MEDIA
The Seekers
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. Produced by Insignia Films, January 6, 2023.
Great Issues, New Perspectives
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. February 11, 2021.
The Theory of Everything Is a Fabrication
What makes us, as humans, so peculiar? And why do we seek answers to the toughest questions? Marcelo discusses with SophieCo. Visionaires. RT, January 29, 2021.
Life During and After the Pandemic. Can We Reinvent Ourselves?
Marcelo in conversation with FullCycle Managing Director Stephan Nicoleau,The Future, with FullCycle, May 8, 2020
How to Ignite Secular Spirituality: Exploring Our Quest for Meaning
In this recording of a virtual convening, we hear from Marcelo on how Covid-19 is impacting our worldviews and discuss ways to co-create a new world through our individual and collective actions. Synergos, April 15, 2020
The Enigma of Life: Confronting Marvels at the Edges of Science
Marcelo, experimental psychologist Tania Lombrozo, and physician Gavin Francis analyze the impact of awe and wonder on their own work and on the mindsets of their colleagues carrying out cutting-edge scientific research. The New York Academy of Sciences, February 5, 2020
Science as an Unending Quest
Marchelo chats with Stefani Ruper about science, the limits of knowledge, and the search for meaning. The Meaning of Everything podcast, January 18, 2019
Is There a "Real" Reality? Can Science Tell Us Right & Wrong?
Marcelo joins David Pakman to discuss a history of the scientific method, how reality can be established objectively, and whether right and wrong can be measured scientifically. The David Pakman Show, March 6-7, 2017.
Why Are We Here?
A four-part documentary in which Oxford physicist Ard Louis and filmmaker David Malone meet scientists, philosophers, and writers to discuss questions about meaning and the nature of the universe. - Why Are We Here? October 2016
The Multiverse
Dan Schneider interviews Marcelo about the existence of the multiverse. Cosmoetica, September 9, 2016.
Oprah Winfrey's Original TV Series “Belief”
Marcelo appears in the 7-part documentary series exploring how people search for meaning and connection. Oprah Winfrey Network, Marcelo's episode: October 21, 8 p.m.
Talks at Google: The Island of Knowlegde
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