Unsettling answers to the Fermi Paradox (audio science doc.)
Where are all the aliens and is there a rational solution to the Fermi Paradox? Joining John Michael Godier in
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Westworld: season 3 trailer (scifi TV series).
Here’s the 3rd season of the Westworld science fiction TV series, in which the robots stray outside the worlds of
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Qualityland by Marc-Uwe Kling (book review).
Translated from the German by Jamie Lee Searle, ‘Qualityland’ is Marc-Uwe Kling’s satirical novel of a future where everything is
Read MoreSpace tourism finally gets going (news).
There’s now a company called Space Adventures which has teamed up with SpaceX to do the whole space tourism thing
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How We Learn by Stanislas Dehaene (book review).
When I started Stanislas Dehaene’s book, ‘How We Learn’, with its sub-title adding the detail, ‘The New Science Of Education
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Reality Simulation In Science Fiction, Literature, Film and Television by Heather Duerre Humann (book review).
Looking at the examples cited by author Heather Duerre Humann in her introduction to her book ‘Reality Simulation In Science
Read MoreWarp Drive and Aliens: what’s up with that? (science lecture video).
Brilliant astronomer Bryan Gaensler (who works at the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, at the University of Toronto) visits
Read MoreSonic the Hedgehog (SF film based on the game: review by Mark Kermode).
The film-reviewing legend that is Mark Kermode sits down to watch the game-into-movie flick, Sonic the Hedgehog. In this beautiful
Read MoreWhat will your future look like? (video interview: Peter Diamandis & Steven Kotler).
Here’s a fascinating one-hour-long video documentary with writers and thinkers Peter Diamandis & Steven Kotler, concerning what our future will
Read MoreAstronomers to sweep, while Pentagon leaks (UFO news).
Two interesting stories drop across the SFcrowsnest desk thanks to our national newspapers. In the first story, astronomers are now
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