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Future Explored
Hack your gut microbiome, live to 110
Does this group of Japanese 107-year-olds hold the key to stopping aging? Let’s explore that, with host Tom Carroll.
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Heretics
“I work on dog lifespan extension”
Are you ready for drugs that make you live longer?
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Ramen Profitable
How a poker prodigy accidentally created a booming vertical farm
“Everybody says that 9 out of 10 startups fail. So my mind translates that to as, ‘I just have to start 10 companies.’”
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Challengers
Hacking evolution to grow super coral
Coral reefs sustain life for 1 billion people around the world, but 90% will be extinct by 2050 if we don’t find a solution now.
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Catalysts
Reinventing your career in just 4 months
“How do you help give people a very understandable way to take 1, 2, 3, steps to be the change that they want to be in their own lives.”
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Heretics
“I believe nicotine is good,” John Coogan for Heretics
Is nicotine the stimulant of the future?
Facial recognition ID’s missing kids with 99.85% accuracy
This tech is identifying missing children in minutes, not weeks.
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Just Might Work
Cow burps are dangerous. Let’s hack them.
Cows belch a greenhouse gas called methane, which is 30x more potent than carbon dioxide.
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Heretics
The rogue geoengineer fertilizing the ocean with iron
This eco-pirate scientist says the solution to climate change is easy & cheap – so why are governments trying to stop him?
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Hard Reset
This slime is 10x more fireproof than water
A one-armed surfer invented this fireproof slime when a disaster tried to take his town.
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Heretics
Should we grow babies in artificial wombs?
Giving birth is dangerous. Are artificial wombs a solution?
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Challengers
The first wave of urban robots is here
The robot takeover is here — and it’s kinda cute.
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Catalysts
How people are going from prison to $100k jobs in 45 days
Of the 77 million people in the US who have been incarcerated, well over half — 63% — are unemployed the first year out.
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Heretics
Why sex work is good, explained by Aella
Feeling like her other job options were not great, this ex-evangelical homeschooler decided to become a cam girl. This is Aella’s sex work story.
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Heretics
Tim Urban’s case for transhumanism
We interviewed Tim Urban at Hereticon. Here’s what he had to say about Elon Musk & transhumanism.
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Just Might Work
Aliens may have a signature that a telescope can hear
We’re sending messages into space. Have they been received by aliens?
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Hard Reset
How to build neighborhoods we actually like
Where you live has more of an impact on your physical, emotional, and mental health than you think.
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Catalysts
8 complete strangers tell their life stories. What happens next is magic
One surprising way to boost empathy lies in telling other people’s stories from a first-person perspective.
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Future Explored
Sponge cities: a solarpunk future by 2030
Cities turning themselves into sponges? See how cities like Berlin are leading the trend.
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Catalysts
Inside the boxing gym that trains kids for life, not to fight
Their schools were underfunded and understaffed. This Detroit community fought back with an unconventional approach.