What If, discussed.
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
What If You Explored the Deepest Points of Earth? - with George Kourounis
08 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Let NetSuite show you how they’ll benefit your business with a FREE Product Tour at www.netsuite.com/WHATIF We've explored a lot on this planet, ...
What If You Only Ate Sugar for a Month? - with Gary Taubes
01 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Go to the Great Courses Plus and receive the first month for FREE: thegreatcoursesplus.com/whatif Normally the idea of gorging yourself exclusively...
What If We Settled on an Exoplanet? - with Didier Queloz
25 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Go to www.greenchef.com/WHATIF90 and use code WHATIF90 to get $90 off, including free shipping. It's been a long strange journey for Nobel Prize wi...
What If You Rode a Balloon to Space? - with Taber MacCallum
18 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Let NetSuite show you how they’ll benefit your business with a FREE Product Tour at www.netsuite.com/WHATIF With everyone from Elon Musk to Jeff ...
What If a Tornado Hit an Active Volcano? - with George Kourounis
11 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
So What If a tornado hit an active volcano? To be honest, we have no idea. But you know who might be the only person on Earth who knows? It's the host...
What If You Never Aged? - with Jamie Metzl
05 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What If you could live forever? Since the days of Ponce De Leon and the search for the Fountain of Youth, human beings have pursued longer lives, doin...
What If We Lived in a Closed Biosphere? - with Jane Poynter
27 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In 1991, 8 people walked into the first ever biosphere project, committed to live there, grow their own food, recycle their waste and sustain themselv...
What If You Could See Through a Black Hole? - with Pr. Clifford Johnson
20 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What do we really know about black holes? We've only recently even gotten a visual of an actual black hole, so not a lot. But although we can now see ...
What If You Were Addicted to Energy Drinks? - Danielle Robertson Rath
13 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
If you’re ready to take action and prevent hair loss, go to keeps.com/whatif to receive your first month of treatment for free. Do you drink ener...
What If "Among Us" Was Real Life? - Liana Ruppert
06 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone once in awhile a game comes along that transcends genre, subjective preferences or styles and just blows us up in a way that takes it from "g...
What If Our Solar System Orbited a Black Hole? - with Pr. Clifford Johnson
30 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Get 20% off your first monthly box when you sign up at boxofawesome.com and enter the code “whatif” at checkout. If you’re ready to take acti...
What If We Were on Lockdown for the Entire Winter? - with Dr. Norman E. Rosenthal
23 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Get 20% Off + Free Shipping with promo code WHATIF20 at www.manscaped.com Have you ever experienced seasonal affective disorder or S.A.D.? For thos...
What If Matter Was Replaced by Antimatter? - with Liz Landau
16 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever wondered if there are parallel universes? Earlier this year, a NASA study suggested there might be another universe where time goes back...
What If an Octopus Was Your Teacher? - with Pippa Ehrlich
09 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What do we really know about octopuses? For starters, they don't have 8 tentacles...they're called arms. Did you know they had 3 hearts? 9 brains? And...
What If Jupiter Never Existed? - with Steve Levin
02 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Get 20% Off + Free Shipping with promo code WHATIF20 at www.manscaped.com So what do we really know about Jupiter? Generally speaking, most people ...
What If We've Already Made First Contact with Aliens? - with Andrew Siemion
25 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Get 20% off your first monthly box when you sign up at boxofawesome.com and enter the code “whatif” at checkout. If you’re ready to take acti...
What If There Is Life on Venus? - with Sara Seager
18 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sign up for the Great Courses Plus today and enjoy the first month for free: https://bit.ly/podcast-great-courses-plus The world was rocked recentl...
What If We Blew Up an Asteroid? - Guest: Bill Nye
11 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sign up for the Great Courses Plus today and enjoy the first month for free: https://bit.ly/podcast-great-courses-plus Not like we don't have enoug...
What If the Universe is Bouncing? - Guest: Anna Ijjas
04 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It's easy to forget that long standing scientific theories are in fact, theories and therefore are subject to revision and change as new information c...
