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The "Exploration" radio show is an hour-long science program heard nationally. Exploration covers the world of science, war and peace, and the environment. The show has commentary and interviews with top scientists and environmentalists.
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Dr. Michio Kaku is an internationally recognized authority in theoretical physics and also the environment. He holds the Henry Semat Professorship in Theoretical Physics at the City College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His goal is to help complete Einstein's dream of a "theory of everything," a single equation, perhaps no more than one inch long, which will unify all the fundamental forces in the universe.
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An hour-long radio program on science, technology, politics, and the environment. It is broadcast each week on WBAI New York City (99.5 FM), and re-aired on stations across the country via the Ku National Radio Satellite.
Topics covered include black holes, time travel, higher dimensions, string theory, wormholes, search for extra-terrestial life, dark matter and dark energy, the future of space travel, genetic engineering, the aging process, the future of medicine, the human body shop, artificial intelligence, the future of computers and robots, as well as topics from science fiction.
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June 10, 2024 National, News & Public Affairs
ON EXPLORATIONS: Life and times of Werner von Braun – when scientists work for the Nazis.
Dr. Michio Kaku talks about a controversial issue, that is, when scientists create evil even when they have good intent? First, Michio Kaku speaks with Dr. Michael Neufeld, Senior Curator at the National Air & Space Museum and author of a book about Werner von Braun, the man responsible for putting men on moon, but also for the rocket armaments that terrorized London in World War II. After that, Dr. Kaku speaks with speaks with Daniel Charles, author of Master Mind: The Rise and Fall of Fritz Haber.
Read MoreJune 3, 2024 National, News & Public Affairs
ON EXPLORATIONS: Guest: Dr. Greg Stock of UCLA talks about the future of genetic engineering
Dr. Michio Kaku opens up the first part by addressing his email, especially listeners’ questions about Turing and the Theory of Everything. In the second part of the hour, Dr. Kaku speaks with speaks with Greg Stock, an American author, and professor at UCLA, who wrote Redesigning Humans.
ListenMay 27, 2024 National, News & Public Affairs
ON EXPLORATIONS: The genus of Thomas Edison and the promise of the next revolution with quantum computers, with Dr. Seth Lloyd
In this episode, Dr. Michio Kaku speaks about innovation with Randall Strauss, biographer of Edison, Greatest Innovator of all times and with Seth Lloyd, MIT, innovator in quantum computers. Looking for a second industrial revolution?
ListenMay 20, 2024 National, News & Public Affairs
ON EXPLORATIONS: Is fusion power possible? How did humanity evolve – from fish??
Dr. Michio Kaku speaks with Charles Seife, an American author journalist, and Neil Shubin, an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist and popular science writer. They will ask, where is our energy coming from in the next decade? Sea water? In the second part of the hour will be discussion of evolution from worms to fish to salamanders, reptiles, then mammals - which include humans. Water is life.
Read MoreMay 13, 2024 National, News & Public Affairs
ON EXPLORATIONS: Black holes and time travel – what are the possibilities?
Dr. Michio Kaku discusses black holes, the strangest phenomena in whole universe. First, he speaks with Fulvio Melia, an Italian-American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author. They ask, can we go through a black hole? Then Dr. Kaku speaks with J. Richard Gott, who is is known for his work on time travel. Space and time is a fabric that can be stretched and ripped.
Read MoreMay 6, 2024 National, News & Public Affairs
ON EXPLORATIONS: the universe of Einstein – how has Einstein’s theory affected religion?
Dr. Michio Kaku talks about the question of God. Dr. Kaku looks at God from a scientific perspective and he begins with the story of Einstein’s belief of God. In the second part of the hour, Dr. Kaku speaks with John F. Brinster, Physicist, Professor at Princeton, and writer of a biography on Einstein, “The Man Who Created God”. We ask, "If all things have a creator, then who created God?"
Read MoreApril 29, 2024 National, News & Public Affairs
ON EXPLORATIONS: the topic of black holes and astronomy
In this episode, Dr. Michio Kaku speaks with Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, an American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator, and his second guest is black hole expert, Dr. Fulvio Melia, an Italian-American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author. He is author of The Black Hole at the Center of Our Galaxy.
Read MoreApril 22, 2024 National, News & Public Affairs
ON EXPLORATIONS: how scientists view religion, and the mind from a scientific point of view
Dr. Michio Kaku speaks with Prof. Daniel Dennett, an American philosopher, writer, and cognitive scientist whose research centers on the philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and philosophy of biology. In the second half, Dr. Kaku speaks with Prof. Steven Pinker, an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind.
Read MoreApril 15, 2024 National, News & Public Affairs
ON EXPLORATIONS: invention, innovation, science – the engines of prosperity
Dr. Michio Kaku speaks with Randall Stross, author of the Wizard of Menlo Park, a biography of Thomas Edison and MIT Professor Seth Lloyd. It all started with Thomas Edison, and now, quantum computers may eventually replace ordinary transistors and usher in a new quantum era.
Read MoreApril 8, 2024 National, News & Public Affairs
ON EXPLORATIONS: Science is unraveling our origins: a) the origin of the universe and the big bang b) the origin of humanity by analyzing ancient DNA
Searching for answers, what sets science apart is that conclusions are based on demonstrable facts.
Read MoreApril 1, 2024 National, News & Public Affairs
ON EXPLORATIONS: Why do people believe in weird things
Dr. Michio Kaku speaks with his guest, Dr. Michael Shermer, the Founding Publisher of Skeptic magazine, the host of the podcast The Michael Shermer Show, and a Presidential Fellow at Chapman University where he teaches Skepticism 101. Are there borders on what is real?
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