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5.7 billion people to run short of drinking water by 2050
Source: @AFP The United Nation’s 2018 World Water Development Report said 3.6 billion people, or half the world’s...
Radiolab: Stochasticity
Stochasticity (a wonderfully slippery and smarty-pants word for randomness), may be at the very foundation of our lives. To understand...
Cause & Effect and Time Travel
H.G. Wells wrote the first time-travel book. But it was Charles Darwin who made time seem exciting (6’07”) When Did Time...
ORBIT – A Journey Around Earth in Real Time
Make this full screen, turn up the sound, and chillax: Meditate on the beauty of our home. Orbit is a real time reconstruction of...
The Fermi Paradox
The universe is unbelievably big – trillions of stars and even more planets. Soo… there just has to be life out there,...
The Great Filter
I don’t buy into this line of thought but it is an interesting argument: Finding alien life on a distant planet would be amazing...