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Innovációk találmányok hátán, robot robotra halmozva, éves listák előre és hátra. Jegyzetek FU high-techenészet Matija hallgatótól (https://qubit.hu/2025/01/03/kevesebb-metant-bocsat-ki-hilda-a-jovo-marhaja) Elküldjük a VR-be rovat VRBíróság: VR-ben nézte a bíró a támadás helyszínét (https://www.newsweek.com/virtual-reality-headset-court-judge-florida-aggravated-assault-case-2009193) Robottaxival ment a reptérre, megbánta (https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-05/los-angeles-man-trapped-in-circling-waymo-says-he-missed-his-flight-home) Zseniális ötlettel hackelte meg a TikTok “arcfelismerő” cuccát egy magyar TikTokker (https://www.tiktok.com/@limbolaz/video/7455672786502126870?_t=ZN-8sqMHOdydmA&_r=1) Erős Lista rovat Az év innovációi a Time szerint (https://time.com/collection/best-inventions-2024/) Headset nélküli VR (https://avgadgets.com/brelyons-ultra-reality-display-vr-without-the-headset/) Pillás robot (https://time.com/7094560/luum-precision-lash/) Föld alatt tárolt CO2 a megoldás először (https://time.com/7094641/spiritus-carbon-orchard/) és másodszor (https://time.com/7094627/arbor-power-station/) Az akkoriban méltán népszerű Zöldpálya már 2021-ben írt hasonlóról (https://www.zoldpalya.hu/varos/szen-dioxid-levego-szuro-climeworks-301294.html) Az év innovációi a PopSci szerint (https://www.popsci.com/technology/best-of-whats-new-2024) Yotaphone (https://www.cnet.com/reviews/yotaphone-2-review/) A tavalyi év CESes biszbaszai a Smithsonian szerint (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/the-eight-coolest-inventions-from-the-2024-consumer-electronics-show-180983577) CES-ergő rovat Leginkább a neve miatt: Pawport, az intelligens macskaajtó (https://www.ces.tech/ces-innovation-awards/2025/pawport/) Macskaarc-felismerős etető (https://www.catlinkus.com/products/catlink-multi-cat-recognition-automatic-feeder-facelink) Leginkább a szerző neve miatt: napelemes hűtő (https://gizmodo.com/ankers-solar-powered-cooler-is-a-bonafide-fridge-on-wheels-2000545902) Leginkább Scully örök karácsonyi kívánsága miatt: haladunk a rendrakó robot felé, one zokni at a time (https://gizmodo.com/this-robot-vacuum-has-a-claw-arm-thats-perfect-for-picking-up-rogue-socks-2000545068) Robotkutya időseknek és betegeknek (https://www.wnct.com/business/press-releases/ein-presswire/768689571/tombot-unveils-next-generation-of-lifelike-robotic-pets-at-ces-2025-revolutionizing-dementia-care-and-health-monitoring/) Az első (?) Fitbit teheneknek (https://www.ces.tech/ces-innovation-awards/2025/feed-heat-monitor-first-ever-wearable-cow-health-monitor/) Ellopta a show-t a sókanál (https://mashable.com/article/electric-salt-spoon-kirin-ces-2025) Hírlevélke itt (http://eepurl.com/g7Bfd1).

We're joined by author and professor Anne McClannan to discuss her new book Griffinology.  These monsters are visually easily recognized - but how much do you know about their history?Links:Griffinology is available directly from University of Chicago Press.Coupon code UCPNEW is good through Dec 2024 for 30% off - which brings the price down to $28 off its regular cover price of $40! Griffins (wikipedia)Here is a link to some Griffins in ancient artwork. The artwork in Griffinology is a stunning and impressive selection of such examples.PopSci article on plausibility of Griffin/Fossil ConnectionAdditional:The Leucrotta (per Reddit)The same beast per D&DBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/monstertalk--6267523/support.

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for September 16, 2024 is: nebula • NEB-yuh-luh • noun A nebula is a large cloud of interstellar gas or dust. In nontechnical use, the word nebula also refers to a galaxy other than the Milky Way. // We were eventually able to see the nebula through the telescope. See the entry > Examples: "Like clouds, the shapes of our galaxy's glittery nebulae are sometimes in the eye of the beholder. They can look like all sorts of animals: tarantulas, crabs, a running chicken, and now, a cosmic koi swimming through space." — Laura Baisas, PopSci.com, 13 June 2024 Did you know? The history of nebula belongs not to the mists of time but to the mists of Latin: in that language nebula means "mist" or "cloud." In its earliest English uses in the 1600s, nebula was chiefly a medical term that could refer either to a cloudy formation in urine or to a cloudy speck or film on the eye. Nebula was first applied to great interstellar clouds of gas and dust in the early 1700s. The adjective nebulous comes from the same Latin root as nebula, and it is considerably older, being first used as a synonym of cloudy or foggy as early as the 1300s. Like nebula, this adjective was not used in an astronomical sense until centuries later.

PopSci's Laura Baisas hops on Weirdest Thing to talk about ancient tweezers (and their accompanying screams), Rachel explains the state of Leprosy in past, present, and future, and Sara Kiley talks about tools and weapons made from space rocks. The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week is a podcast by Popular Science. Share your weirdest facts and stories with us in our Facebook group or tweet at us! Click here to learn more about all of our stories!  Links to Rachel's TikTok, Newsletter, Merch Store and More: https://linktr.ee/RachelFeltman  Link to Jess' Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/jesscapricorn -- Follow our team on Twitter Rachel Feltman: www.twitter.com/RachelFeltman Produced by Jess Boddy: www.twitter.com/JessicaBoddy Popular Science: www.twitter.com/PopSci Theme music by Billy Cadden: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6LqT4DCuAXlBzX8XlNy4Wq?si=5VF2r2XiQoGepRsMTBsDAQ Don't forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link: bit.ly/WeirdestThingILearnedThisWeek Check out Weirdest Thing on YouTube: bit.ly/WeirdestThingILearnedThisWeekYouTube If you like the show, telling a friend about it would be amazing! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: bit.ly/WeirdestThingILearnedThisWeek Thanks to our sponsors!  Here's a special, (limited time) deal for our listeners to get you started RIGHT NOW, Get 55% off at https://Babbel.com/WEIRDEST Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

PopSci intern Jack Izzo talks about the deepest hole EVER. Plus, Rachel explains contagious sleepiness throughout history, and Sara Kiley divulges the captivating story of the woman who invented the dishwasher. The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week is a podcast by Popular Science. Share your weirdest facts and stories with us in our Facebook group or tweet at us! Click here to learn more about all of our stories!  Links to Rachel's TikTok, Newsletter, Merch Store and More: https://linktr.ee/RachelFeltman  Link to Jess' Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/jesscapricorn -- Follow our team on Twitter Rachel Feltman: www.twitter.com/RachelFeltman Produced by Jess Boddy: www.twitter.com/JessicaBoddy Popular Science: www.twitter.com/PopSci Theme music by Billy Cadden: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6LqT4DCuAXlBzX8XlNy4Wq?si=5VF2r2XiQoGepRsMTBsDAQ Don't forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link: bit.ly/WeirdestThingILearnedThisWeek Check out Weirdest Thing on YouTube: bit.ly/WeirdestThingILearnedThisWeekYouTube If you like the show, telling a friend about it would be amazing! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: bit.ly/WeirdestThingILearnedThisWeek Thanks to our Sponsors: Right now, get up to 55% off your subscription when you go to https://Babbel.com/WEIRDEST Babbel—Language for life. Get 15% off OneSkin with the code [WEIRDEST] at https://www.oneskin.co/ #oneskinpod Treat yourself to the best shapewear on the market and save 20% Off at honeylove.com/WEIRDEST. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

News: Serum from hibernating black bears boosts muscle mass in human cells | New Atlas (01:16) The incredible ability of bears to hibernate for months at a time has inspired some interesting lines of research around how their secrets might benefit human health, and among them is a focus on muscle wasting. First let's talk about bear hibernation: The main difference between hibernation and torpor is during torpor, the animal is able to wake up quickly to avoid danger, or if the opportunity exists, exit the den to feed.  Hibernation is a voluntary state an animal enters to conserve energy, when food is scarce, and minimize exposure to the winter elements. During hibernation an animal lowers its body temperature, slows its breathing rate, heart rate, and metabolic rate-the rate its body uses energy. Bears technically do not hibernate, they enter a state similar to it called topor. Fun fact: Bears can sleep more than 100 days without eating, drinking, or passing waste! Bears can actually turn their pee into protein. Scientists in Japan have made a fascinating discovery in this space:Demonstrating how human muscle cells can be infused with serum from hibernating black bears to prevent atrophy and increase muscle mass. This new study focused on skeletal muscle, which is susceptible to wasting caused by immobility.Led by scientists at Hiroshima University and Hokkaido University The research team took cultured human skeletal muscle cells and infused them with serum drawn from the blood of hibernating black bears, which led to significant protein growth after 24 hours.Interestingly, serum collected during the bears' active summer season did not induce these same effects. Believe this is due to a factor in the hibernating bear serum that suppresses a "destruction mechanism" behind muscle degradation Study first-author Mitsunori Miyazaki, stated:“We have indicated that ‘some factor' present in hibernating bear serum may regulate protein metabolism in cultured human skeletal muscle cells and contribute to the maintenance of muscle mass … However, the identification of this 'factor' has not yet been achieved." Doing so could open up some exciting possibilities around protecting humans during deep space travel, or preventing muscle wastage in people who are immobile due to aging or disease.   Alzheimer's Breakthrough: Genetic Link to Gut Disorders Confirmed | Neuroscience News (08:18) A world-first Edith Cowan University (ECU) study has confirmed the link between the two, which could lead to earlier detection and new potential treatments.The findings add to the evidence the gut-brain axis may play a role in the development of neurodegenerative disorders. Alzheimer's Disease (AD), has no known curative treatments and is expected to affect more than 82 million people and is estimated to cost US$2 trillion by 2030. The study analyzed large sets of genetic data from AD and several gut-disorder studies – each of about 400,000 people.The first comprehensive assessment of the genetic relationship between AD and multiple gut disorders. They discovered people with AD and gut disorders have genes in common – which is important for many reasons. Research lead Dr Emmanuel Adewuyi explains:“The study provides a novel insight into the genetics behind the observed co-occurrence of AD and gut disorders … This improves our understanding of the causes of these conditions and identifies new targets to investigate to potentially detect the disease earlier and develop new treatments for both types of conditions.” When researchers conducted further analysis into the shared genetics, they found other important links between AD and gut disorders – such as the role cholesterol may play. Dr Adewuyi provides context:“Whilst further study is needed into the shared mechanisms between the conditions, there is evidence high cholesterol can transfer into the central nervous system, resulting in abnormal cholesterol metabolism in the brain… For example, elevated cholesterol in the brain has been linked to brain degeneration and subsequent cognitive impairment.” The research also indicated diet could play a part in treating and preventing AD and gut disorders.   There is a need for more studies and patients need to be assessed individually to judge whether they would benefit from cholesterol lower medication use.     This solar tower makes jet fuel from sunbeams, water, and gas | PopSci (14:43)  For the past several years, researchers from several different institutions in Switzerland and Germany have been using it to test a method to create propellantnormally a carbon-intensive process involving fossil fuels They use little more than sunlight and greenhouse gasses captured from the atmosphere. What happens inside their tower is a bit of chemistry known as the Fischer-Tropsch process.A collection of chemical reactions that converts a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen or water gas into liquid hydrocarbons.  These reactions occur in the presence of metal catalysts Typically at temperatures of 150–300 °C (302–572 °F)  Pressures of one to several tens of atmospheres. So what does this structure tucked away in a Madrid suburb actually do?169 solar reflectors  concentrate blinding sunlight —on average, 2,500 times brighter than the sun—  to the top of a tower. It hits a porous ceramic box made from cerium, the rare-earth element number 58 That draws water and carbon dioxide from the air and splits their atoms into hydrogen gas and carbon monoxide. The newly created gasses sink to the bottom of the tower, where they enter a shipping container that carries out the Fischer-Tropsch reactions. The end result is fossil-fuel-free kerosene, produced by pulling carbon dioxide from the air.  The researchers say it can be pumped into fuel tanks, today, without issue. According to Aldo Steinfeld, an engineer at ETH Zürich in Switzerland, meeting the entire aviation's sector would require solar kerosene plants to cover an area of around 17,500 square miles, roughly the size of Estonia. That's large!!! Steinfeld looks at it differently: A relatively small parcel of a sparsely inhabited hot desert could supply all the world's planes.  The next steps are to make the process more efficient. Right now, a meager 4.1 percent of the solar energy striking the ceramic box actually goes into making gas.  The researchers think they could considerably boost that number.   Prime Air: Amazon officially rolls out drone delivery to customers | ZDNet (21:06) After years of development announcements, Amazon will be rolling out delivery by drone for Prime customers in areas of California and Texas.Lockeford, California, and College Station, Texas.  Amazon will join Walmart in offering limited drone delivery to a subset of customers, signaling a vote of confidence in the technology and a shifting regulatory environment from the two behemoth retailers. The service, called Prime Air, will deliver packages up to five pounds in less than an hour using drones. Fly up to 50 miles per hour (80km/hour), up to an altitude of 400ft, and can carry packages of up to 5lbs.  Created a proprietary sense-and-avoid system that enables Amazon drones to operate at greater distances while safely and reliably avoiding other aircraft, people, pets, and obstacles. Amazon is reaching out to customers in both locations to give them an option to receive free and fast drone delivery on what's billed as the largest selection of items ever to be available for drone delivery.Once onboarded, customers will see Prime Air-eligible items on Amazon Place an order as they normally would and receive an estimated arrival time The service will start later this year. Despite the limited rollout, the company's long-term vision is to create a drone delivery service that will scale and integrate into its vast fulfillment network.  Naturally, there's a lot more riding on these drones.A crash or injury involving an Amazon drone will receive heavy scrutiny. End it off with the end of Amazon's press release:“We're bringing more than drone delivery to Lockeford and College Station. Through these Prime Air drone deliveries, we will create new jobs, build partnerships with local organizations, and help to reduce the impact of climate change on future generations.”   A brain-computer startup beat Elon Musk's Neuralink to implanting its first device in a US patient | Yahoo (26:02) Synchron, a brain-computer interface startup, reportedly implanted its first device in a US patient earlier this month — overtaking Elon Musk's Neuralink for the third time.The startup implanted a 1.5-inch device into the brain of an ALS patient at Mount Sinai West medical center in New York on July 6 The purpose of the device is to allow the patient to communicate — even after they have lost the ability to move — by using their thoughts to send emails and texts. Should mention this company has already implanted the device in four patients in Australia who have been able to use the brain implant to send messages on WhatsApp and shop online. Last year, the Australia-based startup received permission from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to begin human trials on six US patients who have been severely paralyzed.Neuralink has yet to receive FDA approval Synchon and Neuralink's implants have similar immediate applications. translate human thoughts into computer commands  could help patients with neurological diseases like Parkinson's or ALS. Neuralink and Synchron's products have several key differences: namely, size and installation. Synchron's device can be inserted into a human skull without cutting into it using a catheter, and the process requires two separate surgeries In contrast, Neuralink plans to make a much smaller and more powerful device that would require a portion of the individual's skull to be removed and would be performed using a robot ----more---- Social: Email Me: adam@thatscoolnew.com Twitter: @Thats_Cool_News   

