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Liz Clayton Fuller joins the show to talk about the deadly feather trade. Plus, Jess hops in to explain the strange virus causing bunnies to sprout horns, and Rachel gets into the way some folks are using ants to make yogurt. (It's actually kinda good...) Check out all of Liz's art: https://lizclaytonfuller.com/ 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 Rachel now has a Patreon, too! Follow her for exclusive bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/RachelFeltman Link to Jess' Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/jesscapricorn Link to all of Jess' content: https://www.jesscapricorn.com/ -- 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 Thanks to our Sponsors: Visit https://GrowTherapy.com/WEIRDEST today to get started. Make the switch at https://MINTMOBILE.com/weirdest Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week: Read the notes at at podcastnotes.org. Don't forget to subscribe for free to our newsletter, the top 10 ideas of the week, every Monday --------- Carly York joins the show to talk about the most heroic rats you'll ever meet. Plus, Sara Kiley talks about some drunk monkeys, and Rachel gets into sharks' toothy foreheads. 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 Rachel now has a Patreon, too! Follow her for exclusive bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/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 Thanks to our Sponsors: Visit https://GrowTherapy.com/WEIRDEST today to get started. Go to https://Quince.com/weirdest for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Carly York joins the show to talk about the most heroic rats you'll ever meet. Plus, Sara Kiley talks about some drunk monkeys, and Rachel gets into sharks' toothy foreheads. 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 Rachel now has a Patreon, too! Follow her for exclusive bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/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 Thanks to our Sponsors: Visit https://GrowTherapy.com/WEIRDEST today to get started. Go to https://Quince.com/weirdest for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Curiosity is at the heart of great science and great storytelling. In this episode, we're joined by Laura Baisas, science news writer at Popular Science, to explore how curiosity fuels her work and shapes the way science is shared with the public. Tune in to hear about her process for finding story ideas, the importance of fact-checking in the age of AI, how journalists balance engaging narratives with accuracy, and why embracing science as an ever-evolving process is key to building public trust. Laura also reflects on her own “aha” moment that solidified her career in science journalism and offers advice for young listeners on charting meaningful paths forward.Laura Baisas is a science news writer and reporter at Popular Science. Prior to joining PopSci, she worked in children's news programming and has built her career around making complex scientific topics accessible and engaging for broad audiences. Her work spans subjects from ocean science and paleontology to health and climate change, with a focus on curiosity-driven storytelling and accurate, impactful journalism.
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
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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. 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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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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