Visit https://brilliant.org/isaacarthur/ to get started learning STEM for free, and the first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription. One day humanity might settle the Red Planet, but how will we grow food on world more barren than any desert or...
Living Planets: The Gaia Hypothesis
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Your Own Personal Spaceship
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Alien Environments
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. Among the uncounted stars in this Universe there may be unnumbered strange new worlds, many of which may have environments...
Colonizing Planetary Rings
Sign up for a Curiosity Stream subscription and also get a free Nebula subscription (the streaming platform built by creators) here: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Saturn's Moon Titan captures our attention as a future colony, but might the majestic rings of...
The Fermi Paradox: Technological Timebombs
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Alien Refugees
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The Megastructure Compendium
Sign up for a Curiosity Stream subscription and also get a free Nebula subscription (the streaming platform built by creators) here: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur In the future humanity may build enormous structures, feats of mega-engineering that may rival...
Surveying for Habitable Interstellar Star Systems
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Lost Space Colonies
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Making a Magnetosphere for Mars
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Colonizing Space: Staking & Jumping Claims
Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur In the future we may settle the moon, asteroid, planets, and even other stars - but how do pioneers stake claims in space and what keeps other from jumping those claims and stealing or...
