The DemystifySci Podcast

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Support Us! https://www.patreon.com/DemystifySci DemystifySci is Dr. Michael Shilo DeLay and Dr. Anastasia Bendebury. Together they untangle complex theories of nature, making analysis accessible through conversations with exceptional thinkers. Each week they interview a new theorist about the ideas that are going to rewrite our understanding of the world. Power them via Patreon: @demystifysci

  1. 1d ago

    How Empire Was Discovered Everywhere at Once - Part One, Dr. Luke Kemp, DemystifySci +441

    Today we give you an episode in two parts from a recent conversation with Luke Kemp from Cambridge University's Centre for the Study of Existential Risk. We discuss the sudden and simultaneous rise of the nation state all over the globe as humanity emerged from the paleolithic. Prior to the bronze age of empires, humanity used kept the concentration of societal power in check by relying on ridicule, ostracism, and expulsion to stop anyone from turning strength into lasting power. Then something changed irrevocably. Suddenly domination became possible: lootable, storable crops like wheat, monopolizable weapons, and nowhere left to run, brought conditions closer to a protection racket than to progress. We are picking up the pieces today, which is where we turn to in part two. Part Two: https://youtu.be/rJCWyUlnhB0 PATREON https://www.patreon.com/c/demystifysci PARADOX LOST PRE-SALE: https://buy.stripe.com/7sY7sKdoN5d29eUdYddEs0b HOMEBREW MUSIC - Check out our new album! Hard Copies (Vinyl): FREE SHIPPING https://demystifysci-shop.fourthwall.com/products/vinyl-lp-secretary-of-nature-everything-is-so-good-here Streaming: https://secretaryofnature.bandcamp.com/album/everything-is-so-good-here PARADIGM DRIFT https://demystifysci.com/paradigm-drift-show 00:00 Go! Why Humans Ever Built States 02:23 What a Goliath Actually Is 06:28 Were Early Humans Really Violent? 16:17 Did Cooperation or Violence Make Us? 22:56 Cities That Had No Kings 28:15 Why Farming Didn't Create States 33:09 How Often Hierarchy Failed 36:34 What It Takes to Build a Goliath 45:38 How Empire's Blueprint Spread 54:08 Where Patriarchy Came From 59:17 How War Remade the Gods 1:09:43 Why the Biggest Systems Win 1:15:13 Was Any of This Inevitable? #archaeology #anthropology #prehistory MERCH: Rock some DemystifySci gear : https://demystifysci-shop.fourthwall.com/ AMAZON: Do your shopping through this link: https://amzn.to/3YyoT98 DONATE: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD SUBSTACK: https://substack.com/@UCqV4_7i9h1_V7hY48eZZSLw@demystifysci RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss MAILING LIST: https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

  2. 2d ago

    How Magnets Reach Across Empty Space - LIVE! Drs. A.V. Bendebury & M.S. DeLay (DemystifySci +440)

    This week we continue our discussion of the material atom live. Picking up where we left off last week, we go deeper into our book Paradox Lost and uncover the hidden mechanics of magnetism. The conversation follows from the past two week's livestreams where we argued for a new way of looking at the electron and charge: as patterned atomic surface motion. This week, we build out the details of that atomic surface and use the architecture to address electromagnetic action-at-a-distance.#physics #electromagnetism #quantumphysics #paradoxlostPre-order our upcoming book, Paradox Lost: https://buy.stripe.com/7sY7sKdoN5d29eUdYddEs0bPATREON https://www.patreon.com/c/demystifysciHOMEBREW MUSIC - Check out our new album!Hard Copies (Vinyl): FREE SHIPPING https://demystifysci-shop.fourthwall.com/products/vinyl-lp-secretary-of-nature-everything-is-so-good-hereStreaming:https://secretaryofnature.bandcamp.com/album/everything-is-so-good-herePARADIGM DRIFThttps://demystifysci.com/paradigm-drift-showMERCH: Rock some DemystifySci gear : https://demystifysci-shop.fourthwall.com/AMAZON: Do your shopping through this link: https://amzn.to/3YyoT98DONATE: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaDSUBSTACK: https://substack.com/@UCqV4_7i9h1_V7hY48eZZSLw@demystifysci RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rssMAILING LIST: https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/- Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySciMUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

  3. 5d ago

    Testing the Fractal Universe · Part Two, Chris Lehto (DemystifySci +439)

