The Himalayas are by far the largest and tallest mountain range on Earth. Right now, anyway. As Earth’s continents have slammed into each other for billions of years, they have created supermountain ranges that put the Himalayas to shame. But were they taller? I look into in today’s video...
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In 1981, Mary Day disappeared from her parents’ home in Pennsylvania. It was assumed that she ran away. But over the years, her sisters began to suspect that she might have died at the hands of a family member. Then, just as an investigation got underway to prove she was murdered, she...
Let’s just say we could build an Alcubierre warp drive and travel faster than light. Would that give us the ability to see into our own past? We explore that thought experiment, plus AI data centers, the growing socialist movement, and a heaping dose of existential dread. All on today’s...
We are currently running through vital Earth resources at a rate of 1.7x what the Earth can renew. Meaning at some point, we’re going to run out of some things. Today we’re going to talk about the resources we’re burning through faster than we can replace, and what the world of the future...
For most of human history, the brightest man-made light was just firelight. But around the turn of the century, artificial light came on the scene and the race to create the brightest light ever was on, and it continues to this day. In fact we have created light that is brighter than the...