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Back to EpisodesBirth Order, Braincell Computers, Zimbabwe Hydro
Published 2 years, 11 months ago
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Today you’ll learn about whether or not birth order affects how rebellious you are, how researchers are working to turn a human brain into a machine, and what Zimbabwe is doing to try and solve their energy crisis.
Birth Order
- “New study disputes the birth order theory that later-born are “born to rebel”” by Laura Staloch
- “Birth order, personality, and tattoos: A pre-registered empirical test of the ‘born to rebel’ hypothesis” by Gareth Richards et al.
- “Rebelling Against Born to Rebel” by Frederic Townsend (PAYWALL, first page free)
- “Steppenwolf’s Jerry Edmonton: The Man With The ‘Born To Be Wild’ Beat” by Paul Sexton
- “Mars Bonfire” by AllMusic
Braincell Computers
- “Scientists unveil plan to create biocomputers powered by human brain cells” by FRONTIERS
- “Organoid intelligence (OI): the new frontier in biocomputing and intelligence-in-a-dish” by Lena Smirnova et al.
- “What lab-grown 'mini-brains' are revealing about this mysterious organ” by Clare Wilson
Zimbabwe Hydro
- “In Zimbabwe, drought is driving a hydropower crisis—and a search for alternatives” BY ANDREW MAMBONDIYANI
- “A Grid for all Seasons: Enhancing the Integration of Variable Solar and Wind Power in Electricity Systems Across Africa” by Sebastian Sterl
- “Hydropower plans in eastern and southern Africa increase risk of concurrent climate-related electricity supply disruption” by Declan Conway, Carole Dalin, Willem A. Landman & Timothy J. Osborn
- “Potential for Battery Energy Storage System in Zimbabwe” by Njovana G. Allen et al.
- “Biomass explained” by EIA