    This is the second episode from our recent meetup with Chris Lehto where we explore his work on the Fractal Universe, where macrobiological entities become a real possibility in the cosmos by way of adherence to NASA's own checklist definition for life. We explore the fractal organization of biological structures, what it means to be a subunit in a living system, and Lehto argues the case that many large scale structures, from nations to galaxies qualify incredibly well. Ultimately, we may prove to be living elements in a much greater order that is only just now coming into focus. Part 1: https://youtu.be/9fTSsLk5p34 Chris' book: https://amzn.to/3S29crA PATREON https://www.patreon.com/c/demystifysci PARADOX LOST PRE-SALE: https://buy.stripe.com/7sY7sKdoN5d29eUdYddEs0b HOMEBREW MUSIC - Check out our new album! Hard Copies (Vinyl): FREE SHIPPING https://demystifysci-shop.fourthwall.com/products/vinyl-lp-secretary-of-nature-everything-is-so-good-here Streaming: https://secretaryofnature.bandcamp.com/album/everything-is-so-good-here PARADIGM DRIFT https://demystifysci.com/paradigm-drift-show 00:00 Go! Lehto Recap and the Ladder of Scales 00:03:44 Cities, Nations, and the Life Test 00:12:27 Corporations, Money, and Metabolism 00:20:01 Why Scale Forces New Structure 00:30:04 Large Systems as Living Bodies 00:43:42 Life Cycles, Collapse, and Reproduction 00:53:37 Earth's Kin and the Search for Peers 01:05:40 Is the Sun Alive? 01:11:21 Why the Solar System Looks Like an Atom 01:19:25 Cosmic Lifespans and One Unifying Process 01:26:15 What Changes If This Is True 01:40:20 Cross-Scale Science and How Early We Are #physics #astrophysics #cosmology #emergence #cosmos #consciousness MERCH: Rock some DemystifySci gear : https://demystifysci-shop.fourthwall.com/ AMAZON: Do your shopping through this link: https://amzn.to/3YyoT98 DONATE: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD SUBSTACK: https://substack.com/@UCqV4_7i9h1_V7hY48eZZSLw@demystifysci RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss MAILING LIST: https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

  4. Aug 12

    Our Fractal Universe · Part One, Chris Lehto (DemystifySci +438)

    This week we are going to the core of what it means to be alive. If we don't understand where matter turns into the living then how can we be sure we're not missing biological processes all over the universe? Chris Lehto joins us for this first part of a two part series on his work surrounding the Fractal Universe, where we establish the historic basis for our present understanding of what it means to be living. We look at the NASA criteria, Michod's individuality gate, and the overlooked importance of will. This sets us up for part two where we'll put larger scale cosmic structures to the test, working from the city up to galaxies and beyond. Chris' book: https://amzn.to/3S29crA PATREON https://www.patreon.com/c/demystifysci PARADOX LOST PRE-SALE: https://buy.stripe.com/7sY7sKdoN5d29eUdYddEs0b HOMEBREW MUSIC - Check out our new album! Hard Copies (Vinyl): FREE SHIPPING https://demystifysci-shop.fourthwall.com/products/vinyl-lp-secretary-of-nature-everything-is-so-good-here Streaming: https://secretaryofnature.bandcamp.com/album/everything-is-so-good-here PARADIGM DRIFT https://demystifysci.com/paradigm-drift-show 00:00 Go! Introductions and the Question of Life at Different Scales 00:08:00 Anomalies and the Limits of What We Notice 00:14:01 Microbes: Seen for Centuries, Never Called Alive 00:24:38 Why Every Era Thinks It Sees Clearly 00:33:08 Does Life Stop at Our Scale? 00:42:49 Cosmic Analogies and the Trouble With Defining Life 00:52:30 NASA's Four Tests for Life 00:59:12 Drawing the Line: Fire, Rivers, Ecosystems 01:05:00 Michod's Individuality Gate 01:11:31 Intent, Agency, and the "Want" Problem #philosophy #philosophyofmind #emergence #consciousness #cosmos MERCH: Rock some DemystifySci gear : https://demystifysci-shop.fourthwall.com/ AMAZON: Do your shopping through this link: https://amzn.to/3YyoT98 DONATE: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD SUBSTACK: https://substack.com/@UCqV4_7i9h1_V7hY48eZZSLw@demystifysci RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss MAILING LIST: https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

  5. Aug 11

    Charge as a Physical Motion - LIVE! Drs. A.V. Bendebury & M.S. DeLay (DemystifySci +437)

