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Great Issues, New Perspectives (Video)
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
Why Are We Here? (video)
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. Marcelo discusses:
Fine-tuning and the multiverse →
The aesthetics of the imperfect →
Ultimate knowledge and God →
Shadows on the wall →
Mathematics: the language of God? →
Reducing humanity →
- Why Are We Here?
October 2016
Virtual Think Tanks: Physicists Who Blog
Marcelo and his compelling posts at NPR's 13.7 Cosmos & Culture are featured in an APS profile about scientists using the Internet to engage with the public.
- American Physical Society
October 2016
The Multiverse (video)
Dan Schneider interviews Marcelo about the existence of the multiverse.
- Cosmoetica
September 9, 2016
A Leap of Faith: Finding Common Ground Between Science and Religion (audio)
A discussion with Marcelo Gleiser; Rolf-Dieter Heuer, director general of CERN; Kusum Jain, director of the Centre of Advanced Study in Philosophy at the University of Rajasthan, Jaipur; and Monsignor Tomasz Trafny, Head of Science and Faith, Vatican City State—recorded in front of an audience at CERN.
- The Forum, BBC World Service
December 8, 2015
Marcelo Gleiser on Pluto and Uncovered Secrets (video)
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
Marcelo Gleiser, "The Island of Knowledge" (video)
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
Science as Salvation?
Marcelo wants to heal the rift between humanists and scientists by deflating scientific dreams of establishing final truths.
- The Nation
August 27, 2014