Professor Muller has had an incredibly illustrious career, and to cover all of his accomplishments in a single podcast would be impractical. To name just one, he led the project which eventually led to the Nobel Prize winning discovery of dark energy.

This podcast is focused on his current and ongoing ventures, as well as some of his yet to be confirmed theories, and some general life lessons.

If you are interested in learning more, you should follow Professor Muller on Quora, or grab a copy of his latest book, Now: the Physics of Time, now available on paperback as well as Kindle.

In this episode of the podcast, I spoke with professor emeritus Richard Muller about a wide-ranging set of topics, including:

His work with Berkeley Earth, and how developing countries can work to lessen their impact on the environment and the atmosphere,
The harm of Al Gore's 'documentary', An Inconvenient Truth, has done to the credibility of the scientific community.
What a president ought to know about North Korean nukes,
Why time continues to flow, as outline in his newest book Now: the Physics of Time
How his current startup, Deep Isolation Inc. is working on a new method for nuclear waste storage,
His surprising analysis of current POTUS Trump's energy plan in comparison to that of previous POTUS Obama,
and much, much more.

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Nov 22, 2018

#37 Jeremy Hammer - BearX

Nov 22, 2018

Jeremy Hammer is the founder and CEO of BearX (formerly Bear Founders), an online portal into UC Berkeley’s community of innovators and entrepreneurs.

In this podcast, YJ sits down with Jeremy to dig deeper into the unique journey through life that lead him to founding BearX.

We talk about his high school hustle of flipping used Audi’s, trading playing cards, joining the Navy for 6 years and taking online classes on the side, to eventually getting into UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and starting his current venture, BearX.

BearX started as one of many projects for Jeremy, and is currently a part of Skydeck Accelerator’s hotdesk program. What started as a project meant to scratch his own itch of not knowing about all the startups and projects in the ecosystem is quickly becoming UC Berkeley’s hub for startups, founders, and talented students to quickly connect and form relationships.

Nov 22, 2018

#36 Niraj the Renegade Pharmacist

Nov 22, 2018

Niraj Naik is a qualified pharmacist who comes from a background of working long hours for several years as a community pharmacist. Becoming a certified “legal drug dealer” at the ripe age of 24, he got to witness first-hand, many clients going home with shopping bags full of drugs each month, rarely getting better and usually going on to suffer from other diseases. He also learnt of the debilitating side effects of the prescription medication which drove many of the patients to have to take more and more drugs to ease the side effects.

Nov 22, 2018

Sep 11, 2018

#30 Hiven.me | Work from Home, Anywhere

Sep 11, 2018

Christelle is a French engineer and co-founder of Hiven, a home-based coworking community which allows local professionals to work from a variety of conducive living rooms, revitalize the local economy, support local businesses, and build community. I sincerely cannot wait for the day I'm able to work from home from anywhere in the world on a whim through the magic of Hiven. This is truly the modern digital nomad's dream come true.

Sep 11, 2018

Aug 21, 2018

#29 Humm (Skydeck F18) | Hack Your Own Biology for Productivity & Cognitive Enhancement

Aug 21, 2018

Ahmud is an Australian entrepreneur and cofounder of Humm, a new generation hybrid software toolkit for cognitive enhancement. He's worked in Australia's top finance firm as well as in racecar engineering before diving head first into the deep end of wearable tech innovation.

Visit www.humm.tech to learn more about Humm, whether for career opportunities or just to try to get your hands on the new Edge device for esports gamers. https://www.humm.tech/esports

Aug 21, 2018

Mar 13, 2018

#24 John Denero | Ethics (& Memes) for Computer Science

Mar 13, 2018

Professor Denero recently joined the UC Berkeley faculty after a stint as a senior researcher on the Google Translate team. John Denero has also become sort of a cult hero among the Computer Science students at UC Berkeley, regularly being featured on a popular Facebook group, UC Berkeley Memes for Edgy Teens. We ask him how he feels about this in the podcast.

In this podcast, we delve into many interesting facets of John Denero’s life ranging from his viewpoints on philosophy, the ethics of computer science, artificial intelligence’s impact on society, Google translate’s progress, CS61A and how great students prepare for the class, and much more. Enjoy!

Mar 13, 2018

Feb 21, 2018

#23 - Ken Goldberg | Robots are Reflections of Ourselves

Feb 21, 2018

Ken Goldberg is a professor and chair at UC Berkeley's Industrial Engineering and Operations Research department. His research specializes in robotics and automation. He and his team have published over 170 papers on robotics and automation to date.

Feb 21, 2018

Jan 12, 2018

#22 - Alexander Coward | how might we better approach education?

Jan 12, 2018

Alexander Coward holds a bachelor's and a PHD in Mathematics from Oxford University and an Honorary Doctorate of Education from Thai Nguyen University in Vietnam. Before starting his current education startup, EdeeU, he was a lecturer of Mathematics at UC Berkeley. He was dismissed from his position after a controversial spat with the administration for his highly acclaimed, passionate style of teaching. You can read about this in the excerpt below.

Jan 12, 2018

Nov 24, 2017

Space.coop is building a DAO for funding space missions

Nov 24, 2017

In this episode, Jeff speaks with Yalda Mousavinia, cofounder of Space Cooperative, about the potential for blockchain to lower the barrier to entry into involvement in funding missions to space. Yalda graduated from Cal with a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2008, and was working as a Senior Product Manager at Oracle before leaving her job to start Space Cooperative.

Nov 24, 2017

Nov 20, 2017

Erik the Wandering Poet

Nov 20, 2017

Erik Thursson was born to a single mother living in a rural town in New York. He never knew his father, but he did know that each one of his siblings had a different father. By the time he could walk, he had moved more times than most of us have moved in our entire lives. He doesn’t remember much, but he does remember eating rotten food. And he does remember trying to kill himself by jumping in front of a car. When he was 7. Erik's passion for literature has been with him at his darkest times, and continues to be present in his daily life. He can be seen in Berkeley selling poems, and spreading love to the Berkeley community.

Nov 20, 2017

Nov 14, 2017

Richard Muller - Climate Change & the Physics of Time

Nov 14, 2017

Nov 7, 2017

Alex Filippenko - the accelerating expansion of the universe

Nov 7, 2017

Professor Filippenko has an almost unparalleled academic career in the field of astronomy. Having been a professor at UC Berkeley for over 30 years, Alex has won a flurry of awards including the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics in 2015, the Gruber Cosmology Prize in 2007, and “Best Professor” on the Berkeley campus a record 9 times!

In this podcast, Professor Filippenko speaks to some of the milestones of his incredible academic career, in addition to the current projects and initiatives he’s working on.

Nov 7, 2017