Five or ten years ago, all we heard was "save the bees." Well, are they still dying? PopSci's Philip Kiefer has the answers—and they're surprisingly complicated. -- Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AskPopSciPod Hosted by Philip Kiefer: https://twitter.com/PhilipJKiefer Produced by Jess Boddy: https://twitter.com/JessicaBoddy Music by Billy Cadden: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6LqT4DCuAXlBzX8XlNy4Wq Art by Katie Belloff: https://twitter.com/Katie_Bellz Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Airplanes are massive, heavy, gigantic hunks of metal. So how do their engines keep them aloft? PopSci's Rob Verger has the details. -- Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AskPopSciPod Hosted by Rob Verger: https://twitter.com/robverger Produced by Jess Boddy: https://twitter.com/JessicaBoddy Music by Billy Cadden: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6LqT4DCuAXlBzX8XlNy4Wq Art by Katie Belloff: https://twitter.com/Katie_Bellz Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Foxes are cute, seemingly cuddly, and full of personality. So can we have them as pets? PopSci's Philip Kiefer explains why the answer gets complicated. -- Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AskPopSciPod Hosted by Philip Kiefer: https://twitter.com/PhilipJKiefer Produced by Jess Boddy: https://twitter.com/JessicaBoddy Music by Billy Cadden: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6LqT4DCuAXlBzX8XlNy4Wq Art by Katie Belloff: https://twitter.com/Katie_Bellz Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Without the filters, without the FaceTune—just using light, camera know-how, and posing—is there a way to be more photogenic? Photography expert and PopSci editor Stan Horaczek will have you looking your best (using science!) in no time. -- Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AskPopSciPod Hosted by Stan Horaczek: https://twitter.com/stanhoraczek Produced by Jess Boddy: https://twitter.com/JessicaBoddy Music by Billy Cadden: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6LqT4DCuAXlBzX8XlNy4Wq Art by Katie Belloff: https://twitter.com/Katie_Bellz Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ever heard of a haboob? Don't worry, PopSci's Chelsey B. Coombs explains it all—from their anatomy to their historical appearances. -- Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AskPopSciPod Hosted by Chelsey B. Coombs: https://twitter.com/chelseybcoombs Produced by Jess Boddy: https://twitter.com/JessicaBoddy Music by Billy Cadden: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6LqT4DCuAXlBzX8XlNy4Wq Art by Katie Belloff: https://twitter.com/Katie_Bellz Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How does a book come together? We speak with Rachel Feltman, author of Been There, Done That: A Rousing History of Sex, about the evolution of her book, from first inklings to years of research to organization to completion. She explains how she answered the burning question, “How do I make this a book and not just a pile of words?” Her secrets include A 500-mile ride on a tandem bike, a morning routine, a great agent and editor, the willingness to turn in her “hottest garbage,” and a three-word mantra that will help jumpstart every creative process. Rachel Feltman’s first paying gig was organizing a bookshelf full of textbooks on vulvar disease at the age of seven, and she never looked back. She’s the Executive Editor of Popular Science and hosts PopSci’s podcast The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week. In 2014, Feltman founded the Washington Post’s Speaking of Science blog, known for headlines such as “You probably have herpes, but that’s really okay,” and “Uranus might be full of surprises.” Feltman studied environmental science at Simon’s Rock and has a master’s in science reporting from NYU. She’s a musician, an actress, and the stepmom of a very spry 14-year-old cat.Rachel’s website https://www.boldtypebooks.com/titles/rachel-feltman/been-there-done-that/9781668605042/ This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit emergingform.substack.com/subscribe

