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The Daily Universe devoured alive by madmen Subtle psychological terror transforms boring slasher movies into nightmare fuel that will keep you up all night wondering...
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The Daily AI gone wild in The Terminator Forget the "franchise"... there's surprising depth in this classic 80s sci-fi action/horror
The Daily Will Elon Musk's Neuralink brain chip turn you into a stupid robot? (Part 2) What words mean is more than "word games"
The Daily What's going on with Fermi's paradox? How this physicist's harmless question opened the gates for an existential crisis of cosmic proportions
The Daily Why Elon Musk's Neuralink brain chip will be the end of you Think twice before getting excited about this ambitious project to rebuild human beings in the image of machines
The Daily Is "who are you?" the ultimate sci-fi question? You find yourself at the bottom of a shocking number of remarkable science fiction stories
The Daily Is your bug-eyed space-monster a person? Space opera assumes that aliens will be people, but maybe that's not what intelligence looks like
The Daily Wear a mask to help stop The Thing What John Carpenter's cult classic shows about the futility of giving into fear and paranoia
The Daily The sublime terror of a distant galactic catastrophe The Hubble telescope peeps up the universe's dress and shows us a miracle
The Daily Why determinism isn't true and human freedom is real (Part 2) Free will isn't what you should be worried about
The Daily Why determinism isn't true and human freedom is real (explained in about 15 minutes) Physicists may talk a big game but it's all show
The Daily Why Blindsight isn't all that great a story Peter Watt's grimdark nihilism mixes the best of SF speculation with unlikeable people and a depressing message
The Daily Can you write an existential "anti-hero" without the grimdark? Fiction needs real good guys & bad guys.