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Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - A Science Fiction Podcast

111. Lawrence Krauss (The Physics of Star Trek) / Being an Atheist Writer (with James Morrow)

Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - A Science Fiction Podcast

David Barr Kirtley

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4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2014

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Guest Geeks: James Morrow, Tobias Buckell

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0:00.0

Wired.com presents the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy. And here is your host, David Barr-Kirtley.

0:20.0

Hello and welcome to episode 111 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

0:25.0

Hope you guys are in the mood for some atheism because there will be a lot of that today.

0:29.6

Later in the show a special guest James Morrow and Tobias

0:33.3

will be joining me for a panel on writing and blogging as an atheist.

0:37.3

But first up we've got an interview with physicist Lawrence Kraus,

0:40.8

author of such books as a universe from Nothing and The Physics of Star Trek.

0:45.7

The new documentary film The Unbelievers follows him and Richard Dawkins as they travel the world

0:50.5

arguing in favor of atheism. And now here's our interview with

0:54.4

Lawrence Krauss. All right so we're here with Lawrence Krauss. Welcome to the show.

0:59.3

It's nice to be here virtually at least.

1:03.0

All right, so tell us about this new movie, The Unbelievers.

1:06.6

How did you get involved with that?

1:08.4

Well, the young team that made it were actually fans of ours and had attended one of the

1:20.4

first events I put on in our origins project at Arizona State University and it was an amazing event we filled up a

1:28.0

that's where I'm with 6,000 people for 12 hours to listen to science. We had most of the well-known scientists,

1:38.0

public intellectuals in the world there and it was an amazing event and afterwards

1:42.3

actually they they it costed me in the in the

1:45.2

parking lot I remember and they were fans and and they had said Gus who's now the

1:51.6

director said that it reminded him of a rock concert.

1:55.0

And what they, and they were former musicians, they also were filmmakers, but they enjoyed several films, one about Radiohead that explored what it was like

2:08.0

to tour to be on the road.

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