Brian Keating "Honey, I Shrunk the Cosmos"
Summary: <p>“Everyone wants to be a cowboy, but no one wants to ride the range.” A dream of unraveling the mystery of the birth of universe led astrophysicist and <a href="http://amzn.to/2sa5UpA" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">author</a> Brian Keating to "saddle up" and head to a frozen ocean of snow at the bottom of the world. <a href="https://briankeating.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Keating</a> joins Rushkoff to talk about science, religion, questions that lead to more questions, and the "background noise” of the cosmos that may just be the key to understanding how this all began.</p><br><p>Rushkoff begins today's show commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece, <em>2001: A Space Odyssey</em>. Are we suffering the effects of HAL computer-like programming on Facebook? "I know everything hasn't been quite right with me, but I can assure you now, very confidently, that it's going to be all right again. I feel much better now. I really do." HAL 9000 or Mark Zuckerberg?</p><br><p>Learn more about our guest, Brian Keating:</p><p>Professor <a href="https://briankeating.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Brian Keating</a> is an astrophysicist with UC San Diego’s Department of Physics. He and his team develop instrumentation to study the early universe at radio, microwave and infrared wavelengths. He is the author of over 100 scientific publications and holds two U.S.Patents. He received an NSF CAREER award in 2006 and a 2007 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers at the White House from President Bush for a telescope he invented and deployed at the U.S. South Pole Research Station called “BICEP". Professor Keating became a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2016. He co-leads the <a href="https://simonsobservatory.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Simons Observatory</a> Cosmic Microwave Background experiments in the Atacama Desert of Chile, and is the author of <a href="http://amzn.to/2sa5UpA" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Losing the Nobel Prize: A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science's Highest Honor</a>, selected as one of<a href="https://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=17276799011" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Amazon.com’s Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Month</a>.</p><p>This show features music thanks to <a href="https://fugazi.bandcamp.com/track/foremans-dog" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Fugazi and Dischord Records</a> as well as a sample of Throbbing Gristle by <a href="http://teamhuman.fm/episodes/ep-67-genesis-breyer-p-orridge-weaponized-pleasure/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">TH 68 guest</a> Genesis Breyer P-Orridge.</p><p>You can sustain this show via <a href="http://patreon.com/teamhuman" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Patreon</a>. And please leave us a <a href="http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1140331811" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">review on iTunes</a>.</p><br><hr><p style="color:grey;font-size:0.75em;"> See <a style="color:grey;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>
