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Polymath World Channel
Join us on our quest for the extraordinary! Sam McKee (@polymath_sam) has 9 university qualifications across 4 subjects including doctorates in history and philosophy of science and molecular biology. He researches both at two British universities and contributes to both space science and cancer research. Meet fellow polymaths and discipline leaders working on the frontiers of research from all over the world. Be inspired to pursue knowledge and drive the world forwards. Watch and share…
Episodes
Polymath World ChannelEpisode 74: Human Performance in Extreme Environments - Dr Laura Thomas
Dr. Laura Thomas is a psychologist specialising in human performance in extreme environments. She shares insights from her extensive experience with analog…
Polymath World ChannelEpisode 73: Space Tourism and Architecture with John Spencer
John Spencer is a pioneering outer space architect and the recipient of design awards from NASA for his work on the International Space Station (ISS). He…
Polymath World ChannelEpisode 72: NASA Astronaut Dan Tani: Spacewalks, Teamwork & The Future of Space Exploration
From building model rockets to exploring space, NASA astronaut Dan Tani shares his inspiring journey and experiences as a spaceflight veteran. Discover the…
Polymath World ChannelEpisode 71 - Genomics and Gene Sequencing - Dr Ros Jackson
Dr Ros Jackson has worked for Illumina in Cambridge for the past two decades, during which time gene sequencing has become cheap, accurate, rapid and…
Polymath World ChannelEpisode 70 - Becoming Martian - Evolution on Mars - Professor Scott Solomon
Episode 70: Becoming Martian | How Evolution Could Change Humans on Mars with Scott Solomon What would happen to the human body and mind if we lived on Mars…
Polymath World ChannelEpisode 69: Humans to Mars, the Moon & the Future of Space Exploration | Dr. Tiffany Vora
Episode 69: Humans to Mars, the Moon & the Future of Space Exploration | Dr. Tiffany Vora What will it take for humanity to become a multi-planetary…
Polymath World ChannelEpisode 68 Science on the ISS, Astronauts & Inspiring the Next Generation - Chris Barber
Chris Barber is the founder and CEO of ISSET. For over 20 years he has been running programs for young people with astronauts, NASA personnel, and first-class…
Polymath World ChannelEpisode 67 - Zoology, Bioengineering, Science and Religion - Dr Andrew Jackson
Episode 67: Dr. Andrew Jackson on Zoology, Bioengineering, Science & Religion Can science, engineering, and theology work together to deepen our understanding…
Polymath World ChannelEpisode 66 - Exvangelicalism - Harry Amos
Summary Harry Amos shares his journey from evangelical faith to atheism, exploring the role of faith, doubt, and intellectual inquiry in his life. This episode…
Polymath World ChannelEpisode 65 The Ethics of Space Medicine - Samuel McKee
Episode.65 | The Ethics of Space Medicine | Samuel McKee on Space Surgery & Future Missions What happens when an astronaut needs emergency medical care…
Polymath World ChannelEpisode 64 What is Humanism? Neil McKain on Ethics, Reason & the Future of Humanity
Episode 64: What Is Humanism? Neil McKain on Ethics, Reason & the Future of Humanity What is humanism, and why does it matter in a rapidly changing world? In…
Polymath World ChannelEpisode 63 | Space Philosopher | Frank White
Frank White — The Overview Effect, Space Philosophy and Humanity's Place in the Cosmos What happens when we stop seeing Earth as a collection of nations…
Polymath World ChannelPolymath World Episode 62 NASA Astronaut Steve Swanson
Episode Title: ISS Commander Steve Swanson on Spacewalks, Soyuz, and Space Lettuce Description: What does it take to command the International Space Station?…
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Polymath World Episode 61 Leibniz with Dr Lloyd Strickland
Polymath, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716), if new to you, has had an enormous impact on many important aspects of your life in the 21st Century. Learn…
Polymath World ChannelPolymath World Episode 60 – Rowland Lindill – The Armchair Astronaut
Imagine playing a role in bringing Astronauts - British, European, and American into UK schools. Upturned faces as the children listen attentively and learn to…
Polymath World ChannelPolymath World Episode 59 - Glen Scrivener
CHRISTIANITY What is Christianity? Does it work? How does it shape the Western world? Glen Scrivener, author of the award-winning book "The Air We Breathe"…
Polymath World ChannelPolymath World Episode 58 - Dr Shaun Stevenson
CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY Dr Shaun Steveson is lecturer in philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is an expert of philosophy of death, which not…
Polymath World ChannelPolymath World Episode 57 - Kelly Weinersmith
A City On Mars Dr Kelly Weinersmith is a scientist, pop-sci author, and podcaster. She is on the biosciences faculty at Rice University, a research associate…
