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? Visit our Website:...

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Non-Carbon Based Life

Non-Carbon Based Life

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. Science Fiction has long contemplated the idea that alien life not based on carbon chemistry such...

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Life on a Low-Gravity Planet

Life on a Low-Gravity Planet

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. Science fiction loves to take us to desolate alien worlds with low-gravity, and envision creatures...

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Why Life Exists

Why Life Exists

Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: http://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur The big question of why life exists has challenged minds for countless centuries, but what does science have to say on this matter? Could life arise on other worlds and in other Universes,...

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The Fermi Paradox & Panspermia

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...

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