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| Date | Combined Rank | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Castbox |
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| Oct 21 | #48 | #92 | #39 | #90 |
| Oct 20 | #54 | #153 | #39 | — |
| Oct 19 | #49 | #127 | #37 | — |
| Oct 18 | #49 | #138 | #35 | — |
| Oct 17 | #56 | #185 | #39 | — |
| Oct 16 | #51 | #101 | #43 | #89 |
| Oct 15 | #54 | #125 | #44 | — |
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Think like a physicist. Wonder like a human. Into the Impossible is where Cosmic Conversations happen — uniting Nobel Prize winners, iconoclasts, authors, and technologists to explore reality’s deepest questions. From AI to aliens, from biophysics to the brain, from the cosmos to the multiverse, Brian Keating, Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor of Physics at UC San Diego covers it all.If you’ve ever asked What’s out there? or What’s next?, this is where curiosity meets clarity.Learn to think like this. 🎙 Full episodes, notes & more: briankeating.com/podcast