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19:45

Elif Shafak

The politics of fiction

Posted Jul 2010
11:55

Andrew Fitzgerald

Adventures in Twitter fiction

Posted Oct 2013
7:57

Tomas Elemans

The inspiring truth in fiction

Posted Jan 2018
13:29

Markham Nolan

How to separate fact and fiction online

Posted Dec 2012
5:27

Alexis Gambis

Why we need more (real) science in fiction

Posted Oct 2019
10:07

Christian Wickert

How fiction can help us better understand our reality

Posted Jan 2018
4:01

Ayana Jamieson and Moya Bailey

Why should you read sci-fi superstar Octavia E. Butler?

Posted Feb 2019
16:05

P.W. Singer

Military robots and the future of war

Posted Apr 2009
28:33

Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Qiufan

Visions for the future

Posted Oct 2021
14:20

Beth Ann Fennelly

How literature can help us develop empathy

Posted May 2020
3:36

Bradley Voytek and Tim Verstynen

Diagnosing a zombie: Brain and body (Part one)

Posted Oct 2012
9:20

Nnedi Okorafor

Sci-fi stories that imagine a future Africa

Posted Nov 2017
2:02

Jessica Oreck and Rachael Teel

Mysteries of vernacular: Robot

Posted Oct 2013
17:08

James Cameron

Before Avatar ... a curious boy

Posted Mar 2010
18:13

Mark Roth

Suspended animation is within our grasp

Posted Mar 2010
5:03

Kate Messner

How to build a fictional world

Posted Jan 2014
13:11

Parul Sehgal

An ode to envy

Posted Oct 2013
3:45

Ralitsa Petrova

Could your brain repair itself?

Posted Apr 2015
6:52

Martin Rees

Can we prevent the end of the world?

Posted Aug 2014
4:47

Dan Kwartler

Why should you read "Dune" by Frank Herbert?

Posted Dec 2019
10:08

Kim Stanley Robinson

Remembering climate change ... a message from the year 2071

Posted Aug 2021
8:02

Chen Qiufan

A sci-fi vision of life in 2041

Posted Sep 2021
6:32

Jim Fallon

Exploring the mind of a killer

Posted Jul 2009
7:08

Richard Browning

How I built a jet suit

Posted Jun 2017
17:14

Stephen Petranek

Your kids might live on Mars. Here's how they'll survive

Posted Apr 2016
7:20

Ani Liu

Smelfies, and other experiments in synthetic biology

Posted Feb 2017
11:55

Charlie Jane Anders

Go ahead, dream about the future

Posted Mar 2020
18:19

Paul Knoepfler

The ethical dilemma of designer babies

Posted Jan 2017
12:38

Monica Byrne

A sci-fi vision of love from a 318-year-old hologram

Posted May 2016
0:00

Ellen Trachman

What happens to people's donated eggs and sperm after they die?

Posted Jun 2022
16:16

Neha Narula

The future of money

Posted Sep 2016
9:53

Vandana Singh

A sci-fi story of Earth's renewal

Posted Jun 2022
16:59

Mac Barnett

Why a good book is a secret door

Posted Sep 2014
4:17

Alex Gendler

Why should you read "The Master and Margarita"?

Posted May 2019
6:33

Feras Fayyad

The real-life superheroes helping Syrian refugees

Posted Jun 2021
4:31

Stephanie Honchell Smith

6 myths about the Middle Ages that everyone believes

Posted Mar 2023