism, imperialism, the New Mood and the Israel & Palestine conflict.

Vijay: https://thetricontinental.org/

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1:20 Childhood Inspirations

8:25 Growing Up In Calcutta, West Bengal

18:30 Marxism

28:12 Socialism, Communism & Marxism

39:23 Hyper-imperialism & The New Mood

45:26 Israel & Palestine

53:57 Inspirations, Legacy & Meaning of Life

#politics

Dr. Brian Keating, astrophysicist, cosmologist, author of Losing The Nobel Prize and host of the Into The Impossible Podcast, talks about the origins of the universe, the Big Bang, cosmic microwave background radiation, cosmic inflation, BICEP & POLARBEAR experiments, the Simons Array and the Nobel Prize!

Brian: https://briankeating.com/

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TIMELINE

0:00 Introduction

1:24 Studying The Universe

5:42 The Big Questions

14:58 Origins of the Universe

19:36 BICEP Experiments

27:00 POLARBEAR Experiments

32:35 Nobel Prize

44:53 Positive Influences (Books, Movies, Role Models)

46:22 Advice & Mysteries of the Universe

49:12 Legacy & Meaning of Life

#cosmology

Maurice Ashley, chess grandmaster, author and coach, talks about falling in love with chess, growing up in Brownsville, Brooklyn, playing with chess hustlers in New York, chess strategies, mindsets, intelligence, life lessons, chess engines and AI!

Maurice: https://mauriceashley.com/

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TIMELINE

0:00 Introduction

1:15 Falling In Love With Chess

3:48 Chess Hustlers

8:36 Performative Aspects of Chess

11:26 Growing Up In New York

14:56 Playing Style

18:11 Nature vs. Nurture in Chess

21:07 Life Lessons From Chess

27:31 Impact of Engines & AI on Chess

32:11 Defeating Magnus Carlsen

35:04 Gukesh’s Playing Style

37:03 Bungee Jumping

42:01 Chess As An Artform

46:26 Flow State In Chess

49:11 Lego Interpretation

50:41 Positive Influences (Books, Movies, Role Models)

52:43 Greatest Chess Player

55:31 Legacy & Meaning of Life

#chess

Jamie Metzl, author of Hacking Darwin, futurist and geopolitical expert, talks about storytelling, genome engineering, gene editing, CRISPR, the CoVID-19 Lab Leak Theory, coronavirus, nation states and futurism.

Jamie: https://jamiemetzl.com/

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TIMELINE

0:00 Introduction

1:26 Importance of Storytellers

11:24 Optimism

15:08 Genome Engineering

19:28 Gene Editing & CRISPR

28:39 Genetic Differences

38:21 Genetic Selection

47:09 CoVID-19 Lab Leak Theory

1:11:03 One Shared World

1:17:14 Nation States & Global Overlays

1:23:12 Cryptocurrency

1:25:58 Futurism

1:32:21 Lego Interpretation

1:33:31 Positive Influences (Books, Movies, Role Models)

1:36:59 Legacy & Meaning of Life

#covid #genes

This is a conversation with my grandparents, Mahesh and Sushila Sharma, or as I’ve called them affectionately all my life, nanaji and nanima. In this conversation we talk about their life stories, both of them are above the age of 85, born before India existed as a country. We talk about my great-grandfather’s journey from a village to starting a life in Agra, childhood memories, when my nanaji met people like Jawaharlal Nehru, Dr. Rajendra Prasad, Indira Gandhi, his memories from 15th August 1947 when he was at the Red Fort listening to Prime Minister Nehru’s speech, and we also cover other stories from their lives.

This is a landmark 100th episode of Know Time. People close to me might already know this, but this episode has been 4 years in the making: ever since I started, I had parked a wish aside that if I make it to 100 episodes, I would like my 100th episode to be with my grandparents. In a way, this episode is the perfect representation of what this show stands for: it has always been about people’s stories, and I’ve always believed, I still believe with a passion, you can’t convince me otherwise, trust me people have tried, I’ve always believed that everyone has a story, everyone has something to share, something you can learn from, and the onus is on me, to ask the right questions.This journey has not been easy. For the last four years I’ve pretty much said goodbye to a conventional social life, I’ve pretty much juggled two jobs, it’s like running a company while working a full-time job, it has meant recording on most weekends, staying in on Friday evenings to publish a new episode, giving up on latest movies or books or TV shows to spend that time researching on most weekdays. There’s been self-doubt always, especially on my commitment to value ideas and interesting stories over viral or click-bait content that I know will attract people much quicker.

