Marcelo’s short documentary, in collaboration with Peter McBride and Insignia Films, about a young Navajo leader and a scientist in search of our lost connection to Nature.
- Insignia Films
January 6, 2023
Marcelo joined Latif Nasser, host of the Radiolab podcast series and Netflix’s "Connected: The Hidden Science of Everything" for a live conversation about science skepticism and the need for empirical evidence as a way to keep our society whole.
- Dartmouth Advancement
February 11, 2021
Dan Schneider interviews Marcelo about the existence of the multiverse.
- Cosmoetica
September 9, 2016
Since the NASA spacecraft New Horizons’ flyby of Pluto in July, the world has been amazed and fascinated by the craft’s close-up photographs of a planet billions of miles from Earth. Looking at Pluto, we are essentially looking at our own past. We are looking at our origins.
- Dartmouth Now
August 19, 2015
In "The Island of Knowledge," Marcelo traces our search for answers to some of the most fundamental questions of existence and reaches a provocative conclusion: the main tool we use to find answers – science – is fundamentally limited.
- Talks at Google
October 15, 2014
The more we learn, the more it pushes the boundaries of what we don't know. Marcelo Gleiser, professor of physics and astronomy at Dartmouth, describes this problem by using the metaphor of an island. Knowledge is an island. As this island grows, Gleiser says, the border of what we do not know also grows. So the history of knowledge will always be incomplete.
– Big Think
January 19, 2013
Here is one of the great existential problems that caused a lot of 20th century angst: the more we learn about the universe, the more we realize how insignificant we are. Here is 21st century science's answer to that: Humans are very sophisticated conglomerates of materials. We are very special indeed. Dartmouth professor Marcelo Gleiser walks us through some of the key milestones in our understanding of the universe.
– Big Think
November 21, 2012
