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Rationalizing Global Warming, Space X Preps Largest Rocket, Environmentally Friendly Bullets, A New Mineral Discovered, Self Cooling Graphene Transistors, And Much More…
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Self-strengthening Nanocomposite, Robotic SmartBird, Robot Locomotion, BrainGate Milestone, Effects Of April Fools, And Much More…
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Brain Injuries In Hockey, New Administration Of Alzheimer’s Drug, Fourth Domain Of Life, 3D Movies Of Living Cells, And Much More…
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Earthquake In Japan, Large Hadron Collider, Genetically Modified Food, Space Junk, Messenger Probe To Orbit Mercury, Bio Fuel Breakthrough, And Much More…
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A Strange Symptom Of Smoking Cessation, Watery Footprints, Bird Deaths, Bulk Metallic Glasses, Modified Theory Of Gravity, And Much More…
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This Week in Nano Medicine (Thanks, Ed and Monkey)
Planets in the making (Thanks, Ed)
50 billion exoplanets in the Milky Way (Thanks, Dale, David)
Minion mailbag
From minion Davey – “Just wanted to clear up something on Watson, it didn’t have a single microphone. So of course it couldn’t hear what the other contestants were saying and it can’t actually understand human speech. Clues were sent to Watson via text at the same time the clue was read to the humans and then after the question it was sent the right answer by text as well. The break through was in parsing the important parts of the question from all the word play that is used in the clue. There is a real nice documentary about Watson that can be found here”
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Cell Phone Redux, A Mouse Heart, TWIWRD, Print Your Skin, Mind On Driving, Unlocking The Locked In, Bloody Chemicals, Planets And Exoplanets, A Leaky Gut, And Much More…
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Some of the stories we discussed…
Cell phones redux
Mouse hearts grow like the Grinch’s
This Week in World Robot Domination:
A helping Robot Hand (Thanks, Monkey)
Slip me some skin… (Thanks, David and Pamela)
Look, Ma! No hands! (Thanks, Monkey)
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This Week in Nano Medicine (Thanks, Ed and Monkey)
Planets in the making (Thanks, Ed)
50 billion exoplanets in the Milky Way (Thanks, Dale, David)
Minion mailbag
From minion Davey – “Just wanted to clear up something on Watson, it didn’t have a single microphone. So of course it couldn’t hear what the other contestants were saying and it can’t actually understand human speech. Clues were sent to Watson via text at the same time the clue was read to the humans and then after the question it was sent the right answer by text as well. The break through was in parsing the important parts of the question from all the word play that is used in the clue. There is a real nice documentary about Watson that can be found here”
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Stardust, TWIWRD, Bones And Sperm, TWIBabies!, Gonorrhea Steals Genes, Pesticides and Parkinsons, Walk Like An Egyptian, Tyche Controversy, And Much More…
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Stardust Update
This Week in World Robot Domination:
Watson plays Jeopardy!
Evolution makes robots stronger.
This Week in Babies:
Interesting brain activity pattern found at 20 weeks
Counting kicks in at 18 months; earlier than previously thought (Thanks, Pamela)
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Two pesticides linked to Parkinsons‘ Disease (Thanks, Pamela and Ed!)
Continuing on from last week’s news of jumping genes and horizontal gene transfer… first transfer of human genetic material to bacteria
Walk like an Egyptian…
Looking for Tyche – For and against
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This Week in Brains, Dating The Voynich, Parrots And Left Hands, A Gas Influencing Orbit, Bubbles Of Clay, Deserts And Jumping Genes, Justin Has Snake Legs, And Much More!
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Brains-
Love and the brain
Death, decapitation, and consciousness
What’s the Frequency, Kenneth? (Thanks, Monkey)
Thinking cap continues to get news…
The Voynich Manuscript Gets Dated!
Left-handed parrots (Thanks, Pamela)
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Historic methane levels influenced by Earth’s orbit (Thanks, Pamela)
Genes-
Gene promoters found in DNA deserts
Horizontal jumpers found in fungus (Thanks, Dale)
Jumping genes prevalent in people… (Thanks, Ed Dyer)
Snakes had legs?
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12 November, 2025 – Episode 1037 – Science & Wine Roulette
