Ideas Worth Exploring

About Ideas Worth Exploring

Science is the best way we have for understanding how the world works. And you know what makes science better? Puns! This podcast is meant to introduce a variety of scientific topics in a way that is approachable for people without a scientific background and entertaining even for the nerds who think they know everything.

Publisher

Mark McDonald

Category

science

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

18 May 2022

Latest episode

12 Jan 2025

Latest episodes

32 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   12 Jan 2025

   Optimization algorithms and the life lessons they taught me

   Mathematician and AI researcher, Andrew Ng, shares life lessons from optimization algorithms, including the importance of incremental progress, adaptability, and navigating tradeoffs.

2. 

   15 Dec 2024

   The secret to getting rich is to be boring

   I’ve been interested in investing recently, the idea that if you have money then you can use it to make more money. This is a really important topic that I wish my past self had understood better, and so I’m going to break the usual rule of only doing science so that I can dive into this other thing that interests me, which is figuring out what the evidence says is the best way to invest money.

3. 

   29 Oct 2024

   Climate Change Part 3: The solutions to global warming and what they have to do with cows

   If we want the globe to stop warming, then we need to get to net zero greenhouse gas emissions. Methods to reduce emissions include: renewable energy, electric vehicles, feeding seaweed to cows to stop them from burping so much, turning poop into jet fuel, and resurrecting the mammoths. We’re also going to cover what individual people can do to make the most difference in the fight against global warming. Also, here are just a couple of the sources I used while researching this:https://w...

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

7 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

4 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 40 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

52

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

71

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