2017

1. Why Earth Is a Prison and How to Escape It

2017-02-01 · 7m

We are trapped on Earth. Controlled by an ancient debt to the universe...

2. Do Robots Deserve Rights? What If Machines Become Conscious?

2017-02-23 · 7m

What shall we do once machines become conscious? Do we need to grant them rights?

3. Are GMOs Good or Bad? Genetic Engineering & Our Food

2017-03-30 · 9m

Are GMOs bad for your health? Or is this fear unfounded?

4. Is the European Union Worth It or Should We End It?

2017-04-13 · 8m

Should we double down or give up and go our separate ways?

5. The Last Light Before Eternal Darkness — White Dwarfs & Black Dwarfs

2017-05-04 · 7m

Everything will end. Even the universe. But in a future so far away that it defies description, there will still be light and therefore a chance for life. It will be around white dwarfs, the corpses of stars. But even they will fade one day...

6. The Rise of the Machines — Why Automation Is Different This Time

2017-06-08 · 12m

Automation in the Information Age is different.

7. Optimistic Nihilism

2017-07-26 · 6m

8. What Happens If We Throw an Elephant From a Skyscraper? (The Size of Life #1)

2017-08-10 · 7m

Size is the most under appreciated regulator of living things. Let us demonstrate that by throwing animals from buildings.

9. Why Black Holes Could Delete the Universe — The Information Paradox

2017-08-24 · 10m

Black holes are scary things. But they also might reveal the true nature of the universe to us.

10. What Happens If We Bring the Sun to Earth?

2017-09-07 · 6m

What happens if we bring the sun to earth? No, seriously.

11. Is Reality Real? The Simulation Argument

2017-09-21 · 9m

12. How Bacteria Rule Over Your Body — The Microbiome

2017-10-05 · 8m

What happens when microbes talk to your brain?

13. Why Age? Should We End Aging Forever?

2017-10-20 · 7m

If you could decide today... how long do you want to live?

14. How to Cure Aging — During Your Lifetime?

2017-11-03 · 7m

What if we could stop aging forever?

15. Emergence — How Stupid Things Become Smart Together

2017-11-16 · 8m

How can many stupid things combine to form smart things? How can proteins become living cells? How become lots of ants a colony? What is emergence?

16. Universal Basic Income Explained — Free Money for Everybody?

2017-12-07 · 10m

What is UBI? How would free money change our lives.

17. How to Make an Elephant Explode (The Size of Life #2)

2017-12-21 · 7m