Parking Brakes

The Earth has been dominated by different dynasties throughout the eons. The Primordial Earth was governed by the amoeba, the […]

Sirens

A shrill noise in the night invokes an immediate sense of danger. A horn calling out across a valley will […]

The Game of Life is a nuanced, open-world role-playing game that everybody gets to play once. While some stats are […]

Humanity has plunged into the Cyber Age at terminal velocity. Everything must move at the speed of light. High-speed internet, […]

In the vast, empty blackness of the Universe, there is one frail, tiny pebble bobbing along on the gravitational waves […]

Behold! The future is now! Long has humankind dreamed of an age where labor could be performed by automaton. Fields […]

Humankind is set apart from the rest of the Kingdom of Animals. For instance, our thumbs are backward. But the […]

There is, in humankind, an innate desire for exploration. We long to see what’s just over the horizon. We turn […]

Guest Grumbler: Emeka Nwafor Trading goods and services is a natural part of life. Crows and cats pay for food […]

The billions of cells that make up our bodies all require oxygen. Evolution has provided a streamlined solution to this […]

The modern world that we’ve created is driven by algorithms. Every human is numbered at birth, every car has a […]

Humankind was not meant to toil away in a daily grind. We are a social animal, and while work is […]

This episode has been archived and is only available to our Patreon subscribers! There was a plague in this city […]

This episode has been archived and is only available to our Patreon subscribers! Picture the American dream of the open […]

Math, navigation, privacy, finding a mate; these are some of the responsibilities we’ve given up to the machine. Driving, on […]