Broadcast date
2017-02-01 • 17 episodes
Episodes of this season
1. Why Earth Is a Prison and How to Escape It
event 2017-02-01 • schedule 7m
2. Do Robots Deserve Rights? What If Machines Become Conscious?
event 2017-02-23 • schedule 7m
What shall we do once machines become conscious? Do we need to grant them rights?
3. Are GMOs Good or Bad? Genetic Engineering & Our Food
event 2017-03-30 • schedule 9m
4. Is the European Union Worth It or Should We End It?
event 2017-04-13 • schedule 8m
5. The Last Light Before Eternal Darkness — White Dwarfs & Black Dwarfs
event 2017-05-04 • schedule 7m
Everything will end. Even the universe. But in a future so far away that it defies description, there will still be light and therefore a chance for life. It will be around white dwarfs, the corpses of stars. But even they will fade one day...
6. The Rise of the Machines — Why Automation Is Different This Time
event 2017-06-08 • schedule 12m
8. What Happens If We Throw an Elephant From a Skyscraper? (The Size of Life #1)
event 2017-08-10 • schedule 7m
Size is the most under appreciated regulator of living things. Let us demonstrate that by throwing animals from buildings.
9. Why Black Holes Could Delete the Universe — The Information Paradox
event 2017-08-24 • schedule 10m
Black holes are scary things. But they also might reveal the true nature of the universe to us.
10. What Happens If We Bring the Sun to Earth?
event 2017-09-07 • schedule 6m
11. Is Reality Real? The Simulation Argument
event 2017-09-21 • schedule 9m
12. How Bacteria Rule Over Your Body — The Microbiome
event 2017-10-05 • schedule 8m
13. Why Age? Should We End Aging Forever?
event 2017-10-20 • schedule 7m
14. How to Cure Aging — During Your Lifetime?
event 2017-11-03 • schedule 7m
15. Emergence — How Stupid Things Become Smart Together
event 2017-11-16 • schedule 8m
How can many stupid things combine to form smart things? How can proteins become living cells? How become lots of ants a colony? What is emergence?
16. Universal Basic Income Explained — Free Money for Everybody?
event 2017-12-07 • schedule 10m
17. How to Make an Elephant Explode (The Size of Life #2)
End of season • event 2017-12-21 • schedule 7m
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