Could the legendary megalodon shark still be lurking in our oceans? PopSci's Purbita Saha dishes out the details. -- Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AskPopSciPod Hosted by Purbita Saha: https://twitter.com/hahabita Produced by Jess Boddy: https://twitter.com/JessicaBoddy Music by Billy Cadden: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6LqT4DCuAXlBzX8XlNy4Wq Art by Katie Belloff: https://twitter.com/Katie_Bellz Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1-star review shirt! and shirt raising money for Ukraine Red Cross. It's another one of those episodes all about a topic that sounds totally mundane and boring!  Where did apples come from?  Was Johnny Appleseed real?  Why does planting apple seeds lead to disappointment?  And why are some apples considered intellectual property?     Links to all the research resources are on the website. Hang out with your fellow Brainiacs.  Reach out and touch Moxie on Facebook, Twitter,  or Instagram.  Become a patron of the podcast arts! Patreon or Ko-Fi.  Or buy the book and a shirt. Music: Kevin MacLeod, Tabletop Audio, and Steve Oxen.  Want to start a podcast or need a better podcast host?  Get up to TWO months hosting for free from Libsyn with coupon code "moxie." Sponsor: Starfleet Leadership Academy   What's more wholesome and iconic than an apple?  In the Bible, Eve ate an apple and now half of us have to have periods and crap.  In fairness to apples, the Bible just says “fruit” and it was Milton's “Paradise Lost” that declared the fruit was an apple because the Latin word for apple, m-a-l-u-s, is also the word for evil.  There's the Greek myth of Atalanta, who would only marry the man who beat her in a footrace, so Aphrodite helped a Melanion cheat by dropping golden apples that she stopped to pick up.  An apple fell on the head of Isaac Newton, leading to the discovery of gravity – prior to that, everyone weighed a lot less.  The record label that gave the world the Beatles and one of the largest consumer electronics companies in the world use an apple as their logo.  [tiktok] Bonus fact: The Apple computer logo has a bite taken out of it so it isn't mistaken for a cherry, which I don't think would really have been so great a danger, and is *not a nod to Alan Turing, the famous mathematician who helped Britain win WWII but was hounded by that same government for being gay and took his own life with a poisoned apple.  Steve Jobs and co repeatedly said they wished it was that clever.   We say something is “as American as apple pie” and even though Ralph Waldo Emerson dubbed apples “the American fruit,” the tasty, sweet malus domestica as you're used to it is about as native to North America as white people.  That's not to say there was nothing of the genus malus in the new world; there was the crabapple, a small, hard, exceedingly tart apple, which is better used for adding the natural thickener pectin to preserves than anything.   The story of apples actually begins in Kazakhstan, in central Asia east of the Caspian Sea.  Malus sieversii is a wild apple, native to Kazakhstan's Tian Shan Mountains, where they have been growing over millions of years and where they can still be found fruiting today.  There's evidence of Paleolithic people harvesting and using native crabapples 750,000 years ago, give or take a week.  The original wild apples grew in ‘apple forests' at the foot of the snow-tipped mountains, full of different shapes,sizes and flavors, most of them bad.  Kazakhstan is hugely proud of its fruity history.  The former capital city of Almaty claimed the honor of ‘birth place of the apple' about 100 years ago.  Seems a suitable sobriquet since the name ‘Almaty' was previously recorded as ‘Alma-Ata' which translates from Kazakh as ‘Father of the Apples,' though in Latin Alma means mother or nurturer, which feels more fitting but that's beside the point.   This origin story was not without controversy, but what am I here for if not to teach the controversy?  In 1929, Russian scientist Nikolai Vavilov first traced the apple genome. He identified the primary ancestor of most cultivars of the domesticated apple to be the ancient apple tree: Malus sieversii. There used to be some controversy over this, but it has since been confirmed, through detailed DNA testing, and a full sequencing of the genome, as recently as 2010.   It was probably birds and traveling mammal species that initially transported apple seeds out of Kazakhstan long before humans started to cultivate them – by eating the apples and then pooping out the seeds.  By 1500 BC apple seeds had been carried throughout Europe by the Greeks, Etruscans, and Romans.  Bloody Romans.  What have they ever done for us?  I mean apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans really ever done for us?  Oh yeah, apples.  The Romans discovered apples growing in Syria and were central in dispersing them around the world from there, using the Silk Road as a means of transport from East to West.  Romans were a fair hand at grafting, taking a cutting from one apple variety and attaching it to a rootstock (young roots and trunk) from another tree – more on that later.  As such, the Romans started to grow apples in Europe and Britain that were bigger, sweeter, and tastier than any before.  Let's not forget variety.  There are a whopping 2,170 English cultivars of malus domestica alone.     Apples arrived in the new world first with the Spanish in the warm bits and then with English settlers in the cooler bits, which when I say it sounds like it was done on purpose.  Ask an American child how apples spread across the nascent US and they'll tell you it was Johnny Appleseed.  We tend to learn about him around the time we learn about “tall tales,” i.e. American folklore –stories like the giant lumberjack Paul Bunyan and his blue ox, or John Henry, who could hammer railroad spikes in ahead of a moving train – so it can be a little tricky to be sure if Johnny Appleseed is real or not.  Don't feel bad, a friend of mine just learned that narwhals were real the other year when she wanted to be one in a cryptid-themed burlesque show.    Johnny Appleseed, real name John Chapman, was a real person, though naturally some aspects of his life were mythologized over time.  Details are sparse on his early life, but we know that Chapman was born in Massachusetts in 1774 and planted his first apple tree trees in the Allegheny Valley in Pennsylvania in his mid-twenties.  He then began traveling west through Ohio, planting as he went.  These were frontier times.  We're talking about a good 70 years before the transcontinental railroad, so much of the area he went through did not yet have white settlers in it, but Chapman seems to have a knack for predicting where they would settle and planting nurseries in those spots.  Chapman was also a devout follower of the mystical teachings of Swedish theologian Emanuel Swedenborg, and he tried to spread Swedenborgian doctrine as well.  People were open to some parts of it, like kindness to all animals, even the unpleasant ones.   The apples that Chapman brought to the frontier were completely distinct from the apples available at any modern grocery store or farmers' market, and they weren't primarily used for eating, but for making hard apple cider.  Cider was a mainstay item for the same reason people drank beer at breakfast, because it was safer than the water supply.  This didn't actually apply as much in the not-yet-destroyed frontier as it had back in London, but old habits die hard.    I've often wondered why cider is such a staple beverage in the UK, but only resurfaced in the last 20 or so years here in the States, where we have to specify hard cider” because the word “cider” normally means a glorious, thick, flavorful unfiltered apple juice you only get in the fall.  It's thanks to the colossal failure that was that “noble experiment,” Prohibition, when some people didn't like drinking and told the rest of us we couldn't either.   "Up until Prohibition, an apple grown in America was far less likely to be eaten than to wind up in a barrel of cider," writes Michael Pollan in The Botany of Desire. "In rural areas cider took the place of not only wine and beer but of coffee and tea, juice, and even water."  The cider apples are small and unpleasant to eat, so they were really only good for cider-making.  As such, during Prohibition, cider apple trees were often chopped down by FBI agents, effectively erasing cider, along with Chapman's true history, from American life.   But Johnny “Appleseed” Chapman wouldn't know anything about all that.  Within his own lifetime, tales of his activities began to circulate.  Most of these focused on his wilderness skills and his remarkable physical endurance.  Chapman cut an eccentric figure.  He wore a sack with holes for his head and arms rather than a proper shirt and after he'd worn through multiple pairs of shoes, he gave up and went barefoot.  Perhaps his most distinct feature, the one always included in drawings, apart from a bag of apple seeds, is his soup pot, just about his only possession, which he wore on his head like a hat.   Starting in 1792, the Ohio Company of Associates made an offer of 100 acres of land to anyone willing to make a homestead on the wilderness beyond Ohio's first permanent settlement.  These homesteads had to be permanent; no pitching a tent and saying ‘where's my land?'  To prove their homesteads were the real deal, settlers were required to plant 50 apple trees and 20 peach trees in three years.  Since an average apple tree took roughly ten years to bear fruit, you wouldn't bother unless you were in it for the long haul.  He might have looked like a crazy hermit, but Chapman realized that if he could do the difficult work of planting these orchards, he could sell them for a handsome profit to incoming frontiersmen.  “On this week's episode of Frontier Flipper, Johnny plants an orchard…again.”  Wandering from Pennsylvania to Illinois, Chapman would advance just ahead of settlers, cultivating orchards that he would sell them when they arrived, and then head to more undeveloped land.     That was very clever.  What wasn't clever was Chapman growing apples from seed at all.  This is the bit about grafting, in case you were jumping around looking for it.  Statistically, at least one person was really waiting for this part.  Apple trees don't grow “true-to-type,” as WSU tree fruit breeder Kate Evans explains. That means that if you were to plant, for instance, Red Delicious seeds in your backyard, you wouldn't get Red Delicious apples, not that you'd want to, but more on that later.  Boy, what a tease.  Instead, planting and breeding means matching a scion to a rootstock.  The scion is the fruiting part of the tree – most of what you actually see. The rootstock is everything that goes in the ground, as well as the first few inches of the trunk.  Buds from one variety are attached to the rootstock of another and they grow into a tree that will produce apples. But matching up the scion and rootstock isn't enough to grow good apples. You also need a tree to act as a pollinator.  “If you don't have good pollination, you can end up with misshapen or small unattractive fruit,” says Jim McFerson, director of the Wenatchee extension. Up to ten percent of an orchard can be pollinators, and most today are crabapple trees.  Apple trees cannot normally pollinate themselves.  Unlike, say, peaches, which can and do self-pollinate, predictably producing peaches virtually identical to the parents, the viable seeds (or pips) will produce apples which don't resemble the parents.  This requirement for pollination is how there have come to be so many varieties in the world, at least 20k and that's a conservative estimate.   For context, there are only two varieties of commercial banana and just one kiwifruit.    Grafting was an established way of propagating apples and was commonly done in New England, so why didn't Chapman do that?  Apart from the fact that it's easier to travel with just seeds and planting is faster than graftering, as a member of the Swedenborgian Church, Chapman was forbidden from cutting two trees to cobble together a new tree and it was thought to make the plants suffer.  John “Johnny Appleseed” Chapman died in Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 1845, having planted apple trees as far west as Illinois or Iowa.   A century later, in 1948, Disney solidified his legend with an animated version of his life.  The cartoon emphasized his Christian faith, but conveniently left out all the Swedenborgian stuff. MIDROLL Speaking of varieties, as well we might, what would you guess the most popular apple variety has been for the past, say, 70 years?  The apple whose name is half-lying but unfortunately it's lying about the important half, the Red Delicious.  They are the most iconic apple across most of the world.  Don't believe me, just check emoji packs in other countries.  Their appearance is the whole reason these apples exist, with their deep, even red color and dimpled bottom that look so enticing in the produce department; it's also the reason they suck and are terrible.  They taste of wet cardboard and have the mouthfeel of resentment.  Their flavor and texture were sacrificed for botanical vanity and shippability.   Even apple growers hate them.  Mike Beck, who tends 80 acres of apples at Uncle John's Cider Mill, admits he grows some Red Delicious to add color to some of his ciders, but he won't eat them.    The Red Delicious was first called the Hawkeye, and one Jesse Hiatt found it growing as a random sapling on his Iowa farm around 1870.  The fruit that eventual tree produced was sweet and fruity, but it wasn't red, rather red and yellow-striped, like an heirloom tomato.  Of course, back then, those were just called tomatoes.   It was introduced to the market in 1874 and the rights to the Hawkeye apple were sold to the Stark Brothers Nursery, whose owner thought it was the best apple he'd ever tasted.  By 1914, Stark's renamed the variety Red Delicious, and over time, produced a fruit with less yellow and more red year over year.  It also gained its buxom top-heavy shape and five little feet nubs on the bottom.   As with any product, it took a hefty shovelful of marketing for Red Delicious to gain a following, but gain it did.  Current estimates have Red Delicious being 90% of the apple crop at one point.  That point happened in the 1950s, thanks to that force of nature, changes in buying habits.  PreWWII, people would buy food right from the farm or at farmers markets, then the modern grocery store, with its cold storage, and the refrigerated truck courtesy of Frederick Jones.  Bigger stores need to move more product and a big pyramid of shiny, sports car red apples by the front window will really bring the punters in.  Growers could sell them to packers, who in turn sold them to those grocery store chains, which also fueled a change in their taste.  Orchardists bred and crossbreed the Red Delicious to get that perfect shape and color, uniformity and resilience to handling and shipping; they just left off tiny considerations, very minor concessions really, like taste and texture.   But there's change a-foot again.  People began to realize you can have an apple in your pack lunch or the big bowl at the fancy hotel reception desk that you'd actually want to eat.  Now we're all about those Sweet Tangos, Braseburns, and Honeycrips.  Unwilling or unable to admit defeat, however, the Red Delicious is still out there.  But like a lot of has-beens, its seeing more success abroad than at home, and they're exported to the western Pacific Rim, Mexico and parts of Europe.      Apart from random saplings popping up randomly, new varieties of apples take a lot of people a lot of time and effort, to say nothing of a robust research & development budget.  Take Washington State University Tree Fruit Research and Extension Center, for example.  In 1981, now-retired horticulturist Bruce Barritt set out to create an apple bred for flavor and long storage instead of appearance, to compete with the Fuji from Japan and the Gala from New Zealand.  Like breeding animals, you start with two parents with known traits, then selectively breed for the ones you want over the course of several generations.  You have to have the patience of a Buddhist monk, since apple trees take four to five years to bear fruit and you know whether or not it worked.  Barritt needed that patience to eventually create the apple that actually made mainstream, even international, news in 2019 – the Cosmic Crisp.  These are no small potatoes, either.  There's probably a French language joke in there.  The marketing budget alone is $10 million.  A $10mil marketing budget….for an apple.     Cosmic Crisps are mostly a dark-ish red with yellowy speckles reminiscent of stars.  The website, did I mention it has its own website, says [commercial read] “The large, juicy apple has a remarkably firm and crisp texture. Some say it snaps when you bite into it!  The Cosmic Crisp® flavor profile is the perfect balance of sweet and tart, making it ideal for snacking, baking, cooking, juicing or any other way you like to enjoy apples.”  Hire me for voiceovers at moxielabouche.com for lightning-fast voiceovers because I was one time hit by lightning.   The first Cosmic Crisp seed began in 1997 with pollen from a Honeycrisp flower, applied by hand to the stigma of an Enterprise.  Racy stuff.  Honeycrisp as we know are lovely and Enterprise apples were known for disease-resistance and long storage life.  Storage life is important because an apple has to be as good in late spring as it was when it was picked in the fall, as most to all of the apples you buy are.  Yep, all apples are picked at once and sold for months to come.  Holding up in winter storage is one of malus domestica's best features.  If that bothers you on principle, though, don't look up harvesting oranges for juice – it's positively depressing.      After two years of greenhouse germination, the very first Cosmic Crisp trees were planted, and a few years later after that, fruit happened.  That was when, according to Barritt, the real work began.  He'd go through the orchard, randomly picking apples and taking a bite. “Most were terrible, but when I found one with good texture and flavor, I'd pick 10 or 20 of them. Then I put them in cold storage to see how they would hold up after a few months,” he told PopSci in 2018.  Barritt's team would compare the apples for crispness, acidity, firmness, how well it stored, and on and on anon, to determine which trees to cross with which and start the cycle all over again.  They weren't testing only Honeycrisp and Enterprise, but lots of crisp varieties – Honeycrisp is just the one that worked.  It took until 2017, a full 20 years after the first seeds went in the ground, for Cosmic Crisp trees to become available to growers, to say nothing of the fruit reaching the public.  The project actually outlived Barritt's participation, when he retired back in 2008 and turned everything over to WSU horticulture professor Kate Evans.   There's still the question of why, why spend literally hundreds of millions of dollars to create a new apple?  This wasn't about developing a product to sell and make money, it was about saving an entire region's industry.  The pacific northwest farmed Red Delicious apples like there was no tomorrow and in the 90's, tomorrow got real uncertain.  In the last three years of the decade, farmers lost around $760mil with fields full of fruit fewer and fewer folks wanted to fork over their funds for.  That was the problem that Barritt set out to solve.  They needed an apple that had it all - movie star good looks, full of flavor with a crunchy bit.  By the end of 2019, Washington farmers were growing 12,000 acres of Cosmic Crisp trees and there's talk of Cosmic Crisp's having a strong chance at taking over the market.   If you have a bit of land and want to grow your own Cosmic Crisp, you going to have to wait even longer than usual.  It's only available to grower in WA for the first ten years to give the growers an advantage.  Remember, you can't plant seeds and get a tree that gives you fruit like the one you ate to get the seeds.  Don't worry, just five more years.     But you can't, like, own a tree man.  I can but that's because I'm not a penniless hippie.  Sorry, Futurama moment, but the point still stands.  Because this is America and we've never seen a person, place, thing, or idea we didn't want to legally own and monetize.  We're talking about patents and before I go any further, do you have any idea what a pain it is to search for apple patents and *not get results about Apple the company.  According to the US Patent and Trademark Office, “a plant patent is granted …to an inventor … who has invented or discovered and asexually reproduced a distinct and new variety of plant, other than a tuber propagated plant or a plant found in an uncultivated state. The grant, which lasts for 20 years from the date of filing the application, protects the inventor's right to exclude others from asexually reproducing, selling, or using the plant so reproduced.”  So if you make a variety of plant that no one else has ever made, or at least no one has patented, you have ultra-dibs for 20 and no one else is supposed to breed, sell, or do anything else with plants of that variety.   Plant patents became a thing in the early 1930's, a fine time in American agriculture *sough*dustbowl*cough* first granted to Henry Bosenberg for a CLIMBING OR TRAILING ROSE (USPP1 P).  Since then, thousands of plant patents have been granted, and that includes apples.  Apples as intellectual property.  The beloved Honeycrisp was patented in the late 1980's by the University of Minnesota.  The Honeycrisp blossomed in popularity, pun allowed, among consumers, both grocery shoppers and growers.  Nurseries would sell the trees to anyone who called and ordered one, but since it was patented, buuuut growers would have to pay a royalty of one dollar per tree to the University of Minnesota until the patent has expired.  With an average size of 50 acres per orchard and 36 trees per acre, that only comes to $1800, which isn't too, too bad.  A much tighter rein was kept on University of Minnesota's patented MINNEISKA, which produces the SweeTango apple.  Only a small group of apple growers has been given license to grow this variety of apple and they have to pay royalties as well.  UM also has multiple trademarks registered, so anyone who tries to sell an apple under that name or a similar one may find themselves in court.  Now how about them apples?  Hey, at least I waited until the end. Sources: https://historicsites.nc.gov/all-sites/horne-creek-farm/southern-heritage-apple-orchard/apples/apple-history/origins-apples https://www.americanscientist.org/article/the-mysterious-origin-of-the-sweet-apple https://www.theorchardproject.org.uk/blog/where-do-apples-come-from/ https://www.britannica.com/story/was-johnny-appleseed-a-real-person https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/real-johnny-appleseed-brought-applesand-booze-american-frontier-180953263/ https://www.nwpb.org/2017/05/03/want-to-grow-an-apple-tree-dont-start-with-apple-seeds/ https://www.popsci.com/story/diy/cosmic-crisp-apple-guide/ https://www.huffpost.com/entry/red-delicious-apples-suck_n_5b630199e4b0b15abaa061af https://suiter.com/how-do-you-like-them-apples-enough-to-patent-them/ https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/04/30/526069512/paradise-lost-how-the-apple-became-the-forbidden-fruit https://www.businessinsider.com/cosmic-crisp-apple-washington-state-scientists-2020-11 https://suiter.com/how-do-you-like-them-apples-enough-to-patent-them/  

Burnout is when it is really hard to put two sentences together and have them make sense.   Burnout is all you want to do is stay in bed under the covers. Because it is safe. They can't get to you there.    Except that you can't. You have to go to work, do that thing. Complete the task. Make nice to people who may or may not deserve it.   Dr. Candance Good in a post on Psychology Today states:   "Burnout was common before the pandemic. But now pile on two years of uncertainty, civil unrest, irritability in the political climate, disruptions in work and childcare, and fear.    These circumstances can trigger a stress reaction in our bodies; burnout is the physical reaction to that stress."   In this short episode, a word or two about burnout.   Resources Mentioned:  Helpguide.org page on Burnout, Prevention and Treatment. Candace Good MD, M.D. post on Psychology Today on Why Self-Care Is Not Enough to Beat Burnout   Burnout is real. Here's how to spot it—and recover. article on PopSci by Isobel Whitcomb    The Conversation - How to recover from burnout and chronic work stress – according to a psychologist If you need support contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255, the Trevor Project at 1-866-488-7386 or text “START” to 741-741.   Disclaimer:  Links to other sites are provided for information purposes only and do not constitute endorsements.  Always seek the advice of a qualified health provider with questions you may have regarding a medical or mental health disorder. This blog and podcast is intended for informational and educational purposes only. Nothing in this program is intended to be a substitute for professional psychological, psychiatric or medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.

