In this episode of the podcast, I talk to my long-lost brother, a good friend and living inspiration, Adam Reid who lost his lover and was soon to be fiancee to the waves of Cuba during his trip for their Anniversary. A freak accident that caused both of them to fall unconscious in the rushing waters of a rocky shoreline had changed his life in ways he would never imagine. He talks about his journey and recovery through this ordeal, and how he was able to manage to pick himself back up. He now travels the world, living his best life, enjoying every moment of it, with new friends, and a new story.  Hope you all enjoy,  @ 0:00 Introduction  @ 7:57 A New Life, A New Beginning and New Experiences @ 14:21 Living in Calgary, Canada  @ 16:30 Climbing Mountains around Lake Louise in Banff, Calgary @ 17:37 Road trip to Vancouver and Visiting a Wolf Sanctuary.  @ 18:17 Leaving for Hawaii from Vancouver @ 18:49 Living Out of a Car in Kauai  @ 20:08 Climbing Up Mountains and Climbing Hiking Trails in Hawaii @ 22:49 Hawaii to New York City, JFK Airport for 3-day Layover  @ 24:15 Getting Fully Immersed in the Relationship, Visiting Slovenia @ 27:31 Pre-COVID Plans for Living in New Zealand @ 28:40 Goodbye, Toronto and Hello, Calgary @ 32:31 Adam's Story about his Dormmates Going on a Hike and Finds a Glass Jar Filled with Something Unexpected... @ 36:51 Outro

In this episode of the podcast, I chat with my good friend, Sean Akiyama, who has earned his degree in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. We chat a bit about his experiences in school and dabble into his favourite weather-related topics such as cloud physics, blast waves, downbursts, vortex formations, tornado magnitudes, weather forecasting, and much more. We also get a look into his life as an amateur storm chaser and hear his story on his experiences chasing extreme snowstorm conditions in Alberta.   Hope you all enjoy, With all the best,  Phong  @ 0:00 Introduction @ 2:49 Earth and Atmospheric Science  @ 3:17 Cloud Physics and The Formation Of Rain Droplets, Hydrophilic What? @ 5:17 Synoptic Meteorology, The Prediction of Large-Scale Weather Systems and Computational Resolutions for Weather @ 6:43 How To Measure The Weather, Model Assessments, Weather Data Collection, How High is Our Stratosphere, Weather Balloons @ 9:20 Storm Chasing, Weather Tracking, Enjoying the Weather @ 10:31 Tornado Intensities, The Enhanced Fujita Scale, Mr Tornado, Atomic Bombs, Outbursts, Blast Waves, Downbursts,  and Strong Winds and Measurement of Wind Speeds @ 13:32 Tornado Magnitudes Continued, Highest Recorded Windspeeds @ 14:56 Storm Chasing Continued, Driving to Alberta, and  @ 15:57 Driving Across Canada for Meteorology, Cross Country Travelling, Funny Stories @ 20:41 Stormchasing in Alberta, Stuck In One Of Canada's Largest Snow Storms In The Middle of Alberta, The Perfect Beginning For a New Job In Meteorology @ 26:23 What Do Meteorologists Do? Weatherman?  Behind the Scenes of Weather Reporting, Topographical Maps of Weather Parameters, and Reading The Models @ 28:20 In The Beginning, Taro's Fish, and The History of The Akiyama Family @30:40 Outro  Taro's Fish :  Instagram: @tarosfish Website: https://tarosfish.com/

In this episode of the podcast, we talk with a good friend of mine, Aaron Spina, about the very interesting world of electronics, as we dabble in the ideas of relays, logic gates, transistors, semiconductors, and other parts of the electronic circuits that run our everyday lives. We also dive into his past with astrophysics, where he talks about his thoughts on the big bang, aliens, our brainpower, and our everyday understanding of life. Oh and we talk a bit about video games as well.  @ 0:00 Introduction @ 0:28 NASA VS SpaceX @ 1:05 Background, Physics, Electromechanical Engineering Technology @ 2:05 Interesting Electro-Mechanical Devices, The Relay and Electronic Switches @ 5:08 Future in Electromechanics, Job Prospects, And WORK @ 6:32 Circuits, Transistors, Logic Gates, and the CPU (Central Processing Unit) @ 8:32 Astrophysical Ideologies, Philosophies, Theories, Ideas, and the BIG BANG @ 9:12 Human Brain, Comprehension, and How Intelligent are We Really? Aliens, Friend, or Foe, Test Subjects @ 10:15 Living A Normal, Extraordinarily Ordinary, Life @ 10:55 Thoughts on Artificial Intelligence ( AI ), Virtual Reality ( VR ), and Augmented Reality ( AR ) @ 12:13 Future Tech, Ergonomics, Focusing on Real Life in a Digital World @ 14:02 The Past, The Present, And the Future of Video Games @ 16:26 The Problem with Present Game Titles, Death of The New, In With The Old @ 17:20 Death of The MMO (Massively Multiplayer Online Games), Roleplaying Games, and Competitive E-Sports Domination @ 20:54 Most Anticipated Future Video Games @ 22:04 Thoughts on GOD, The Difference Between US and Animals, Ant Colonies, and Moving Further Away From Spirituality

