Plutopia News Network Sci-Fi Saturday: "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" is back with season 4. In episode 1, "Valles Marineris," a space-storm induced time shift throws the Enterprise and crew to the distant past in a familiar place. youtu.be/7FaPm2QTy5w?...

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | Season 4 Official Teaser | Paramount+ (CCXP Mexico 2026)

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Plutopia News Network Sci-Fi Saturday: On YouTube, an HD restoration of "Not of This Earth," a Roger Corman low-budget sci-fi film about a literally bloodthirsty alien. youtu.be/jVWN2Tx8ABk?...

NEW HD RESTORATION🍕 Not of This Earth (1957)🍕 ROGER CORMAN

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Counselor Candy Marcum discusses providing affirming mental health care and her belief that LGBTQ people need support in accepting themselves. plutopia.io/living-your-...

Living Your Truth: Counseling, Community, and LGBTQ Resilience | Plutopia News Network

Counselor Candy Marcum discusses providing affirming mental health care and her belief that LGBTQ people need support in accepting themselves.

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Team Plutopia looks at the changing political landscape in Texas as foundation for a broader discussion of democracy, public policy, and the state’s future. plutopia.io/texas-at-a-c...

Texas at a Crossroads | Plutopia News Network

Plutopians take a wide-ranging look at the changing political landscape in Texas and beyond, discussing democracy, public policy, and the state’s future.

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Plutopia News Network Sci-Fi Saturday: "Backrooms" is a horror film that manifests a wicked maze of surreal rooms that open on rooms that open on other rooms. A building that needs a psych evaluation. youtu.be/0HjdiohVOik?...

Backrooms | Official Trailer HD | A24

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Team Plutopia looks at the changing political landscape in Texas as foundation for a broader discussion of democracy, public policy, and the state’s future. plutopia.io/texas-at-a-c...

Texas at a Crossroads | Plutopia News Network

Plutopians take a wide-ranging look at the changing political landscape in Texas and beyond, discussing democracy, public policy, and the state’s future.

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A wide-ranging look at the changing political landscape in Texas, using Jon Lebkowsky’s experience as a delegate to the Texas Democratic Convention as a springboard for a broader discussion of democracy, public policy, and the state’s future. plutopia.io/texas-at-a-c...

Texas at a Crossroads | Plutopia News Network

Plutopians take a wide-ranging look at the changing political landscape in Texas and beyond, discussing democracy, public policy, and the state’s future.

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Hugh Forrest reflects on four decades helping shape South by Southwest and the challenges of scaling creative communities without losing authenticity. plutopia.io/hugh-forrest...

Hugh Forrest: Growing Experiences | Plutopia News Network

Hugh Forrest reflects on four decades helping shape South by Southwest and the challenges of scaling creative communities without losing authenticity.

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Plutopia News Network Sci-Fi Saturday: After re-watching "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (before seeing "Disclosure Day"), it occurred to us that those aliens might be stocking an interplanetary zoo. youtu.be/dSpQ3G08k48?...

CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND - Official Trailer

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Security researcher and educator Steve Bellovin discusses the increasingly centralized and balkanized internet, practical and social problems with age verification, the limited role of consumer VPNs, and the history and evolution of cryptography. plutopia.io/steven-bello...

Steven Bellovin: Don’t Get Hacked! | Plutopia News Network

Security researcher and educator Steve Bellovin discusses the increasingly centralized and Balkanized internet and the history and evolution of cryptography.

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Plutopia News Network Sci-Fi Saturday: In "Disclosure Day," a government contractor fights to prevent full disclosure of the truth about aliens visiting earth, while a hacker and a meteorologist rush to revelation. youtu.be/icDuEHSxE-w

Disclosure Day | Final Trailer

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Plutopia News Network Sci-Fi Saturday: Is "The Mandalorian and Grogu" science fiction, space western, or film noir? However classified, it's a great way to blast through the post-Star-Wars worlds created for the original Mandalorian stories. Pulp cinema. youtu.be/uwild1rw7Aw?...

Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu | Final Trailer | In Theaters May 22

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Discussion of how AI transforms participatory medicine by giving patients new tools to understand medical research, manage personal health data, challenge institutional failures, and act with greater agency. #participatorymedicine #patientsuseAI plutopia.io/patient-powe...

Patient Power in the Age of AI | Plutopia News Network

How AI transforms participatory medicine by giving patients new tools to understand medical research, manage personal health data, and act with greater agency.

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Plutopia News Network Sci-Fi Saturday: "Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die" is a wild romp through a surreal version of the techn-mediated present with a mission-driven man from the future. youtu.be/Nm4WbapDzDQ?...

GOOD LUCK, HAVE FUN, DON'T DIE | Official Trailer | February 13 - Only in Theaters

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Plutopia News Network Sci-Fi Saturday: Cheesy but prescient "Creation of the Humanoids," with its comicbook production design Andy Warhol's favorite sci-fi film, features a human/AGI love story in a future where AGI robots fill in for humans lost in a nuclear war. youtu.be/pAaJsPTDvp0?...