Do you have a bestseller in you? Would you like to help discover tomorrow's bestselling books, authors and writers? Then join us live every Sunday to take part in POP-UP SUBMISSIONS, the net's first live and open manuscript submission event! You'll learn the tricks of the trade – direct from publishing professionals, bestselling authors and of course your host – literary agent Peter Cox. Each week we look at five submissions. Then it's up to you to tell us what you think of each one – and to VOTE! Each month's winner is fast-tracked straight to a leading publisher for serious publishing consideration. So join us and be part of the most exciting thing to have happened to book publishing since the bookmark... POP-UP SUBMISSIONS! Today's submissions are: * One Magic Summer - Comedy by Pamela Jo Keeley; * A Letting of Blood - Historical Fiction by Charlie W; * Intrepid Spirit - Action Adventure by David Tunno; * A Country You Can Leave - Commercial fiction by Chris Jory; * The Dragons of Havendale - Comedy by Catherine F Le Bars Geraldine B Hunt. Featuring Special Guests Brian Clegg and Andy Dickenson! Join us live in the YouTube chat room every Sunday at 5pm UK / 12noon EST Make a submission: https://subs.litopia.com Audio podcast: https://pop.litopia.com Our Narrators: https://voice.litopia.com Vote on today's show: https://vote.litopia.com #writingcommunity #writingtips --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/popupsubmissions/message

This week, we sample a dark roast offering from Ladro Roasting called Diablo. Diablo seems to come up a lot with coffees. Also, Dan recalls his best Dante's Inferno experience, we all agree the current level of Guinness World Records is lame, and the unfortunate design flaws of the adorable koala. Coffee:Ladro Roasting DiabloBean BoxMusic:Coffee · Jack Stauber's Micropop; Shop: A Pop Opera; ℗ Jack Stauber; Released on: 2020-03-08More about Koalas: A new vaccine may curb the koala chlamydia epidemic | Popular Science (popsci.com)Support the show (https://ko-fi.com/youdontknowbeans)

Sex Outside Nature Quickies are short, 5-minute dives into a specific, practical topic about our bodies and the outdoors. This one features Kelly Simmons, whose background studying animals and plants opened her eyes to the wide world of sex happening all around us outdoors.  And we agree! Because the more we started to look into “what animals are having interesting sex?” we quickly learned that the answer is all of them. Tune in to hear just a handful from Kelly as she uncovers fact after fact about how quirky all of our sex lives actually are, and how natural that truly is.Mentioned in this Bonus Content:Find Kelly on Instagram: @koastalsupyogaLearn more about Koastal Paddleboard YogaWe want you to be a part of the Sex Outside community!Subscribe to the showFind Sex Outside on Instagram! @sexoutsidepodWant to support Sex Outside?Leave a 5-star review in Apple Podcasts or the app of your choosing!Head to the Sex Outside Shop to find stickers, shirts, and underwear!Need a transcript for this bonus episode? Find it here.About Our Sponsor:Après Delight is a new line of small batch, organic CBD sexual intimacy products. Because you deserve to feel good, love your body and what you can do with it, and experience all of the joy it brings you.Get on the list to give it a whirl at www.apresdelight.com.Additional Resources:mindbodygreen - A Natural Connection: Why Getting Outdoors is the Ultimate Sex EdBBC - Do Animals Have Sex For Pleasure?Sapiens - Nature’s Most Creative CopulatorsPubMed - What Can Animal Models Tell Us About Human Sexual Response?PopSci - 10 Animal Sex Rituals You Need to Read About Right NowBustle - 10 Animals with Bizarre Sex LivesMentalFloss - 10 Surprising Facts About Animal SexHosted by Laura Borichevsky.Cover artwork by Hailey Hirst.Music by Calica licensed via MusicBed.

Popular science and cell biology collide in this episode as Dodi and Conor discuss the science of cryogenics and its diverse applications. They are joined by Cytiva Senior Scientists and cryobiologists, Peter Kilbride and Julie Meneghel, as well as Fernanda Fonseca, Research Director at the French National Institute for Agriculture, Food, and Environment (INRAE). Executive Producer and PopSci enthusiast, Andrea Kilin, kicks off the discussion by sharing her experience with cryotherapy!

Welcome to Season 4! For this first episode, Kendra Pierre-Louis, former Popsci editor and current reporter for the Gimlet podcast How To Save a Planet, joins the weirdos as a guest host. The weirdest things we learned this week range from thousands of cars being recalled due to spider infestations, to the story of a woman who invented N95 masks from bras. Whose story will be voted "The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week"? The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week is a podcast by Popular Science. Share your weirdest facts and stories with us in our Facebook group or tweet at us! Click here to learn more about all of our stories! Follow our team on Twitter Rachel Feltman: www.twitter.com/RachelFeltman Sara Chodosh: www.twitter.com/schodosh Popular Science: www.twitter.com/PopSci Theme music by Billy Cadden: www.twitter.com/billycadden Edited by Jessica Boddy: www.twitter.com/JessicaBoddy Theme music by Billy Cadden: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6LqT4DCuAXlBzX8XlNy4Wq?si=5VF2r2XiQoGepRsMTBsDAQ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/popular-science/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/popular-science/support

There is an ongoing discussion about how COVID-19 spreads through the air. We know that it can spread from respiratory droplets when someone coughs or sneezes, but there is a growing body of evidence showing that is can spread through even smaller aerosolized droplets that can linger in poorly ventilated areas. Kat Eschner, contributing editor at PopSci, for why COVID’s airborne transmission may deserve more attention. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Who is getting all the money? The Small Business Association and the Treasury Department have released the names of more than 660,000 businesses that received money from the Paycheck Protection Program. The program has given payouts to lawmaker-connected businesses including car dealerships, casinos, construction companies and restaurants. Nicholas Wu, politics reporter at USA Today, joins us for more on the PPP. Next, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and President Trump have both said they are looking at banning TikTok from the U.S. The reasons may differ however. Pompeo says there are national security concerns and President Trump might want ban it to punish China for the conronavirus. Sam Shead, tech correspondent at CNBC, joins us for more. Finally, there is an ongoing discussion about how COVID-19 spreads through the air. We know that it can spread from respiratory droplets when someone coughs or sneezes, but there is a growing body of evidence showing that is can spread through even smaller aerosolized droplets that can linger in poorly ventilated areas. Kat Eschner, contributing editor at PopSci, for why COVID's airborne transmission may deserve more attention. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Ramez Naam (@ramez) is a computer scientist, futurist, angel investor and award-winning author best known for his Nexus Trilogy: Nexus, Crux and ApexHis other (non-fiction) books include: The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet and More than Human: Embracing the Promises of Biological Enhancement.He's currently co-chair of energy and the environment at Singularity University and earlier in his career led teams at Microsoft working on Outlook, Internet Explorer and Bing where he co-patented 20 inventions, many alongside Bill Gates.Ramez has appeared on Sunday morning MSNBC, Yahoo! Finance, The New York Times, WSJ, PopSci, Wired, and many more. Ramez holds more than 20 patents, and many of those are as a co-inventor with Bill Gates.In today's episode we discuss:- Why we're at a tipping point for carbon-emitting cars sold- What it was like working directly with Bill Gates- What is Ramez predicted about renewable energy and why it's better than even he thought- How technologists are solving global problems by fixing incentives and driving down costs- What it's like to be both a bestselling fiction and non-fiction author- Why Ramez is no longer a big believer in radical life extension- The brain2.0 movement and why we're becoming cyborgs- What Ramez thinks about CRISPR and genetically engineering people- The importance of sci-fi to shift societal attitudes- How to think about technological trends when tackling big problems- Why innovation often leaves behind a lot bodies- The reason Ramez is fundamentally optimist despite all the challenges we face- Why the secret to a better future is to create it

Hey weirdos! On Monday, March 30th, we'll be doing two livestreamed episodes in partnership with Caveat, our favorite New York City venue. It'll be all of the fun of a classic Weirdest Thing Live show—your favorite hosts (calling in remotely), weird facts, drinks, jokes, atmosphere—but delivered straight to your living room. Make sure to follow us on Twitter @Weirdest_Thing to get the live link on Monday. And until then, you can subscribe to PopSci and Caveat on YouTube, where the live show will be broadcast. Thanks for listening, weirdos, and we'll see you soon! The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week is a podcast by Popular Science. Share more of your weirdest facts and stories with us in our Facebook group or tweet at us! Click here to learn more about all of our stories! Follow our team on Twitter Rachel Feltman: www.twitter.com/RachelFeltman Jess Boddy: www.twitter.com/JessicaBoddy Popular Science: www.twitter.com/PopSci Theme music by Billy Cadden: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6LqT4DCuAXlBzX8XlNy4Wq?si=5VF2r2XiQoGepRsMTBsDAQ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/popular-science/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/popular-science/support

There is a new type of hearing loss that is hitting people of all ages and scientists are still trying to find out why. It is called hidden hearing loss and is not characterized by the traditional view of loss of hearing that the organ just gets less adept at detecting sound, instead you can still hear fine, but the brain doesn't process the sounds clearly enough. Corinne Iozzio, executive editor at PopSci, joins us for what to know about hidden hearing loss. Next, a surge of new plastic could be on its way to the planet. 2020 will be a consequential year for plastic as the fossil fuel and petrochemical industries are pouring billions of dollars into opening new plants with the purpose of making tons of new plastic. For example, Shell will soon be opening a new ethane cracking plant that is expected to produce up to 1.6 million tons of plastic annually. Beth Gardiner, contributor to Yale Environment 360 joins us for more. Finally, Scott McCartney, Middle Seat columnist for the WSJ, joins us for his annual rankings of the best and worst airlines. Using criteria such as on-time arrivals, flight cancellations and more, the list is a measure of the efficiencies and dependability of the airlines. For the third year in a row, Delta has come out on top. At the bottom of the list this year is American Airlines. Scott helps break it all down. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

On this episode of Techathlon, Jason Lederman, Corinne Iozzio, Stan Horaczek, and Rob Verger bid farewell to the show by revisiting some of their favorite games, and catch up on the week’s headlines, including Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's comments on an 'edit tweets' feature, and Baby Yoda's price tag. Sign up for PopSci's 30 Day Digital Deep Clean! Get the latest tech news at PopSci.com. Pick up Techathlon merch on our Threadless store. Hosted by Jason Lederman. Theme music by Billy Cadden. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