    Electric charge has always been handed to us as a fact fixed to the electron, a quantity carved into the particle like a name. But charge may be less a thing the atom has than a thing the atom does, a surface motion that our instruments register with ever increasing precision. In this solo livestream drawn from our upcoming book, Paradox Lost, we explain the exact motions we propose at the atomic surface, drawn from the empirical record and mathematics of quantum mechanics, electrodynamics, and spin 1/2. Come sit close to the curtain, where a fixed fact comes apart into the living motion beneath it.#physics #particlephysics #philosophyofphysics #quantumphysics #electron #quantummechanics #electromagnetism #naturalphilosophy #paradoxlost #demystifysciPre-order our upcoming book, Paradox Lost: https://buy.stripe.com/7sY7sKdoN5d29eUdYddEs0bPATREON https://www.patreon.com/c/demystifysciHOMEBREW MUSIC - Check out our new album!Hard Copies (Vinyl): FREE SHIPPING https://demystifysci-shop.fourthwall.com/products/vinyl-lp-secretary-of-nature-everything-is-so-good-hereStreaming:https://secretaryofnature.bandcamp.com/album/everything-is-so-good-herePARADIGM DRIFThttps://demystifysci.com/paradigm-drift-showMERCH: Rock some DemystifySci gear : https://demystifysci-shop.fourthwall.com/AMAZON: Do your shopping through this link: https://amzn.to/3YyoT98DONATE: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaDSUBSTACK: https://substack.com/@UCqV4_7i9h1_V7hY48eZZSLw@demystifysci RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rssMAILING LIST: https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/- Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySciMUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

  6. Aug 4

    Tracing a Line From Göbekli Tepe to the Bronze Age – Jens Notroff (DemystifySci +436)

    Archaeologist Jens Notroff of the German Archaeological Institute takes us into Göbekli Tepe and the Taş Tepeler world, where hunter-gatherers raised T-shaped pillars and carved the aurochs into stone long before the first Bronze Age king wore a crown. No palaces and no royal graves, only a fingerprint pressed into wet plaster and a child's footprint set in a mudbrick, the small human traces that outlast every monument. Follow the bull forward and you feel a line running from Anatolia toward the Bronze Age, and though the road to Mesopotamia is broken and lost, the people who built these sanctuaries did not vanish, they became us. What Notroff leaves us is heavier than any ruin: hierarchy was something human beings made and could have made otherwise, and that old freedom is still ours to remember. PATREON https://www.patreon.com/c/demystifysci PARADOX LOST PRE-SALE: https://buy.stripe.com/7sY7sKdoN5d29eUdYddEs0b HOMEBREW MUSIC - Check out our new album! Hard Copies (Vinyl): FREE SHIPPING https://demystifysci-shop.fourthwall.com/products/vinyl-lp-secretary-of-nature-everything-is-so-good-here Streaming: https://secretaryofnature.bandcamp.com/album/everything-is-so-good-here PARADIGM DRIFT https://demystifysci.com/paradigm-drift-show 00:00 Go! Intro, the Puzzle, and Jens's Path In 00:06:03 What Rubbish Tells You That Writing Hides 00:14:34 Metal, Power, and the First Hierarchies 00:22:27 Other Roads Society Could Have Taken, and Violence Before States 00:30:14 Warriors Appear, and Anatolia Seeds European Farming 00:37:58 How Farming Actually Started, and What Göbekli Was For 00:45:35 Who Carved the Pillars, and What the Art Meant 00:54:39 Neolithic Beer, and Why They Built in the Mountains 01:05:49 Humans Take Center Stage in the Art 01:13:55 Bull Imagery That Bridges the Ages, and the Missing Line 01:22:55 A Wider Tradition, Human Awe, and Shaping Nature 01:29:56 Prehistory We Lost to Wood and Water 01:37:01 Backfilling, Fire, and Ritual Staging 01:47:26 Initiation, Death, and the Birds 01:57:07 What Carried Over, and What It Means Now #GobekliTepe #BronzeAge #Archaeology MERCH: Rock some DemystifySci gear : https://demystifysci-shop.fourthwall.com/ AMAZON: Do your shopping through this link: https://amzn.to/3YyoT98 DONATE: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD SUBSTACK: https://substack.com/@UCqV4_7i9h1_V7hY48eZZSLw@demystifysci RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss MAILING LIST: https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

  7. Aug 3

    Electron Is Something the Atom Does - LIVE! Drs. A.V. Bendebury & M.S. DeLay (DemystifySci +435)

