In 2018, a New York Times article set off an internet firestorm when a spokesperson from a major glitter manufacturer refused to say who their biggest client was. The hints are tantalizing, and the theories about who is buying all the glitter and what is being done with it have run...
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Few scientists have caused more death and suffering than Trofim Lysenko. He was a Soviet botanist whose ideas around genetics (i.e., he didn’t believe in it) led to massive famines across multiple decades when Josef Stalin promoted his ideas across the country. And yet… He’s becoming...
Could the universe be conscious? Sounds a little crazy, but there are some prominent scientists and mathematicians that are taking the idea very seriously, and it could solve some ongoing mysteries about the universe… If it’s true, of course.TRANSCRIPTS:This is a photon. Or at least, it’s...
We’ve heard some wild climate change solutions over the years but a question in today’s lightning round video pretty much takes the cake. I explain why it’s probably a bad idea. Plus questions about how we could move stars with stellar engines and what traveling at warp speed would be...
Over the years, we’ve heard hundreds of time about how we have enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world. But is that actually true? Could we actually destroy all life on this planet? We crunch the numbers and see exactly how bad it would be if every nuclear weapon in the world went off...