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Marcelo Gleiser

Marcelo Gleiser appears in the following:

Should Humans Explore The Stars?

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Should we send humans or robots into outer space? With private interests taking over the space race, it's hard to see us out of the game.

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Of Alien Intelligence, The Supernatural And Divinity

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Can we distinguish between ultra-advanced aliens and gods? Crazy as it may sound, commentator Marcelo Gleiser says this line of reasoning is sound and blurs the boundary between the natural and the supernatural.

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What Happened Before The Big Bang? And Other Weird Cosmic Questions

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Did time start with the big bang? What's outside the universe? Here are answers to these and other questions you always wanted to ask about the universe.

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Dexter's Killer Commentary On Science And Religion

Friday, October 28, 2011

In the Showtime series Dexter, an atheist serial killer confronts other killers who believe themselves to be following God's plan. In the midst of much blood, the plot offers a meditation on science and religion.

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Nothing's the Antimatter

Monday, April 18, 2011

Just after the Big Bang, the universe was a primordial soup made of light. Then, it started belching out matter. Neil deGrasse Tyson explains how deeply shocking this is, and Marcelo Gleiser reveals an imperfection in the laws of physics that makes our very existence possible.

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Desperately Seeking Symmetry

Monday, April 18, 2011

This hour of Radiolab, Jad and Robert set out in search of order and balance in the world around us, and ask how symmetry shapes our very existence--from the origins of the universe, to what we see when we look in the mirror.

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Mirror, Mirror

Monday, April 18, 2011

The mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson posed a big question about mirrors in one of his best-known books: Through the Looking-Glass (yup, Dodgson's pen name was Lewis Carroll). Natasha Gostwick of Storynory reads an excerpt that gets at the heart of the trouble: is mirror milk any good to drink? ...

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