Science and Tech

Science and Tech

6mins
How did complex systems emerge from chaos? Physicist Sean Carroll explains.
1hr 33mins
Everything you ever wanted to know about the Universe, explained by physicist Sean Carroll.
7mins
What astronaut Ron Garan saw in space changed his life forever – here’s what it taught him.
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3mins
Think via Bayes’ rule to become more rational and less brainwashed.
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9mins
What do physicists actually mean when they talk about the multiverse?
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4mins
Can psychedelics solve the ‘hard problem’ of consciousness? A Johns Hopkins professor explains.
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6mins
Pessimism sounds smart. Optimism sounds dumb. Don’t fall for it, says Wired’s Kevin Kelly.
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31mins
Collective illusions — false assumptions about society that many people share — have existed for thousands of years in many different ways. Today, because of social media and modern technology, […]
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7mins
We don’t need one Elon Musk. We need 8 billion empathic futurists.
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7mins
A psychiatrist studied 1,000 near-death experiences. Here’s what he discovered.
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5mins
CRISPR’s gene drive can defy evolution. Here’s how, explained by Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna.
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5mins
Two-thirds of our days are spent alone. The Metaverse will bring us together, argues leading Metaverse thinker Matthew Ball.
5mins
Jimena Canales shares the “demons” that shaped computer science.
6mins
Black women are 3x more likely to die giving birth. Here’s one plan to fix that.
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8mins
Is science destined to crack the code of consciousness—and how would we even go about it?
John Templeton Foundation
8mins
The futurist behind Minority Report explains 3 steps for predicting what comes next.
5mins
An interview with economist Tyler Cowen on why American progress has seemed to stall and how we can get it back on track.
6mins
WIRED founder Kevin Kelly explains why progress often looks like dystopia to the untrained eye.
Metaverse games
Who will lead humanity in the Metaverse? Roblox and Minecraft gamers.
“The more we understand ourselves and the universe, the more magnificent it is.”
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6mins
Darwin, Descartes, and Maxwell all believed in these science ‘demons.’
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metaverse
14mins
Why should anyone care about the metaverse? Expert Matthew Ball explains what it is, what it isn’t, and why it matters.
A bearded man with outstretched arms and blue drapery appears to be in motion, depicted in a classical painting style that evokes the search for evidence for God.
4mins
There is no evidence for God as a “big being.” Is God something else?
John Templeton Foundation
5mins
The first human that isn’t an Earthling could be in our lifetime.
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truth bias
2mins
How to see through the lies that surround us.
4mins
Rituals come as much from religion as they do from the way Earth spins around the Sun.
human survival
6mins
Humans won’t survive if we stay on Earth. Michio Kaku explains.
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3mins
Eugenics is bad - but understanding DNA is good.
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Black text on a beige background reads, "YOU ARE NOT YOUR GENETICS," styled like an eye chart with distance markers, challenging the idea that genetics alone define you.
Almost all our school improvements fail. Here’s why.
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