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Becoming an Interplanetary Species: First Steps

Becoming an Interplanetary Species: First Steps

Get 26% of Curiosity Stream and free access to Nebula by using coupon code "isaac": https://curiositystream.com/isaac Our future lies out among the planets and stars, but to climb out in to space we must take many steps to get off, and today we'll...

Life as a Brain in a Jar

Life as a Brain in a Jar

Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ Science fiction loves to show us disembodied heads or brains floating in jars, but could this be one route to extending our lives? Or could you already be one living in false reality?...

Continent-Sized Rotating Space Habitats

Continent-Sized Rotating Space Habitats

Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Mankind's future is among the stars, but not necessarily on other planets. Instead we might forge giant space stations that are entire artificial worlds, and today we'll...

SFIA Monthly Livestream: June 28, 2020

SFIA Monthly Livestream: June 28, 2020

Our monthly livestream Q&A session. Join us 4pm EST, Sunday, June 28, 2020, and get your questions about the channel and episodes on chat to be answered! http://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Catch the audio-only show on Soundcloud:...

The Impact of Graphene

The Impact of Graphene

The first 1000 people who click the link will get 2 free months of Skillshare Premium: https://skl.sh/isaacarthur18 Graphene, Carbon Nanotubes, and other hyper-strong materials have generated great interest in recent years, but how do they actually...

Space Police

Space Police

Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ As we head out into space we can expect to see crimes and a need for laws and someone to enforce them. Today we'll examine the notion of Space Police and future crime and law...

After AI

After AI

Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ Artificial Intelligence seems nearer everyday, and many people worry about a conflict between us and robots & computer minds, but what would life be like After AI? Visit our...

The Fermi Paradox: Firstborn

The Fermi Paradox: Firstborn

Start listening with a 30-day Audible trial and your first audiobook plus two Audible Originals are free. Visit http://www.audible.com/isaac or text "isaac" to 500-500. As ancient and vast as the Universe is, it seems like some alien race arose in...

Summer on Jupiter: Making a Second Sun

Summer on Jupiter: Making a Second Sun

Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ Jupiter is an enormous gas giant, more massive than all the other planets in the solar system combined... and yet small compared to our Sun and other Stellar Objects. Could Jupiter be...