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Dr. Starkid

Dr. Dakotah Tyler

Science

Frequency: 1 episode/5d. Total Eps: 16

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.

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🇨🇦 Canada - astronomy
19/08/2026
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19/08/2026
#29
🇩🇪 Germany - astronomy
19/08/2026
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🇺🇸 USA - astronomy
19/08/2026
#15
🇫🇷 France - astronomy
19/08/2026
#86
🇨🇦 Canada - astronomy
18/08/2026
#25
🇬🇧 Great Britain - astronomy
18/08/2026
#68
🇩🇪 Germany - astronomy
18/08/2026
#58
🇺🇸 USA - astronomy
18/08/2026
#13
🇫🇷 France - astronomy
18/08/2026
#85

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How We Went From 5 Planets To 5 Trillion

Season 1 · Episode 1

Saturday, June 6, 2026 • Duration 49:43

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 astronomers use to detect worlds we usually can’t see directly. We talk Galileo, Jupiter’s moons, hot Jupiters, pulsar planets, lava worlds, water worlds, rogue planets, Planet 9, and why the universe keeps handing us planets we never expected.

Hosted by Dr. Dakotah Tyler.

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Friday, June 5, 2026 • Duration 01:25

My PhD Was About Alien Worlds

Season 1 · Episode 2

Wednesday, June 10, 2026 • Duration 59:27

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 actually about: atmospheric mass loss for close-in exoplanets. That means planets getting blasted by radiation from their stars, losing gas over time, and sometimes leaving behind clues we can detect from Earth. We talk Mars, Venus, hot Jupiters, helium escape, WASP-69b, the radius gap, young planets, and why understanding atmospheres matters for the search for life.

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Your Future Might Already Exist According To Relativity

Season 1 · Episode 3

Sunday, June 21, 2026 • Duration 59:39

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, and the strange idea that there may be no single universal “now.” We also get into the block universe, why GPS depends on relativity, and what all of this might mean for how we think about the future.

Hosted by Dr. Dakotah Tyler.

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Space Biology and Recreating Human Hearts | Dr. Suh, Microbiologist

Season 1 · Episode 4

Friday, June 26, 2026 • Duration 01:10:03

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 travel, induced pluripotent stem cells, tissue engineering, animal research ethics, body odor genetics, microplastics, beauty standards, the manosphere, and what it means to deconstruct your sense of self.

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What Counts as Life | Astrobiology Series Part 1

Season 1 · Episode 5

Friday, July 3, 2026 • Duration 01:08:02

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 require careful assumptions, and why defining life is harder than it sounds. We cover viruses, dormant microbes, ideas as information systems, chemical possibility, life as a physical process, habitability, synthetic life and biosignatures. As always, lead with curiosity.

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Why Life Might Be Almost Impossible to Kill | June Sass, M.Sc. Microbiology

Season 1 · Episode 6

Tuesday, July 7, 2026 • Duration 01:13:59

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. She also runs Summercraft Kombucha, where she develops mushroom kombucha and wellness drinks.

Expect to learn why fungi and bacteria are not just harmful pathogens, but also essential parts of our health, our ecosystems, and the story of life on Earth. We talk about how microbes compete, cooperate, adapt, survive extreme environments, and sometimes behave in ways that start to feel strangely intelligent.

The conversation also covers kombucha, symbiosis, NASA clean rooms, fungi in space, extremophiles, panspermia, the origin of life, alien biology, the deep ocean, antibiotics, antifungals, microbial defense systems, and the weird power of tiny life.

Hosted by Dr. Dakotah Tyler.

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Science, Faith, and Intelligent Life | Qasim Rashid, Human Rights Attorney

Season 1 · Episode 7

Sunday, July 12, 2026 • Duration 49:38

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 exploration of science, society, faith, sci-fi, and the future.

Expect to learn how an astrophysicist and a human rights attorney ended up talking about alien life, Project Hail Mary, relativity, intelligent whales, faith, the Quran and astronomy, black holes, dark matter, dark energy, space law, human rights in future space colonies, and why curiosity matters in an age of anti-intellectualism.

We also talk about The Expanse, Interstellar, Contact, The Last Question, The Space Traders, whether intelligent life might exist in our galaxy, and one biology fact about mitochondria that still blows my mind.

Hosted by Dr. Dakotah Tyler.

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Will We Actually Find Alien Life In Our Lifetime? | Dr. Natasha Latouf, NASA Astrobiologist

Season 1 · Episode 8

Wednesday, July 15, 2026 • Duration 01:15:06

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 oxygen is both useful and dangerous, why UFOs and UAPs probably are not aliens, and what future telescopes may be able to detect in the atmospheres of small rocky planets.

We also talk about Dr. Latouf’s BARBIE code, K2-18b, extremophiles, Mars, Venus, viruses, whether life may be almost impossible to fully kill, and whether we might confirm alien life in our lifetime.

Hosted by Dr. Dakotah Tyler.

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Earth Life Isn't the Center of the Universe | Astrobiology Series Part II

Season 1 · Episode 10

Saturday, July 25, 2026 • Duration 34:25

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, assumptions, observations, and arguments that moved us from ancient skywatching to modern astrophysics.

Expect to learn about ancient debates over infinite worlds, human pattern recognition, the night sky as an early scientific tool, planets as “wanderers,” retrograde motion, epicycles, Copernicus, Kepler, Newton, Galileo, and Einstein’s update to gravity.

We also get into Tycho Brahe’s brass nose and drunk moose, Kepler’s laws of planetary motion, why orbits work, and why this history matters for astrobiology.

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