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In nearly every corner of the Earth, ants wage war against each other. Their weapons are what nature gave them. Some have strong armour, deadly stingers or sharp mandibles. And then there is this tiny, and not very impressive ant. But it rules the biggest empire any ant has ever built. A colony spanning continents and fighting wars that leave millions of casualties. Let’s take a look at this unlikely warrioress: Linepithema humile, the Argentine ant.

Sources & further reading: https://sites.google.com/view/sources-argentine-ants

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Is String Theory the final solution for all of physic’s questions or an overhyped dead end?

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Where are the limits of human technology? And can we somehow avoid them? This is where quantum computers become very interesting.

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What if there is a way to destroy the universe so fundamentally that life as we know it will be impossible forever?

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Did you ever wonder what happened if you detonated a nuclear bomb in the Marianas Trench? No? We neither! Let us find out together!

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Are wormholes real or are they just magic disguised as physics and maths? And if they are real how do they work and where can we find them?

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It’s hard to define what makes something beautiful, but we seem to know beauty when we see it. Why is that and how does beauty affect our subconscious?

Sources & further reading: https://sites.google.com/view/kgssourcesbeauty/startseite

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What shall we do once machines become conscious? Do we need to grant them rights?

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Getting to space is incredibly hard, expensive and needs a lot of resources.

A more efficient way to get there is a Skyhook (or Spacetether), an ever rotating cable with a counter weight, that catapults spaceships from earth orbit into the depths of space.

Sources & further reading: https://sites.google.com/view/sources-skyhooks/

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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?

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