Month: February 2015
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The No Deathbot Guarantee*
*not necessarily a guarantee
One robotics company, Clearpath Robotics, has promised never to make autonomous killing machines, and hopes all future tech companies will get on board with the no killer robot promise. Problem solved, right? Jeff and Anthony aren’t …
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Hale Hydra
The tiny organism known as the hydra is a half inch tube of jelly that inhabits fresh water all over the world, and it may well be functionally immortal. What does that mean? Anthony and Jeff try to make sense …
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Harvest Moon
Now that private companies are getting into space, the legalities of who can own celestial bodies comes into question. Specifically, a company called Bigelow Aerospace of Las Vegas wants to start selling inflatable habitats and property on the moon. Jeff …
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Spousal Recall
According to researchers at Macquarie University, couples in long-term relationships develop inter-connected memory systems. Each partner can remember only a few details, but together they piece together a more accurate whole, ostensibly off-loading parts of the job to the other. …
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Super Villain Face
A Venezuelan man had his face surgically altered to look like the Red Skull – Captain America’s arch-nemesis in Marvel Comics. His nose was removed, his brow was enlarged, his skin was reddened, and even his eyeballs were tattooed black. …
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Running is for Dicks
A new study shows that longer, fast-paced running sessions are just as bad for you as not running at all. How much exercise is genuinely good for you? And why do we always think more is better?
We Have Concerns …
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Feels Like Forever
What’s more ethical: a life sentence in prison, or a drug that slows someone’s perception of time to make them feel like they’ve spent 10 life sentences in a day? The question was asked last year by an Oxford University …
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Content with Content
Songwriter and youtube song-a-day artist Jonathan Mann has a new video online advocating for abolishing the term “Content Creator” for people who release things on the web. His position is that the term diminishes things designed to be distributed on …
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Under the Sea
A Japanese corporation wants to build the perfect underwater city of the future. That is both a real thing that’s happening and also something that sounds like the plot of a nightmarish disaster movie.
WE’RE RECORDING OUR FIRST LIVE SHOW …
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Sit Stand Die (with Justin Robert Young)
How easily you can sit down and stand back up without using your hands can supposedly tell you how long you’ll have to live. Jeff and Anthony are joined by Justin Robert Young and to try the test for themselves.…
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