EP 23 Tripping With TriPastePod   Robot hands, traveling to space and sitting on stage with Sharon Stone, all well discussing - does music make you mad? And giving props to our vets and the woman we all know and love - Dolly Parton! ———————— SOUNDS Kenny G instrumental careless whisper- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYOE4XnrNeo Sade https://youtu.be/kxNJV83EMJw Velvet Underground https://youtu.be/qFLw26BjDZs Requiem for a Dream clip https://youtu.be/eqIkFkmb054   THE DAILY VAPE PODCAST: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/28/podcasts/the-daily/vaping-dangers.html Bill Hicks - https://youtu.be/mLbLsTnLA8Y John Sinclair: https://youtu.be/vzJOZYBFlt0 Eagle: https://youtu.be/q7wqapEbdz0 Close Encounters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2JL0xABlrQ Ok BOOMER: https://youtu.be/ipe9WxUfh7w Foot swear Futurama https://youtu.be/RH2gwoubmmQ Clown horn https://youtu.be/x3SxEOvAOEg Goodfellas - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQV6CijIzrc Office Space https://youtu.be/YAJ9ArSlUG0 Knoxville Girl https://youtu.be/Y8GqG2w1NxU Maxwell’s Silver Hammer https://youtu.be/mJag19WoAe0 Dead South - https://youtu.be/B9FzVhw8_bY Dolly Dumb Blonde https://youtu.be/lN_VQ8GWEos Sharon Stone GQ Woman of the Year https://youtu.be/RxMLLzV_bSA SNL Space Mistakes - https://youtu.be/FBFuiHZRylY After The Fire - Der Kommissar https://youtu.be/t6CH9Tt-aSs Get Here - Oleta Adams https://youtu.be/zRYzH9wVslw Outro - Toy Dolls - Nellie the Elephant https://youtu.be/9m7tPikH0UA   murderbalds DeadSouth Techalathlon PopSci SciFri SNL SpaceMistakes Skynet  Foot fetish Okboomer Vape Space Sharonstone Gq  Sade Heroin Drugs Veterans War Wwiii   https://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-05/electrical-stimulation-spinal-cord-paralyzed-man-walks-again/ With Electrical Stimulation to the Spinal Cord, Paralyzed Man Walks Again Electrical impulses sent to a paralyzed man's spinal cord allow him to walk again, researchers say. Rob Summers, 25, can voluntarily move his feet and hips and walk on a treadmill with support, in what could be a major breakthrough for the treatment of paralysis. popsci.com A Robot Hand Helps Amputees “Feel” Again https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-robot-hand-helps-amputees-feel-again/   Elon Musk wants to cover the world with internet from space https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/17/elon-musk-satellites-internet-spacex 'Whoa, It Worked': Elon Musk Tweets Via SpaceX's Starlink Satellites But Starlink won't be truly operational until several hundred more satellites go up.  space.com How Painting With Your Feet Changes Your Brain For those born without hands, the brain is able to ‘map’ toe placements to the same places that fingers would’ve gone. sciencefriday.com the War in Afghanistan (or the US War in Afghanistan or the Afghanistan War), code named Operation Enduring Freedom (2001–14) and Operation Freedom's Sentinel (2015–present), followed the United States invasion of Afghanistan of 7 October 2001, https://pics.me.me/what-if-we-used-to-live-on-mars-before-we-44159622.png Earth Life Likely Came from Mars, Study Suggests https://www.space.com/22577-earth-life-from-mars-theory.html New Zealand lawmaker shuts down heckler: 'OK, boomer' https://youtu.be/ipe9WxUfh7w Sci fri Foot painters https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/toe-painting-brain/ How Painting With Your Feet Changes Your Brain https://giphy.com/gifs/hulu-futurama-xThta36PWVDQXS6OAM Elon https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/17/elon-musk-satellites-internet-spacex https://www.space.com/elon-musk-tweet-spacex-starlink-satellites.html https://gfycat.com/competentidlegalapagosmockingbird-rsciences-andromeda-milky-way-galaxy-space https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMTwtb3TVIk&feature=youtu.be Maladaptive personality and psychopathy dimensions https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0305735619864630 ‎Dolly Parton's America: Sad Ass Songs on Apple Podcasts ‎Show Dolly Parton's America, Ep Sad Ass Songs - Oct 15, 2019 podcasts.apple.com https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country-lists/killer-songs-the-10-creepiest-country-murder-ballads-151986/ the Blue Sky Boys - the Story of the Knoxville Girl https://youtu.be/Y8GqG2w1NxU I met a little girl in Knoxville, a town we all know well And every Sunday evening, out in her home, I'd dwell We went to take an evening walk about a mile from town I picked a stick up off the ground and knocked that fair girl down   She fell down on her bended knees, for mercy she did cry "Oh Willy dear, don't kill me here, I'm unprepared to die" She never spoke another word, I only beat her more Until the ground around me within her blood did flow   The Dead South - In Hell I'll Be In Good Company [Official Music Video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9FzVhw8_bY Russian Volcano https://www.sciencenews.org/article/dormant-russia-volcano-bolshaya-udina-waking-complicated Shrinking Ozone Hole https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7599369/Hole-ozone-smallest-discovery-1982-NASA-confirms.html Imagination Library  https://imaginationlibrary.com/ Gate of Hell https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-gates-of-hell-turkmenistan GQ Men of the Year 2019 – "Woman of the Year": Sharon Stone on "Basic Instinct" leg cross https://youtu.be/RxMLLzV_bSA   Beaver moon https://www.nj.com/news/2019/11/the-full-november-beaver-moon-will-soon-be-shining-along-with-the-taurid-meteor-shower.html Space Mistakes SNL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBFuiHZRylY Powerlines & such https://www.popsci.com/why-dont-we-put-power-lines-underground/ Scientists have pursued the goal of the wireless transmission of electricity for more than a century. In 1893, Serbian inventor Nikola Tesla demonstrated his technology for lighting a wireless lamp at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Tesla built on the research of Michael Faraday, who in 1831 discovered the principle of electromagnetic induction, in which electric current that is flowing through a wire can cause a current in a nearby wire.

On this episode of Techathlon, Corinne Iozzio, Amy Schellenbaum, and Rob Verger must guess if truly bonkers tech products are on display at CES or the brainchild of Stan Horaczek, and catch up on the week’s headlines, including a wireless phone charger with a hole for a PopSocket. Sign up for PopSci's 30 Day Digital Deep Clean! Get the latest tech news at PopSci.com. Pick up Techathlon merch on our Threadless store. Hosted by Jason Lederman. Theme music by Billy Cadden. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

On this special year-end episode of Techathlon, Corinne Iozzio, Stan Horaczek, and Rob Verger reflect on the last decade, and try to recall the most popular gadgets, apps, music artists, and more. Sign up for PopSci's 30 Day Digital Deep Clean! Get the latest tech news at PopSci.com. Pick up Techathlon merch on our Threadless store. Hosted by Jason Lederman. Theme music by Billy Cadden. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

How well can you remember the most important tech stories of 2019? Jason Lederman, Corinne Iozzio, Stan Horaczek, and Rob Verger look back on the biggest headlines, including an eavesdropping bug on group FaceTime, acquisitions by Facebook and Google, and the launch of Disney+. Sign up for PopSci's 30 Day Digital Deep Clean! Get the latest tech news at PopSci.com. Pick up Techathlon merch on our Threadless store. Hosted by Jason Lederman. Theme music by Billy Cadden. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

So excited for this episode, I have Elizabeth Fischer,  founder of ZerModus. I was honored to get to share Elizabeth’s story and journey creating her planners. We chat about all things mental health, parental expectations, entrepreneurship, and EMDR therapy. You get to hear first hand what inspired her creating Zermodus.  Elizabeth also shares the newest addition to her business the Everyday Human Planner, a wellness and recovery planner designed for everyday growth. This planner is all about waking up  setting intentions, meditating, and checking in with yourself as a part of your daily cognitive self-care routine. The Everyday Human planner was created to capture tangible moments of personal growth. This recovery planner is relevant to any kind of recovery process whether it be recovering from a divorce, a major surgery/injury, depression, addiction, anxiety, or eating disorder.    If you want to get your hands on this, Elizabeth has given all my podcast listeners 20% off using the code: CAFEWITHMONICA . This is a great Christmas gift for yourself or for a loved one.    For all my therapist out there who follow me contact Elizabeth at @Zermodus if your interested in purchasing a batch to use with your clients. I’ve already been sharing this with my clients and they love it!!!!!  More about the guest: Elizabeth is a second generation entrepreneur with a passion for empowering others and promoting mental health awareness. Her designs have been featured in HuffPost, D Magazine, PopSci, Mashable, as well as other notable publications.  Her first venture ZerModus, is an e-commerce startup that helps transform people’s daily routines through the use of uniquely designed daily planners like the Everyday Visionary (for goal-oriented people) and the Everyday Human (for everyday personal growth). After releasing the Everyday Human planner, a wellness and recovery planner, she realized she wanted to do more in the wellness space so she launched her second startup, H2Hx.    H2Hx is a wellness patient advocacy and creative agency focused on human-to-human experience design for mental health professionals and organizations. The mission with H2Hx is to remove the stigma around mental health by redesigning the therapeutic experience to be more attractive to consumers. This involves working with therapists, hospitals and nonprofit organizations to make mental health services more beautiful, more educational, more structured and more sharable.  As an equestrian and mental health advocate, Elizabeth also sits on the Board of Directors for Equest and is the 2020 Equest Gala Chair. Equest is one of the largest equine therapy center’s in the country, focusing on improving the quality of life for children, adults and veterans with diverse needs in the Dallas Fort Worth area. She is a member of the Female Founder Collective and a supporter of the Arts, Women’s Rights and Mental Health Awareness. Elizabeth is an SMU Graduate and received a Mini MBA in Digital Marketing from Rutgers’s Executive School of Education. She resides in Dallas, Texas with her German Shorthaired Pointer, JoJo. *****For Shownotes and Resources Mentioned Click Here *****Interested in Therapy with Monica Click Here  

On this episode of Techathlon, Corinne Iozzio, Stan Horaczek, and Rob Verger remember 25 years of sounds from PlayStation games, reflect on the best tech of this and past years, and catch up on the week’s headlines, including Australia's new A.I.-powered cameras for detecting drivers with cell phones. Sign up for PopSci's 30 Day Digital Deep Clean! Get the latest tech news at PopSci.com. Pick up Techathlon merch on our Threadless store. Hosted by Jason Lederman. Theme music by Billy Cadden. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

On this episode of Techathlon, Corinne Iozzio, Jason Lederman, and Rob Verger must name the hottest and deal-worthy Cyber Monday products based off of unusual reviews collected by Stan Horaczek. Sign up for PopSci's 30 Day Digital Deep Clean! Get the latest tech news at PopSci.com. Pick up Techathlon merch on our Threadless store. Hosted by Jason Lederman. Theme music by Billy Cadden. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

On this episode of Techathlon, Corinne Iozzio, Stan Horaczek, and Rob Verger attempt to figure out the right price for this year's Black Friday deals, guess if tweets are T-Mobile CEO John Legere making fun of competitors or customers complaining about their carriers, and catch up on the week’s headlines, including Google's new push to replace SMS as the default texting protocol. Sign up for PopSci's 30 Day Digital Deep Clean! Get the latest tech news at PopSci.com. Pick up Techathlon merch on our Threadless store. Hosted by Jason Lederman. Theme music by Billy Cadden. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

On this episode of Techathlon, Corinne Iozzio, Stan Horaczek, and Rob Verger try to stump the Google Pixel's transcription feature, attempt to name companies based on rebranding disasters, and catch up on the week’s headlines, including the new Tesla "CyberTruck" and Airbnb's ambitious plan to verify 100% of its listings and hosts. Sign up for PopSci's 30 Day Digital Deep Clean! Get the latest tech news at PopSci.com. Pick up Techathlon merch on our Threadless store. Hosted by Jason Lederman. Theme music by Billy Cadden. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

s2e5. In conversation with Yana Rubanovskaya, film director and screen writer at Lavr Studio (http://lavrstudio.com). Разговор с Яной Рубановской, режиссером и автором сценариев документальных фильмов. 00:27 про журфак РГГУ 01:21 про студию документального кино Лавр 01:57 Нойз МС тоже из РГГУ :) 03:44 про цикл документальных фильмов “Завтра не умрет никогда” 06:00 про фильм “Земля вулканов” 10:34 про фильм о Байкале 14:39 про профессию режиссера-документалиста 15:22 говорят ли документалисты на съемочной площадке — “Мотор!” 17:05 про команду Юрия Дудя :) 19:50 фильм о фестивале Burning Man Соц медиа: https://www.instagram.com/yana_rubanovskaya/ Фильмы цикла “Завтра не умрет никогда”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTpWkqrruOc&list=PLBOlG7kpjhDxjSH65Zhd7ukcfjwScMJcb

At a recent live show for our sibling podcast, The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week, we played a game to see if audience members could guess which classic horror movie villains were texting them.. Play along and let us know how you did by tweeting @TechathlonShow! Get the latest tech news at PopSci.com. Pick up Techathlon merch on our Threadless store. Hosted by Corinne Iozzio and Stan Horaczek. Theme music by Billy Cadden. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

On this episode of Techathlon, Corinne Iozzio, Stan Horaczek, and Rob Verger must guess evil-inspired tech terms based on their definitions, debate which obsolete tech product should rise from the dead, and catch up on the week’s headlines, including Google’s “quantum supremacy” and a professional music video shot on an iPhone 11 Pro. Sign up for PopSci's 30 Day Digital Deep Clean! Get the latest tech news at PopSci.com. Pick up Techathlon merch on our Threadless store. Hosted by Jason Lederman. Theme music by Billy Cadden. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

On this episode of Techathlon, Corinne Iozzio, Stan Horaczek, and Rob Verger must separate real absurd movies coming to Disney+ from equally absurd lies, let their phones’ autocomplete function write reviews of Google’s new Pixel 4, and catch up on the week’s headlines, including a security flaw in the Samsung Galaxy S10 and Mark Zuckerberg’s lecture on free speech at Georgetown University. Sign up for PopSci's 30 Day Digital Deep Clean! Get the latest tech news at PopSci.com. Pick up Techathlon merch on our Threadless store. Hosted by Jason Lederman. Theme music by Billy Cadden. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

PopSci contributor Kat Eschner joins us this week as a guest host! The weirdest things we learned ranged from how snow banks turn millennial pink to a dazzling yet dangerous chemistry demonstration. Whose story will be voted "The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week"? The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week is a podcast by Popular Science. Share your weirdest facts and stories with us in our Facebook group or tweet at us! Click here to learn more about all of our stories! Click here to buy tickets for Weirdest Thing Live on October 31st! Follow our team on Twitter Rachel Feltman: www.twitter.com/RachelFeltman Eleanor Cummins: www.twitter.com/elliepses Popular Science: www.twitter.com/PopSci Theme music by Billy Cadden: www.twitter.com/billycadden Edited by Jess Boddy: www.twitter.com/JessicaBoddy --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/popular-science/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/popular-science/support

On this episode of Techathlon, Corinne Iozzio, Stan Horaczek, and Rob Verger clown around trying to tell tech CEOs from The Joker, reflect on questionable gadgets targeted at kids, and catch up on the week’s headlines, including California’s power outages and Uber Pets. Sign up for PopSci's 30 Day Digital Deep Clean! Get the latest tech news at PopSci.com. Pick up Techathlon merch on our Threadless store. Hosted by Jason Lederman. Theme music by Billy Cadden. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

