New Space Race – A Freethink Original Series – Trailer
In July of 2011, the U.S. suspended its decades-long Space Shuttle program, officially ending an era of space exploration that began over half a century ago. Some have mourned its passing as a sign of...
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The Fascinating Story of How AIDS Activism Helped Usher in a “Right to Try”...
Since 2014, 31 states have passed legislation that would allow patients suffering from terminal illnesses to try medical treatments that haven’t been approved by the Food and Drug Administration....
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How to Rebuild a Broken Brain
Jordan Riley’s memory of the day he died is surprisingly good. He can remember the test he was supposed to be studying for instead of playing flag football; running across the middle of the field and...
View ArticleA Lay Person’s Guide to Biohacking
Spend even a few minutes online reading about “biohacking,” and you’ll quickly find the magnet people. Perhaps in a story like this one, from The Verge: Tim, the proprietor of Hot Rod Piercing in...
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Could Your Brain Regenerate Like Skin?
You might resent your skin for being the source of your acne or dandruff woes, but even the most finicky of skin tends to be resilient when you need it most. An effective miracle occurs nearly every...
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The Future of Sports and Human Performance
There’s one book about sports that gets brought up on almost weekly basis in Freethink’s office: David Epstein’s 2013 best-seller The Sports Gene. Thoroughly reported and engaging, Epstein’s book...
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A Regulatory Fight Is Brewing Over Experimental Stem Cell Therapies
Access to experimental stem cell therapies like the kind we profiled in Reversing Blindness could soon disappear due to pressure from the Food and Drug Administration, which has proposed new...
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What to Expect In a Post-Meat Future
Will humans still eat once-living animals in 2020? How about 2040? Or 2100? The further into the future I try to imagine humans eating animals, the less likely it seems. And I say this as someone who...
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Why Don’t We Believe Extreme Weather Forecasts?
Flocks of CubeSats (like the kind we profiled in this video) could dramatically improve the way we prepare for extreme weather events: Flood-causing rain storms, power outage-inducing winds,...
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The Four Weirdest Things We’ve Sent to Space
We’ve sent many thousands of objects into space since the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1 in 1957. Ranking those objects in order of weirdness might seem like a Herculean task, but it’s not. The...
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