The LHC “nightmare scenario” has come true (Aug 6, 2016) The multiworse is coming (Mar 13, 2018) Outraged about the Google diversit...

The year is almost over and a new one about to begin. So today I want to talk about the beginning of everything, the whole universe. What do...

Here is what I did on the weekend. Happy Holidays everybody! [ You can download a mp3 version here .]

This week, I am on vacation and so I want to answer a question that I get a lot but that doesn’t really fit into the usual program: What doe...

“There are only three people in the world who understand Superdeterminism,” I used to joke, “Me, Gerard ‘t Hooft, and a guy whose name I ...

Today I want to talk about a topic that is much, much more important than anything I have previously talked about. And that’s how cognitive ...

[Still from the 1956 movie The Ten Commandments ] No one has any idea why mathematics works so well to describe nature, but it is argua...

Today I want to explain why the anthropic principle is a good, scientific principle. I want to talk about this, because the anthropic princi...

Last week I told you what dark energy is and why astrophysicists believe it exists. This week I want to tell you about a recent paper that ...

What’s the difference between dark energy and dark matter? What does dark energy have to do with the cosmological constant and is the cosmol...

Neural net illustration. Screenshot from this video . In the past two years, governments all over the world have launched research init...

This week I got a lot of questions about an article by Dennis Overbye in the New York Times, titled “ How to Peer Through a Wormhole .” This...

On my recent trip to the UK, I spoke with Tim Palmer about the uncertainty in climate predictions.

How can we test a Theory of Everything? That’s a question I get a lot in my public lectures. In the past decade, physicists have put forward...

A few days ago I met a friend on the subway. He tells me he’s been at a conference and someone asked if he knows me. He says yes, and imm...

downward spiral In the foundations of physics, we have not seen progress since the mid 1970s when the standard model of particle physics...

Used the weekend to finish my most recent track.