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

445. Brian Keating, host of Into the Impossible

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

David Barr Kirtley

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4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2020

⏱️ 68 minutes

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If you're a regular Geek's Guide to the Galaxy listener, please rate and review us on iTunes or using the podcast app on your phone.

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We currently have 935 5-star ratings, and it would be great to get that up to a thousand.

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And I want to give a special thank you to Lieutenant Beefart, who just gave us this five-star review.

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A must listen for fans of sci-fi and fantasy.

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David Bar-Kirtley is an incredibly well-prepared and interested interview host.

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It's clear that he spends a great deal of time researching and reading the work of the guests that he interviews

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on the podcast, and it makes the show a rewarding listen. Look through the show Archives too for a fantastic survey of who's who and genre fiction.

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The panel discussions are also thoughtful and entertaining.

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I highly recommend this podcast.

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It's always a highlight of my week so big thanks again to

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lieutenant beef heart for that great review all right so now let's get to our

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show Wired.com presents, The Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

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And here is your host, David Barr-Kirtley.

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Hello and welcome to episode 445 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy. Our guest today is Brian Keating. He's a professor of physics at

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UC San Diego and co-director of the Arthur C. Clark Center for the Human Imagination.

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He's also the author of the book Losing the Nobel Prize, which argues that the

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Nobel Prize impede scientific progress by encouraging competition rather than cooperation.

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And we'll be speaking with him today about his new podcast into the impossible,

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which features interviews with leading scientists, intellectuals, and science fiction writers.

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And now here's our interview with Brian Keating.

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All right, so we're here with Brian Keating. Welcome to the show.

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David, it's great pleasure to be here.

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