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What If the Universe is Bouncing? - Guest: Anna Ijjas from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
It's easy to forget that long standing scientific theories are in fact, theories and therefore are subject to revision and change as new information comes to light or we develop new ways to underst...
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What If You Explored the Deepest Points of Earth? - with George Kourounis from 2021-01-08T14:00
Let NetSuite show you how they’ll benefit your business with a FREE Product Tour at www.netsuite.com/WHATIF We've explored a lot on this planet, but how deeply have we truly gone? The Earth's core...
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What If You Only Ate Sugar for a Month? - with Gary Taubes from 2021-01-01T15:27:23
Go to the Great Courses Plus and receive the first month for FREE: thegreatcoursesplus.com/whatif Normally the idea of gorging yourself exclusively with sugar for 30 days would be a hypothetical, ...
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What If We Settled on an Exoplanet? - with Didier Queloz from 2020-12-25T14:02
Go to www.greenchef.com/WHATIF90 and use code WHATIF90 to get $90 off, including free shipping. It's been a long strange journey for Nobel Prize winning astronomer Didier Queloz. In 1995, he and h...
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What If You Rode a Balloon to Space? - with Taber MacCallum from 2020-12-18T21:47
Let NetSuite show you how they’ll benefit your business with a FREE Product Tour at www.netsuite.com/WHATIF With everyone from Elon Musk to Jeff Bezos working on ways to bring space travel to the ...
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What If a Tornado Hit an Active Volcano? - with George Kourounis from 2020-12-11T14:00
So What If a tornado hit an active volcano? To be honest, we have no idea. But you know who might be the only person on Earth who knows? It's the host of the long running Discovery Channel hit show...
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What If You Never Aged? - with Jamie Metzl from 2020-12-05T14:20
What If you could live forever? Since the days of Ponce De Leon and the search for the Fountain of Youth, human beings have pursued longer lives, doing whatever they could to cheat time and extend ...
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What If We Lived in a Closed Biosphere? - with Jane Poynter from 2020-11-27T14:43:07
In 1991, 8 people walked into the first ever biosphere project, committed to live there, grow their own food, recycle their waste and sustain themselves on limited amounts of oxygen for 2 years. So...
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What If You Could See Through a Black Hole? - with Pr. Clifford Johnson from 2020-11-20T14:00
What do we really know about black holes? We've only recently even gotten a visual of an actual black hole, so not a lot. But although we can now see a black hole, can we see through a black hole? ...
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What If You Were Addicted to Energy Drinks? - Danielle Robertson Rath from 2020-11-13T14:00
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What If "Among Us" Was Real Life? - Liana Ruppert from 2020-11-06T14:00
Everyone once in awhile a game comes along that transcends genre, subjective preferences or styles and just blows us up in a way that takes it from "game" to "cultural phenomenon". "Among Us" is th...
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What If Our Solar System Orbited a Black Hole? - with Pr. Clifford Johnson from 2020-10-30T13:00
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What If We Were on Lockdown for the Entire Winter? - with Dr. Norman E. Rosenthal from 2020-10-23T13:38
Get 20% Off + Free Shipping with promo code WHATIF20 at www.manscaped.com Have you ever experienced seasonal affective disorder or S.A.D.? For those that have and do, the winter months can be a ch...
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What If Matter Was Replaced by Antimatter? - with Liz Landau from 2020-10-16T13:00
Have you ever wondered if there are parallel universes? Earlier this year, a NASA study suggested there might be another universe where time goes backwards. Could that be a universe made of antimat...
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What If an Octopus Was Your Teacher? - with Pippa Ehrlich from 2020-10-09T14:43
What do we really know about octopuses? For starters, they don't have 8 tentacles...they're called arms. Did you know they had 3 hearts? 9 brains? And that some people believe they aren't originall...
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What If Jupiter Never Existed? - with Steve Levin from 2020-10-02T13:51
Get 20% Off + Free Shipping with promo code WHATIF20 at www.manscaped.com So what do we really know about Jupiter? Generally speaking, most people know that Jupiter is big...the biggest planet in ...
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What If We've Already Made First Contact with Aliens? - with Andrew Siemion from 2020-09-25T16:00
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What If There Is Life on Venus? - with Sara Seager from 2020-09-18T14:24
Sign up for the Great Courses Plus today and enjoy the first month for free: https://bit.ly/podcast-great-courses-plus The world was rocked recently by the announcement that signs of life might ha...
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What If We Blew Up an Asteroid? - Guest: Bill Nye from 2020-09-11T13:00
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What If We Became a Type II Civilization? - Guest: Michio Kaku from 2020-08-28T13:00
Sign up for Policy Genius today: https://bit.ly/policy-genius-what-if-discussed How cool would it be if we could one day regulate our atmosphere, control the climate and maybe even blast threateni...
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What If You Got Stuck in a Time Loop? - Guests: Danny Rubin and Ryan Wasserman from 2020-08-21T13:00
Get 20% off Manscaped + Free Shipping with promo code “WHATIF”: https://mnscpd.com/What-If Do you ever wake up thinking, here we go again? Same stuff, different day? What many of us call "Groundh...
