The doomsday calculation: how an equation that predicts the future is transforming everything we know about life and the universe

Diana and Charles

Part I: Consider the lemming. How to predict everything ; Riddle of the sphinx ; The minister of Tunbridge Wells ; A history of grim reckoning ; Twelve reasons why the doomsday argument is wrong ; Twenty-four dogs in Albuquerque ; Baby names and bomb fragments ; Sleeping beauty ; The presumptuous philosopher ; Tarzan meets Jane ; The shooting room ; The metaphysics of gumball machines

Part II: Life, mind, universe. The simulation hypothesis ; The Fermi question ; The princess in the tower ; Two questions for an extraterrestrial ; Pandora's box ; Life and death in many worlds ; 1/137 ; Summoning the demon ; You are here.