Superpowers make great fiction, but evolution doesn’t work that way. We explore why mutations can’t give us instant abilities—and what real science could create instead. Grab one of our new SFIA mugs and make your morning coffee a little more futuristic — available...
Posthuman Pathways: Strange And Awesome Destinations On Humanity’s Future Journeys
Soon humanity may reach out to the galaxy and spread ourselves to every world in it, but in the billions and billions of years to come on those billions and billions of worlds, humanity shall surely diverge down many roads and posthuman pathways. Watch my exclusive...
Were Primitive Humans Uplifted By Aliens?
Many believe humanity's climb upward may have been assisted by outsiders. Is this possible, and if so, what does that tell us about our own past... and future? Watch my exclusive video Jupiter Brains & Mega Minds:...
What If The Dinosaurs Hadn’t Died Off?
What if dinosaurs have survived the asteroid impact? Could we have seen a shared dino-mammal ecology, or even intelligent dinosaurs? Watch my exclusive video ISRU: https://nebula.tv/videos/isaacarthur-isru-insitu-resource-utilization Get Nebula using my link for 40%...
The Fermi Paradox: Rare Complexity
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Primordial Planets
Our world is ancient, but the Universe is far older. What were those first planets like, and how soon can life emerge on new ones? Watch my exclusive video Crystal Aliens hhttps://nebula.tv/videos/isaacarthur-primordial-planets Get Nebula using my link for 40% off an...
Human Devolution Morlocks & C.H.U.D.s
Go to the link: https://imprintapp.com/isaacarthur - The first 200 subscribers get 20% off an annual membership Humanity has evolved in the face of much hardship and turmoil, and invented technologies to aid us, but could an end to hardships be our undoing and cause...
Convergent Evolution on Alien Worlds
Start listening with a 30-day Audible trial and your first audiobook is free. Visit http://www.audible.com/isaac or text "isaac" to 500-500. Science Fiction often shows us aliens who look much like humans, and suggest this is a result of convergent evolution to useful...
Could Two Alien Races Evolve on the Same World?
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Post-Human Species
Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur As Humanity moves into the future, traveling to other worlds and exploring genetics, AI, transhumanism, and cybernetics, we may begin to diverge into a thousand post-human species. Visit our...
The Fermi Paradox: Extinction
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. The Fermi Paradox ask us how in a Universe so vast and ancient we seem to be the only intelligent...
The Fermi Paradox & Panspermia
Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ Our current theory of evolution holds that all life on Earth originated from a single, simple life form billions of years ago. But what if that life did not originate on Earth? In this episode we'll...
