Cool Worlds Podcast
Conversations between Professor David Kipping and guests, spanning astronomy, technology, science and engineering. This is the official podcast of the Cool Worlds Lab at Columbia University and their popular YouTube channel ”Cool Worlds”. Podcast episodes are filmed and can be found online through our YouTube channels.
#27 Jason Steffen - Kepler Mission Legacy, Particle Physics, Optimal Plane Boarding
#26 Will Kinney - Before the Big Bang, Inflation, Infinity of Worlds
#25 Matt O'Dowd - PBS Spacetime, Science on YouTube, Quasars
#24 Colin Hill - Modern Cosmology, Hubble Tension, Exotic Physics
#23 Geraint Lewis - Fine-Tuning, Multiverse, Cosmological Tensions
#22 Sara Walker - Origin of Life, Assembly Theory, Biosignatures
#21 Edwin Kite - Early Mars, Terraforming/Settling Mars
#19 Brian Keating - Inflation, B Modes and Losing the Nobel Prize
#18 Nick Searra - Alien Communication, Golden Record, Future Relics
#17 Adam Riess - Modern Cosmology, Hubble Tension, New Physics
#16 Janna Levin - Black Holes, Singularities & Wormholes
#15 Jackie Faherty - Brown Dwarfs, Clouds, Atmospheres, JWST
#14 Gavin Schmidt - Climate Science, Projections, Measurements, Denialism
#13 David Spergel - NASA UAP Taskforce, Dark Matter, Hubble Tension, Leadership
#12 Lisa Kaltenegger - Alien Earths, Astrobiology Controversies, Frequency of Life
#11 Paul Sutter - Rescuing Science, Restoring Trust In an Age of Doubt
#10 - Viraj Pandya - Early Galaxies with JWST, Galaxies "Gone Bananas", Galaxy Formation
#9 Renée Hložek - Axions, Tracing Dark Matter, Fate of the Universe
#8 Malena Rice - Planet Nine, Oumuamua, Misaligned Exoplanets
#7 Ramesh Narayan - Black Holes, Extreme Astrophysics, Event Horizon Telescope
#6 Adam Frank - Technosignatures, Semantic Information, Galactic Colonization
#5 Kathryn Johnston - The Milky Way, Dark Matter vs MOND, Gaia
#4 Hod Lipson - Automated Physics Discovery, ChatGPT, Future of AI
#3 Chiara Mingarelli - NANOGrav, Background Gravitational Waves, Black Holes
#2 Wendy Freedman - The Crisis in Cosmology, Standard Candles, Future of Cosmology
#1 Rebecca Charbonneau - Astrohistory, Carl Sagan, Cold War SETI