On the show this week:
- Dumb Animals
- Smart Inventions
- Body Breaks
- Experimental Animals
CQ: What did you leave behind that you’d like to revisit?
Full list of 15 articles after the jump!
- Dumb Animals:
- (EXTRA) : Metro – (O) Weirdest baby names of 2015 included Valkyrie, Madonna, Quest and D’Artagnan
- : LiveScience – (O) How Stupid Can You Be? Science Counts the Ways
- : News.com.au – (O) Turn off emails to avoid stress: report
- : The New York Times – (O) The End of Work?
- Smart Inventions:
- (EXTRA) : Popular Mechanics – (O) The First Pieces of the Hyperloop Test Track Are Ready for Assembly
- (EXTRA) : Phys.org – (O) Material could harvest sunlight by day, release heat on demand hours or days later
- (EXTRA) : New Scientist – (O) Smart clothes adapt so you are always the right temperature
- (EXTRA) : The UK Mirror – (O) Mechanic invents ‘water fuelled’ car that runs for less than 2p a litre
- Body Breaks:
- (EXTRA) : New Scientist – (O) Sleep isn’t needed to create long-term memories — just time out
- (EXTRA) : New Scientist – (O) Memory recall works twice as fast as the blink of an eye
- (EXTRA) : New Scientist – (O) Maths helps ‘locked-in’ pair show awareness for first time
- (EXTRA) : Yorkshire Post – (O) Amazing ‘bionic girl’, 7, who never gets tired or hungry and can’t feel pain
- (EXTRA) : Sky News – (O) Humans Of The Future ‘Could Grow Webbed Feet’
- Experimental Animals:
- (EXTRA) : National Geographic – (O) These Praying Mantises Wear Tiny 3-D Glasses-For Science
- (EXTRA) : The Atlantic – (O) Inside the Bizarre Genome of the World’s Toughest Animal
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Just a quick comment for this show regarding AIs some days taking creative jobs away from humans. Technique is one thing, but I am having a hard time imagining a AI with the infinite imagination of the human mind. While I believe a AI could probably create artwork someday that would be pleasing and look human by creation. The creations would always fall into set parameters. I could never imagine a AI that could take a life experiences, emotion, or be inspired by it’s place in the universe that it could infuse within it’s own work. In other words, I do not believe any AI could parallel or even come close to the infinite human imagination. P.S, I’m a painter.