Tim Urban

Aspiring teenage astronauts reveal that a journey to Mars is closer than you think.

Science fiction has long anticipated the rise of machine intelligence, and today a new generation of self-learning computers has begun to reshape every aspect of our lives. Will A.I. usher in an age of unprecedented potential, or prove to be our final invention?

If machines can be smarter than people, is humanity really anything special?

Max spends a year traveling around the world visiting beautiful, unique bookstores and speaking with experts about how to balance his content diet in order to read more.