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Cool Worlds

Cool Worlds

Space, astronomy, exoplanets, astroengineering and the search for extraterrestrial life & intelligence. The Cool Worlds Lab (http://coolworldslab.com), based at the Department of Astronomy, Columbia University, is a team of astronomers seeking to discover and understand alien worlds, particularly those where temperatures are cool enough for life, led by Professor David Kipping. Links: Subscribe!: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGHZpIpAWJQ-Jy_CeCdXhMA?sub_confirmation=1

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Episodes

138 episodes

  1. Bayesian Worlds 7:07
  2. 10 Steps for Applying to Graduate School 34:52
  3. My Thoughts on Artemis II 11:33
  4. Why Don't We Live Around a Red Dwarf? 23:54
  5. Exomoons and Earth Twins QandA 8:10
  6. Semantics 17:26
  7. The Habitable Zone: Undergraduate Outreach Project 11:31
  8. Is It Possible to Learn The Language of Planets? 38:50
  9. Why We Might NEVER Detect Alien Life 33:29
  10. Discovery of a Jupiter Twin: QandA 9:13
  11. What If Intelligence Re-Emerges? 34:00
  12. We're Finally Unlocking the "Cosmic Shoreline" 24:16
  13. Reflections from an Alien World | Tiffany Jansen 8:31
  14. How to Characterize Proxima b's Atmosphere 8:42
  15. How Astronomers Can Use Origami to Find Exomoons 24:58
  16. Is Messaging Aliens a Bad Idea? 34:34
  17. Did we find an exomoon? 18:42
  18. Why Starship Could Transform Astronomy 31:36
  19. The Star That Can't Exist 27:20
  20. How Thermodynamics Holds Back Negative Carbon Tech 33:26
  21. What's Stopping Us From Building a Warp Drive? 32:26
  22. Are Alien "Lurkers" Watching You? 36:02
  23. Why Technological Civilizations Might Be Insanely Rare 24:17
  24. Where are the exomoons? 6:38
  25. Is the Solar System Special? 30:12
  26. New Discoveries from Kepler 9:04
  27. The Problem With "The Rare Earth Hypothesis" 31:30
  28. Documentary Shoot | Behind the Scenes 8:39
  29. Why Finding Aliens Could Doom Humanity 34:51
  30. Eyeball Earths 11:32
  31. What the Hell Happened to Venus? 33:37
  32. Discovery of a Jupiter Twin! 7:18
  33. The Genius Who Thought Aliens Lived in the Sun 23:30
  34. The Fate of Our Sun 36:49
  35. The Star That Shouldn't Exist 23:06
  36. The Ultra-Cool Dwarf: TRAPPIST-1 | Elisabeth Newton 6:43
  37. Listening for Alien Civilizations at a Temporal "Waterhole" 11:47
  38. Some Good News 14:14
  39. Outlasting the Universe 27:02
  40. The Wow! Signal After 45 Years 35:44
  41. Does Life's Early Appearance Mean it's Easy? 8:42
  42. How Does ChatGPT Do on a College Level Astrophysics Exam? 36:42
  43. How to Destroy a Nuke Anywhere on Earth 22:58
  44. Why Black Holes Break The Universe 29:18
  45. Why All Mirrors Are Lying to You 12:17
  46. The Fermi Paradox Has An Incredibly Simple Solution 36:03
  47. A Theory for Tabby's Star (Without Aliens) | Metzger and Stone 21:16
  48. Traversable Wormholes 7:29
  49. We Discovered a New Exomoon Candidate!! 37:31
  50. NASA's in Trouble 28:41