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Is This the End?
Is This the End?
As the clock ticks toward the end times, it’s easy to lose faith in humanity’s ability to endure. But we can’t give up.
Bryan Walsh
Aug 27, 2019
Maybe Let’s Not Try to Talk to Aliens
Maybe Let’s Not Try to Talk to Aliens
In an effort to speed up the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, some researchers are sending messages into the cosmos. We may not…
Bryan Walsh
Aug 26, 2019
A.I. Is the Cause Of — And Solution To — the End of the World
A.I. Is the Cause Of — And Solution To — the End of the World
The development of artificial general intelligence offers tremendous benefits and terrible risks
Bryan Walsh
Aug 22, 2019
Bioengineering the End Times
Bioengineering the End Times
New technologies like gene editing could vastly improve human life. They also just might end it.
Bryan Walsh
Aug 19, 2019
Could Climate Change Really End the World?
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Could Climate Change Really End the World?
Species are going extinct and the climate is warming rapidly — yet at least materially, humans are doing better than ever. Welcome to the…
Bryan Walsh
Aug 16, 2019
The Morning We Learned How to Destroy the World
The Morning We Learned How to Destroy the World
Seventy-four years after World War II, we’re still living with the risk of nuclear holocaust — and it all began on a patch of desert
Bryan Walsh
Aug 15, 2019
We Need Tech — and Even More so Wisdom — to Solve the Extinction Crisis
We Need Tech — and Even More so Wisdom — to Solve the Extinction Crisis
For too long, human beings have used technology to pillage the planet. With limits approaching, we must find a better way.
Britt Wray
Aug 13, 2019
How to Defend the Planet
How to Defend the Planet
A six-mile-wide asteroid ended the dinosaurs, and the same could happen to us one day. But NASA is at work on ways to keep us safe.
Bryan Walsh
Aug 12, 2019
A Brief Guide to the End of the World
A Brief Guide to the End of the World
Humanity faces existential peril as never before. But whether or not we go extinct is up to us.
Bryan Walsh
Aug 9, 2019
You Should Be Scared of Nuclear War Again
You Should Be Scared of Nuclear War Again
The Trump Administration’s decision to withdraw from a Cold War-era nuclear missile treaty will put us all in renewed danger
Bryan Walsh
Aug 2, 2019
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