42 - The Answer to Almost Everything

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2023
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Why Do We Hate?
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Engaging deeply with hate is not a particularly fun activity. But like all uncomfortable things, it helps to face it instead of avoiding it. In today's society, hatred is everywhere, .. show full overview
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Could We Bring Back the Wooly Mammoth?
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Researchers want to use cloning and gene editing to bring back lost species. If humanity played God by killing them off, some say we should also play God and put things right again. US .. show full overview
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Est-ce qu’on peut copier notre sang ?
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Deux personnes sur trois dépendent du don de sang au cours de leur vie. Mais, chaque année, au moins 50 millions de litres de sang viennent à manquer dans le monde. Alors, ce serait .. show full overview
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Können Robben vor Gericht ziehen?
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Wenn wir angegriffen werden, können wir vor Gericht ziehen und uns wehren. Laut dem Biologen und Philosophen Andreas Weber muss das auch für Tiere und Pflanzen möglich sein. So habe die .. show full overview
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Welche Macht haben Farben?
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Wie sehr Farben uns steuern, zeigt sich schon im Alltag: So fühlt man sich in einer roten Daunenjacke oftmals wärmer angezogen als in der gleichen blauen Jacke, berichtet Modedesigner .. show full overview
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Évoluons-nous vers une nouvelle espèce ?
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S’il ne fait aucun doute qu’homo sapiens est l’espèce la plus avancée sur cette planète, l’être humain a-t-il pour autant déjà atteint son stade ultime ? La culture, la médecine et la .. show full overview
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Is There a Male Fertility Crisis?
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A man has enough sperm. Or so you might think - up to 600 million per ejaculation. And yet there is cause for concern: several studies have shown a significant decline in sperm count, .. show full overview
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The Big Retreat: The Mega-Cities That Could Save the World
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According to Australian sustainability researcher Xuemei Bai, "urban life must save the planet!" Climate economist Gernot Wagner says suburbs are "climate killers," with CO2 emissions .. show full overview
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When the Heavens Rain Down
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The fear that the sky could one day fall on our heads dates back to the dawn of time. The impact of an asteroid or a comet could dramatically change life on Earth in a fraction of a .. show full overview
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The Disturbing Power of Fungi
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Fungi are poorly understood. They form vast networks of mycelium that scientists have called the "Wood Wide Web," and they have highly sensitive abilities to perceive their environment. .. show full overview
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The A***hole Effect
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Pushing to the front of a line, parking a car quickly on a bicycle lane, occupying seats on a train that do not belong to you - almost everyone is confronted with selfish behavior at .. show full overview
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How It All Ends
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The universe could be heading towards different scenarios, including the "Big Freeze" as it expands, cools, and disintegrates. Other possibilities include a collapsing universe (Big .. show full overview
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Wann geht die Welt unter?
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Seit dem 24. Februar 2023 steht die berühmte Weltuntergangsuhr des Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists auf 90 Sekunden vor 12. Noch nie war die Menschheit in ihrer Geschichte so knapp vor .. show full overview
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How to Time Travel
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"Time travel is just a fantasy," says physicist Carlo Rovelli. However, he also explains that time is not the rigid, unchanging line we intuitively imagine it to be. When Albert Einstein .. show full overview
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Können wir Gedanken lesen?
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Andere Menschen lesen: Das ist für uns als soziale Wesen nicht nur eine große Herausforderung – es ist sogar eine Notwendigkeit. Doch woher wissen wir, ob wir jemandem vertrauen können, .. show full overview
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Surviving Our Polluted Planet
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Chemistry makes our sweaters softer, our world more colourful and pleasant, and it can even save lives. The flip side: we have released so many toxic chemicals that we have severely .. show full overview
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The Chaos of Chance
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Chance, destiny, predestination, God. People have come up with many explanations for events that either seem completely unbelievable or highly improbable. Albert Einstein said, God "does .. show full overview
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Who Owns the Sea?
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The vast sea - a symbol of boundlessness. But is it really so? Who does the sea actually belong to? In the past, it was simple: as far as the cannons could shoot, that much sea belonged .. show full overview
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Do Animals Appreciate Beauty?
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The beauty of the peacock troubled Darwin for a long time. It didn't quite fit into his theory of evolution and the idea of "survival of the fittest." Darwin came to the conviction that .. show full overview
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Weht bald ein anderer Wind?
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Viele Forschende gehen davon aus, dass wir weltweit nicht zunehmend mehr Wind haben werden, sondern weniger. Denn wenn das Eis an den Polen schmilzt und sie sich erwärmen, wird auch die .. show full overview
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Versinken wir im Meer?
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Mal ehrlich: Beim Meeresspiegelanstieg denken wir doch erstmal, dass das Wasser auf der ganzen Welt gleich ansteigt – wie in einer Badewanne eben. Und wenn von einem jährlichen Anstieg .. show full overview
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Are We All Bisexual?
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Most people can tell quite early on whether they are attracted to women or men. But what if our desire isn't as determined as we think? Are we all perhaps bisexual?