On this episode of Techathlon, Corinne Iozzio, Stan Horaczek, and Rob Verger celebrate Spotify’s 11th birthday by testing their knowledge of the platform's most-popular tunes, explore the far-out world of NASA tech spinoffs, and catch up on the week’s headlines, including Microsoft’s Surface event and app maker Zynga’s password breach. Sign up for PopSci's 30 Day Digital Deep Clean! Get the latest tech news at PopSci.com. Pick up Techathlon merch on our Threadless store. Hosted by Jason Lederman. Theme music by Billy Cadden. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

On this episode of Techathlon, Corinne Iozzio, Stan Horaczek, and Sandra Gutierrez rlook back at tech companies that were too good to be true, run the numbers on Amazon, and catch up on the week’s tech news, including a brand-new Mario Kart game for mobile devices. Sign up for PopSci's 30 Day Digital Deep Clean! Get the latest tech news at PopSci.com. Pick up Techathlon merch on our Threadless store. Hosted by Jason Lederman. Theme music by Billy Cadden. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

On this episode of Techathlon, Corinne Iozzio, Stan Horaczek, and Rob Verger argue what feature the next iPhone can't do without, spoil classic plot lines with text messages, and catch up on the week’s headlines, including Facebook's new Portal video chat devices. Sign up for PopSci's 30 Day Digital Deep Clean! Get the latest tech news at PopSci.com. Pick up Techathlon merch on our Threadless store. Hosted by Jason Lederman. Theme music by Billy Cadden. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

On this episode of Techathlon, Corinne Iozzio, Stan Horaczek, and Sandra Gutierrez Gutierrez risk their reputations against Hasbro’s new lie detector toy, speedily try to remember which streaming platforms host our favorite shows, and catch up on the week’s tech news, including Apple’s iPhone event and Google’s new site for substance abuse recovery. Sign up for PopSci's 30 Day Digital Deep Clean! Get the latest tech news at PopSci.com. Pick up Techathlon merch on our Threadless store. Hosted by Jason Lederman. Theme music by Billy Cadden. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

On this episode of Techathlon, Corinne Iozzio, Stan Horaczek, and Rob Verger quickly test their knowledge of crazy speed records, have a sweet time remembering the names of old versions of Android, and catch up on the week’s headlines, including the NFL's multi-year deal with TikTok. Sign up for PopSci's 30 Day Digital Deep Clean! Get the latest tech news at PopSci.com. Pick up Techathlon merch on our Threadless store. Hosted by Jason Lederman. Theme music by Billy Cadden. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

On this special bonus episode of Techathlon, Corinne Iozzio, Stan Horaczek, and Rob Verger face off about the week's tech news the week's tech news, including Google's new Chromebooks for professionals, the BBC's upcoming voice assistant, and a viral food nightmare.  Sign up for PopSci's 30 Day Digital Deep Clean! Get the latest tech news at PopSci.com. Pick up Techathlon merch on our Threadless store. Hosted by Jason Lederman. Theme music by Billy Cadden. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

On this episode of Techathlon, Corinne Iozzio, Stan Horaczek, and Rob Verger test their knowledge of the FCC's top phone scams, see how many keyboard shortcuts they can rattle off, and catch up on the week’s headlines, including the creation of the world’s "largest" computer chip. Sign up for PopSci's 30 Day Digital Deep Clean! Get the latest tech news at PopSci.com. Pick up Techathlon merch on our Threadless store. Hosted by Jason Lederman. Theme music by Billy Cadden. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

On this episode of Techathlon, Corinne Iozzio, Stan Horaczek, and Sandra Gutierrez duke it out over the best human-body biohacks, debate the vulnerabilities of internet-connected gadgets, and catch up on the week’s headlines, including several stories from the Black Hat hacker convention in Las Vegas. Sign up for PopSci's 30 Day Digital Deep Clean! Get the latest tech news at PopSci.com. Pick up Techathlon merch on our Threadless store. Hosted by Jason Lederman. Theme music by Billy Cadden. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

On this episode of Techathlon, Corinne Iozzio, Stan Horaczek, and Rob Verger delve into just how absurd connected gadgets can get, parse some truly terrible tech product names, and catch up on the week’s headlines, including the release of the Samsung Galaxy Note10 and Note10+. Sign up for PopSci's 30 Day Digital Deep Clean! Get the latest tech news at PopSci.com. Pick up Techathlon merch on our Threadless store. Hosted by Jason Lederman. Theme music by Billy Cadden. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

At a recent live show for our sibling podcast, The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week, we played a game to see if audience members could name a classic video game based on an original review of it. Play along and let us know how you did by tweeting @TechathlonShow! Get the latest tech news at PopSci.com. Pick up Techathlon merch on our Threadless store. Hosted by Jason Lederman and Stan Horaczek. Theme music by Billy Cadden. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

On this special bonus episode of Techathlon, Corinne Iozzio, Stan Horaczek, and Rob Verger catch up on the last month’s worth of tech news, and catch you up on what they’ve been up to since the show went on summer break. Techathlon officially returns in two weeks, on August 12th. Sign up for PopSci's 30 Day Digital Deep Clean! Get the latest tech news at PopSci.com. Pick up Techathlon merch on our Threadless store. Hosted by Jason Lederman. Theme music by Billy Cadden. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Techathlon is about to go on a short break, but we'll be back in August with brand new episodes! (And don't worry, we'll drop a goodie or two into the feed before we come back.) In the meanwhile, check out all the latest tech news on PopSci.com! Our hosts: -Corinne Iozzio -Stan Horaczek -Rob Verger Sign up for PopSci's 30 Day Digital Deep Clean! Get the latest tech news at PopSci.com. Pick up Techathlon merch on our Threadless store. Hosted by Jason Lederman. Theme music by Billy Cadden. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

On this episode of Techathlon, Corinne Iozzio, Stan Horaczek, and Rob Verger try to decode what popular products are being described by their original internal codenames, review iconic video games and reviews of them, and catch up on the week’s tech headlines, including multiple apps that brought new features to Android. Sign up for PopSci's 30 Day Digital Deep Clean! Get the latest tech news at PopSci.com. Pick up Techathlon merch on our Threadless store. Hosted by Jason Lederman. Theme music by Billy Cadden. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

On this episode of Techathlon, Corinne Iozzio, Stan Horaczek, and Rob Verger learn that professional grade gear can get a lot more expensive than Apple's new $5,000 reference monitor, try to remember the noises that instant messengers made, and catch up on the week’s tech headlines, including the dissolution of iTunes into three new desktop apps. Sign up for PopSci's 30 Day Digital Deep Clean! Get the latest tech news at PopSci.com. Pick up Techathlon merch on our Threadless store. Hosted by Jason Lederman. Theme music by Billy Cadden. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

On this episode of Techathlon, Corinne Iozzio, Stan Horaczek, and Rob Verger go over what to expect at Apple's annual developers conference later today, iPick up some iPod facts in honor of the new iPod touch, decipher some crazy tech acronyms, and catch up on the week’s tech headlines, including a virus-laden computer that sold at auction for more than $1 million USD. Sign up for PopSci's 30 Day Digital Deep Clean! Get the latest tech news at PopSci.com. Pick up Techathlon merch on our Threadless store. Hosted by Jason Lederman. Theme music by Billy Cadden. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

On this episode of Techathlon, Corinne Iozzio, Rob Verger, and Jess Boddy have a Memorial Day "barbecue" and catch up on the week’s tech headlines, including the return of Google Glass, self-driving mail trucks, and the death of internet star Grumpy Cat. Sign up for PopSci's 30 Day Digital Deep Clean! Get the latest tech news at PopSci.com. Pick up Techathlon merch on our Threadless store. Hosted by Jason Lederman. Theme music by Billy Cadden. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

On this episode of Techathlon, Corinne Iozzio, Stan Horaczek, and Rob Verger test just how well they remember tech from 1997, let their aviation knowledge take flight, and catch up on the week’s tech headlines, including a barrage of security breaches and malware designed to attack computers running older operating systems. Sign up for PopSci's 30 Day Digital Deep Clean! Get the latest tech news at PopSci.com. Pick up Techathlon merch on our Threadless store. Hosted by Jason Lederman. Theme music by Billy Cadden. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

On this episode of Techathlon, Corinne Iozzio, Stan Horaczek, and Rob Verger take on the Internet’s 100% wrong hot takes, answer questions about food delivery while waiting for lunch, and catch up on the week’s tech headlines, including Google’s 2019 developers conference. Sign up for PopSci's 30 Day Digital Deep Clean! Get the latest tech news at PopSci.com. Pick up Techathlon merch on our Threadless store. Hosted by Jason Lederman. Theme music by Billy Cadden. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This episode is designated to the exploration of the unseen dimension that us three dimensional creatures can not understand fully. From ancient civilizations, to brand new theories, and even older theories, time will always be a subject worth discovering. Sources: "Definition Of TIME." Merriam-webster.com. N. p., 2019. Web. 12 May 2019. "Maya." HISTORY. N. p., 2019. Web. 12 May 2019. "Maya Calendar." En.wikipedia.org. N. p., 2019. Web. 12 May 2019. Ananthaswamy, Anil. "One Time Or Another: Our Best 5 Theories Of The Fourth Dimension." New Scientist. N. p., 2019. Web. 12 May 2019. Redd, Nola. "Einstein's Theory Of General Relativity." Space.com. N. p., 2017. Web. 12 May 2019. Davis, Nicola, and Max Sanderson. "Big Unknowns: Is Time An Illusion? – Science Weekly Podcast." the Guardian. N. p., 2016. Web. 12 May 2019. "Consent Form | Popular Science." Popsci.com. N. p., 2019. Web. 12 May 2019.

On this episode of Techathlon, Corinne Iozzio, Stan Horaczek, and Rob Verger surprise host Jason Lederman with Oculus’ new standalone VR headset, deliberate on decades of promising tech companies that failed, and catch up on the week’s tech headlines, including Facebook’s new Messenger desktop app. Sign up for PopSci's 30 Day Digital Deep Clean! Get the latest tech news at PopSci.com. Pick up Techathlon merch on our Threadless store. Hosted by Jason Lederman. Theme music by Billy Cadden. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

On this episode of Techathlon, Corinne Iozzio, Stan Horaczek, and Rob Verger parse nonsensical marketing-speak product names, feel the shame of not following along with PopSci’s 30 Day Digital Deep Clean, literally hold their hamburgers, and catch up on the week’s tech headlines, including the WHO’s recommendation that infants under one year old have no screen time whatsoever. Sign up for PopSci's 30 Day Digital Deep Clean! Get the latest tech news at PopSci.com. Pick up Techathlon merch on our Threadless store. Hosted by Jason Lederman. Theme music by Billy Cadden. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

On this episode of Techathlon, Corinne Iozzio, Stan Horaczek, and Rob Verger celebrate the release of Avengers: Endgame by guessing if quotes are from supervillains or real-life tech CEOs, mark the return of Game of Thrones in a streaming-video edition of “Don’t Stat Me,” and catch up on the week’s tech headlines, including Pinterest's initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange. Get the latest tech news at PopSci.com. Pick up Techathlon merch on our Threadless store. Hosted by Jason Lederman. Theme music by Billy Cadden. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

On this episode of Techathlon, Corinne Iozzio, Stan Horaczek, and Rob Verger butt into the incredibly arbitrary rules of social media sites, try to guess the cost—monetary and not—of high-priced digital objects, and catch up on the week’s tech headlines, including Microsoft's claims that America's broadband maps aren't accurate. Get the latest tech news at PopSci.com. Pick up Techathlon merch on our Threadless store. Hosted by Jason Lederman. Theme music by Billy Cadden. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

On this episode of Techathlon, Corinne Iozzio, Stan Horaczek, and Rob Verger take a stroll through the Google Graveyard in honor of the demise of Google+, send a few messages about the way we use email, and catch up on the week’s tech headlines, including first major 5G network. Get the latest tech news at PopSci.com. Pick up Techathlon merch on our Threadless store. Hosted by Jason Lederman. Theme music by Billy Cadden. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

On this episode of Techathlon, Corinne Iozzio, Stan Horaczek, and Rob Verger guess the worst passwords of 2018, test their knowledge of tech giants swallowing tiny companies whole, and catch up on the week’s tech headlines, including Apple’s big news-and-TV event and the launch of Magic Leap One. Get the latest tech news at PopSci.com. Pick up Techathlon merch on our Threadless store. Hosted by Jason Lederman. Theme music by Billy Cadden. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Former Vice-president Joe Biden has been accused of inappropriate conduct by a woman who says he put his hands on her shoulders, smelled her hair, and slow kissed the top of her head. Biden for his part has said that he does not believe he ever acted inappropriately.  Ginger Gibson, political reporter for Reuters joins us for how this could impact his possible presidential bid and more. Next, Mike Pence laid out the goal last week of putting American astronauts to the moon by 2024.  While this could be a major achievement, it also comes with a gamble… it's going to take a lot of money and time to complete projects needed to meet the deadline.  Andrew Freedman, science editor at Axios, joins us for this new space race to the moon. Finally, where is the high tech transportation future we were promised? There are no jetpacks, no flying cars, but we are almost there on self-driving cars.  Corrine Iozzio, editor at Popular Science joins us to break down how close we are to getting those jetpacks and more. She'll also tell us why PopSci declared in 1924 that flying cars were only 20 years away. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

