Centralia: The Real-Life Silent Hill
Centralia is a town at the heart of coal country that now sits abandoned and forgotten. The story behind what happened there is far from uncommon, and may give us a glimpse of what's to come in the fu...
12 Okt 202017min
Interview with Lance Geiger, The History Guy
Lance Geiger, better known as The History Guy on YouTube, is a storyteller at heart and focuses on lesser-known history - or "forgotten history" as he calls it - on his YouTube channel. I've been foll...
8 Okt 20201h 34min
The 5 Worst Cults Of All Time
What makes a person join a cult? What makes a person give up their families, their life savings, even take their own lives in the service of a cult? We often think of cult members as weak-minded or sh...
6 Okt 202050min
Does Genetic Editing Have A Dark Side?
Genetic editing has advanced by leaps and bounds in the last decade, but many are worried that it may lead to something terrible - a new kind of eugenics. Do the potential benefits outweigh the risk? ...
28 Sep 202021min
The Quantum Theory That Might Make You Immortal
The Quantum Suicide experiment (ironically also known as quantum immortality) is a product of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum physics, which says that quantum particles never leave superposi...
22 Sep 202016min
Solid State Wind Energy
A recent paper has made some waves theorizing a way to generate wind energy with no moving parts. I spoke with the author of the paper and break down how it works, with a bit of a reality check.See Pr...
18 Sep 202011min
5 Advanced Space Drives (That May Or May Not Work)
I recently talked about some of the most habitable exoplanets which unfortunately we'll never be able to reach because our technology can't do it. But there are some very interesting concepts being de...
14 Sep 202020min
The 5 Most Earth-Like Planets We've Found (So Far)
The number of known exoplanets seems to grow every day. Most of them are worlds completely unlike our own. But some get pretty close to something resembling home - and may someday become exactly that....
7 Sep 202015min
