Oct 16, 2017
LIGO hold a big press conference and announce the merger of
Neutron Stars detected via gravitational waves and optical
instruments for the first time. We now know about types of gamma
ray burst, and where gold and platinum come from.
Since we did an episode about the gravitational wave detections and
the Nobel Prize...
Oct 14, 2017
This episode of the TEOTWAWKI
specials, we're focusing on every crazed doom-prepper's favourite
scenario for the end of the world - Peak Oil.
Our society runs on oil and petroleum products (sadly, still).
These fossil fuels are the fossilised remains of plants and animals
that died millions of years ago, and they take...
Oct 4, 2017
As you may already know, yesterday, the Nobel Prize in Physics,
2017 was announced: it went to Kip Thorne, Barry Barish, and Rainer
Weiss for their contributions towards the LIGO collaboration that
detected gravitational waves.
In this special episode, I'll talk a little bit about the history
of the Nobel prizes,...
Sep 30, 2017
The human population has been growing exponentially for a long time. It’s been continuously growing since the Black Death in the 1300s – and although wars, famines, and plagues cause occasional blips in the growth since, it’s been pretty close to exponential since the Industrial Revolution kicked off. Now Malthus...
Sep 24, 2017
We have a guest on the show today – Phil Torres. Phil Torres is an author, Affiliate Scholar at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, former contributor at the Future of Life Institute, and founding Director of the X-Risks Institute. He has published in Bulletin of the...