My Chat with Theoretical Physicist Dr. Lawrence Krauss (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_531)

The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad

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🗓️ 13 April 2023

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Topics covered include The Edge of Knowledge (his forthcoming book on time, space, matter, life, and consciousness), science as a form of play, humor, Richard Feynman, Noam Chomsky, the hierarchy of the sciences (Auguste Comte), the natural versus social sciences, applied versus basic research, interdisciplinarity, philosophy, wokeism across disciplines, and personal regrets (if any). Order a copy of Lawrence's latest book The Edge of Knowledge here: https://www.amazon.com/Edge-Knowledge-Unsolved-Mysteries-Cosmos/dp/1637588569 _______________________________________ If you appreciate my work and would like to support it: https://subscribestar.com/the-saad-truth https://patreon.com/GadSaad https://paypal.me/GadSaad _______________________________________ This clip was posted earlier today (April 13, 2023) on my YouTube channel as THE SAAD TRUTH_1539: https://youtu.be/RwWMC3nK1Go _______________________________________ My forthcoming book The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life is now available for pre-order: https://www.amazon.com/Saad-Truth-about-Happiness-Secrets/dp/1684512603 _______________________________________ Please visit my website gadsaad.com, and sign up for alerts. If you appreciate my content, click on the "Support My Work" button. I count on my fans to support my efforts. You can donate via Patreon, PayPal, and/or SubscribeStar. _______________________________________ Dr. Gad Saad is a professor, evolutionary behavioral scientist, and author who pioneered the use of evolutionary psychology in marketing and consumer behavior. In addition to his scientific work, Dr. Saad is a leading public intellectual who often writes and speaks about idea pathogens that are destroying logic, science, reason, and common sense. _______________________________________

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0:00.0	Hi everybody this is God's out for the sad truth. I have another fantastic guest today.
0:06.0	We have a theoretical physicist Lawrence Krause with us. I will shortly read his bio but first how you doing Lawrence? I'm doing great it's
0:15.1	spring is here in Prince Edward Island and we're not for a walk and didn't see any
0:19.0	snow and most of what I was walking on so I'm in a good mood. Wait a minute you're
0:22.4	in Prince Edward Island you're in Canada? He thought I was walking on so I'm in a good move. Wait a minute, you're in Prince Edward Island?
0:23.5	You're in Canada?
0:24.5	You thought I was somewhere else, didn't you?
0:25.4	I shouldn't have let anyone know or shouldn't let me.
0:27.2	I'm in Prince Edward Island, yeah.
0:28.7	Now, in preparing for our conversation,
0:31.5	I just did a quick cursory check of your bio I didn't know
0:36.0	that you went to Carlton University in Ottawa that you were Canadian maybe you could
0:39.7	tell us about this because as you may know I'm in Montreal. Yeah, no I know.
0:43.4	Oh, you didn't know that.
0:44.4	No, I'm I was I grew up in Canada.
0:47.6	I was born in the United States and moved to Canada when I was three months old and grew up in
0:51.5	Toronto.
0:52.4	Okay. And then went to Carleton for a variety of reasons, one, three reasons.
0:57.0	One, because it was a physics program that I like, two, because it was a history program that I could three because I wanted to become bilingual. I actually
1:04.2	tried to get in to McGill and also University of Marale and but because I was
1:09.8	from Ontario they were going to make me take a year of what's called Sezhepp or something like that.
1:14.7	I've done 13 years of Ontario and it was enough for me.
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