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Evil is a term thrown around a lot these days, but it’s true that in virtually everyone’s view of the world, they’re either victims defending themselves or standing up for the right things rather than villains with ice in their veins on a rampa
For well over a century, humans have dreams of settling other words, so it’s only a matter of time until we finally set out to do it. But that may take a lot longer than we think, the astronauts we send may not be human the way we think of it t
Despite that fact that scientists don’t really think we live in an elaborate simulation ran either by aliens or humans in what would be the far future from our point of view, it’s a belief popular enough to form think tanks, cults, and warrant
You’ve heard the story a million times. Giant lizards ruled the Earth until a comet or a meteor the size of Mount Everest wiped them all out. Except they weren’t lizards. Or as giant as we thought. Or were completely wiped out by a comet. We re
Optimism is great. It’s not a thing I personally ascribe to, being from Eastern Europe and all, but a lot of people sure do. Among those people are tech oligarchs who have a very, shall we say, particular vision for the kind of sci-fi utopia th
For as long as IQ tests and scoring existed, an awful lot of people were obsessed with them and how to rank others. But do these scores actually mean anything? Do off the charts IQs actually exist? And how do people with high scores fare in the
Tired of doctors telling you to see specialists, wait for test results, and run across town to five different facilities to get different treatments? Social media conspiracy theorists have a much better alternative. It’s a device that looks lik
Late last year, the long-awaited AI monster has finally awakened. It’s first victims? Blogs, news, commercial art, college essays, social media, and a functioning, civil society that can agree on a basic set of facts. And believe it or not, tha
Crypto winter is now upon us, and people have lost thousands of dollars, if not their life savings on nebulous solutions in search of a problem. But why was there so much enthusiasm for NFTs, crypto scams, and visions of a new micropayment-base
Space, the final frontier, a place of endless possibility, wonder, and opportunity. And a whole lot of weird stuff that challenges your ideas of what you think you knew about the universe you inhabit. So, to start off the year, we’re taking you
Whenever you praise human spaceflight or space tourism a bit too loudly around the wrong people, you’re bound to get assailed by seemingly morally unassailable criticisms of space exploration being a luxury we can ill afford when we have so man
Here at the Fish household, we know the pain of fighting the COVID bulge after two years of trying to stay healthy in a global pandemic and stress levels shooting through the roof in jobs seen as essential or critical. So, as we’re trying to ge
The hottest new scam on social media is selling new crypto coins with strange, funny, or really and blatantly misleading names through influencers who suddenly discovered a burning passion for obscure and arcane financial instruments with no cl
Want more people to become environmentalists who care about Earth’s future, sustainability, clean air and water, and advocate for green energy? Forget luring them on luxury eco tours and shuttling them between pristine tropical alcoves and toxi
On another extended episode of the WoWT Podcast, we talked to Marc-Andre Argentino, one of the world’s top experts on QAnon and conspiratorial ideation about how the far right conspiracy of everything has evolved to become an omnipresent menace
With this horrible year coming to an end, we’re thinking about the future, the far future that is. That’s why this week, we’re doing a deep dive into the continued popularity of cyberpunk and mind uploading tropes, the science of merging humans
You’d think that in societies where we prize sharing, caring, and getting along as much as we can, angry jerks who throw temper tantrums when things don’t go exactly their way would be swiftly ostracized and face serious consequences for repeat
You spent months fine tuning your neural network, constantly tweaking its architecture, training it until it achieves 99.5% accuracy, but when you deployed it in the real world with less than stellar results. Why? It’s probably because you mana
We think we have a pretty good handle on what life is, but the reality is that thinks we think of as living are just a subset of possible chemistries and mechanisms by which life could evolve and function. To really understand what it means to
You’re not just being paranoid. Your every step on the internet, every download, and every time you open an app are logged and stored somewhere. Almost always, the raw data is examined by software to find persistent bugs and patterns of use for
Atlantis, Lemuria, Mu, and ancient alien cities buried under the Antarctic ice are standard fodder for many works by occultists and science fiction authors asking us and themselves whether over the hundreds of millions of years during which lif
We’ve been launching things into space since the late 1950s, and while the aspirational talk about exploring the final frontier keeps getting louder, we’ve been a lot quieter about the fact that all those rockets left a vast, orbiting field of
After finally solving our audio problems thanks to some professional help, the WoWT Podcast is finally back, and before we get going again, we’re revisiting our episode on the psychology of cults to correct some of our predictions in light of C
When pop culture wants you to think that a certain character has superhuman intelligence, that character is given an enormous head and it’s either outright stated or heavily implied that their brains are enormous compared to ours. But as scienc
It’s only the start of May and already the world is done with 2020 and its pajama apocalypse. So how did we get here? What makes COVID-19 so insidious? Why are so many people apparently so angry about trying to stave off a novel opportunistic d
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