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第2725期:The razor-thin line between contagion and connection(2)
Episode 4
The spread of the contagion tends to be a function of how connected the victims are to each other. So students at a small town high school, or worker…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
第2724期:The razor-thin line between contagion and connection(1)
Episode 1
I make audio documentaries, and I recently spent some time in a town called Le Roy, New York. It's a town about 50 miles outside of Buffalo. It's a s…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
第2723期:Archaeologists pieced together Roman wall fragments
Episode 2
Piecing together thousands of fragments of 2,000-year-old plaster has been the ultimate archaeological jigsaw puzzle, but stunning frescoes have emer…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
第2722期:New species of dinosaur discovered
Episode 3
It's been named Khankhuuluu mongoliensis, which means 'Dragon Prince of Mongolia', and the University of Calgary scientists say that this species is …
7 months, 3 weeks ago
第2721期:Can we create the perfect city soundscape?
Episode 1
Picture your dream living room. You're sitting on the sofa with the window open. What do you hear? Is it the sound of a flowing river? The murmuring …
8 months ago
第2720期:Why is it so hard to get rid of bed bugs?(2)
Episode 2
If they find themselves in a particularly cool environment, they can enter a dormant state and survive over a year without feeding. While bedbugs can…
8 months ago
第2719期:Why is it so hard to get rid of bed bugs?(1)
Episode 3
In 1834, the British Royal Navy ship, the Chanticleer, was dealing with a terrible cockroach infestation. The ship's surgeon, however, wrote enthusia…
8 months ago
第2718期:I'll probably lose my job to AI(3)
Episode 4
So a final thought experiment. Imagine trying to explain your life right now to a Luddite. Better yet, just imagine trying to explain the life of som…
8 months ago
第2717期:I'll probably lose my job to AI(2)
Episode 5
Very few people in this room have ever worried about how they were going to obtain food or shelter or heat, or how they were going to bury a child wh…
8 months ago
第2716期:I'll probably lose my job to AI(1)
Episode 1
Well, I gather I'm not the only one who spends a lot of time thinking about AI these days. And by think I mean panic.嗯，我想，最近花大量时间思考人工智能的人不止我一个。我说的“思考…
8 months ago