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Should We Build a Dyson Sphere? | Space Time | PBS Digital Studios
The Kepler telescope recently noticed a strange partial eclipse that some have speculated could be a Dyson Sphere. Are Dyson Sphere's possible? Are they practical? What other alternatives to futuristic energy capture do we have to choose...
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Can We Survive the Destruction of the Earth? ft. Neal Stephenson
What do we do to protect ourselves from extinction level events? And what if some of those events are unavoidable? Can we survive adrift in space? Find out in this episode of Space Time.
Be Smart
Are Humans Still Evolving?
We’re living longer. Dying less. Human life expectancy has doubled in just a couple centuries. Machines and meals and medicines keeping us alive long past the age where we can make babies. Does this mean our species is no longer under...
Crash Course
Futurism and Constructivism: Crash Course Theater #39
It's time to go Back...to the Future. By which I mean, we're going back into the past to talk about Futurism. Which seems like it would be cool, but it was started by this terrible guy Martinetti, who also wrote the Italian Fascist...
Curated Video
How to Avoid Running Out of Water
Fresh water issues are getting harder to ignore. In the next five years, half the world’s population will live in a water-stressed area. Drought-stricken cities like San Francisco have started requiring large commercial building to...
Curated Video
How to Stop Aging (and Should We?)
What is the future of aging? People aren’t dying as early or as easily as they used to. Innovations in medicine, health, and hygiene have helped us extend our lives by decades, but what comes next? Would you rather live to be a hearty...
Neuro Transmissions
When will artificial intelligence surpass human intelligence?
ChatGPT can help you write an essay, plan a vacation, and learn quantum theory — next stop: world domination? Maybe...maybe not. But teachers are right to be worried that this might spell the end of homework and journalists might also...
Next Animation Studio
Gene-hacked mosquitoes released in Florida
Biotech company Oxitec to release half a billion “gene-hacked” mosquitoes along the Florida Keys in an experiment designed to kill off the islands’ pest population.
Flame Media
Real Futures: VR Healthcare
Virtual reality has been over-hyped for decades, but with the release of Facebook's Oculus Rift, Google's Cardboard, and Samsung's Gear VR, it seems to be on the cusp of arriving for real. Most VR fans are excited to play games and watch...
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Real Future: Fixing broken cities
America is home to some of the biggest, most futuristic tech companies in the world. But America's infrastructure — its roads, bridges, sewers and tunnels — is stuck in the past, and falling apart, endangering millions of people. We go...
History Hit
Rodin and the art of ancient Greece: Rodin's life
Learn about how Rodin became an artist and what happened in 1881. Rodin and the art of ancient Greece, Part 1
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Real Future: Biohacking
In the mountains above the Mojave Desert, far from the nearest hospital or medical lab, a group of amateur bio-hackers is doing extreme, cutting-edge medical experiments on themselves, in an attempt to give themselves "superpowers" like...
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Real Future: Do software singers work outside of Japan?
Hatsune Miku, who is currently the biggest pop star in Japan, isn't a human at all. She's a "vocaloid" — a synthetic performer created using special music-writing software and animated with a hologram avatar. Vocaloids are selling out...
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Real Future: The future of ASMR
Several years ago, people on YouTube started talking about a phenomenon they described as 'orgasms' — a tingly head sensation they felt when they heard certain sounds like whispering or crinkling paper. They called this sensation ASMR...
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Real Future: What is Transhumanism?
Lots of presidential candidates make bold promises, but only one candidate in this year's presidential election is offering the promise of eternal life. That's Zoltan Istvan, the first-ever presidential candidate from the Transhumanist...
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Real Future: Drone Racing
The new popularity of drones has given rise to a brand new sport: FPV (first-person view) drone racing, in which competitors strap goggles to their faces and pilot drones around a track while watching a live drone's-eye view of the race....
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Real Futures: Social Media Stars
Two years ago, Keraun Harris was sitting in prison on a robbery charge, imagining what he'd do when he got out. Today, he's known as "King Keraun"; a beloved social media star with millions of loyal followers on Vine and Instagram, and a...
History Hit
Rodin and the art of ancient Greece: The thinker and the gates of hell
Learn how one of the most famous pieces by Rodin was meant for a much bigger piece, the gates of hell. Rodin and the art of ancient Greece, Part 3
The Art Assignment
Art Cooking: Futurist Meat Sculpture | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
Exploring the intersection of art and food, we prepare two dishes from the 1930s devised by the pasta-hating Italian Futurists. BEHOLD: 1) MEAT SCULPTURE and 2) LIKE A CLOUD.
Professor Dave Explains
The Future of Renewable Energy: Becoming a Type 1 Civilization
What challenges does humanity face in the 21st century? Where will we find the strength and the ingenuity to overcome them? One huge challenge is centered on the ways we produce energy. Current methods of extracting fossil fuels from the...
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Real Futures: Careers in Gaming for Girls
Competitive video game playing, known as 'e-sports'; is one of the hottest trends in entertainment today. But it's still a largely male field, with some deeply entrenched gender problems that are proving hard to solve. We meet Hafu Chan,...
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Real Futures: What is Cryonics?
Since the 1950s, futurists have been obsessed with cryonics, the practice of freezing dead people in liquid nitrogen in order to restore them to life later. But thanks to new developments in life-extension technology, cryonics isn't as...
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Real Futures: Tulpas or Imaginary friends
For the last several years, people on Reddit and 4Chan have been talking about something called "tulpas" — an ancient Buddhist concept that means, essentially, imaginary friends. These people aren't Buddhists, but they've co-opted the...
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Real Future: Hackers
As companies like Ashley Madison and celebrities like Jennifer Lawrence have learned, being hacked can have devastating consequences. But how bad can it get? Our host decides to find out by inviting two of the world's most elite hackers...