42: The Answer to Almost Everything
S1 · E174 — Optimisation: Is It Making Us Mad?
S1:E174 · Optimisation: Is It Making Us Mad?
216 episodes in this season
Can we dig our way through the Earth?
27 min
Could We Live on the Moon?
24 min
Should we use lotteries instead of elections?
26 min
How Much Does Life Weigh?
Will we move onto the water?
21 min
Can Algorithms Make Us Healthy?
What if there were no mucus?
22 min
How do we solve the nuclear waste puzzle?
30 min
What if Fear Didn't Exist?
25 min
What if the ice disappeared?
Do We All hear the Same Thing?
23 min
Are we too pessimistic?
Does the Perfect Song Exist?
20 min
Are we alone in space?
32 min
Why Do We Eat What We Eat?
What is the secret of light?
Can we save the trees?
What if dust didn't exist?
Geoengineering: Earth's Last Resort
Could Algae Save the Planet?
Will Messenger RNA Save Us From Cancer?
Will We Stop Flying?
Will We Like Robots?
The Purpose of Parasites
Could We Sleep Less?
Are Cryptocurrencies the Future?
29 min
Do We Live in a Black Hole?
28 min
The Power of Dreams
Where do people migrate to?
What Do Animals Talk About?
Are we getting dumber?
Do Computers Have Biases?
How can everyone be fed?
Are We Doing More Drugs?
Are We Ready for Mars?
Can we glimpse the afterlife?
Could we become immortal?
Could We Live Without Agriculture?
How dangerous is space weather?
Will we travel to Mars?
Can We Create Money from Nothing?
How do we end wars?
Is Space Being Stolen From Us?
What Power Do Thoughts Have?
Can We Trust Ourselves?
Are we more intelligent in swarms?
The Search for a Universal Theory
Can we turn crap into gold?
Are You Psychopathic?
How does a wave become rogue?
Do We Need Economic Growth?
Are we gambling away our lives?
Why do we have limits?
Where to Find Perfect Energy?
What if sharks disappeared?
Are Animals Self-Aware?
Why do We Fall in Love?
What if nature had a price?
Can we copy our blood?
Why do we hate?
Could We Bring Back the Wooly Mammoth?
Can seals go to court?
Do colors manipulate us?
Will there be a new 'human species'?
Is There a Male Fertility Crisis?
Can Cities Save the World?
When the Heavens Rain Down
Do Fungi Rule Us?
The A***hole Effect
How It All Ends
When Will the World End?
How to Travel Through Time?
Mind Reading: A Reality?
Surviving Our Polluted Planet
The Chaos of Chance
Who Owns the Sea?
Do Animals Appreciate Beauty?
Will a new wind soon blow?
Are we going to disappear beneath the waves?
Are We All Bisexual?
The Advent of Turbo-Evolution
Why do we lose our memory?
Humanity's True Nature
Can We Live Without Electricity?
What Happens When the Glaciers Disappear?
Could We Reach the Stars?
Is Lying Good For Us?
Will we one day be cryogenically frozen?
Will we run out of sand?
What's So Funny?
The Origin of Life
Does Punishment Work?
What Are Our Imaginations For?
Can We Trick Our Genes?
Amasia: The Supercontinent of the Future
Do Dogs Really Love Us?
Do We Need Corruption?
Are Animals Cleverer than Us?
Are Billionaires a Problem?
How strongly does our mother tongue shape us?
Do We Live in a Multiverse?
Does History Repeat Itself?
Are there too many of us on Earth?
Is stress good for us?
Do Disasters Make Us Better?
Is the Metaverse Real?
Do We All Have a Doppelganger?
Could We Programme Evoluton?
Is There an Upside to Climate Change?
Do We Need More Utopias?
Can we control clouds?
Does Sugar Make Us Stupid?
What if the poles reversed again?
What power do smells have?
Can We Shrink the Economy?
How Do Plants Live?
How to Become Popular
Do We Need to Have Power?
Should Humans Be Smaller?
Is AI Out of Control?
Are Invasive Species Always a Problem?
Would We Be Happier Without Happiness?
Why Do We Cry?
Could Sea Currents Change?
Could Matriarchy Be the Solution?
Are Aliens Like Us?
Is Pain Necessary?
Do Animals Have Better Societies?
How Powerful are Maps?
Does Quantum Physics Change Our Reality?
Why Do We Have Less Sex?
Has Slavery Made Us Racist?
Why Is Housing So Expensive?
Can We Make Friends with Our Enemies?
Can We Replace Pollination?
Are We Taking Enough Risks?
Who Really Were Our Ancestors?
Is a World Without Violence Possible?
Can We Remember Precisely?
What Holds the Universe Together?
Do We Need God?
What Protests Work?
31 min
How do Children Function?
Will We Grieve Differently in Future?
Do We Need Weapons for Peace?
What Should We Actually Eat?
Are We Ready for Aliens?
How Important is Our Microbiome?
Why Is Wealth So Unfairly Distributed?
What Makes Us Depressed?
Does the Perfect Code Exist?
Are We Ready for World Government?
Are We Wasting Period Blood?
Can We Feel Time?
How Does Water Create Life?
Are Cyborgs the Future?
Can We Save Truth?
Can We Cure Addictions?
Are We Too Curious?
What Did Dinosaurs Really Look Like?
Can We Outwit Viruses?
Where Does Madness Begin?
Should We Be Bored More Often?
How Powerful is Disinformation?
Why Do Civilisations Fall?
Should We Argue More?
How Mathematic is the Universe?
Is The World Better Than We Think?
How Smart Are the Animals We Eat
Does Failure Help Us Succeed?
Was Stone-Age Man Dumber Than Us?
The Age of Fire
Why Does Music Move Us?
Optimisation: Is It Making Us Mad?
Is a Superbug Pandemic Coming?
Can Humans Hibernate?
Does Society Need Alcohol?
...We Make Free Decisions?
What was there before the Big Bang?
How Powerful Are Images?
How Does the Female Orgasm Work?
Is Space Debris Dangerous for Earth?
Can Our Brains Still Concentrate?
Why Do We Love Horror?
Does Planet Nine Really Exist?
Are We An Evolutionary Superspecies?
Are Wasps Game Changers of Evolution?
Why do we sing?
How monogamous are humans?
Why Do We Love Gold?
Do Emotions Control the Markets?
What if life were mirrored?
Do we need the alpha male?
Black Holes: A Future Energy Source?
Is Brain Washing Possible?
Why Are We So Competitive?
Do We Need Siblings?
Has Globalisation Failed?
How does trash change the world?
Is vacation really relaxing?
Can we change?
Is there another Earth in the universe?
Can AI Feel Us?
Does a Trauma Lie Dormant in Everyone?
What Lies Behind UFOs?
Can states go into debt indefinitely?
Does scrolling make teens stupid?
Can We Live Without Work?
Is there a female fertility crisis?
Is Loneliness Contagious?
How Do You Become a Genius?
Can We Stop Mass Extinction?
Can We Control Our Hormones?
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