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In 2019, Eric Weinstein launched The Portal Podcast. Its name taking inspiration from "portal stories", the show aims to bring its audience closer to the most fundamental and transcendent objects, and to use those as beginnings of a journey to fuller understanding.

Listed below are podcast episodes that cover central themes of The Portal.

Check out The Portal Clips for selections from the podcast and community-made videos, such as this video on the Twin Nuclei Problem. For a comprehensive list of Portal content, see All Episodes of The Portal Podcast and Content by Eric Weinstein.

Edge Essays

Some of the earliest discussion of the The Portal Podcast's core ideas occur in Eric Weinstein's edge.org essays.

Question	Answer	Year
What is the Last Question?	The Last Question	2018
What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to Be More Widely Known?	Russell Conjugation	2017
What Do You Consider the Most Interesting Recent (Scientific) News? What Makes It Important?	Anthropic Capitalism And The New Gimmick Economy	2016
What Scientific Idea Is Ready for Retirement?	M-theory / String Theory is the Only Game in Town	2014
What Should We Be Worried About?	Excellence	2013
What is Your Favorite Deep, Elegant, or Beautiful Explanation?	Einstein's Revenge: The New Geometric Quantum	2012
What Scientific Concept Would Improve Everybody's Cognitive Toolkit?	Kayfabe	2011
How is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?	Go Virtual Young Man	2010

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	In 2019, Eric Weinstein launched [[The Portal Podcast]]. Its name taking inspiration from [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYtJq71CMnU "portal stories"], the show aims to bring its audience		In 2019, Eric Weinstein launched [[The Portal Podcast]]. Its name taking inspiration from [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYtJq71CMnU "portal stories"], the show aims to bring its audience closer to the most fundamental and transcendent objects, and to use those as beginnings of a journey to fuller understanding.

	Listed below are podcast episodes that cover central themes of The Portal.		Listed below are podcast episodes that cover central themes of The Portal.