Polymath World ChannelPolymath World Episode 56 - Patrick Rennie
Nuclear Propulsion Can we travel further, faster in space with nuclear propulsion? As NASA gets ready to launch Space Reactor-1 Freedom (SR-1) in 2028 we…
Polymath World ChannelPolymath World Episode 55: Dr Erika DeBenedictis
GENE EDITING AND TERRAFORMING MARS Dr Erika DeBenedictus is CEO of Pioneer Labs. She is a computational physicist and synthetic biologist working at the…
Polymath World ChannelPolymath World Episode 54 - BIS Lecture: Reinventing Space 2025
COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY AND HUMAN SPACEFLIGHT Many thanks to the British Interplanetary Society for allowing me to publish this lecture on my channel. I was…
Polymath World ChannelPolymath World Episode 53 - Prof David Wilkinson
ASTROPHYSICS AND THEOLOGY Dr David Wilkinson is an extraordinary polymath - a man with 2 PhDs and a published scholar across both science and theology. He is…
Polymath World ChannelPolymath World # Episode 52 - Samantha Tauber
VNCCII NASA ASTROBOTICS and NANOFISCH Samantha Tauber is the visionary creator of VNCCII® and the founding architect behind the Galacta.i.ssance Movement—a…
Polymath World ChannelPolymath World # Episode 51 - Dr John Nelson
Theology WHAT DID JESUS LOOK LIKE? Dr John Nelson is a theologian who studied his Masters and PhD at Oxford University. He did his BA at the University of…
Polymath World ChannelPolymath World # Episode 50 - The Mars Society UK
MARS It was great fun getting together with fellow members of the Mars Society to chat all things Mars. Between us we have rocket scientists, engineers…
Polymath World ChannelPolymath World # Episode 49 - Dr Mirjam Schilling
VIROLOGY Dr Mirjam Schilling is a virologist researching the arbovirus family. She is a dual research fellow of Exeter College at Oxford University with a…
Polymath World ChannelPolymath World # Episode 48 - Melody Safavizdeh
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Melody Safavizadeh has held leadership roles at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on missions including Mars 2020 and Psyche. With a…
Polymath World ChannelPolymath World # Episode 47 - Darwin Day 2026 Lecture
WHY EVOLUTION IS TRUE In February 2026 I gave the annual Darwin Day Lecture at Leicester Secular Hall on "The Genomics Revolution in Evolution" explaining how…
Polymath World ChannelPolymath World # Episode 46 - Dr Denis Alexander
MOLECULAR IMMUNOLOGY Dr Denis Alexander is the Emeritus Director of The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion and Emeritus Fellow of St Edmund’s College…
Polymath World ChannelPolymath World # Episode 45 - Dr Joshua Sijuwade
PHILOSOPHY Dr Joshua Sijuwade is Teaching Fellow in Philosophy of Religion at the University of Birmingham. He gained a BA in Theology at London School of…
Polymath World ChannelPolymath World # Episode 44 - Professor Keith Fox
BIOCHEMISTRY Dr Keith Fox is Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry at Southampton University. After doing his degree, two masters degrees, and then PhD at…
Polymath World ChannelPolymath World # Episode 43 - Dr Helen Sharman
Polymath World # Episode 43 - Dr Helen Sharman ASTRONAUT Dr Helen Sharman CMG OBE is Britain's first ever astronaut. Flying to the space station Mir in 1991…
Polymath World ChannelPolymath World # Episode 42 - Dr Kim Holland
SHARKS Dr Kim Holland is Research Professor at the Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology. Known as the 'Shark Lab', together with his team Dr Holland runs the…
Polymath World ChannelPolymath World # Episode 41 - Dr Nick Spencer
History of science and religion Dr Nick Spencer is the best-selling author of books such as "Magisteria", "The Political Samaritan" and "Playing God". After…
Polymath World ChannelPolymath World # Episode 40 - Dr Julian Baggini
PHILOSOPHY Julian Baggini is an English philosopher, journalist and the author of over 20 books about philosophy written for a general audience. He is…
Polymath World ChannelPolymath World # Episode 39 - Howard and Michele Hall
Oceanography: Filming whales Howard and Michelle Hall are diving and underwater photography royalty. Few people have brought the world of whales to us as much…
Polymath World ChannelPolymath World # Episode 38 - Dr Philip Goff
PHILOSOPHY OF MIND Dr Philip Goff is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Durham. He is one of the main thinkers behind panpsychism today and…
Polymath World ChannelPolymath World # Episode 37 - Professor Simon Mitton
ASTRONOMY AND HISTORY Dr Simon Mitton is a Fellow of 3 Royal Societies, a Life Fellow of St Edmund's College, Cambridge University, and an incredible…
Polymath World ChannelPolymath World # Episode 36 - Professor Bob White FRS
GEOPHYSICS Professor Bob White is a Fellow of the Royal Society and Emeritus Professor of Geophysics at Cambridge University. He was elected a Fellow of the…
