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Is the World Ending or Are We Just Online?
Are we living through the end times or the best moment in human history? Novelist and internet veteran Jason Pargin argues you have spent your life i…
2 months, 1 week ago
Are We Going the Way of the Roman Empire?
Historically, societies fall. Civilizations collapse. But is that what’s happening now in the United States? With the help of historians, a former CI…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
We Try and Kill the Internet
The internet is how you get your news, your paycheck, your groceries, your banking, and sometimes your drinking water. Humanity has quietly handed…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Past Dooms That Didn't Arrive
People have been predicting the end of the world forever. They’ve always been wrong. Maybe we’re wrong today, too.
So, we’re looking back at three pa…
3 months ago
How To Survive a Nuclear War
The air raid sirens scream (actually, they don’t work anymore). An emergency alert goes out, because … nuclear missiles are in-bound.
It’s happening!…
3 months, 1 week ago
How Do You Kill a Mosquito?
Mosquitoes are little jerks. They suck your blood to make more mosquitoes, spread deadly diseases like malaria and dengue, and have killed more human…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Supervolcano!
A supervolcano burbles under Yellowstone National Park. Enormous. Real. According to the internet’s most excitable corners, just itching to turn Amer…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
We Design the AI That Kills Us All
Maddeningly, even some researchers building artificial intelligence see it as a potential existential threat on par with nuclear war. Ben Bradford fo…
4 months ago
How To Start a Nuclear War
Humanity has repeatedly brought itself to the brink of nuclear war. Which raises a question: if everyone who can launch a nuke knows that could end t…
4 months ago
Introducing Are We Doomed?
Grin at the apocalypse and find out with this curious, irreverent weekly podcast exploring the biggest dangers to our society and our species. From n…
4 months ago