The Ezra Klein Show

Tim Urban on humanity’s wild future

I’ve been a fan of Tim Urban and his site Wait But Why for a long time. Urban uses whimsical illustrations, infographics, and friendly, nontechnical language to explain everything from AI to space exploration to Fermi’s Paradox. Urban's most recent project is an explainer series called “The Story of Us." It began as an attempt to understand what is going…