Guest Thinkers — July 17, 2009

“Free” Transportation

What if there was free transportation based on the elimination of BIG OIL?

Imagine that a new technology was invented that eliminated the use of conventional fuels for vehicles, and instead uses a resource that’s free or low cost (e.g. non-potable water), allowing everyone to be able to move around freely without regard to cost. What would happen to our society and our economy? Discuss the pros and cons.

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Hard Science

There are 4 different types of multiverse

The multiverse is an idea that has gained a lot of traction in popular culture. But what does science have to say about it?

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Sponsored

How China gained — and lost — its spot as the world’s wealthiest nation

The story of China is the story of global economics.

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High Culture

What will English sound like 1,000 years from now — if it even exists?

In order to figure out how English might evolve in the future, we have to look at how it has changed in the near and distant past.

Strange Maps

InterContinental Railway: All aboard the train from New York to Paris — via Siberia

Dig a 70-mile tunnel under the Bering Strait, and you get this amazing InterContinental Railway, which will reshape the world.

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Health

Psychedelics open a new window on the mechanisms of perception

Psychedelics mess with our prior beliefs, and could help us see what forms these beliefs in the first place.

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