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Sep 19
2025

5 Top AI Composition Plugins to Increase Productivity

Whether you’re a professional music producer or a beginner starting out, AI composition plugins are useful to streamline your workflow.

Sep 18
2025

Space Habitat Clusters & Conglomerations

Space isn’t just for lonely colonies—it’s for communities. Join us as we imagine constellations of space habitats bound by tethers, trade, and trust, building not just homes in the stars but entire civilizations.

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Chapters.
0:00 Intro.
1:13 Why Clustered Habitats?
6:00 Habitat Types and Roles Within Clusters.
9:41 Mobility and Modularity – The Politics of Moveable Worlds.
14:02 Tethers, Transit, and Shared Infrastructure.
17:35 Shapes of Clusters and Dynamic Conglomerations.
23:43 Nebula.
25:21 Digital Ecosystems and Cultural Identity.
25:19 Economics and Trade in Habitat Constellations.
26:52 Education and Intergenerational Planning.
28:17 Security and Conflict Management.
29:10 A Tale of Unity.
32:29 Religion, Ritual, and Meaning.
33:19 The Long View: Legacy and Civilization.
34:07 Closing Reflections

Sep 18
2025

Music training can help the brain focus, study shows

Musical people find it easier to focus their attention on the right sounds in noisy environments.

This is shown in a new study from Karolinska Institutet published in the journal Science Advances. The results suggest that music training can be used to sharpen attention and cognition.

Being able to focus on a conversation in a room full of noise is a complex task for the brain. In the new study, researchers have investigated how music training affects the brain’s ability to focus attention on specific sounds.

Sep 17
2025

From Soundwaves to Brainwaves: The Transformative Power of Music

The human brain physically embodies rhythmic sound in a remarkable symphony that has the power to heal.

Sep 14
2025

Feudal Futures: Knights & Nobles in the Space Age

Feudalism once ruled Earth—could it rule the cosmos too? We dive into the strange but plausible world of space nobles, orbital dukes, and knights of the vacuum clad in power armor or piloting mecha.

Chapters.
0:00 Intro.
0:12 Feudalism… IN SPACE!!!? Knights, Mechs, and Space Lords.
5:04 Lords of the Vacuum – Whoever Builds the Habitat, Owns the Habitat.
9:10 Feudal Claims on Natural Resources.
14:31 Vassalage in Vacuum – How Loyalty Could Work in Space.
18:20 Breaking the Mold – Alternative Models to Feudal Ownership.
20:52 Natural Armor.
22:12 Would It Work? Or Collapse Gloriously?
23:38 The Knight Reforged – Power Armor, Mechs, and Weapons of Mass Respect.
25:12 A New Middle Ages Among the Stars?

Sep 11
2025

New technology turns paintings into holograms, bringing art to life

Artists are always looking for new ways to create and express themselves. A growing trend is the use of multiple layers of see-through materials, such as Plexiglas, to create paintings that have real depth, transforming two-dimensional images into three-dimensional illusions that feel more realistic and lifelike. But can these layered works be made even more immersive?

A new study, published in Royal Society Open Science, answers this question by demonstrating a novel process to transform a multilayer acrylic painting into a full-color, three-dimensional hologram. In addition to offering a striking way to experience art, this technique provides a novel method for preserving and reproducing valuable works.

The researchers used a painting of a tiger titled “Taxonomy Test 1” by renowned Colombian artist Yosman Botero. He created the artwork by painting in acrylic on nine transparent layers of Plexiglas.

Sep 9
2025

Modeling Electrochemistry with Continuum Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics

Manuel Landstorfer — Modeling Electrochemistry with Continuum Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics.

Sep 7
2025

Could We Accidentally Destroy the Universe?

What if the end of everything came not from cosmic fate, but from us? This episode examines the physics, probability, and peril of experiments that could, in theory, unravel the universe.

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Written, Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur.
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Chapters.
0:00 Intro.
2:38 Vacuum Decay (False Vacuum Collapse)
9:59 Strange Matter Conversion.
13:09 Gray Goo Scenario (Nanotechnology Out of Control)
16:05 Runaway Energy Reaction.
19:06 Altering the Constants of Nature.
20:49 Brane Collision (M-Theory Catastrophe)
22:27 Time Travel or Causality Paradox.
23:55 Nebula.
25:20 Simulation Shutdown.
27:21 Big Rip or Cosmological Instability.
28:35 Baby Universe Creation or Collapse.
29:51 Why It Hasn’t Happened Yet (Anthropic Principle & More)
31:49 Channel Updates

Sep 5
2025

Inflation without an inflaton! This Model Challenges Big Bang Inflation

A new study suggests the universe didn’t need inflation to begin. Instead, gravitational waves could explain how structure formed in the early cosmos.

Paper link: https://journals.aps.org/prresearch/a…

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction.
00:40 The Discovery/Event.
02:42 Scientific Significance & Theories.
04:48 Implications and What’s Next.
07:16 Outro.
07:54 Enjoy.

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Sep 2
2025

After the Singularity — What Life Would Be Like If A Technological Singularity Happen?

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What happens after intelligence explodes beyond human comprehension? We explore a world shaped by superintelligence, where humanity may ascend, adapt — or disappear.

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Chapters.
0:00 Intro.
3:36 Is the Singularity Inevitable? The Case for Limits and Roadblocks.
8:42 Scenarios After the Singularity.
9:15 Scenario One: The AI Utopia.
10:31 Scenario Two: Digital Heaven.
11:57 Scenario Three: The AI Wasteland.
13:10 Scenario Four: The Hybrid Civilization.
14:48 What Does the Singularity Mean for Us?
16:31 Humanity’s Response: Resistance, Adaptation, or Surrender.
20:22 PRecision.
21:45 The Limits of Superintelligence: Why Even Godlike Minds Might Struggle.
25:48 Humanity’s Role in a Post-Singularity Future.
29:06 The Fermi Paradox and the Silent Singularity.
31:10 Reflections in Pop Culture and History.
32:27 Writing the Future.