It’s been difficult, but I cannot stress how much of a privilege this has been for me. It’s a blessing, it’s an honour, it’s truly an honour. I know for a fact that every episode I’ve done, I’ve learnt something new about the world and myself, and if I just retain 1% from each episode, I know it’ll only make my life richer, it already has and I hope it does the same for you. Also, I hope conversations inspire you to also have these type of conversations with everyone around you: with a stranger, with family, with partners, with your parents, grandparents: I’m certain it’ll only bring you all closer, like it did for me.

It’s a blessing, it’s an honour and trust me, I’m going nowhere, I’m only getting started.

See you at 200!

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TIMELINE

0:00 Introduction

6:50 Childhood Memories

10:06 Memories From Agra

13:24 Street Food In Agra

14:41 Places To Visit In Agra

17:34 Grandfather’s Story

30:42 Father’s Story

35:54 Memories From 15th August, 1947

38:09 Jawaharlal Nehru & Indira Gandhi

40:22 The War of 1971

44:57 Story From War of 1971

48:50 President Dr. Rajendra Prasad's Car

50:33 Movies

53:22 Cricket

54:28 Nanima’s Entry

56:03 Marriage

58:00 Advice

#agra #story #blog

Angad Daryani, founder and CEO of Praan Inc, talks about becoming an inventor, air quality in India, building filterless air purification systems, raising capital and entrepreneurship.

Angad: https://praan.io/

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TIMELINE

0:00 Introduction

1:25 Falling In Love With Inventing

5:21 Science & Art

7:29 Dropping Out Of School

9:35 Air Quality in India

20:55 Impact on Health

23:06 Air Purifiers With Filters

27:36 Filterless Air Purifiers

45:43 Stigma With Air Purifiers

51:54 Product Design

55:01 Outdoor vs. Indoor Purifiers

1:00:30 Role of Government

1:05:56 Hard Tech

1:08:24 Indian Brain Drain

1:15:45 VCs and Raising Capital

1:23:37 Entrepreneurship

1:28:36 Lego Interpretation

1:29:10 Positive Influences (Books, Movies, Role Models)

1:32:57 Legacy, Future & Meaning of Life

#airpollution

Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence or the SETI Institute, talks about falling in love with astronomy, SETI, searching for aliens, origins of life, UFOs and UAPs.

Seth: https://sethshostak.com/

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0:00 Introduction

1:20 Falling In Love With Astronomy

3:12 The Moon Landing

6:10 Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence

9:27 Drake’s Equation

14:31 Fermi Paradox

16:16 Detecting Planets

17:45 Telescopes & Frequencies

21:43 Origins Of Life

25:53 Great Filter Theory

31:51 Rare Earth Hypothesis

36:41 Mars Colony

38:40 Alien Civilizations

40:30 Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence

45:32 The Dark Forest Theory

47:17 Simulation Hypothesis

50:45 Making Contact

56:10 Close Encounters

58:35 Aliens In Movies

1:01:17 UFOs & UAPs

1:09:15 Lego Interpretation

1:10:27 Positive Influences (Books, Movies, Role Models)

1:11:29 Legacy, Future & Meaning of Life

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#alien

Joscha Bach, cognitive scientist & AI researcher, talks about philosophy in computation, East Germany, AI, ChatGPT, AlphaZero, human intelligence, consciousness and AI takeover scenarios.

Joscha: http://bach.ai/

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TIMELINE

0:00 Introduction

1:28 How Is AI Going To Change Humans?

6:02 Merging Philosophy with Computation, Math & Natural Language

12:30 Art & Design In AI

17:09 Growing Up In East Germany

25:38 The Problems With AI Models

43:29 Can Machines Understand?

47:09 The Chinese Room Thought Experiment

55:18 Mary’s Room Thought Experiment

59:27 Should We Treat Machines Like Humans?

1:06:53 Consciousness

1:24:58 Computational Functionalism

1:32:26 Enlightenment

1:43:17 Future of AI & Human Intelligence

1:51:33 Gods

1:56:18 Roko’s Basilisk

2:01:51 Doomsday AI

2:07:06 Lego Interpretation

2:08:02 Positive Influences (Books, Movies, Role Models)

2:10:36 Legacy & Meaning of Life

#artificialintelligence