We Welcome Our AI Overlords : Guest : Dr. Petr Lebedev
Doctor of science, filmmaker of science, and communicator of science - the one and only Petr Lebedev - takes a moment to chat with Kovi and Benjamin about AI. How AI's infiltrating our education system, the workforce, and it doesn't matter how much you thank your AI bot of choice - it's still coming for us all. Maybe. Probably not. 10%. Never mind all that - currently it's incentive is keep us super duper happy, so, you know, nothing to see here.
17 Sept 2026
Hive Mind Book Club : Guest : Dr. Graham Lau
Are there alien civilizations out there looking for us like we're looking for them? Do they want to eat us? Meet us? Or fulfill this episode's guest's secret desire to merge into a hive mind with them? Dr. Graham Lau has watched all the 'Trek', read all the books, and talks to Kovi and Benjamin about the variety of societal and evolutionary impacts astrobiologists dream of as the result of coming into contact with another civilization.
Find Graham at : https://cosmobiota.com/ (https://cosmobiota.com/) and https://www.bluemarblespace.org/affiliates/graham-lau (https://www.bluemarblespace.org/affiliates/graham-lau)
Follow Benjamin at Science, Actually : https://www.scienceactually.com/ (https://www.scienceactually.com/) & https://www.facebook.com/actuallyscience (https://www.facebook.com/actuallyscience)
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Books mentioned on this episode:
Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon
Billions and Billions by Carl Sagan
Dawn by Octavia Butler
Ascent of Information by Caleb Scharf
The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin
The Tragic Life of Yahoo Serious : https://cosmobiota.substack.com/p/young-einstein-and-the-tragic-life (https://cosmobiota.substack.com/p/young-einstein-and-the-tragic-life)
3 Sept 2026
In the beginning... : Guest : Dr. Jaiden Cook
In the beginning... ...the was this huge bang from which all this ionized stuff came into the universe. Then a Recombination came along and cooled everything down and changed matter from ionized to neutral. Then the first stars and galaxies came to be, and produced enough UV light to re-ionize everything. So... Kovi and Benjamin ask the REALLY big question... How could there be an ionization before a REionization, but no combination a REcombination? Huh? Answer THAT, Dr. Jaiden Cook.
Find Jaiden at : https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaiden-cook-250929115/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaiden-cook-250929115/) & https://www.atnf.csiro.au/daily-picture/2025/07/22/welcome-jaiden-cooke/ (https://www.atnf.csiro.au/daily-picture/2025/07/22/welcome-jaiden-cooke/)
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Follow Kovi at Fun Fact Science : https://www.funfactscience.com/ (https://www.funfactscience.com/) & https://www.facebook.com/funfactscience (https://www.facebook.com/funfactscience)
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