Dr. Starkid
Hosted by Dr. Dakotah Tyler, a former Division-I college football player turned PhD astrophysicist, science communicator, author, and professor of physics and astrobiology.
Science is one of humanity’s most powerful tools for understanding reality. From the cosmos above us to the questions that shape our daily lives, every discovery offers a new way to see the world.
Through deep dives, interviews, conversations, and curiosity-driven storytelling, Dr. Starkid explores the ideas, discoveries, and mysteries that capture our imagination and expand our understanding of the universe. Featuring scientists, researchers, creators, and other fascinating minds, the show examines everything from space exploration and the search for life to the scientific discoveries reshaping how we understand ourselves and our place in the cosmos.
Lead with Curiosity.
Episodes
11 episodes
Earth Life Isn't the Center of the Universe | Astrobiology Series: Part II
This is Part 2 of the Dr. StarKid astrobiology series.Before we can talk seriously about life beyond Earth, we have to understand how humans figured out Earth was not the center of everything. This episode walks through the ideas, assump...
Funny People Love Space | Tony Baker, Comedian
This version has the corrected audioTony Baker is a comedian, actor, creator, and lifelong astronomy fan who came into this conversation ready with the National Geographic space book that first got him hooked as a kid.Expect to l...
Will We Actually Find Alien Life In Our Lifetime? | Dr. Natasha Latouf, NASA Astrobiologist
Dr. Natasha Latouf is an astrobiologist, NASA Fellow, and PhD physicist studying how we could detect Earth-like life on nearby Earth-like planets.Expect to learn what astrobiology actually is, how scientists search for biosignatures, why...
Science, Faith, and Intelligent Life | Qasim Rashid, Human Rights Attorney
Qasim Rashid is a human rights and civil rights attorney, author, advocate, and the founder of Let’s Address This. His work focuses on justice, democracy, human rights, and public discourse, but this conversation turned into a wide-ranging expl...
Why Life Might Be Almost Impossible to Kill | June Sass, M.Sc. Microbiology
June Sass is a public health scientist and microbiologist with a master’s from Johns Hopkins in molecular microbiology and immunology. Her work connects fungal biology, public health, pathogens, therapeutics, astromycology, and the microbiome. ...
What Counts as Life? Astrobiology Series: Part 1
This is the first installment in the astrobiology series, adapted from the astrobiology course Dr. Dakotah Tyler taught at university. Expect to learn what astrobiology actually means, why sci-fi aliens are usually too human, why UFO claims req...
Space Biology and Recreating Human Hearts | Dr. Suh, Microbiologist
Dr. Dakotah Tyler sits down with Dr. Suh for a wide-ranging conversation on biomedical engineering, organs on chips, how biology behaves in space, stem cells, evolution, and human identity.They talk about microgravity and aging, space tr...
Your Future Might Already Exist According To Relativity
What would alien astronomers see if they pointed an impossible telescope at Earth from millions of light-years away?This episode uses that thought experiment to explain light travel time, relativity, time dilation, the Andromeda paradox,...
My PhD Was About Alien Worlds
This episode starts with the story behind the science: how a football injury, a lost sense of identity, and a Cosmos documentary helped send me toward astronomy and exoplanet research.From there, we get into what my dissertation was actu...
How We Went From 5 Planets To 5 Trillion
How did we go from knowing a handful of planets in our own solar system to confirming thousands of worlds around other stars?This episode traces the story of exoplanets, from ancient “wanderers” in the night sky to the modern methods ast...