In this video, my good friend Haresh Seenarine, who is a graduate from York University with a Bachelor's degree in Astronomy and Physics (Astrophysics), talks about his thoughts on black holes, pulsars, gravitational physics, spirituality, aliens, automation, the power of the human brain, and the future of the human race with regard to machines, and our race towards merging with them.  If you like the video, SUBSCRIBE. :)   Hope you all enjoy this wonderful talk.   @ 0:00 Introduction @ 0:27 Why Astrophysics, Of All Things? @ 2:49 Really Interesting Topics, Black Holes, Gravitation, The End of Knowledge @ 3:26 Black Holes, What Are They? Where Does A Black Hole Come From? Singularities?  @ 3:57 Black Holes, What's Makes Them So Interesting? Breaking Physics? A Glitch in The Matrix? @ 4:59 Scientific Advancements at LIGO, LHC (Large Hadron Collider), Gravitational Waves @ 5:59 What Makes Science, Science, The Infinite Rabbit Hole of The Scientific Mind @ 6:37 Celestial Objects, Pulsars, Electromagnetic Explosions, Neutron Stars, and Spinning Beams of Light @ 7:38 Introduction to the Pulsar Map & The Golden Records On Voyager 1 Space Probe @ 8:37 Voyager 1 Messages of The Golden Records https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELnn9V01EiI&t=8148s & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAN1kt4SG9E&t=148s@ 8:50 Aliens, The Fermi Paradox, The Great Filter, The Drake Equation @ 10:12 Where Are The Aliens? Have They Visited Earth? The Pentagon? What Do You Believe?  @ 10:32 Controversial Topics, Conspiracy Theories, And How to Use Your Scientific Mind @ 12:00 The Government, Are They Hiding Information From Us, And If So, Why? @ 14:05 Spirituality, Religion, The Supernatural, Questioning Ideologies, Science, and Atheism @ 18:22 Spirits, Dreams, Lucid Dreaming, Sleep Paralysis, What is a Dream, Why Does it Happen? Multiple Voices / Personalities In Dreams @ 22:09 Memories, Ignoring Irrelevant Information, The Subconscious @ 23:05 Space, In-Depth Explanation of The Pulsar Map, How We Want Aliens To Find Us, And What Would Happen If They Did @ 27:10 Future Space Missions, Artemis, Space Mining, Orbital Mechanics, And How Did We Get Here? @ 28:22 The History of Mathematics, Physics, How Far We've Come, And The Future @ 29:27 Most Exciting New Technologies, Automation, The Complexity and Complications @ 30:25 Trying To Replicate Nature, The Raw Computation Power Of The Human Mind, Brain, And What It Really Takes To Be Alive @ 33:38 Evolution, Machines, And What Is Natural Selection @ 34:48 Our Physical Limitations, The Eventual Climb Towards The Merging Of Humans and Artificial Intelligence / Cyborgs @ 37:43 Outro

In this video, I talk to astrophysics student & good friend of mine Abteen Sanaee about his thoughts on coronavirus, 5G networks,  the evolution of artificial intelligence, and touch a bit on astrophotography, and galactic imaging.  Hope you're interested in some of these topics, and feel free to comment, like, subscribe, etc.   @ 0:00 Introduction @ 0:50 Coronavirus from a Physics Student's Perspective @ 3:19 Covid-19 Government Policies  @ 3:49 Coronavirus' Effect on the Economy @ 4:25 Cool Concepts & Ideas in Physics @ 5:55 Observational Astronomy and Making Pretty Pictures @ 7:22 Research on Variable Stars and Where We are in the Universe @ 8:09 Astrophotography, Galactic Imaging, and How We See Color @ 13:15 The Light Spectrum and Waves, How It Is Used in Everyday Life @ 13:35 The 5G Network, What it is, How it Works @ 14:45 5GHz Bandwidth, Cancer, and Health Concerns @ 16:16 Correlation Vs Causation, How to Think When Looking at Data @ 17:26 The Progression of Artificial Intelligence, and Technology @ 18:12 The Future of Society Due to Technological Advance @ 19:59 Evolution vs Technological Advance @ 20:57 The Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence and The Natural Process of Creating It @ 23:47 Computers Vs Humans, If You Can't Beat Them, Join Them @ 25:05 The Next Jeff Besos, Elon Musk Is Who? @ 26:14 Most Anticipated Future Technology - The Quantum Computer @ 28:48 Uploading Your Brain to the Cloud, Concerns with Privacy?  @ 30:08 Immortality Vs Mortality, Which is Better, and Why? @ 33:01 Genetic Engineering and Biological Hacking @ 34:48 How Much Is Too Much? Technology, The Meaning of Life, And Finding a Balance @ 37:45 Outro

In this video, my good friend Rami Nassar and I are talking about the future of content creation, the problems and possibilities of deepfake technology, the way that video games are socially engineered to keep you attentive, and much more.

@ 0:00 Beginning of Video @ 0:13 The Future of Content Creation @ 1:44 Future of Video Editting  @ 3:27 Deepfakes, the Good the Bad and the Ugly @ 4:22 Deepfakes and Facial Recognition @ 7:22 Deepfake and the future of VR / Videogames @ 11:13 Social Engineering in App Design, Video Game Design, etc. @ 11:52 Education, The 9 to 5, and the Future of The Working Class @ 18:46 The Next Social Media Explosion @ 21:08 Outro