Learn more about everything referenced in this episode by clicking the links below:Van’s <a href="https://vsavage.faculty.biomath.ucla.edu/">homepage</a><a href="https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/ucla-scientists-discover-why-we-need-sleep">UCLA-led team of scientists discovers why we need sleep</a>Watch Van on the “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYytXWDsc7I">Time Design</a>” Panel from #IPFest2018Ted Chiang’s <a href="https://ia802706.us.archive.org/33/items/TedChiangSeventyTwoLetters/Ted_Chiang_72_Letters.pdf">Seventy-Two Letters</a>Liu Cixin’s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three-Body_Problem_(novel)">Three Body Problem</a>“<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bayyRPSXGq0">You’re So Cool</a>” by Hans Zimmer“<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmpRLQZkTb8">Don’t Look Back in Anger</a>” by Oasis“<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1tj2zJ2Wvg">Welcome to the Jungle</a>” and “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j0HfZCP-og">You Could Be Mine</a>”

Learn more about everything referenced in this episode by clicking the links below: Van’s homepage UCLA-led team of scientists discovers why we need sleep Watch Van on the “Time Design” Panel from #IPFest2018 Ted Chiang’s Seventy-Two Letters Liu Cixin’s Three Body Problem “You’re So Cool” by Hans Zimmer “Don’t Look Back in Anger” by Oasis “Welcome to the Jungle” and “You Could Be Mine”

Learn more about everything referenced in this episode by clicking the links below:Van’s <a href="https://vsavage.faculty.biomath.ucla.edu/" rel="noopener noreferrer">homepage</a><a href="https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/ucla-scientists-discover-why-we-need-sleep" rel="noopener noreferrer">UCLA-led team of scientists discovers why we need sleep</a>Watch Van on the “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYytXWDsc7I" rel="noopener noreferrer">Time Design</a>” Panel from #IPFest2018Ted Chiang’s <a href="https://ia802706.us.archive.org/33/items/TedChiangSeventyTwoLetters/Ted_Chiang_72_Letters.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer">Seventy-Two Letters</a>Liu Cixin’s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three-Body_Problem_(novel)" rel="noopener noreferrer">Three Body Problem</a>“<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bayyRPSXGq0" rel="noopener noreferrer">You’re So Cool</a>” by Hans Zimmer“<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmpRLQZkTb8" rel="noopener noreferrer">Don’t Look Back in Anger</a>” by Oasis“<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1tj2zJ2Wvg" rel="noopener noreferrer">Welcome to the Jungle</a>” and “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j0HfZCP-og" rel="noopener noreferrer">You Could Be Mine</a>”

#011 with Van Savage

A new InterPlanetary interview series from the Santa Fe Institute takes a page from the Strugatsky brothers' classic Soviet sci-fi novel, Roadside Picnic, to discuss a variety of transformative alien artifacts.

Thirteen years ago, an alien civilization visited our planet, and left behind myriad, mysterious materials in their crash sites. These areas, Zones, behave very strangely, but the interplanetary items they contain could change the trajectory of our technological advancement. What appears as a hoop might actually be a perpetual-motion machine.  What appears as a slime might alter space-time.

Spend too much time in the Zone and your genes might mutate, your bones might dissolve, your body might be ground into meat. If you’re lucky enough to make it out alive, you’ll likely be imprisoned. But a successful trip in and out of the Zone could alter human history. Do you dare? And for what?

Hosted by Caitlin McShea.

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A new InterPlanetary interview series from the Santa Fe Institute takes a page from the Strugatsky brothers' classic Soviet sci-fi novel, Roadside Picnic, to discuss a variety of transformative alien artifacts. Thirteen years ago, an alien civilization visited our planet, and left behind myriad, mysterious materials in their crash sites. These areas, Zones, behave very strangely, but the interplanetary items they contain could change the trajectory of our technological advancement. What appears as a hoop might actually be a perpetual-motion machine. What appears as a slime might alter space-time. Spend too much time in the Zone and your genes might mutate, your bones might dissolve, your body might be ground into meat. If you’re lucky enough to make it out alive, you’ll likely be imprisoned. But a successful trip in and out of the Zone could alter human history. Do you dare? And for what? Hosted by Caitlin McShea.

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