You are a specialist in your field, with a world-wide, excellent reputation, when you are asked to participate in a high-profile study - along with other experts from various disciplines and representatives of policymakers. You accept and contribute, to the best of your abilities - yet none of your input is reflected in the final report. What is [...]

Hybrid cars are marketed as environmental friendly. However, I heard some opinions saying that because of the heavy double-engine system and the batteries needed for the electric engine, those cars are rather heavy and thus consume much more fuel than actually needed for a car that size. So, Are Hybrid cars environmental friendly?

I want to try a thought experiment with you. Imagine I had the ability to snap my fingers and create an exact copy of the universe and everything in it. Would those two universes be any different, after a second, a minute or a thousand years? Most people would say no, and if that were the case then it would mean that for any moment in time there is [...]

Scientists invent a pill that slows down aging and keeps the body free from major illness. People that take it feel great and live to be 200 years old. The only downside is that it you must take it when you are young, and that it removes all desire for sex. Do you take the pill?

A politician plans to do something that you consider to be a good (or even great) thing. Then you find out their reasoning for doing it is totally misguided.... Would you continue to support that politician?

It is the year 2112. Telepods have been in use for a decade to instantly transport matter from one part of the universe to another. You are waiting in line with your family at a telepod station to go to Tau Ceti. In front of you in the queue you meet the inventor of the telepods. He tells you that the telepods only appear to move matter, what they [...]