Episodes
The Tunguska Mystery -- it's a wrap!
Published 12/14/08
The Tunguska impactor as magnetically-charged primordial black hole -- million-to-one longshot, or ... even money?
Published 11/26/08
Magnetically-charged black holes as the final missing piece of the Tunguska mystery?
Published 11/17/08
Black holes exploding with the force of a thousand all-out nuclear wars??? Jack’s kidding, right?
Published 11/10/08
How a Mission to Moscow and a tip from Kip (Thorne, that is) finally turned Stephen Hawking's head around as regards black hole thermodynamics.
Published 10/27/08
What Stephen Hawking didn't want you to know about black-hole entropy. (With special thanks to Jacob Bekenstein, for sharing his reminiscences.)
Published 10/21/08
Can't Get Out of the Game. Black holes meet the Heat Death of the Universe!
Published 10/13/08
Not from under a cabbage leaf, that's for sure!
Published 10/06/08
What does it really take to make a universe, anyway?
Published 09/30/08
Why one Global Causality Violation can ruin your whole day.
Published 09/22/08
What’s really inside a black hole? Take the Cook's Tour with Doctor Jack.
Published 09/15/08
A star dies; a black hole is born.
Published 09/07/08
In which the Jackson-Ryan hypothesis crashes, burns, gets shoveled over with dirt -- all for want of an "exit event."
Published 08/03/08
The inside story of how the the Jackson-Ryan black-hole collision theory of the Tunguska Event came to be. Special thanks to Albert A. Jackson, IV and Michael P. Ryan, Jr. for sharing their reminiscences of the Vurdalak Conjectures genesis -- in person!
Published 07/28/08
Swim along with Doctor Jack as he plumbs the murky depths of the latest "solution" to the Tunguska mystery.
Published 07/22/08
A listener's casual remark shunts Doctor Jack onto a major meditation about the meaning of "not multiplying causes beyond necessity." (Want to derail Jack's carefully laid-out curriculum even more? Submit your own question to: doctorjacksoapboxseminars.com.)
Published 07/13/08
Was it a comet, or a meteorite ... or something else entirely? A hundred years' worth of Tunguska speculation, and Tunguska controversy, at a glance.
Published 07/06/08
The mystery of the 1908 Tunguska Event -- a hundred years old today, and still no solution in sight?
Published 06/29/08