July 20, 2021

Scientific Freedom: An Interview with Craig Callender

How can we use science as a force for good, and why is science increasingly seen as something dangerous? Callender explains how the philosophy of science can tackle questions such as these, in a time where navigating the path of scientific progress is more important than ever.

IAI.TV

June 5, 2021

Can We Stop Time?

Livescience's Life's Little Mysteries series. "Every once in a while, a science-fiction book, movie or TV show will feature characters who can do what we all wish: Stop time. 

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But is such a thing possible? Answering that question requires a deep dive into the farthest corners of physics, philosophy and human perception.

October 28, 2020

Why the Pandemic is Confusing Our Sense of Time: An Interview

An interview with Newspoint360 about the strange ways the pandemic lockdown might be affecting your sense of time.

June 15, 2020

Ethical responsibilities of scientists at a time of a global threat

The ISC’s Committee for Freedom and Responsibility in Science (CFRS) released a statement on ethical responsibilities of scientists at a time of global threat. I was one of the authors.

July 6, 2020

Why Time Feels So Weird in 2020

This is a fun graphics article with experiments you can do. Reuters Graphics.

January 14, 2017

A Science Teacher, A Psychologist, & A Philosopher Explain Why April Flew By

Why Does Time Go By So Fast? We Asked STEM Experts to Explain. Bustle Magazine. 

December 10, 2019

Is 2020 the Start of a New Decade? Some People Insist it's Not, and They May Have a Point

USA Today. A silly but fun distraction plus movie. 

September 5, 2019

Are We All Wrong About Black Holes?

Quanta Magazine, picked up by Wired and Apple News. Craig Callender worries that the analogy between black holes and thermodynamics has been stretched too far.

May 13, 2019

Neanderthal Among Us? Science Meets Fiction: A Discussion of the Motion Picture William

A panel discussion with Tim Disney and a few fascinating scientists about the film William. UCTV link.

April 27, 2019

Can Time Be Saved From Physics?

This is an article about my work and a conference I ran in La Jolla on time, physics, psychology and philosophy. FQXi Article.

January 14, 2017

The Nature of Time

The 2018 Awana Rural Women “No Barriers, Small Island, Big Ideas” festival will focus on the crucial, complex and often confounding topic of time. ...[M]oderated by one of the country’s best interviewers (RNZ’s Kim Hill) this year’s No Barriers promises to be another high-quality Great Barrier festival for the brain.Here is a write-up by journalist Joanna Wane.

January 14, 2017

Craig Callender - What is Time?

A Radio New Zealand interview by Jim Mora

July 26, 2018

Fewer Students Are Choosing Humanities — What San Diego Colleges Are Doing About It

KPBS TV, Radio. KPBS features my species scavenger hunt in their story. Click to watch the television, hear the radio, or read the write-up.

January 14, 2017

How To Spot Quantum Mumbo-Jumbo

A talk to the San Diego Skeptics Society

January 14, 2017

San Diego Who Con

Who Con is the Dr Who version of Comic Con. I was on a panel about time travel organized by the Fleet Science Center, October 2018.

January 2016

26 Big Ideas

San Diego Magazine's 26 Big Ideas

My idea that we lead in practical ethics was selected as one of the big ideas. 

2015

Can Time Go Backwards?

San Diego Magazine. Cityfiles, Spring 2015, interview.

January 14, 2017

Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman

Science Channel, Season 6, episode 2, aired May 6, 2015. Available on Amazon Prime, etc.

2015

Closing the Gap: Scientific Advances and Ethical Ramifications

UC San Diego Founders Symposium 2015

April 5, 2014

Time and the Conways: Subject Matters

A public Q&A after the April 5, 2014 showing of Time and the Conways, Old Globe Theater (San Diego)

2013

Falling Through Time

ABC Television, Australia. A public lecture broadcast on ABC TV Big Ideas.  It was shown on Aug 27, 2013 on ABC1 and repeated on ABCNEWS24.  Outside Australia only the unedited version is available.

December 2013

Tick-tock tussles: Why physicists can't agree on time

Australian Science, interview on Up Close. Prof Craig Callender tells us how physics has changed our understanding of time and why some even argue that the notion of time is unnecessary.

October 6, 2013

The New Great Time War

The Philosopher's Zone, ABC Radio National. Interviewed by Joe Gelonesi with fellow guest Huw Price.

July 21, 2013

Nothing To See Here: Demoting the Uncertainty Principle

The Stone, New York Times. Also picked up by Mother Jones. 

2013

Return of the Stingy Oddsmaker

The Stone, New York Times. This is a reply to readers of "Nothing To See Here".

January 14, 2017

Time Lord

Philosophy at 3AM interview by Richard Marshall (now at 3:16). Reprinted in the book

January 14, 2017

Evolving Time's Arrow

FQXi Article. Why do we perceive time marching in one direction? Combining physics, evolutionary biology and cognitive science could close the gap between the symmetrical notion of time in fundamental science and our everyday experience.

June 1, 2013

World Science Festival, Kaye Playhouse, New York. Video of NPR's Ira Flatow interviewing me, Tim Maudlin, Max Tegmark and Paul Davies. I do my spiel at about the 54 minute

June 2, 2013

A World Science Festival Salon, NYC. Paul Davies interviews Tim Maudlin, Maz Tegmark and me. The quest to unify Einstein’s theory of relativity and quantum mechanics is forcing scientists to reevaluate everything, and the concept of time is in the hot seat. 

various dates 

I've done four of these: with Julian Barbour, Peter Wait, Tim Maudlin, and Jay Odenbaugh. I've also done a related Philosophy.tv with Sean Carroll.