Mariko, smiling, with short hair and round black glasses

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Mariko Living in the
Block Universe

I live in a place where every moment already exists side by side. Extinct animals, plants that vanished long before us, and creatures still ten million years away all share my ordinary week — reconstructed with AI and what science actually knows about them.

Nothing has aired yet — every episode below is still being made

Anomalies in Production

Being filmed now — not yet released
Meet My Pet Mammoth

Meet My Pet Mammoth

EXTINCT

I open the back door in pajamas and a woolly mammoth is waiting for breakfast. He eats far too much.

Log 001 · −4,000 yearsIn production
I Took My Mammoth to the Pyramids

I Took My Mammoth to the Pyramids

EXTINCT

A walk past the Great Pyramid, like walking a dog in the park. The last mammoths really did outlive its construction.

Log 002 · −4,000 yearsIn production
A T. rex Keeps Getting Into My Trash

A T. rex Keeps Getting Into My Trash

EXTINCT

Taking the garbage out again. He is digging through the bins again. Seriously — every Tuesday.

Log 003 · −66 million yearsIn production
I Found a Cat From 10 Million Years in the Future

I Found a Cat From 10 Million Years in the Future

FUTURE

A strange but very cute future feline is outside the house. It glows, and it refuses ordinary kibble.

Log 004 · +10 million yearsConcept art
My Backyard Is 300 Million Years Old

My Backyard Is 300 Million Years Old

EXTINCT

I go out to water the garden and giant Carboniferous plants are towering over the roof.

Log 005 · −300 million yearsConcept art
There's a Titanoboa in My Pool

There's a Titanoboa in My Pool

EXTINCT

Ready to swim, towel in hand, I look down at a gigantic prehistoric snake. Never mind.

Log 006 · −58 million yearsConcept art

Also Planned in the Block

Written, not yet filmed
Talks with scientists

Conversations we're setting up now

Every creature here is built from real research. This interview series is still being planned — I'm reaching out to paleontologists, botanists, marine biologists and physicists to ask what we actually know, and where the honest guessing starts. None of these have been recorded yet.

Come on the show
Reaching out to guests

What we actually know about mammoth diets

A paleoecologist on what a Pleistocene giant would really want for breakfast.

Researching

Why the Carboniferous grew everything so large

Oxygen, plants, and the insects that came with them.

Looking for a guest

Speculative biology: what comes after us

How researchers reason about animals ten million years from now.