# Charles Bennett

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Jonathan Brookins Talks Trading The UFC For A Surfboard In Costa Rica | Episode #315

On this episode of @champandthetramp, the guys talk with TUF Season 12 winner Jonathan Brookins about walking away from the UFC to live out of a backpack across India, Montreal, and now Costa Rica. He opens up about losing his siblings, finding faith, and the price of chasing passion over paychecks…

Quantum Mechanics Might Be a Secret Key to Secure Communication

Together, Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard figured out how to use the laws of quantum physics to keep secret messages safe from eavesdroppers. Their efforts have earned them one of the highest awards in computing and a $1 million prize. On this episode of The Quanta Podcast, host Samir Patel spe…

The Thermodynamics of Intelligence: Why AI Can't Think for Free

Why does the human brain operate on roughly twenty watts while modern artificial intelligence systems consume megawatts? The answer begins with an unexpected claim: information is physical. For decades, information was treated as an abstract mathematical object—a sequence of symbols detached from t…

The Secret Writers Behind Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock didn’t merely have an eye for what worked on camera, he was one of the greatest curators of commercial crime and suspense fiction of the twentieth century. In this episode, we discuss the writers behind the director. From icons like Patricia Highsmith, Daphne Du Maurier, and Cornel…

How Quantum Computing Actually Works (Part 1) (EP 54)

Quantum computers do not simply “try every answer at once.” So what do they actually do—and why have governments and technology companies spent billions trying to build them? In Part 1 of our two-part quantum computing deep dive, Lester Nare and Krishna Choudhary build the field from first principl…

The Billion Year Sleep

Subscribe to Absolutely Agentic 👉 https://absolutelyagentic.com/upgradeSign up to our newsletter 👉 https://absolutelyagentic.com/?modal=signupFor the intro animations we used Higgsfield with Claude, Nanobanana and Omni Flash. Tutorial coming soon.What if the galaxy is silent because everyone in it …

Insane Lila Zane

On September 21, 1907, 19 year old Lila Zane orchestrated the murder of 16 year old Charles Bennett on Wheeling Island in West Virginia. She tried to get her underage husband sent to the gallows for it . Her lawyers chose an insanity defense, unaware that they were probably right. Just not in a way…

The Quantum Revolution with Turing Award Winners Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard

What happens when the laws of quantum physics meet computer science? In this special crossover episode of Hanselminutes and ACM ByteCast, Scott Hanselman sits down with Charles H. Bennett and Gilles Brassard, recipients of the 2025 ACM A.M. Turing Award, often called the "Nobel Prize of Computing."…