Sept 29, 2022
An op-ed in the Chronicle for Higher Education, calling for public disclosure of research funding.
Aug 16, 2022
Craig Callender on time, quantum gravity, blackhole thermodynamics, ethics
Oct 20, 2021
I join Hey Lesson for a podcast interview about the video game Deathloop...which naturally brings up the nature of time.
Sept 2, 2021
Newton's Exploding Clock
The Philosopher's Zone, Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Interviewed by Sam Baron.
Oct 23, 2017
The Page 99 Test
"Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you." Ford Maddux Ford
July 2023
Craig, Tim and Robinson discuss time an physics.
Aug 13, 2021
Fun podcast interview with Brian Keating. YouTube, Apple, Spotify, Google Play, etc.
Jan 13, 2022
Louisville Courier Journal
Dec 1, 2022
This is a nice write-up of a talk I gave on manifest and physical time at NC State.
Sept 2020
Nature of Time, Quantum and Relativity, Free Will: An Interview with Craig Callender
Little Brains Big Topics is a podcast where we'll try to talk about anything interesting from news and politics to philosophy and logic to science and technology and most importantly have fun ;)
March 2023
Craig and Robinson discuss the boundary between science and pseudoscience, as well as case studies of science, pseudoscience, and conspiracy theories, including super-string theory, psychoanalysis, astrology, and more.
April 2022
An introduction to the children's magazine KidSpirit's issue on time and space.
Aug 13, 2021
Beyond Space and Time
IAI.TV. HowTheLightGetsIn Festival. Debate with Laura Mersini-Houghton, Paul Davies, Hilary Lawson and Sarah Walker.
Aug 20, 2021
The best books on time for people who love physics and deep thinking
Here I describe five of my favorite books on time and why they are important to me.
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.
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.
September 30, 2020
Strange Times
A feature in Triton Magazine, UCSD's alumni magazine
June 24, 2020
Interview on COVID-19 Science & Ethics
An interview in Social Sciences in China Press
September 7, 2021
We imagine ourselves as existing within time and space. Yet, we only ever experience the present moment. ...Renowned multiverse theorist Laura Mersini-Houghton, legendary physicist, writer and broadcaster Paul Davies, post postmodern philosopher and Closure theorist Hilary Lawson and philosopher of science Craig Callender lock horns over the arrows of time. Sara Walker hosts.
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.
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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.
September 8, 2010
THREE decades ago, Stephen Hawking famously declared that a “theory of everything” was on the horizon, with a 50 per cent chance of its completion by 2000. Now it is 2010, and Hawking has given up...
August 25, 2014
What is Time?
Closer to the Truth, interview by Robert Kuhn. Time is a mystery; it's not what it seems. Time's flow feels unstoppable, yet some say time is not fundamental, perhaps not even real. Why do physicists and philosophers think time is a construct, something that emerges, not something that is basic?
January 14, 2017
Closer to the Truth
More interviews with Robert Kuhn in Copenhagen. Topics include quantum theory, emergence, fundamental laws of nature, and more.
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.
I've also been quoted many times, including:
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Inside Science, Huffington Post: Does Time Flow Forward?, 2014
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What Is Time? The Biggest Questions. Podcast interview by Tony Sobrado
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“The Time is Gone” by Nicola Nosengo, L'Espresso, January 19, 2012
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New Scientist: Saving Time. Physics Killed It. Do We Need It Back? (2013)
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New Scientist, Why Has Space Exactly Three Dimensions? (2013)
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Skipping Along with the Heavyweights of Time, New Scientist June 2010
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Scientific American, A Hole at the Heart of Physics, 2006