At long last, we’re doing genetic editing. What’s the deal with the recent news about CRISPR babies? What does a future full of human genetic editing look like? And how…
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What happens when the Rio Grande dries up? The river is often overshadowed, at least in the US, by the Colorado River. But the Rio Grande creates the border between…
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Getting from one place to another is hard. What if we could just teleport? From the physics of how this would work (it wouldn’t) to the ripple effects on politics,…
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If humans want to really make a go at leaving Earth and living in space or on other planets, we’re going to have to figure out a lot of things:…
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On today’s episode we tackle a future that was once a staple of science fiction: food pills. Instead of shopping and cooking and sitting down to eat meals together, we…
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Computers are getting smaller and smaller. But what if we had sensors the size of dust, that could float through the air undetected, talk to one another, gather information, and…
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What if we just gave everybody money? It sounds simple, but universal basic income is a trendy idea again and a lot of you have asked for an episode about…
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How much of what you do is actually your choice? What if you were secretly being controlled by a parasite that had infected your brain? What if that infection was…
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On today’s episode we travel to the near-future of advertising. Welcome to a future in which you can sign up to be a brand ambassador, and get paid for every…
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~~~ TAKE THE LISTENER SURVEY! (Please) ~~~ Today we tackle the age-old question: what if animals could talk? Or, more precisely, what if we could actually understand what animals are…