On this episode of Techathlon, Corinne Iozzio, Stan Horaczek, and Rob Verger learn all about electric cars, try to guess the most popular video games on various consoles, and catch up on the week's tech news, including a MySpace server migration error and a rideshare-equivalent for food delivery. Get the latest tech news at PopSci.com. Pick up Techathlon merch on our Threadless store. Hosted by Jason Lederman. Theme music by Billy Cadden. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Ramez Naam (@ramez) is a computer scientist, futurist, angel investor and award-winning author best known for his Nexus Trilogy: Nexus, Crux and ApexHis other (non-fiction) books include: The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet and More than Human: Embracing the Promises of Biological Enhancement.He's currently co-chair of energy and the environment at Singularity University and earlier in his career led teams at Microsoft working on Outlook, Internet Explorer and Bing where he co-patented 20 inventions, many alongside Bill Gates.Ramez has appeared on Sunday morning MSNBC, Yahoo! Finance, The New York Times, WSJ, PopSci, Wired, and many more. Ramez holds more than 20 patents, and many of those are as a co-inventor with Bill Gates.You can listen right here on iTunesIn today's episode we discuss:* Why we're at a tipping point for carbon-emitting cars sold* What it was like working directly with Bill Gates* What is Ramez predicted about renewable energy and why it's better than even he thought* How technologists are solving global problems by fixing incentives and driving down costs* What it's like to be both a bestselling fiction and non-fiction author* Why Ramez is no longer a big believer in radical life extension* The brain2.0 movement and why we're becoming cyborgs* What Ramez thinks about CRISPR and genetically engineering people* The importance of sci-fi to shift societal attitudes* How to think about technological trends when tackling big problems* Why innovation often leaves behind a lot bodies* The reason Ramez is fundamentally optimist despite all the challenges we face* Why the secret to a better future is to create itMake a Tax-Deductible Donation to Support The DisruptorsMake a Tax-Deductible Donation to Support The DisruptorsThe Disruptors is supported by the generosity of its readers and listeners. If you find our work valuable, please consider supporting us on Patreon, via Paypal or with DonorBox powered by Stripe.Donate

We've got a brand new podcast! It's called Techathlon—it's all the headlines and personalities you know and love from LWIT with a fun game show format. Subscribe now wherever you're listening! Get the latest tech news at PopSci.com. Pick up Techathlon merch on our Threadless store. Hosted by Jason Lederman. Theme music by Billy Cadden.

On this episode of Techathlon, Corinne Iozzio, Stan Horaczek, and Rob Verger celebrate the 30th birthday of the World Wide Web, debate what the best streaming service is, and remember their first favorite websites. Plus, we introduce a new game to catch you up on the week's tech news: The Techathlon Decathlon. Get the latest tech news at PopSci.com. Pick up Techathlon merch on our Threadless store. Hosted by Jason Lederman. Theme music by Billy Cadden. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

On this episode of Techathlon, Corinne Iozzio, Stan Horaczek, and Rob Verger discuss new legislation to "free the internet," answer trivia questions asked through bone conduction headphones, and bring back fan-favorite "Don't Stat Me." Get the latest tech news at PopSci.com. Pick up Techathlon merch on our Threadless store. Hosted by Jason Lederman. Theme music by Billy Cadden. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

On this episode of Techathlon, Corinne Iozzio, Stan Horaczek, and Rob Verger talk the future of delivery robots, use the autocomplete feature on their own devices to review upcoming smartphones, and work together to figure out if a list of Kickstarted movies are real. Get the latest tech news at PopSci.com. Pick up Techathlon merch on our Threadless store. Hosted by Jason Lederman. Theme music by Billy Cadden. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

On this episode of Techathlon, Corinne Iozzio, Stan Horaczek, and Rob Verger talk folding phones, compete to write the best sonnet, roast crazy cryptocurrencies exist, and grill sausages. Get the latest tech news at PopSci.com. Pick up Techathlon merch on our Threadless store. Hosted by Jason Lederman. Theme music by Billy Cadden. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

At a recent live show for our sibling podcast, The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week, we played a multiple choice trivia game with a live audience! Play along and let us know how you did by tweeting @TechathlonShow! Get the latest tech news at PopSci.com. Pick up Techathlon merch on our Threadless store. Hosted by Jason Lederman and Corinne Iozzio. Theme music by Billy Cadden. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

On this episode of Techathlon, Corinne Iozzio, Stan Horaczek, and Rob Verger talk this week's tech news, duke it out over the best modern video game console, figure out how to edit tweets, and play some trivia. Get the latest tech news at PopSci.com. Pick up Techathlon merch on our Threadless store. Hosted by Jason Lederman. Theme music by Billy Cadden. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Filmmakers Francis Agyapong and his frequent filmmaking collaborator DP Adisa Duke drop by to inspire us to make stuff on a regular basis.  Francis is a Brooklyn-born filmmaker that's done stints creating video content at places like NYMAG, PopSci, Hearst Digital and most recently The New York Times. Check out an interesting article Francis wrote for NoFilmSchool and a fun spoof I posted at www.jordanbrady.com. This episode lasts 90 minutes of joy. Thanks, Jordan Commercial Directing Voodoo is on Amazon. Buy it and up your game. Already own it? Please consider a review.

Popular Science’s Techathlon tackles tech news through games, trivia, and (mostly) friendly competitions. Jason Lederman hosts a panel of experts—including PopSci superstars Stan Horaczek, Corinne Iozzio, and Rob Verger—in a weekly throwdown designed to help you better understand tech, the internet, and everything.

Rod Pyle has authored 13 books on space subjects, written extensively for NASA/JPL, Caltech, and many other publications and venues. Periodicals include Space.com, Ad Astra, PopSci, and various journals and blogs. Currently senior editor for Ad Astra magazine. His nonfiction books focus innovation, technology, science and the US space program. New book titles for 2018-2019 include: "Interplanetary Robots" (Prometheus Books, 2018) "Heroes of the Space Age" (Prometheus Books, 2019) "Apollo 11 at 50" (Sterling Books, 2019) "Space 2.0" (BenBella Books, 2019) "Mars:Making Contact" (Carlton Books, Sept. 8 2016). "Blueprint for a Battlestar" (Sterling Publishing, Oct. 11 2016) "Amazing Stories of the Space Age" (Prometheus Books, Jan. 2017)   Theme music for Madame Perry's Salon composed and performed by Denton Perry. Authors! Need to promote your book but can't afford a publicist? Get Sell Your Books Todayright now!  As a seasoned entertainment publicist I know exactly what insider info you need to get your books to the world!

The weirdest things we learned this week are weird things we've already learned! In this mini-episode, Popular Science editor-in-chief Joe Brown plays "Two Truths and a Lie" about past editions of Weirdest Thing. Play along with him and see how many you can get right! The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week is a podcast by Popular Science. Share your weirdest facts and stories with us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/weirdest_thing #weirdestthingpod Follow our team on Twitter Rachel Feltman: www.twitter.com/RachelFeltman Joe Brown: www.twitter.com/JoeMFBrown Popular Science: www.twitter.com/PopSci Theme Music by Billy Cadden: www.twitter.com/billycadden Edited by Jason Lederman: www.twitter.com/Lederman --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/popular-science/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/popular-science/support

Everything you need to know about everything we don’t yet know. This month’s book is We have no idea by the creators of PHD Comics, Jorge Cham and Daniel Whiteson. It discusses the great unsolved problems of physics in a way which is guaranteed to entertain.  We hear from the authors, and the Chemistry World team discuss why the llama is the perfect animal for explaining the concept of binding energy.

Almost a decade after its extinction, the Pyrenean ibex became newly un-extinct thanks to cloning. But what are the limits of this technology? Could we one day visit a real-life Jurassic Park? Bring back the king by Helen Pilcher recounts the progress that has been made in the field of de-extinction and what benefits it may bring. Hear an interview with Pilcher, an extract from the book and the views of the Chemistry World team.

Fat might not be fashionable, but it is essential. It is a living organ that communicates with the brain, controlling our behaviour and even influencing our reproductive cycles. These facts and more form the the subject of The secret life of fat: the science behind the body’s greatest puzzle by Sylvia Tara. Hear an extract from the book, and learn why we enjoyed it so much.

Some cleaning agents claim to kill 99.9% of all bacteria, but if preventing disease is the main aim, then maybe total annihilation isn’t the best course to take. We discuss this and other lessons we have learnt by studying the microbiome: the microbes that live on and within our bodies. Hear about the man who had a literal window into his digestive system, and how releasing the right kind of mosquito can prevent the spread of dengue fever.

In Episode 5, we take a look at recent community news during our Trending Topics Segment- including a new virtual reality game designed to help reduce kids’ anxiety during infusions and a new needle that won’t cause bleeding after it’s removed, and we take a deeper dive into three stories during our Like, Share, Comment Segment. This month we also feature my Sit Down with the iconic HIV/AIDS and hemophilia advocate Jeanne White-Ginder. All that and more, on episode 5 of BloodStream! Sponsors for Episode 5: Presenting Sponsor: Stop The Bleeding! (STB!) Link to STB! Website. Supporting Sponsor: Entertainment to Affect Change (E2AC) Link to E2AC website. Trending Topics: The National Hemophilia Foundation launches a new series of educational webinars. Link Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Ohio is piloting a virtual reality game designed to help reduce anxiety and stress in pediatric infusions. Link Genetic Linkage Analysis may lead to a simple way to diagnose women carrying the gene causing hemophilia A.  Link (Story) Link (Study) A self-sealing hemostatic needle that won’t cause bleeding when removed from a vein. Link Two tools for patient reported outcomes address the need for personalization of outcomes Link. Like, Share, Comment Segment:     HFA Gears For Good Riders raise $130,000 for Helping Hands. Link Barry Haarde completes his fifth trans-con bike ride, totaling 5,000 miles and raising over $52,000. Link Alex Dowsett, the professional cyclist with hemophilia, launches Little Bleeders charity to encourage fitness and athletics for children with bleeding disorders. Link Colorado’s Kyle Haas rides 500 miles through mountain passes. Link Sleep resources curated and posted to The BloodStream Blog. HIV now “undetectable” in British man. Link Why talk of HIV cure is premature (from BBC). Link Why it’s too soon to say HIV has been cured (from PopSci). Link amfAR - statistics on young people and HIV (Link) and the US and HIV (Link) The Sit Down: USA Today’s Top 25 people (1982 - 2007). Link The AIDS Memorial Grove. Link The HIV Story Project. Link Surviving Voices, a collaboration between the HIV Story Project and The Grove. Link BloodStream on Social: BloodStream Facebook Page BloodStream Twitter Account BloodStream Host Patrick James Lynch on Twitter and Instagram. Subscribe to BloodStream: iTunes: http://bit.ly/bloodstreamitunes Stitcher: http://bit.ly/bloodstreamstitcher LibSyn: http://bit.ly/bloodstreamlibsyn SoundCloud: http://bit.ly/bloodstreamSC TuneIn: http://bit.ly/bloodstreamtunein Google Play: http://bit.ly/bloodstreamPlay

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about recognition: facial recognition, keystroke recognition, Dothraki recognition. UMD Cyber Defense Training Camp RescueTime. Sorry. NIST declares the age of SMS-based 2-factor authentication over Radio Hack Steals Keystrokes from Millions of Wireless Keyboards Cameras Are Getting Better at Seeing if You’re Nervous Meanwhile: Machine Learning is Fun! Part 4: Modern Face Recognition with Deep Learning Galaxy Note 7 will ship with iris scanner. Craigslist: OFFICE OF PUBLIC ART SEEKS KLINGON, ELVISH, OR DOTHRAKI SPEAKER (Pittsburgh, PA) Dodging Stray Bullets in Lebanon With The World’s First Bulletproof Headscarf Google’s Dialer App Now Warns You When You’re Getting a Call From a Spammer Amazon Patents Way To Turn Lampposts, Church Steeples Into Drone Perches Dave got published: How Automation Can Unleash Government IT Innovation See also D&G 101 — Ansible: Good Technology, Great Coffee Defense in Depth on October 6 Red Hat Positioned in the Visionaries Quadrant of Gartner’s 2016 Magic Quadrant for x86 Server Virtualization Infrastructure Why Carry Your Suitcase When You Can Attach it to Your Bottom? Heavy Metal and Natural Language Processing – Part 1 Cutting Room Floor Arduino absentmindedly blows bubbles Open Source Gardening Robot ‘FarmBot’ Raises $560,000 Robo hobo bamboozles passers-by Ourobot: What happens when a snake bot swallows its own tail Watch a Bratwurst-Grilling Robot Serve Up Perfectly Seared Sausages Mother was walking the dog, saw Boston Dynamics walking their robot. Over 1000 robots break world record with synchronised dance routine There’s going to be a Raspberry Pi driverless racing championship A Hamster Powered Machine That Draws Pictures Of Hamsters Fake Chalets: Unmasking the Bunkers disguised as Quaint Swiss Villas Mid-Century Men At Vintage Computers QUESS. A curated magazine, written by computers, for people. (h/t emorisse) Systematic breakdown on Bladerunner production design? Coming right up.

