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This Week: Error Free Quantum Computing?, Billions Of Black Holes, Concussion Urine, Poo Pills For People, Antifreeze Mice, Ribosome Disruption, COVID Update, Helpful Neighbors?, US Tiger Problem, Martian Life?, Bone-Building Bots, And Much More…
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Intelligent life…
It was not tried before on this planet before the human lineage,
Not like this anyway…
A life form with such great intelligence and creativity
The tool maker
The builder
The architect and engineer
Able to transform hostile terrains into suburban sprawl
While ever able to change behaviors and adapt to a new environments…
The language user
Able to talk and tell and teach, passing information from one generation to the next
A collaborator, a competitor, a connoisseur…
A creature unlike anything the world had seen before
Humans are a grand experiment of sorts
But as far as sustainability goes, it is still being tested
Whenever there has been a weakness with humans, they have sought to overcome it
With technology, with culture, with science…
But as things stand now…
there is one weakness that has gone unchecked
which threatens all of the progress we have made
The almost entire lack of critical thinking among many if not most of the humans
Critical thinking…
That approach to navigating information that is able to tell a good source from a garbage one
Critical thinking…
The ability understand and interrogate information without bias
Critical thinking…
That skill humans can develop that replaces attempts to complain our way out of trouble with thinking our way out…
Critical thinking…
the only thing you will ever need to bring with you for an episode of
This Week in Science
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Let’s start with some quick science news!
Error Free Quantum Computing?
Three papers were released this week reporting success in reaching more than 99% accuracy, which will lead to development of silicon quantum computation platforms.
40 billion billion black holes
Black holes are everywhere!!!
Concussion? Pee in this cup.
Could this make the MRI obsolete?
Poo Pills For People
A phase three clinical trial for bacterial spores isolated from feces in pill form to treat Clostrifium difficile infections was successful. Will poo pills pass?
Antifreeze mice
Frostbite cream developed
Ribosome Disruption
Old ribosomes are part of our aging problem.
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Want a COVID Update?
Placebo Effect Problems
2/3s of COVID vaccine reactions could be due to the negative placebo, or nocebo, effect.
Disgust Threshold
COVID made us more sensitive to disgust.
COVID Climate
Well, COVID has certainly been a distraction for the past couple of years, and according to Facebook sharing data, people cared less about climate during COVID.
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It’s time for Blair’s Animal Corner!
Helpful neighbors shouldn’t be trusted
That bird next door helping you out when you’re in trouble might only do it because he’s the real father of your children!
When it comes to illegal animal trade, US heal thyself
New research tells us the US is responsible for a large portion of illegal tiger trade, despite our tendency to blame asian countries…
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What science news does Justin have?
Curiosity finds signal of life on Mars… maybe
Carbon-12 is abundant
Martian meteorite carbons are not life
Organic material yes/ life it is not
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Bone-Building Bots
Newly developed “microbots” can make their own bone.
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What were we discussing at this time last year? This time last year we were discussing ants, masks, an ancient dinosaur butt-hole, sleep, brain function, and so much more. Listen to the show!
This week 10 years ago was the very first instance of Blair’s Animal Corner! It was called “Blair’s Animal House” and full of snakes and weird aye-aye fingers. We also discussed concerns about permafrost melting (of which we are currently seeing results), and spoke with Eugenie Scott from the NCSE about climate change education. Take a blast to the past with TWIS!
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