A 500-Year Plan To Reach Other Worlds - Christopher Mason - #357
Modern Wisdom
08/12/21
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Christopher Mason is a Professor at Weill Cornell Medicine, founding Directors of the WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction and an author.
Eventually, the sun is going to engulf the earth. This means that if we want human and animal life to not be snuffed out within a billion years, we need to reach other worlds and Christopher has put together a 500-years roadmap for how we could do it.
Expect to learn why space flight is so harsh on the human body, how genetic manipulation could assist us with survival, whether locking generations of humans on a spaceship is ethical, if zero gravity birth is possible, whether anyone has had sex in space yet, why we should bathe in yoghurt and much more...
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(00:00) Intro (01:00) A Roadmap to Leave Earth (06:00) Our Duty as Conscious Beings (13:38) 500 Years in the Future (16:57) Space’s Impact on Human Bodies (31:32) Evolving in Space (36:19) Ethics of Long-Term Space Travel (44:00) Social & Mental Issues in Space (47:09) Preparing to Colonise the Galaxy (55:56) Death of the Universe
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What It's Truly Like Living In North Korea - Yeonmi Park - #356
August 9, 2021
•66m
Yeonmi Park is a North Korean defector, an author and a YouTuber.
North Korea is the most shrouded, dictatorial and walled-off nation on earth. The only press who are permitted access are get shown a performance masquerading as real life and leaving the country is essentially impossible. At 13 years old, Yeonmi escaped along with her sister & mother.
Expect to learn how North Korea's citizens are conned into spying on each other, why it's better to die than go to prison, how the state has managed to get the total escapees down to 0 in the last few years, if Yeonmi is scared about retribution from Kim-Jong Un and much more...
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(00:00) Intro (00:29) Dreams of North Korea (05:00) What Life Is Like as a Citizen (16:49) Why Is There Perpetual Famine? (20:40) Crime & Prison Camps (24:48) The North Korean Leaders’ Lineage (32:16) Kim Jong-nam (39:03) How Does North Korea Make Money? (45:22) North Korean Defectors (50:10) Should We Be Concerned About China? (1:01:04) The Repercussions of Yeonmi Defecting (1:06:18) Where to Find Yeonmi
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