Polymath World ChannelPolymath World # Episode 35 - Dr Tiffany Vora
SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY How can we live on Mars? Dr Tiffany Vora is a synthetic biologist from Silicon Valley and a leading space scientist. A graduate in biology…
Polymath World ChannelPolymath World # Episode 34 - Roundtable: Philosophy - Simone Weil
SIMONE WEIL: Dr Chris Thomas and Dr Alex Carter Together with Dr Chris Thomas, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University, and Dr Alex…
Polymath World ChannelPolymath World # Episode 33 - Dr Gillian Straine
ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS and THEOLOGY Dr Gillian Straine is one of the most remarkable people I have ever met. A tremendous mind, she did a PhD in atmospheric…
Polymath World ChannelPolymath World # Episode 32 - Dr Amna Whiston
PHILOSOPHY Dr Amna Whiston is a philosopher who specialises in moral philosophy and the philosophy of mind. She teaches at Oxford University and Cambridge…
Polymath World ChannelPolymath World # Episode 31 - Prof William Lane Craig
PHILOSOPHY Dr Craig is a world renowned philosopher of religion and an authority on the discipline known as "apologetics". He authored the textbook we used as…
Polymath World ChannelPolymath World # Episode 30 - Dr Julie Keeble
PHARMACOLOGY AND SPACE SCIENCE Dr Julie Keeble is senior lecturer in pharmacology at Kings College London in the faculty of medicine and life sciences. She is…
Polymath World ChannelPolymath World # Episode 29 - Dr Lawrence Krauss
THEORETICAL PHYSICS Conspiracy theories, science denial and inspiring wonder Dr Lawrence Krauss is an award winning science communicator and author…
Polymath World ChannelMars Society Conference 2025 at USC
DNA repair in space Can we survive on Mars with the radiation? In October 2025 I had the honour of speaking at the University of Southern California for the…
Polymath World ChannelPolymath World # Episode 28 - Ricky Arnold
NASA Astronaut The wonder of spacewalks NASA astronaut Ricky Arnold has spent 210 says in space across his 2 missions. He has completed 5 spacewalks (EVAs) for…
Polymath World ChannelPolymath World # Episode 27 - PROFESSOR KENNETH MILLER
CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY And The Intelligent Design Trial 20 years later Dr Kenneth Miller is professor (emeritus) of biology at Brown University in the USA…
Polymath World ChannelPolymath World # Episode 26 - DR ANKE ARENTSEN-ARDERN
ASTROPHYSICS WHAT IS GALACTIC ARCHAEOLOGY? Dr Anke Arentsen-Ardern is an observational astronomer in the field of Galactic Archaeology at Cambridge's world…
Polymath World ChannelREACTING TO CANDACE OWENS: ARE DINOSAURS FAKE?
Political commentator Candace Owens believes dinosaurs never existed. Why? For what reason? What is there to gain from believing dinosaurs are a conspiracy?…
Polymath World ChannelPolymath World # Episode 25 - DR MEGANNE CHRISTIAN
ESA ASTRONAUT I loved talking to the outstanding Dr Meganne Christian, astronaut reserve for the European Space Agency. Dr Meganne Christian is an ESA…
Polymath World ChannelREACTION TO MOON LANDING DENIER "Candace Owens doesn't believe we landed on the Moon"
Something a bit different this week. This is another issue close to my heart and a conspiracy theory that is so problematic and disappointing. Candace Owens is…
Polymath World ChannelPolymath World # Episode 24 - Dr Zachary Ardern
EVOLUTIONARY GENETICS Dr Zachary Ardern is an evolutionary geneticist at the world-famous Wellcome Trust Sanger Centre in Cambridge. His work investigates the…
Polymath World ChannelREACTING TO CREATIONIST PSEUDOSCIENCE - This time I lost my cool...
Of all the creationist pseudoscience videos I have seen, this was the one that tipped me over the edge. In this skit by Genesis Apologetics we have the worst…
Polymath World ChannelPolymath World # Episode 23 - Dr Kat Arney
GENETICS, CANCER AND SCIENCE COMMUNICATION Why is cancer so hard to cure in humans? Dr Kat Arney is a geneticist and an award-winning science communicator. Kat…
Polymath World ChannelReaction to “Why Evolution Is FALSE”
I finally have a look at a video by Answers In Genesis (Canada). It is a short explaining why evolution is false, apparently. There have been some poor videos…
Polymath World ChannelPolymath World # Episode 22 - Dr Sam Gregson
PARTICLE PHYSICS: THE BAD BOY OF SCIENCE Dr Sam Gregson is a particle physicist and science communicator who did his PhD at Cambridge University with the…
Polymath World ChannelPolymath World # Episode 21 - Dr Max Baker-Hytch
PHILOSOPHY Dr Max Baker-Hytch is Senior Tutor in philosophy at Oxford University. He specialises in epistemology and philosophy of religion, is the author of…
Polymath World ChannelReaction to Creationist Pseudoscience: "Evolution is a Fact - Debunked"
Here I respond to another pseudoscience video, this time by an American religious apologetics ministry called Reasons For Hope. These two men come across as…