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The Advent of Turbo-Evolution
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The dominance of our species has consequences: we have created conditions that fuel rapid evolution. Global warming, climate change, hunting, habitat destruction, resource exploitation, .. show full overview
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The Advantage of Forgetfulness
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Forgetfulness has long been considered a weakness of the human mind. But forgetting could well be a function of the human brain, not a flaw. It is thanks to forgetting that we can cope .. show full overview
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Ist der Mensch böse?
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Mit der Frage, ob der Mensch gut oder böse ist, beschäftigen sich Philosophen schon lange. Der Leipziger Philosoph Sebastian Rödl erläutert, dass wir erst einmal vom Guten im Menschen .. show full overview
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Can We Live Without Electricity?
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Humanity is dependent on electricity. Power outages have been rare for us so far, but our electricity system is being transformed: renewable energies are intended to replace the fossil .. show full overview
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What Happens When the Glaciers Disappear?
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Glaciers are wonders of nature and tourist attractions, and they are also the largest reservoirs of drinking water on the planet. In fact, 70% of the world's freshwater resources are .. show full overview
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Could We Reach the Stars?
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Since the dawn of time, mankind has aspired to one thing only: to go further and further beyond the limits of what he knows. But how far is it possible to travel in space? Could we reach the stars?
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Is Lying Good For Us?
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From a very early age, we are instilled with the idea that lying is wrong. Yet learning to lie is a normal and necessary stage in our psychological development. What if lying made the world a better place?
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Werden wir uns einfrieren?
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Schon mal mit dem Gedanken gespielt, das Leben auf Eis zu legen? Um erst aufzuwachen, wenn all die vielen Probleme von heute aus der Welt geschafft sind? Was wäre, wenn wir uns .. show full overview
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Will we run out of sand?
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Whether in mobile phones, glass or even in our underwear, sand is everywhere in our lives. Without it, there would be no houses and no roads. According to the UN Environment Programme, .. show full overview
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What's So Funny?
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Adults laugh 20 times a day, children up to 500 times. But where does humour begin and end? And why does someone find something funny that makes no one else laugh? Humour is eminently .. show full overview
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The Origin of Life
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While scientists agree on the date (4 billion years ago), their opinions diverge on the place and conditions that saw the birth of life on our planet. Did the first cells emerge from a .. show full overview
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Does Punishment Work?
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When we harm someone, we may be punished, the point of which is to be made aware of the harm we have done to others. So goes the theory. But researchers warn against the harmful effect .. show full overview
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What Are Our Imaginations For?
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We spend large stretches of our waking hours imagining things or just daydreaming. Why are we so often away in the clouds? What are our imaginations for?
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Can We Trick Our Genes?
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Our genes determine many of our characteristics: our build, our height, the colour of our eyes or even our predisposition to music. Could it be possible to control the mechanisms that .. show full overview
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Amasia: The Supercontinent of the Future
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The biggest movement in our lives is one that we don't even notice: The continents of the earth are on the move, albeit in slow motion. For several decades now, humans have been .. show full overview
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Les chiens nous aiment-ils vraiment ?
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Tout propriétaire de chien le sait bien : la relation entre l’humain et le chien est unique. Un lien puissant et inébranlable, peut-être même de l’amour. Aucun autre animal n'est aussi .. show full overview
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Schrumpfen wir die Tiere?
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In der Natur geht etwas Seltsames vor sich: Tintenfische schrumpfen und der Körperbau mancher Eidechsen und Vögel verändert sich radikal. Und das passiert innerhalb weniger Jahre oder in .. show full overview
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Do We Need Corruption?
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Corruption has been part of society since the dawn of time, swallowing up colossal sums of money which could be spent on improving everyone’s lives. Is it possible to get rid of it once .. show full overview
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Brauchen wir Korruption?
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Sie ist eine regelrechte Geldvernichtungsmaschine: Korruption begleitet uns seit Menschengedenken. Wie können wir sie nur endlich loswerden? Aber Moment mal ... müssen wir sie wirklich .. show full overview
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Are Animals Cleverer than Us?
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Vultures can spot a dead antelope from five kilometres away, while seals can dive into deep water, even under the ice. It is also said that many animals have a mysterious sixth sense: .. show full overview
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Wissen Tiere mehr als wir?
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Tiere haben oft mehr Informationen als wir. So haben Geier zum Beispiel extrem gute Augen und sehen aus fünf Kilometern Höhe eine tote Antilope. Oder Robben: Sie können in die Tiefsee .. show full overview
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Are Billionaires a Problem?
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The richest man in the world - Frenchman Bernard Arnault - is worth more than 200 billion euros. Around the world, the super rich are getting ever richer. Since money can buy power and influence. Are billionaires undermining democracy?
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Bedrohen Superreiche die Demokratie?
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Weltweit nimmt der Superreichtum immer gigantischere Ausmaße an. Ist es eine Gefahr für die Demokratie, wenn wenige Menschen um ein Vielfaches reicher sind als der Rest der Bevölkerung? .. show full overview
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Does Language Shape our Identity?
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Words shape our thinking. And it is most often in our mother tongue that we think and find words to make sense of the world. How can our mother tongue shape our perception? Would we be completely different people if we had a different mother tongue?