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Physicist and best-selling author Alan Lightman investigates how key findings of modern science help us find our bearings in the cosmos. What do these new discoveries tell us about ourselves, and how do we find meaning in them? Travel from the infinity of the small to the infinity of the large, meeting with the co-discoverer of one of the most distant galaxies yet known.

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Searching: Our Quest for Meaning in the Age of Science
The Big & The Small
Explore the fact that humans are almost the same distance between an atom and a star.
Episode: S1 E102 | 56:45
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Searching: Our Quest for Meaning in the Age of Science
The Stars & The Osprey
Alan reconciles transcendent experiences with the material world of atoms and molecules.
Episode: S1 E101 | 56:44
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Searching: Our Quest for Meaning in the Age of Science
Homo Techno
How advances in science and technology are causing us to evolve into a new species.
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Searching: Our Quest for Meaning in the Age of Science
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Alan reconciles transcendent experiences with the material world of atoms and molecules.
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Searching: Our Quest for Meaning in the Age of Science
The Big & The Small
Explore the fact that humans are almost the same distance between an atom and a star.
Episode: S1 E102 | 56:45