It's The End Of The World As We Know It

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🗓️ 4 August 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Today we travel to a future where there is no future, because today we’re considering how the universe ends. Plus: how to cope with feeling freaked out by the end of the world, and what the last party ever should be like. Guests: Dr. Katie Mack — astrophysicist and author of The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking) (also very good on Twitter!) Dr. Jana Sadler — clinical psychologist based in Southern California Jessie Char — conference organizer & party planner → → → Further reading & resources here! ← ← ← Flash Forward is produced by me, Rose Eveleth. The intro music is by Asura and the outtro music is by Hussalonia. The episode art is by Matt Lubchansky. Support the show: Patreon // Donorbox Get in touch: Twitter // Facebook // Reddit // [email protected] Subscribe: iTunes // Soundcloud // Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:17.0	Hello and I'm your host and Flash Forward is a podcast about the future. Every episode we go to a specific possible or sometimes not very possible future scenario.
0:24.0	Every episode starts with a little field trip into the future
0:27.7	to check out what's going on.
0:29.2	And then you and I and all of us together
0:32.0	are going to teleport back to today to talk to real bona fide
0:35.8	experts about how that world that we just traveled to might actually go down.
0:42.3	Got it? Great. Before we go to the future today I want to tell you about
0:46.9	another podcast that you might like. You may have heard me talk about it before but there is a new
0:50.8	season of the podcast, Science Diction.
0:54.2	And already you know we have a winner because I do love a pun.
0:57.8	Science Diction is a new podcast from Science Friday and WNY studios. Every episode, host Johanna Mayer picks one word
1:05.3	and figures out where it came from.
1:07.4	Right now, they're talking about food,
1:09.8	one of my favorite subjects.
1:11.1	For example, did you know that the word ketchup, as in the tomato-based
1:15.4	product you should never put on a hot dog, actually comes from the word for fish sauce. And in fact,
1:21.6	ketchup used to literally be fish sauce. And in fact, ketchup used to literally be fish sauce. Scientists in the U.S. adapted an
1:26.5	East Asian sauce into what Americans know of today as ketchup. Or have you ever wondered what the heck Rocky Road is and why we think it sounds
1:37.3	tasty to eat? You can get the answer to that on a recent episode of Science Diction.
1:42.8	Find Science Diction wherever you get your podcasts.
1:46.2	Okay, now let's go to the future.
1:48.0	This episode, we are starting in the year 2028. 28. Okay, so it says, pounce, place this figure in an empty space within six spaces and adjacent two or more rebels.
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