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This Week: Scientific Scepticism, Linking Brains, Biodiversity with Leeches, Less Lightning, Electricity from archaea, Porpoise’s, Chimps, Rhesus monkey hearts, Missing hub of humans, Space Balloons, Baby Brains, Plant Protection, And Much More…
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In the past, we have looked to the future waiting around in present’s past.
Planning and procrastinating, Predicting and anticipating
All in the expectation that one day the future would arrive and wouldn’t you know it the future is here.
In fact, the future might even be here ahead of schedule because from the looks of it, we aren’t ready for it.
Case in point, an autonomous vehicle was pulled over this week the vehicle had apparently failed to put its lights on while driving at night the police approached the car and it sped off, only to come to a stop a little further ahead in a what the vehicle might have considered a safer location.
When police approached the vehicle for the second time they immediately lacked any protocol on how to proceed with the traffic stop. They couldn’t demand a license or registration, they couldn’t ask the car if it had been drinking or even ask it to roll down its window so they could turn on its lights they tried to open the door, but it was locked.
In short, the future happened and nobody was prepared for it. Making us look very much not the people of the future but people of the past who somehow stuck around too long and while there are plenty of examples of how stuck in the past we are as a planet, the oil economy, authoritarian autocracies, racial inequality, income inequality, gender inequality, matching socks, all relics of bygone eras…
The future always happens this way nobody is ever ready for it, not really, it just happens
Week by week, day by day, slowly and methodically until before we know it we find ourselves listening to yet another episode of This Week in Science!
Some quick science news you can appreciate!
Scientific Scepticism
Two big science stories out this week need to be considered with skepticism. Let’s talk about the thing that W bosons & Tanis dinosaurs have in common.
Brains that link together better
Thinking abstractly is a human thing.
Understand biodiversity, with the help of leeches
Yup, it’s the blood, baby!
Less Lightning
Early Earth’s atmosphere probably wasn’t as conducive to lightning strikes as previously thought.
Electricity from archaea
Single-celled electricity!
The porpoise of this story
Is to tell you about a dolphin, who spoke with a porpoise.
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It’s time for Blair’s Animal Corner!
Chimps know what you did last summer…
…. If that involved a chimp skull I guess
Rhesus monkeys know their heart
Errr… Beat.
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The Missing Hub of Humans
May lead to a better understanding of cultural evolution.
Space Balloons
Luxury cabins in space make a splash.
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Baby Brains
What is genetic & what depends on experience in the brain?
Plant Protection
Rain activates plant immune systems. How does that happen? And, why?
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Take a blast to the past…
What were we pronouncing at this time last year? This time last year we discussed FermiLab Followup, Almost Astronauts, How Do You Scream, Moving Fish, Magic Mood Mushroom, Crazy Light, Monkey Speed Bumps, COVID Update, It’s A Yawn, Bird Blood Heaters, Halfway To Zero, Imprinting Autism?, Facial Phrenology?, Gar Brains, And Much More…
This week 10 years ago TWIS we discussed Fit Frogs, A Gene For Niceness, The Neurotic IQ, Animal Sex, Patented Plants, Tracking Toxo, Social Immunity And Much More! Take a blast to the past with TWIS!
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