Isaac Arthur
Isaac Albert Arthur (born 1980) is a science communication YouTuber and futurist. He is best known as producer of his YouTube channel, "Science & Futurism With Isaac Arthur" ("SFIA"), where he discusses a broad variety of topics on futurism and space colonization. Early life and education. Arthur was born to two physicists and raised by his mother and his grandfather, Alan Arthur, along with an older sister. He was homeschooled from the age of ten, and dropped out of high school at age twelve. He received his GED at the age of sixteen. In 2001 he graduated at the  top of his class with a degree in physics from Kent State University and began to pursue a graduate degree in biophysics. Arthur enlisted in the United States Army in 2003 and was stationed at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and Giessen, Germany. He left the military in 2010, returning to his home in Ashtabula, Ohio. Arthur became involved in local politics and now serves as chairman of the Ashtabula County board of elections. Section::::"Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur". Arthur began an educational YouTube channel, "Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur", in 2012. In September 2014, Arthur released the first video on the  channel on the topic of megastructures. The channel is now host to over subscribers and videos as of February 4th 2022 Arthur continues to serve as a board member of his hometown's Board of Elections by day, spending the majority of his personal time working on the production of his videos. Following the success of his channel, Arthur collaborates with other science communicators, including Paul Sutter and Fraser Cain, and acts as an analyst and consultant for science fiction novels and games, such as "HADES 9". His channel is dedicated to topics including space colonization in the near and  far future, futurism, artificial intelligence, and transhumanism, among others, especially in the context of thermodynamics, economics, science fiction, the Fermi paradox, and the Dyson dilemma. The channel's main focus is to speculate on how humanity or other hypothetical advanced civilizations may behave logistically, technologically, and socially, in the near and distant future under the laws of known science. The channel releases new episodes every Thursday, which tend to be around thirty minutes in length and are roughly organized into series: Arthur also collaborates with other YouTubers and science communicators. In 2020, Arthur was named the recipient of the National  Space Society's Space Pioneer Award for Education via Mass Media for his YouTube channel.