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The Fermi Paradox: Rare Technology
Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: http://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur The Fermi Paradox, the big question of where all the aliens are, has many proposed solutions focusing on what might lower the odds of intelligent species arising on...
SFIA Monthly Livestream: October 27, 2019
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Mind-Machine Interfaces
Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ The ability to link mind and machine has long been the realm of science fiction, but now improvements in our understanding may allow us to network brain to computer in the near...
The Butterfly Effect
The Butterfly Effect is the principle that notes that even the smallest actions can have sweeping effects on everything in the long term. Today we'll look at that effect and ask what it means toward chaos, inevitable events, fate, and free will...
High-Tech Search & Rescue
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Winter on Venus
Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ Venus is a desolate scorching world on which no life can exist. Yet if it can be cooled down, there is no other planet we know of more suitable for terraforming and colonization. We...
Spacesuits & Extreme Environment Gear
Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: http://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur There's many dangerous places on Earth, and everywhere off Earth is downright lethal, from the emptiness of space to the airless and radiation soaked Moon to the...
SFIA Monthly Livestream: September 29, 2019
Our monthly livestream Q&A session. Join us 4pm EST, Sunday, August 25, 2019, and get your questions about the channel and episodes on chat to be answered! Get a free month of Curiosity Stream & now Nebula:...
Aloof Aliens
Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ Discussion of advanced extraterrestrial civilizations often hinges on the idea that they may have ascended to a higher state or higher level of reality, and lost interest in us and...