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What If We Had to Evacuate Earth? - Guest: Bill Nye from 2020-08-14T13:00
Sign up for the Great Courses Plus today and enjoy the first month for free: https://bit.ly/podcast-great-courses-plus We know the history of this planet and asteroids isn't good...just ask the di...
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What If You Lived on a Super Earth? - Guest: Dr. Jack Madden from 2020-08-07T13:00
Sign up for Policy Genius today: https://bit.ly/policy-genius-what-if-discussed The Hubble telescope has helped discover over 4100 exoplanets in recent years, some of those being categorized as "S...
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What If Your Teacher Were A.I.? - Guests: Dr. Joanna Bryson and Dr. Jutta Treviranus from 2020-07-31T13:00
Sign up for the Great Courses today to receive the first month for free: https://bit.ly/great-courses-what-if Is A.I. the future of education? Could human teachers one day be replaced by robots? H...
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What If Humans Are Future Versions of Aliens? - Guest: Dr. Mike Masters from 2020-07-24T13:00
So imagine that all of the reports of UFO's, visitations and alien abductions were true...but sort of not? Confused? How about instead of "aliens" being alien, they were actually humans travelling ...
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What If You Lived in Ancient Egypt? - Guests: Dr. Salima Ikram and Dr. Bob Brier from 2020-07-17T13:00
Have you ever wondered what it might be like to have lived like a Pharaoh? Walked like an Egyptian? Reached the top of the Pyramid? Ancient Egypt continues to be one of the most enduring mysteries ...
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What If the Sun Dimmed Down? - Guest: Emily Calandrelli from 2020-07-10T13:00
We all know we depend on the Sun, but how much? And what happens to us if the Sun goes down...on us?! Join Peter and Richard and science communicator and self-described "Space Gal" Emily Calandrel...
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What If We Lived In Space? - Guests: Dr. Ronke Olabisi and Jerry Stone from 2020-07-03T13:00
What if we lived in space? Could we build a Bernal Sphere, an O’Neill Cylinder or a Stanford Torus? Why would we choose to live on a space habitat? Join Richard and Peter in their discussion with D...
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What If Your Brain Was Twice Its Size? - Guests: Michio Kaku and Rita Carter from 2020-06-26T13:00
Does size really matter when it comes to our brains? Does a bigger brain mean a smarter person? And how much do we really know about our brains? Michio Kaku, one of the world's most popular science...
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What If We Lived 50 Years Into the Future? - Guest: Steven Kotler from 2020-04-17T13:00
Mark Twain once said...Well, Mark Twain said a lot of things but in this particular context, his "it's difficult to make predictions, particularly about the future" is as apropos as it is yogi Berr...
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What If We Discovered Alien Life? - Guest: Jill Tarter from 2020-04-10T13:00
There's perhaps no bigger "What If" that will ever be asked. As long as we have been able to look up at the stars and understand the vastness of space, humans have pondered whether we are indeed al...
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What If We Became Cyborgs? - Guest: Neil Harbisson from 2020-04-03T13:00
What has long been explored in science-fiction as well as prophesied as the next step in the evolution of human beings by "Singularity" proponents like Ray Kurzweil is now not only predicted as an ...
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What If We Settled on the Moon? - Guest: Alex Hall from 2020-03-27T13:00
Do you consider yourself a pioneer? An explorer perhaps? Would you "go boldly where no one has gone before" - well, almost no one. And would you stay? With everything from the financial incentives ...
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What If We Are Living in a Simulation? - Guest: Nick Bostrom from 2020-03-20T13:00
"What Is Real?" Many remember the now famous quote from Lawrence Fishburne's character "Morpheus" in the smash hit phenomenon "The Matrix" to the Keanu Reeves' character NEO when pondering whether ...
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What If Half the Earth’s Population Was Wiped Out? - Guest: Paul Ehrlich from 2020-03-13T13:00
What has most recently became known in some circles as "Thanos Theory", many people have wondered, especially in times of serious concerns about climate change and the scarcity of resources just ho...
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What If You Fell Into a Pool of Liquid Nitrogen? - Guest: Bob McDonald from 2020-03-06T14:41
One of the most popular "What If" videos with over 75 million views, "What If you fell into a pool of liquid nitrogen takes us through the fascinating and quirky world of of one the world's most kn...
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What If We Had a Worldwide Pandemic? - Guest: Sonia Shah from 2020-02-28T15:24
Each week on “What If Discussed”, we explore the big hypotheticals and ponder the possibilities. This week is different. With “What If we had a worldwide pandemic?“, we are not only dealing with so...
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What If We Lived in a Galactic Zoo? – Guest: Douglas Vakoch of METI from 2020-02-14T04:14
Do you ever feel like you're being watched... by aliens? The "Zoo Hypothesis" as it is known in science circles speculates that some form of advanced, alien beings are watching us but deliberately ...
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Teaser: This is What If, discussed. from 2020-02-03T20:09
We ask some of the world’s top thinkers in science, astronomy, technology, academia and futurism to ponder some of our most popular What If videos. What If half the Earth’s population was wiped out...
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