Creation of the Humanoids (1962) SF film

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Cindy Cohn discusses her new book, “Privacy’s Defender,” and reflects on her decades of work with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, from the landmark Bernstein encryption case to fights against NSA mass surveillance and national security letters. plutopia.io/cindy-cohn-p...

Cindy Cohn: Privacy’s Defender | Plutopia News Network

Cindy Cohn reflects on her work with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, from the Bernstein encryption case to fights against NSA mass surveillance.

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Plutopia News Network Sci-Fi Saturday: Plutopia's Jon Lebkowsky wrote “2001 Blues” around year 2000, reflecting how "2001: A Space Odyssey" shaped his sci-fi dreams, and the more ambiguous, disappointing reality of actual year 2001. weblogsky.com/2026/05/06/2...

Immunologist David Miles discusses his book Sneeze: The History and Science of the Common Cold, discussing “the common cold” as a broad category of respiratory viral illness. He also comments on the recent hantavirus outbreak. plutopia.io/david-miles-...

David Miles: The Viral Sneeze | Plutopia News Network

David Miles discusses his book "Sneeze: The History and Science of the Common Cold," seeing "the cold" as as a broad category of respiratory viral illness.

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Plutopia News Network Sci-Fi Saturday: Is it science fiction? Or is it an interplanetary Western? "The Mandalorian and Grogu" follows Din Djarin and his mini-Jedi pal as they work for the New Republic. youtu.be/uwild1rw7Aw?...

Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu | Final Trailer | In Theaters May 22

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Dr. Edward Lenert discusses engagement with large language models and what that experience reveals about AI, thought, trust, creativity, and danger. plutopia.io/ed-lenert-ai...

Ed Lenert: AI, Truth, and Political Kayfabe | Plutopia News Network

Ed Lenert discusses his experience with large language models and what that experience reveals about AI, thought, trust, creativity, and danger.

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Plutopia News Network Sci-Fi Saturday: "Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice" is a crazy sci-fi gangster buddy comedy flick. The sci-fi element is a spoiler, so you'll have to trust us. youtu.be/pI-2t18TXqs?...

Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice | Official Trailer | Hulu

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Helen Pearson (@helenpearson.bsky.social) discusses her book “Beyond Belief,” which traces the rise of evidence-based decision, arguing that evidence-based practice is both more recent and more fragile than many people realize. plutopia.io/helen-pearso...

Helen Pearson: Beyond Belief | Plutopia News Network

Helen Pearson discusses her book Beyond Belief, on rise of evidence-based decision-making in medicine, government, education, conservation, and other fields.

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Plutopia News Network Sci-Fi Saturday: Vietnam era soldiers fight dinosaurs, Russians, and wormhole-enabling technology in "Primitive War." Over a dozen types of rowdy dinosaurs, for fans of CGI VFX. youtu.be/ixXxdWY6d68?...

Primitive War | Official Theatrical Trailer

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📢 My book, Beyond Belief: How Evidence Shows What Really Works, is out 28th April. 🚨🚨 “an incredibly engaging popular science book that illustrates why we should care about good quality evidence.” Preorders *really* help! 🙏 @princetonupress.bsky.social press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Beyond Belief

The remarkable story of the global movement championing the idea that evidence, not opinions, should guide our decisions

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Journalist Tereza Pultarova discusses her path from covering space exploration to reporting on defense technology after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. plutopia.io/tereza-pulta...

Tereza Pultarova: Space, Science, and Drone Wars | Plutopia News Network

Journalist Tereza Pultarova discusses her path from covering space exploration to reporting on defense technology after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

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Plutopia News Network Sci-Fi Saturday: "The Lost Episode of Star Trek" is actually a whacky montage of bits clipped from various episodes. "Captain, are you all right? What about the ship?" youtu.be/AUMZaR52YaA?...

The Lost Episode of Star Trek

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Stephen Dulaney says AI is a powerful but risky partner that can boost human work, but it still needs judgment, ethics, testing, and oversight. plutopia.io/stephen-dula...

Stephen Dulaney: The AI Ambition | Plutopia News Network

Stephen Dulaney says AI is a powerful but risky partner that can boost human work, but it still needs judgment, ethics, testing, and oversight.

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Plutopia News Network Sci-Fi Saturday: Steven Spielberg manifests his fascination with UFO possibility in "Disclosure Day," set for summer blockbuster release. At SXSW he said "I have a very strong sneaking suspicion that we are not alone here on Earth right now." youtu.be/RWgbu7uWLw0?...

Disclosure Day | Extended Trailer (2026) | Emily Blunt, Steven Spielberg

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In this Plutopia podcast episode, futurist and data analyst Anne Boysen argues that today’s AI systems, especially large language models and emerging AI agents, are being adopted far faster than their reliability, transparency, and testability justify. plutopia.io/anne-boysen-...

Anne Boysen: AI Hype, Agents, and Risk | Plutopia News Network

Anne Boysen argues that today’s AI systems are being adopted far faster than their reliability, transparency, and testability justify.

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Plutopia News Network Sci-Fi Saturday: If the invading enemy in a film is an alien from outer space, as in "War Machine," does that make it science fiction? Or is it an explosive, mindless action film? youtu.be/AFuE1LRxm80?...

WAR MACHINE | Official Trailer | Netflix

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