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Is your Wi-Fi watching you? Dog’s manipulative eyebrows, Darwin’s finches in danger, An AI learns numbers, genetics of smell, bonobo wing-mums, sponge…
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Is your Wi-Fi watching you? Dog’s manipulative eyebrows, Darwin’s finches in danger, An AI learns numbers, genetics of smell, bonobo wing-mums, sponge…
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Length:
70 minutes
Released:
Jun 21, 2019
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Podcast episode
Description
Your Wi-Fi router could be used to watch you breathe and monitor your heartbeat; We’ve bred dogs to have expressive eyebrows that manipulate our emotions; A face-eating parasite is devastating Darwin’s famous Galapagos finches; AI is now learning to do things it hasn’t been taught; Do your genes smell bad? DNA shows what our noses know; Bonobo mothers act as wing-mums for their sons; A research assistant named Spongebob? Sea sponges collect data for science; Do electric car batteries take more CO2 to make than they save?
Released:
Jun 21, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (27)
Antarctic ice will melt for a century, the necrobiome recycles your corpse,how apes hang around, brain waves characterize false memories, and finding the biosignatures of long COVID: We’ll see a century of major melting of Antarctic ice, no matter what we do; For Halloween — How your body’s microbiome will help recycle you after you die; Climbing down from trees could be why we can throw a baseball; Brain waves from false memories look different from real ones; Finding the biological signature of long COVID. by Quirks and Quarks