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For example, Lockheed is moving ahead with its airship.

Jeff Bezos has introduced a fully reusable rocket

And it works! Does this mean that Blue Origin is pulling ahead of SpaceX?

Since space exploration is happening, it's a good thing we're working out property rights in space.

But then how big a deal will space be when we have programmable matter?

And get we get these cool things faster via time travel? (Which may or may not be right around the corner.)

In any case, we should value it all for the experience.

 

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Hosts Phil Bowermaster and Stephen Gordon kick off the holiday season with a special Thanksgiving-week discussion of one of this program's most enduring topics: what we have to be thankful for.

The list is probably a lot longer than you think!

Research shows that grateful people are healthier and happier. That should be reason enough for anyone, but there's more. Is it possible that gratitude somehow makes us better prepared for the future than its alternatives?

Phil and Stephen discuss why this might be the case while listing their some top reasons fro being grateful.

UPDATE

Stephen's list of things to be grateful for:

Room Temperature Quantum Entanglement

Growing Vocal Chords in the Lab

NASA Orders Spaceflights

Going to Europa

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Hosts Phil Bowermaster and Stephen Gordon kick off the holiday season with a special Thanksgiving-week discussion of one of this program's most enduring topics: what we have to be thankful for.

The list is probably a lot longer than you think!

Research shows that grateful people are healthier and happier. That should be reason enough for anyone, but there's more. Is it possible that gratitude somehow makes us better prepared for the future than its alternatives?

Phil and Stephen discuss why this might be the case while listing their some top reasons fro being grateful.

UPDATE

Stephen's list of things to be grateful for:

Room Temperature Quantum Entanglement

Growing Vocal Chords in the Lab

NASA Orders Spaceflights

Going to Europa

Waitress Hero

Hero of La Belle Equipe

Last time out, we talked about how some clever researchers had essentially figured out a way to get malaria to fight with cancer. Now the Food and Drug Administration has just approved the first cancer-killing virus.

Yes, it sounds a little too much the premise for I Am Legend, but could this be a game changer?

Also, what does big data have to do with making us all live longer?

And...what do deep-dive learning techniques applied to tracking fossils have to tell us about the future of knowledge? 

PLUS: It's the Trial of Self-Driving Car. Phil Bowermaster serves as prosecuter, while Stephen Gordon argues for the defense. 

It's all connected. Tune in and explore!

Last time out, we talked about how some clever researchers had essentially figured out a way to get malaria to fight with cancer. Now the Food and Drug Administration has just approved the first cancer-killing virus.

Yes, it sounds a little too much the premise for I Am Legend, but could this be a game changer?

Also, what does big data have to do with making us all live longer?

And...what do deep-dive learning techniques applied to tracking fossils have to tell us about the future of knowledge? 

PLUS: It's the Trial of Self-Driving Car. Phil Bowermaster serves as prosecuter, while Stephen Gordon argues for the defense. 

It's all connected. Tune in and explore!

Hosts Phil Bowermaster and Stephen Gordon discuss some of the amazing things that might happen in the future.

For example, We might do experiments that put us in touch with parallel universes.

Or we might accidentally find a cure for cancer.

Maybe we will have printers that can create whole buildings in 24 hours.

Perhaps we will start taking seriously our moral duty to colonize the universe.

Or maybe we’ll find the on-off switch for human consciousness.

And, of course, people will start undergoing serious medical treatments to reverse aging.

Hosts Phil Bowermaster and Stephen Gordon discuss some of the amazing things that might happen in the future.

For example, We might do experiments that put us in touch with parallel universes.

Or we might accidentally find a cure for cancer.

Maybe we will have printers that can create whole buildings in 24 hours.

Perhaps we will start taking seriously our moral duty to colonize the universe.

Or maybe we’ll find the on-off switch for human consciousness.

And, of course, people will start undergoing serious medical treatments to reverse aging.

Somewhere between Cygnus the Swan and Lyra the Harp sits a star with a big secret. A whole lot of something is orbiting that star, and it is unlike anything astronomers have seen before. Is it possible that we have stumbled upon the ruins of a  Dyson Sphere -- or one that's under construction?

Hosts Phil Bowermaster and Stephen Gordon discuss this and other amazing developments:

Daimler puts a self-driving truck on the autobahn.

Have gene scientists figured out a way to double life span?

Plus a favorite old topic: is it time to replace guns with something not so lethal?

Tune in and explore.

Have astronomers found evidence of an extraterrestrial civilization?

Hosts Phil Bowermaster and Stephen Gordon demonstrate the World Transformed Pareto Optimism Principle with four stories that speak to an amazingly bright future and one that goes in a very different direction.

The Good News:

Vertical Pink Farms and the coming urban agricultural revolution

Extreme Poverty Falls Below 10%

 Robot doctors are on their way. The real solution for healthcare?

Can a Lucid Dreaming Mask mark the beginning of full-immersion VR? 

 

The Bad News:

A scary theory about why we've not yet found any aliens

 

Plus:

Phil and Stephen give their review of Limitless, the series.

 

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