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Seminar 05 -- Two Good Ol' Boys name of Jackson and Ryan

Doctor Jack’s Soapbox Seminars

Release Date: 07/28/2008

Seminar 18 -- The Vurdalak Conjecture show art Seminar 18 -- The Vurdalak Conjecture

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The Tunguska Mystery -- it's a wrap!

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Seminar 17 -- What're the Odds of That?!? show art Seminar 17 -- What're the Odds of That?!?

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The Tunguska impactor as magnetically-charged primordial black hole -- million-to-one longshot, or ... even money?

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Seminar 16 -- Black Monopoles?!? show art Seminar 16 -- Black Monopoles?!?

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Magnetically-charged black holes as the final missing piece of the Tunguska mystery?

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Seminar 15 -- Hot Enough for You? show art Seminar 15 -- Hot Enough for You?

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Black holes exploding with the force of a thousand all-out nuclear wars??? Jack’s kidding, right?

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Seminar 14 -- From Russia With Love show art Seminar 14 -- From Russia With Love

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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.

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Seminar 13 -- Hot Potato show art Seminar 13 -- Hot Potato

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What Stephen Hawking didn't want you to know about black-hole entropy. (With special thanks to Jacob Bekenstein, for sharing his reminiscences.)

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Seminar 12 -- Can't Win, Can't Break Even ... show art Seminar 12 -- Can't Win, Can't Break Even ...

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Can't Get Out of the Game. Black holes meet the Heat Death of the Universe!

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Seminar 11 -- Where Do Baby Black Holes Come From? show art Seminar 11 -- Where Do Baby Black Holes Come From?

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Not from under a cabbage leaf, that's for sure!

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Seminar 10 -- Before the Beginning show art Seminar 10 -- Before the Beginning

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What does it really take to make a universe, anyway?

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Seminar 09 -- Just Say Seminar 09 -- Just Say "No" to Naked Singularities

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Why one Global Causality Violation can ruin your whole day.

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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!