    The electron arrives in every textbook the same way, a point with no size, no interior, no address, a charge that lives nowhere and hazily explains everything, and nobody stops to tell you what got traded away to buy that convenience. We start at the outer surface of the atom and walk backward through J.J. Thomson and the cathode ray tubes, through the long slow formalization that turned a glow in a glass tube into a fundamental particle with no parts. Then we hand the body back, reading the electron not as something the atom contains but as something the atom does, the motion of an extended surface that has a real edge and a real place in the world. Free electrons, beams in vacuum, the whole cathode ray inheritance still has to come out right, and this is where our upcoming book, Paradox Lost, starts building the material atom from the outside in.#physics #electron #philosophyofphysics #quantumphysics #quantumfoundations #ontology #historyofphysics #matter #paradoxlost Pre-order our upcoming book, Paradox Lost: https://buy.stripe.com/7sY7sKdoN5d29eUdYddEs0bPATREON https://www.patreon.com/c/demystifysciHOMEBREW MUSIC - Check out our new album!Hard Copies (Vinyl): FREE SHIPPING https://demystifysci-shop.fourthwall.com/products/vinyl-lp-secretary-of-nature-everything-is-so-good-hereStreaming:https://secretaryofnature.bandcamp.com/album/everything-is-so-good-herePARADIGM DRIFThttps://demystifysci.com/paradigm-drift-showMERCH: Rock some DemystifySci gear : https://demystifysci-shop.fourthwall.com/AMAZON: Do your shopping through this link: https://amzn.to/3YyoT98DONATE: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaDSUBSTACK: https://substack.com/@UCqV4_7i9h1_V7hY48eZZSLw@demystifysci RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rssMAILING LIST: https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/- Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySciMUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

  8. Jul 28

    Last Time the World Ended – SOLO! (DemystifySci +434)

    Our recent guests, Dr. Eric Cline and Dr. Jesse Millek have wildly different takes on the Bronze Age Collapse, and the picture that comes clear when you lay them side by side is not the one the textbooks handed down. The Sea Peoples did not come off the water and burn the world; the world was already coming apart from the inside, empires overreaching, trade thinning rather than snapping, cities emptying without a single sword raised against them. We walk the whole arc here, from the Minoans and their lost writing to the Hittites at each other's throats to the slow bleed of belief that hollows a civilization long before anything falls, and we ask the question that keeps this three-thousand-year-old story pulling millions of views. Why does the end of the Bronze Age feel so much like a mirror, and what does it know about us that we would rather not know about ourselves? TEXTS REFERENCED: The Mycenaean World: https://www.scribd.com/document/670938930/The-Mycenaean-World-Chadwick-Press Life & Society in The Hittite World: https://www.academia.edu/2231393/Life_and_Society_in_The_Hitite_World_by_Trevor_Bryce Village Life in Ancient Egypt: file:///Users/michaeldelay/Documents/SCIENCE/books/village-life-in-ancient-egypt-laundry-lists-and-love-songs-new-ed-0199247536-9780199247530_compress.pdf PATREON https://www.patreon.com/c/demystifysci PARADOX LOST PRE-SALE: https://buy.stripe.com/7sY7sKdoN5d29eUdYddEs0b HOMEBREW MUSIC - Check out our new album! Hard Copies (Vinyl): FREE SHIPPING https://demystifysci-shop.fourthwall.com/products/vinyl-lp-secretary-of-nature-everything-is-so-good-here Streaming: https://secretaryofnature.bandcamp.com/album/everything-is-so-good-here PARADIGM DRIFT https://demystifysci.com/paradigm-drift-show 00:00 Go! Synthesizing Cline and Millek 00:06:26 Why This Collapse Still Haunts Us 00:10:07 Cities That Ran Without Rulers 00:12:24 What the Sea Peoples Story Gets Wrong 00:18:05 Empires That Broke Themselves 00:24:35 What Rose From the Ashes 00:28:25 Records We Can't Read 00:38:28 Why People Stay Loyal to Empires 00:43:35 When Belief Runs Out 00:51:17 Wars That Lost Their Meaning 00:59:22 What Survives When Government Doesn't 01:08:34 Who Gets the Wealth After Collapse 01:15:24 Was Empire Ever Necessary 01:22:11 What Can and Can't Be Rebuilt 01:36:43 Repair It or Let It Burn #bronzeage #ancienthistory #bronzeagecollapse #seapeoples #archaeology #ancientcivilizations #history #minoans #hittites #collapse MERCH: Rock some DemystifySci gear : https://demystifysci-shop.fourthwall.com/ AMAZON: Do your shopping through this link: https://amzn.to/3YyoT98 DONATE: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD SUBSTACK: https://substack.com/@UCqV4_7i9h1_V7hY48eZZSLw@demystifysci RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss MAILING LIST: https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

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Support Us! https://www.patreon.com/DemystifySci DemystifySci is Dr. Michael Shilo DeLay and Dr. Anastasia Bendebury. Together they untangle complex theories of nature, making analysis accessible through conversations with exceptional thinkers. Each week they interview a new theorist about the ideas that are going to rewrite our understanding of the world. Power them via Patreon: @demystifysci

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