2017

1. Why Earth Is a Prison and How to Escape It

We are trapped on Earth. Controlled by an ancient debt to the universe...

2017-02-01 • 7 min

2. Do Robots Deserve Rights? What If Machines Become Conscious?

What shall we do once machines become conscious? Do we need to grant them rights?

2017-02-23 • 7 min

3. Are GMOs Good or Bad? Genetic Engineering & Our Food

Are GMOs bad for your health? Or is this fear unfounded?

2017-03-30 • 9 min

4. Is the European Union Worth It or Should We End It?

Should we double down or give up and go our separate ways?

2017-04-13 • 8 min

5. The Last Light Before Eternal Darkness — White Dwarfs & Black Dwarfs

Everything will end. Even the universe. But in a future so far away that it defies description, there will still be light and therefore a chance for life. It will be around white dwarfs, the corpses of stars. But even they will fade one day...

2017-05-04 • 7 min

6. The Rise of the Machines — Why Automation Is Different This Time

Automation in the Information Age is different.

2017-06-08 • 12 min

7. Optimistic Nihilism

2017-07-26 • 6 min

8. What Happens If We Throw an Elephant From a Skyscraper? (The Size of Life #1)

Size is the most under appreciated regulator of living things. Let us demonstrate that by throwing animals from buildings.

2017-08-10 • 7 min

9. Why Black Holes Could Delete the Universe — The Information Paradox

Black holes are scary things. But they also might reveal the true nature of the universe to us.

2017-08-24 • 10 min

10. What Happens If We Bring the Sun to Earth?

What happens if we bring the sun to earth? No, seriously.

2017-09-07 • 6 min

11. Is Reality Real? The Simulation Argument

2017-09-21 • 9 min

12. How Bacteria Rule Over Your Body — The Microbiome

What happens when microbes talk to your brain?

2017-10-05 • 8 min

13. Why Age? Should We End Aging Forever?

If you could decide today... how long do you want to live?

2017-10-20 • 7 min

14. How to Cure Aging — During Your Lifetime?

What if we could stop aging forever?

2017-11-03 • 7 min

15. Emergence — How Stupid Things Become Smart Together

How can many stupid things combine to form smart things? How can proteins become living cells? How become lots of ants a colony? What is emergence?

2017-11-16 • 8 min

16. Universal Basic Income Explained — Free Money for Everybody?

What is UBI? How would free money change our lives.

2017-12-07 • 10 min

17. How to Make an Elephant Explode (The Size of Life #2)

2017-12-21 • 7 min