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24 alternatives to What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

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Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   What If?▲107

   Serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions

   2015 · its alternatives →

2. 2
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3. 3
   What If? ▲4

   A playground for your mind

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4. 4
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   A fun, simple website to help spark ideas.

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5. 5
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   What if you could have made different choices in life?

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   A gleeful look at the science behind impossible deaths

   2017 · its alternatives →

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   But What If We're Wrong?▲62

   Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past

   2016 · its alternatives →

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   Curious▲76

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   What is Fire?▲134

   An illustrated explanation, from Hardbound

   2016 · its alternatives →

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    The desire to know and why your future depends on it

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Predictably Irrational▲96

    The hidden forces that shape our decisions

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    If You Feel Too Much▲66

    Thoughts on things found and lost and hoped for

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13. 13
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    2019 · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Seven Experiments That Could Change the World▲55

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    2016 · its alternatives →

15. 15
    The Vital Question▲55

    Energy, evolution, and the origins of complex life

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    Fooled By Randomness ▲105

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    2016 · its alternatives →

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    2016 · its alternatives →

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23. 23
    The Last Question by Isaac Asimov▲76

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    A More Beautiful Idea▲61

    Use the power of inquiry to have breakthroughs

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