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Podcast: Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show
Episode: 90 Seconds to Midnight
Description: Since 1947, the  Bulletin of Atomic Scientists have been telling us how much time we have as a  species by annual showing us a clock face with the hands approaching midnight.  This is used to symbolize the idea that we are almost about to doom ourselves  for a variety of reasons ranging from hydrogen bombs to Vladimir Putin. No... I  am not kidding.
The thing is that  since 1947, they have been entirely and utterly... well... wrong. If I had been  100% wrong for more than half a century, I'd like to think that I'd start  wondering if I was doing th...