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Escape Pod: #1 Understanding the self-awareness of dolphins
Season 1 Episode 1
This is a re-airing of a podcast originally released in January 2021.
An episode of Escape Pod all about understanding. We start by discussing the sel…
2 years, 2 months ago
Best of 2023, part 2: India lands on the moon; the orca uprising; birds make use of anti-bird spikes
Season 1 Episode 230
What was your favorite science story of 2023? Was it the rise of orca-involved boat sinkings? Or maybe the successful landing of India’s Chandrayaan-…
2 years, 2 months ago
CultureLab: The best books of 2023, from joyful escapism to sobering reads
Are you looking forward to catching up on some reading over the holiday season? Or perhaps you are on the prowl for book recommendations after receiv…
2 years, 2 months ago
Best of 2023, part 1: Euclid telescope’s big year; AI is everywhere (for better and worse); why doctors searched their poo for tiny toys
Season 1 Episode 229
#229
Your hands are heavier than you think. Beer goggles aren’t real. And many water utilities in the United Kingdom still use dowsing to find leaks i…
2 years, 2 months ago
CultureLab: A duet between music and the natural world with Erland Cooper’s playful compositions
Composer Erland Cooper is known for playful, innovative, experimental projects. For example, he buried the only audio copy of a 2021 composition – th…
2 years, 2 months ago
Science of cannabis: #3 The weed of the future
Season 1 Episode 3
Cannabis is one of the oldest products of human cultivation. And as it becomes increasingly legal for medical and recreational use around the world, …
2 years, 2 months ago
Weekly: New climate deal at COP28; AI mathematician; a problem with the universe
Season 1 Episode 228
#228
We have a new, landmark climate deal, signalling the beginning of the end of fossil fuels. But even as the announcement at COP28 includes commitm…
2 years, 2 months ago
CultureLab: The Royal Flying Doctors - Saving lives in the Australian outback
The Australian outback is vast and the population is really spread out. This makes getting access to emergency healthcare incredibly challenging, as …
2 years, 2 months ago
Science of cannabis: #2 The anatomy of a high
Season 1 Episode 2
Human beings have cultivated cannabis for thousands of years. We have been using it for its euphoric effects for at least several thousand. And as pr…
2 years, 3 months ago
Weekly: IBM’s powerful new quantum computers; climate wins and flops at COP28; our sweet partnership with honeyguide birds
Season 1 Episode 227
#227
Quantum computing researchers at IBM have stepped up the power of their devices by a huge amount. The company’s new device Condor has more than d…
2 years, 3 months ago