Marco Tempest describes himself as a “cyber-illusionist”. The New Yorker has impressed audiences around the world by mixing traditional magic with technological wizardry. Some have called his…
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Marcus Chown is a science writer, and he is constantly amazed at how much stranger science is than science fiction; how much weirder the Universe we find…
Right now, a billion people are chronically hungry. That means they wake up hungry, they’re hungry all day and they go to sleep hungry. A billion people…
Academic and author Oren Harman reveals the extraordinary discoveries of George Price – the eccentric genius who strove to understand evolution’s greatest riddle: altruism. Price developed a…
Science fiction portrays our Milky Way Galaxy as filled with habitable planets populated by advanced civilizations engaged in interstellar trade and conflict. Back in our real universe,…
What if you were completely conscious but couldn’t move or speak? Neuroscientist Adrian Owen and his team have been using brain-imaging techniques to determine levels of consciousness…
Space and time are two of the universe’s most fundamental elements. Relativity combines these two into the unified notion of space-time, but twistor theory goes beyond this…
An overview of the ideas, methods, and institutions that permit human society to manage risks and foster enterprise. Description of practices today and analysis of prospects for…
Before watching this talk you need to watch the movie Inception. Kyle explores the movie’s key questions and themes, including how we can tell if we’re dreaming…
National Geographic Fellow Mattias Klum has a special passion for Borneo, where he has spent 20 years producing magazine articles, books and films. Don’t miss this powerful…
Photographer Stephanie Sinclair and writer Cynthia Gorney investigate the world of prearranged child marriage, where girls as young as five are forced to wed. “Because the wedding…