This month we discuss Herding Hemingway's Cats: understanding how our genes work  by Kat Arney. In Ernest Hemingway's house in Florida there is a family six-toed cats. Their appearance is caused by a mutation in the molecular switch that controls the Sonic hedgehog gene. These cats provided Kat Arney with the impetus to write a book that explaines how genes work and dispels some of the misconceptions created by the media's misrepresentation of the subject. Hear an extract from the book, an interview with Kat Arney, and the views of the Chemistry World team in this month's podcast. You can read our review of Herding Hemingway's cats here, and find all our book reviews here. We want to include you, the Chemistry World reader, in the conversation so join us next month when we’ll be discussing Grunt by Mary Roach. Tweet your thoughts to @ChemistryWorld, or use the hashtag #BookClubCW and we’ll endeavour to include your opinions (or questions) on the podcast.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler The TWiVers reveal influenza virus replication in the ferret mammary gland and spread to a nursing infant, and selection of transmissible influenza viruses in the soft palate.   Links for this episode Photos of my visit to OHSU (Facebook) 6:30 Folta departs (Facebook) 9:25 T-VEC approved for melanoma (FDA) 14:45 Talimogene laherparepvec (Wikipedia) 15:10 T-VEC phase III trial (J Clin Oncol) 17:35 How drugs are named (PopSci) 16:35 Influenza transmission in mother-child dyad (PLoS Path) 23:10 Soft palate and influenza transmission (Nature) 41:00 Image credit Letters read on TWiV 363 1:09:30 This episode is sponsored by Mt. Sinai Department of Microbiology, ASM Education, and ASM Biodefense and Emerging Diseases Conference Timestamps by Jennifer. Thanks! Weekly Science Picks 1:29:00 Kathy - Insect gearsAlan - Bye, Bye, EbolaRich - Hedy LamarrVincent - Should we resurrect extinct species? Listener Picks Jennie - Bye, Bye, EbolaPeter - Epidemics on edX Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@twiv.tv

Basketball season is now in full swing. But here at Popular Science, we’re ahead of the game. We’re looking beyond 2015 to see what sports will look like 10, 20, or even 30 years down the road. In this episode of the podcast, we talk to Marcus Elliott, founder of the Peak Performance Project, or P3. The company uses a slew of data to build better athletes. And we hear from Ryan Warkins, who works at Catapult Sports, a company that tracks athletes with all kinds of sensors. We discuss how to keep star players injury-free and playing at their best. To figure out how to put together a team that works like a well-oiled machine, we talk to Dean Oliver, vice president of data science at TruMedia Networks. He says that numbers have a huge amount of power in sports but that it all comes down to how they’re analyzed. Looking back into the PopSci archives also brings up some painful (if hilarious) memories about how we used to train elite players back in the day. Take, for example, the basketball “bumpers” from April 1941, designed to protect your fragile eyeglasses. Or how about a high-tech training exercise using action figures from March, 1940? The ways we play (and watch) sports have come a long way in the past 75 years, and they’ll be changing even more going forward. Tune in to find out how. Futuropolis is a biweekly podcast on the Panoply network. This week's episode is sponsored by Braintree—code for easy online payments. If you're working on a mobile app and need a simple payments solution, check out Braintree. For your first $50,000 in transactions fee-free, go you braintreepayments.com/future. This episode is also sponsored by The Message, a new podcast from GE Podcast Theater. Host Nicki Tomlin follows a team of elite cryptographers as they decode a highly classified radio transmission. To sum it up: extraterrestrials. Check out The Message, on iTunes.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler The TWiVles talk about endogenous viruses in plants, sex and Ebolavirus transmission, an outbreak of canine influenza in the US, Dr. Oz, and doubling the NIH budget. This episode is sponsored by SciMed Solutions and ASM Education. Links for this episode Pinot noir and viruses (Wine Spectator) 35:00 Endogenous florendoviruses (Nat Commun) 35:30 Sex and Ebolavirus transmission (WHO, CDC, NYTimes) 54:10 Ebolavirus waiting (NYTimes) 57:35 Canine influenza outbreak (ProMed, NorthStarVets) 1:01:10 Dr. Oz under fire (NYTimes) 1:06:20 TV doctors (Brit Med J) 1:09:50 Double the NIH budget (NYTimes) 1:11:45 Image credit: Grapes and Caulimovirus Letters read on TWiV 334 6:10 Timestamps by Jennifer. Thank you! Weekly Science Picks 1:17:05 Alan - NIH RFI: How do we fix this mess?Rich - Editing embryos (PopSci, Prot Cell)Kathy - Creative class presentations (one, two, three, four)Dickson - The most tornadoesVincent - Apollo 13, 45 years later (Ars, IEEE, Farewell) Listener Pick of the Week Johnye - Rudolf and Leopold Blaschka Send your virology questions and comments (email or mp3 file) to twiv@twiv.tv

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Episode 6 Transcript courtesy of Megan Pennock Download the Episode Here’s the article from PopSci.com that suggests love of spicy food is built into your personality and why we all need Mexican parents. Here’s Dick’s cool racing rims bro! And finally, the full timeline of our long, drawn-out non-apology to China. Almost two weeks of … Continue reading Episode 6 → The post Episode 6 appeared first on The Biggest Problem in the Universe.

Fermentation can be a little stinky sometimes, but some ferments are so stinky that all but the well initiated will gag. This week we discuss some of the smelliest ferments in the world and a bit of the science behind them. Show notes: [18 Stinky Foods From Around the World - surstromming, kiviak, stinky tofu, hakarl, hongeo… Open Journey](http://www.openjourney.com/article/18-stinky-foods-around-the-world-41.html) This link appears to cover most of the popular stinky ferments throughout the world. We’re certain there are more, but this is nice coverage with videos. [Episode 16: Fish Sauce was The Original Ketchup FermUp](http://fermup.com/podcast/16/) In the last third, Danijela and Branden talk about surstromming. [PopSci’s Friday Lunch: a Can of Surstromming With Harold McGee Popular Science](http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-04/popscis-friday-lunch-can-putrid-surströmming) Watch Harold McGee eat surstromming. Casu marzu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Maggot cheese anyone? Just watch for jumping maggots that can achieve up to 6 inches of air. [This Inuit Delicacy Is the Turducken from Hell Gizmodo](http://gizmodo.com/5885202/this-inuit-delicacy-is-the-turducken-from-hell) Love the title on this post. How do they catch so many tiny birds? [Greenlandic Food: Kiviaq YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OPRJL9UFuA) Traditionally, this ferment is done with feathers and beak and all. But here is someone in Greenland skinning the bird. [Auk Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auk) If you don’t know what an auk looks like, here you go. [How to get your stinky tofu fix: 4 great joints in LA LA Times](http://www.latimes.com/features/food/dailydish/la-four-great-stinky-tofu-joints-in-los-angeles-20130816,0,5431911.story#axzz2mw91dEiO) Stinky tofu is not as common in the U.S. due to health code regulations. Even restaurants allowed to serve it in LA are only allowed to ferment it for three days as opposed to weeks or months. [Home Of Limburger, The World’s Stinkiest Cheese Huffington Post](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/08/visit-monroe-wisconsin-stinky-cheese-limburger_n_3239545.html) Branden can almost smell this cheese factory that is 45 minutes away. Got to love foot odor bacteria in our cheese. [Natto - Fermented Soy Beans - Whatcha Eating? YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf4egUzD2ZQ&feature=youtu.be&t=4m7s) Natto seems best enjoyed with plenty of condiments. [For One Year, I Will Eat Only Fermented Foods, Then Publish a Book About It Bear Flavored Homebrew and Beer Blog](http://www.bear-flavored.com/2013/12/for-one-year-i-will-eat-only-fermented.html) Check out this guy’s adventure as he prepares to eat only fermented foods in 2014. Rate us on iTunes. Thanks for your support! Send your feedback to podcast@fermup.com or connect with us on Twitter, Facebook or Google+.

Recorded at the Public Axis F-Stop on April 25th, 2013 with special make-up effects artist, Lawrence Mercado. 00:00 Lawrence has a large portfolio of incredible make-up effects work, including working on our movie Blood Cousins and the hit TV show, AMC's The Walking Dead.* 14:34 Yeah, Imma Look Into Dat! Prepare for futuristic Earth garbage problems! Jess talks up the upcoming summer movie, Elysium. Topic #1: What’s your sci-fi solution to Earth’s overflowing trash problem? 38:38 Dad's Corner(ed)! Larry has his own family San Antonio Fiesta this year to do what he does best: not get stabbed in public. Topic #2: What’s your worst Fiesta experience? 1:00:23 Hey, That's Not Funny! Regan treads a little in Jess' territory with this PopSci article about dudes who brought Mario Kart to real life. Topic #3, If you could play a real life version of a video game, what would it be? 1:25:27 We chat with Lawrence about his upcoming endeavors in the special effects world. We're very proud of his upcoming work – you must check it out at NotBotFX.com 1:31:43 A fantastic podcast ends with another fantastic session of What We Learned Today. Enlighten yourself! *Mr. Mercado has not worked on the hit TV show, AMC's The Walking Dead. Listen to this episode for details.

Even thought salt water fish can’t jump out of the water and ferment themselves, with a little effort, humans have been preparing fermented fish sauces and pastes for thousands of years. This week we explore fermented fish and the flavor of umami. Do you think fish sauce is stinky? Are you afraid of MSG? Then this is the episode to listen to. We discuss fermented fish from different parts of the world and history. If you haven’t eaten or cooked with fermented fish before, then you might just be inspired to do so after listening to this conversation. Show notes: [Mainly Microbe - Meet Your Microbiome YouTube](http://youtu.be/4BZME8H7-KU) From PBS It’s OK To Be Smart, comes a short video introduction to your microbiome. You have anywhere from 2-5 pounds of bacteria on and in you. Most of them are in your gut and intestine. Learn more in this video. [Taste Perception: Cracking the Code PLOS Biology](http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.0020064) Learn more about taste receptors, why we have the five tastes and a history of the tongue map. [World Umami Map Umami Information Center](http://www.umamiinfo.com/2011/02/umami-culture-around-the-world.php) A map showing traditional and popular foods around the world that are high in the umami experience. [What is Umami YouTube](http://youtu.be/R5aAICA2gm8?t=50s) An introductory video that explain more about MSG and Umami. [Secret of tasty tomatoes revealed RSC](http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2006/May/05050601.asp) This article discusses some preliminary work that was done comparing the level of umami in vine-ripened tomatoes compared to the average gas-ripened grocery store tomato. [In Thailand, Love of Food Carries Deadly Risks NY Times](http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/26/world/asia/26iht-thailand.html?_r=0) While fermented fish is generally safe, there is a fluke infested ferment in North and Northeast Thailand that accounts for the majority of liver cancer deaths in Thailand. [Iron Chef Thailand - Battle Fermented Fish 1 YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHXwnYUK5c0) [Iron Chef Thailand - Battle Fermented Fish 2 YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc60z3edpjI) [Iron Chef Thailand - Battle Fermented Fish 3 YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmSGuUzJwrk) [Iron Chef Thailand - Battle Fermented Fish 4 YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78z3qJUzde4) [Iron Chef Thailand - Battle Fermented Fish 5 YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXekmrwbJHg) [Garum sauce by Heston Blumenthal YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPX8dpKG48M) A brief video about Garum along with a chef that attempts to make a fast food version of Garum. [On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0684800012/fermup-20) [PopSci’s Friday Lunch: a Can of Surströmming With Harold McGee Popular Science](http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-04/popscis-friday-lunch-can-putrid-surströmming) Harold McGee smuggled Swedish surströmming into the US and shares the eating experience with another participant. That participant said “the experience was more like eating cured fish while sitting next to a dumpster than eating actually rotten fish.” [5 Totally Hardcore Foods That Could Get You Arrested (Or Killed) This or That](http://thisorthat.com/blog/5-totally-hardcore-foods-that-could-get-you-arrested-or-killed) [The traditional Swedish way to eating surströmming YouTube](http://youtu.be/DmaedvVBkV8) A video showing a friendly backyard get-together in Sweden as people enjoy surströmming. Want to leave a rating or review? Here’s the link to iTunes. Thanks for your support! Send your feedback to podcast@fermup.com or find us on Twitter @fermup, Facebook or Google+.

Batman normally likes to stretch his legs and have trunkspace for a few accidental dead bodies. But he might pilot an ATV powered by a jet engine on a weekend at the links. John Carnett modded brand new Polaris RZR 2-seater ATV with a grey market, 40-year-old turbine. The result is a 114db joystick-driven vehicle that spews out 1300°F exhaust to achieve around 60MPH. And it sounds glorious. Our only regret is that Carnett was too sane to take his jet ATV over any sweet jumps. Give him time, though. A guy who builds stuff like this has to be slipping a bit. [ PopSci ].

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