Hakeem Oluseyi: An Unexpected Life in Science & Unpopular Truths

The Origins Podcast, a production of The Origins Project Foundation, features in-depth conversations with some of the most interesting people in the world about the issues that impact all of us in the 21st century. Host, theoretical physicist, lecturer, and author, Lawrence M. Krauss, will be joined by guests from a wide range of fields, including science, the arts, and journalism. The topics discussed on The Origins Podcast reflect the full range of the human experience - exploring science and culture in a way that seeks to entertain, educate, and inspire.

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[stargazer]

Hakeem, I'll be getting your book. During the past 2 hours, I feel like your words woke me up from a long sleep. Thank you sir

[HGALAXIES]

This guy, Hakeem, is one of those rare breeds and amazing characters! Lawrence's work on finding subjects to talk and bringing the right people to talk about those subjects is stunning as well. However, he still has to work A LOT on NOT INTERRUPTING left and right and to organize his thoughts!😂 I guess he's full of dark matter! 😂

[OrchidFlame]

20:23 right here Lawrence hits the nail on the head. And maybe insignificant for this whole conversation, but honestly hes right - because i do this with my own children, snd we spend some time discovering the answer to their question together. This has led to their love of learninf, and their curiosity expanding. They always want to know "why?" and they come up with a lot of great hypothesis and we search together to tey and come up with answers. Irs really a great way to help kids learn to love to learn!

[Flip_Angle]

I read his book. Amazing story. Amazing man.

[anonymoususer]

I thoroughly enjoyed this podcast. Thank you gentlemen for being a voice of reason. I look forward to the next one!

[catalinpoppa]

Brilliant conversation as always thank you Lawrence Krauss we need to hear more about less known scientists

[Rxman]

It took me several sittings to get through this, but is was fascinating and engaging.
It truly is sad how academia is becoming so politically correct and cowardly, bowing to cancel culture at any opportunity. It is going to come around to bite us

[PrinceWilliam]

46:37 that’s an incredibly insightful point, regarding the amount of science communicators with southern accents or lack thereof. You don’t necessarily associate the two states of being as compatible but these individuals must exist.
Such an interesting and thought provoking discussion!

[DstnyCln]

Hakeem makes a very important observation (and something I have long believed) which is that bullies will just go for the low hanging fruit. Many of these incidences of casual racism that people get so upset about are not even fundamentally racist in nature. It's just a case of a bully focusing on the thing that will get the biggest reaction.

[Boris]

My favorite person on Discovery Channel back in the days

[ohalloranjames]

great conversation thanks for this. enjoyed it immensely. Gee, I never thought about it before but yeah, LK is a city slicker. :) HK's body language is wonderfully engaging and I hope it motivates his students to embrace the practice of learning.

[chadjcrase]

As a non-academic, albeit one with scientific training, I find it fascinating to listen to these two brilliant people on the 'inside' of that world. I love your openness to intellectual ideas and awareness of ideas that are not directly related to acadaemia. I admit I would not have held that view of Lawrence at some points during those distant religious debates, but even Lawrence now admits he was probably debating a different question.

[carlosderesende]

Great episode. Great guest. I am a big fan of the podcast. Keep it up!

[televisionsux]

..I love the way Hakeem's eyes open wide as saucers when you two are talking about "touchy, eureka moment" subject matter...It's literally an "eye opening" visual effects, experience. His story of having a snowwball's chance in H-E-double L hockey sticks of achieving what he's achieved and being who he is, NOW, in his field of study is truly remarkable. What a great story.

[untouchablesawblaze]

Excellent talk! Some of my favourite faces from How The Universe Works!😁

[PrinceWilliam]

1:44:02 to the statement he made about his mother earlier, no his 10 year old son is not smarter than him!

This became highly technical out of nowhere and I couldn’t be happier.

[kikimatthes]

Laurence interrupts Hakeem constantly and elaborates on his own experiences and beliefs, I wish he could have listened a bit more and let his interview partner talk.

[lauwilliams-hnqs]

Also, Lawrence, PLEASE STOP saying RACE does not matter when those who are experiencing it point it out. The more you spoke which was a lot, the more you focused on trying to undermine those who have or do bring it up. Try LISTENING instead of criticizing.

[JamesCairney]

This was really good.
Talking of "racism" I went to school for four years, as a Scottish kid in Gibraltar, surrounded with Spanish kids who would ask things like
"Do you know what TV is?"
"You live in caves and hit people over the head with clubs don't you?"
"You can't be Catholic, we are Catholic, you're not!"
I thought it was funny to be honest, and they were all scared of a clubbing so win win!

[bardwessel]

Not at all that I would come to think of Hakeem Oluseyi in relation to the tragic works of other's unfortunate choices in relation to this, but there's a reminder about relating to what Lawrence Krauss once said about people who as soon as they get sorted out how mathematical expressions relates to and makes way for connecting with images of reality as they serve to explain physics, then they're likely to want to make use of newly found connections by switching to studies related to finances. I seem to remember that one of his expressions concerning this in particular was relating to Norway, somehow, which is probably why it now brought about memories of a talented boxer, once a friend, who happened very early to possess the obviously rare ability enableing one to a larger extent to "go the other way", so to sprak, while explaining to others, or attempting to do so, physical reactions by involving mathematical equations. My point after the facts has of cause been, while being known no doubt as "hopelessly boring and insignificant by far too often beginning to involve socially insignificant matters with matters of significans" among in the end surely bothering means amongst the identifying habits by people, even if some or more truth amounts in that a talented boxer's destiny's not much fitting as excuse on my own part. Daring to make use of a certainly sensed relation, therefore, environments of various kinds that serves to establish ranges of pathways for unfortunate reactions and risks associated with damages and "the great art of boxing" betweens is today representing more in itself an example of a splendid method of distancing oneself then of introducing a theme of interest, what ever trends may say about development of the place for naturally conditioned talents amongst the no doubt rarer. For what ever it's worth, I tend to hope not to experience arguments in favour of sports associated with head injuries from guys like Krauss and Oluseyi, while what ever count of exceptions might be about, memories are to an uncombinable amount parts of earlier experienced facts already, and Amen, among scientists having studied this relentlessly over a long period of time, is very far from alone in confirming findings either what physical, pshycological, or otherwise mentally inflicting factors involves.