Episode Details

Today you’ll learn about how foreign accent syndrome works, how an AI algorithm can create a physical copy of a mental picture, and how invasive marsh grass is taking over China’s coastline.

Foreign Accent Syndrome 

• “Scientists reveal why American man with prostate cancer developed ‘uncontrolled’ Irish accent” by Vishwam Shankaran
  • https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/american-man-irish-brogue-prostate-cancer-b2292537.html?utm_source=reddit.com
• “Foreign accent syndrome as a heralding manifestation of transformation to small cell neuroendocrine prostate cancer” by Amanda Broderick et al.
  • https://casereports.bmj.com/content/16/1/e251655
• “After Surgery: Discomforts and Complications” by Johns Hopkins Medicine
  • https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/treatment-tests-and-therapies/after-surgery-discomforts-and-complications
• “A Man’s Prostate Cancer Gave Him An 'Uncontrollable' Irish Accent” by Ed Cara
  • https://gizmodo.com/prostate-cancer-caused-irish-accent-medical-case-1850088239
• “A man in the US got prostate cancer. It made him start speaking with an Irish accent.” by Catherine Schuster-Bruce
  • https://www.insider.com/man-us-prostate-cancer-irish-accent-2023-2

AI Reads Minds  

• “AI re-creates what people see by reading their brain scans” by Kamal Nahas
  • https://www.science.org/content/article/ai-re-creates-what-people-see-reading-their-brain-scans
• “High-resolution image reconstruction with latent diffusion models from human brain activity” by Yu Takagi and Shinji Nishimoto
  • https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.18.517004v2

Alien Marsh

• “China battles alien marsh grass at unprecedented scale” by Erik Stokstad
  • https://www.science.org/content/article/china-battles-alien-marsh-grass-unprecedented-scale
• “Spartina invasive management - a review of the evidence” by Sam Reynolds et al.
  • https://osf.io/vpswn
• “China aims to contain proliferation of invasive plant by 2025” by Xinhua
  • https://english.news.cn/20230216/322678d5264347dda95d17f928263b5a/c.html

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