The Portal Podcast #038: Mass Media, Markets, and Human Malware: A Portal Q&A

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With this release, we try something a little different on The Portal. We begin an initiative to search for ways to feature members of the vibrant Portal sub-communities as part of the podcast itself, by requesting that listeners send in…

The Coming U.S. Election

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This essay appears in audio format at the beginning of The Portal Podcast, Episode 37. Hello, it's Eric with a few thoughts this week on the coming US election before we introduce this episode's main conversation. Now, I should say upfront…

The Portal Podcast #037: Andrew Marantz – Surfing the Wake of The Woke

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New Yorker writer and book author Andrew Marantz and Eric became friends shortly before the 2016 election when Andrew set off to write the first profile of Eric and Geometric Unity, his theory of Physics. Coming from similar ethnic and…

The Death and the Afterlife of the Blues

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This essay appears in audio format at the beginning of The Portal Podcast, Episode 36. Hello, it's Eric. I wanted to talk about the death and the afterlife of the blues. Now, the difficulty in talking about the blues is that people do…

The Portal Podcast #036: Stephon Alexander – Dark Matter, Black Matters and All That Jazz

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Stephon Alexander is a first class jazz musician as well as a first rate physicist and a professor at Brown University. As the New President of the National Society of Black Physicists, Eric sits down with Stephon over a good deal of wine…

Superposition

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This essay appears in audio format at the beginning of The Portal Podcast, Episode 35. Hi, it's Eric with some thoughts for this week's audio essay on the topic of superposition. Now, to those of you in the know, superposition is an…