Show notes
On the show this week:
- Someone Made This Real
- Unusual Science
- Missing Things Found
- Unreal Intelligence
CQ: When we bring dinosaurs back from extinction, will we use them on the moon, on Mars or on Earth first?
Full list of 18 articles after the jump!
- Someone Made This Real:
- ‘They were so busy wondering if they could, they never stopped to think whether they should.’: The UK Independent – Cheese tea is a thing – and it’s coming to the UK
- And yet, we still hear people fart in the public bathroom..: The Daily Dot – You can now buy a $130 ramen fork that cancels out slurping noises
- There’s a certain segment that is probably really interested.: The UK Daily Mail – Love the scent of fried chicken? KFC releases BATH BOMBS that will leave you smelling like the 11 secret herbs and spices
- I’ve heard of bar deodorant, but that’s ridiculous!: KDVR/FOX – Pit Liquor: Colorado inventors make whiskey-based deodorant
- It’s not what you think, but it could have been done a hundred years ago..: The UK Telegraph – Farmers urged to bury their underpants to improve quality of their beef
- Most of the world already seems ludicrous to me right now..: News.com.au – 12 things that’ll seem ludicrous in our lifetime
- Unusual Science:
- In what ways do we cross science over with art?: LiveScience – This Video of ‘Dancing Braids’ Will Change How You Think About Mathematics
- Shouldn’t we all?: Fox43 – U.S. Army in Maryland using urine to generate power
- The first stage of the replicator?: New Scientist – Kitchen counter bio-lab lets you make edible gloop from cells
- Oh yeah? See you in a hundred years, pal!: Inverse Science – Immortality Is Impossible, Say Scientists Studying the Mathematics of Aging
- Missing Things Found:
- They found it by looking everywhere else first. Whatever remains, must be nothing.: The Daily Grail – Scientists Find Suspected Hidden Chamber Within the Great Pyramid
- So now you’re telling me that there’s nothing there — but isn’t that the same as the other guy?: Phys.org – Egypt archaeologist criticises pyramid void ‘discovery’
- Let’s remember that games are still art, and art is for representation..: Ancient Origins – New Assassin’s Creed Has the Most Realistic Reconstruction of Ancient Egypt Ever Produced
- (EXTRA) You might say this work is transformative..: Quanta Magazine – The Atomic Theory of Origami
- Unreal Intelligence:
- (EXTRA) Why not? Corporations are people, so why not machines?: LiveScience – Lifelike ‘Sophia’ Robot Granted Citizenship to Saudi Arabia
- (EXTRA) Let’s hope the stories weren’t aspirational..: New Scientist – ‘I Wake Up in a Pool of Blood’: These Horror Stories Were Written by an AI
- (EXTRA) Inevitability or pipe dream?: Scientific American – Falling Walls: The Past, Present and Future of Artificial Intelligence
- (EXTRA) That’s what the debate over AI sometimes feels like..: The Verge – I spent seven months living inside a conspiracy thriller and it’s not over yet