What If We Became a Type II Civilization? - Guest: Michio Kaku
28 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sign up for Policy Genius today: https://bit.ly/policy-genius-what-if-discussed How cool would it be if we could one day regulate our atmosphere, c...
What If You Got Stuck in a Time Loop? - Guests: Danny Rubin and Ryan Wasserman
21 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Get 20% off Manscaped + Free Shipping with promo code “WHATIF”: https://mnscpd.com/What-If Do you ever wake up thinking, here we go again? Sa...
What If We Had to Evacuate Earth? - Guest: Bill Nye
14 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sign up for the Great Courses Plus today and enjoy the first month for free: https://bit.ly/podcast-great-courses-plus We know the history of this ...
What If You Lived on a Super Earth? - Guest: Dr. Jack Madden
07 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sign up for Policy Genius today: https://bit.ly/policy-genius-what-if-discussed The Hubble telescope has helped discover over 4100 exoplanets in re...
What If Your Teacher Were A.I.? - Guests: Dr. Joanna Bryson and Dr. Jutta Treviranus
31 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sign up for the Great Courses today to receive the first month for free: https://bit.ly/great-courses-what-if Is A.I. the future of education? Coul...
What If Humans Are Future Versions of Aliens? - Guest: Dr. Mike Masters
24 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
So imagine that all of the reports of UFO's, visitations and alien abductions were true...but sort of not? Confused? How about instead of "aliens" bei...
What If You Lived in Ancient Egypt? - Guests: Dr. Salima Ikram and Dr. Bob Brier
17 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever wondered what it might be like to have lived like a Pharaoh? Walked like an Egyptian? Reached the top of the Pyramid? Ancient Egypt cont...
What If the Sun Dimmed Down? - Guest: Emily Calandrelli
10 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We all know we depend on the Sun, but how much? And what happens to us if the Sun goes down...on us?! Join Peter and Richard and science communicato...
What If We Lived In Space? - Guests: Dr. Ronke Olabisi and Jerry Stone
03 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What if we lived in space? Could we build a Bernal Sphere, an O’Neill Cylinder or a Stanford Torus? Why would we choose to live on a space habitat? ...
What If Your Brain Was Twice Its Size? - Guests: Michio Kaku and Rita Carter
26 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Does size really matter when it comes to our brains? Does a bigger brain mean a smarter person? And how much do we really know about our brains? Michi...
What If We Lived 50 Years Into the Future? - Guest: Steven Kotler
17 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Twain once said...Well, Mark Twain said a lot of things but in this particular context, his "it's difficult to make predictions, particularly abo...
What If We Discovered Alien Life? - Guest: Jill Tarter
10 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
There's perhaps no bigger "What If" that will ever be asked. As long as we have been able to look up at the stars and understand the vastness of space...
What If We Became Cyborgs? - Guest: Neil Harbisson
03 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What has long been explored in science-fiction as well as prophesied as the next step in the evolution of human beings by "Singularity" proponents lik...
What If We Settled on the Moon? - Guest: Alex Hall
27 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Do you consider yourself a pioneer? An explorer perhaps? Would you "go boldly where no one has gone before" - well, almost no one. And would you stay?...
What If Half the Earth’s Population Was Wiped Out? - Guest: Paul Ehrlich
13 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What has most recently became known in some circles as "Thanos Theory", many people have wondered, especially in times of serious concerns about clima...
What If You Fell Into a Pool of Liquid Nitrogen? - Guest: Bob McDonald
06 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
One of the most popular "What If" videos with over 75 million views, "What If you fell into a pool of liquid nitrogen takes us through the fascinating...
What If We Had a Worldwide Pandemic? - Guest: Sonia Shah
28 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Each week on “What If Discussed”, we explore the big hypotheticals and ponder the possibilities. This week is different. With “What If we had a ...
What If We Lived in a Galactic Zoo? – Guest: Douglas Vakoch of METI
14 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Do you ever feel like you're being watched... by aliens? The "Zoo Hypothesis" as it is known in science circles speculates that some form of advanced,...
Teaser: This is What If, discussed.
03 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We ask some of the world’s top thinkers in science, astronomy, technology, academia and futurism to ponder some of our most popular What If videos. ...