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Science, Spoken

Get in-depth coverage of current and future trends in technology, and how they are shaping business, entertainment, communications, science, politics, and society.

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11:34

Bitcoin Will Burn the Planet Down. The Question: How...

Science, Spoken ·

2018/11/06

Max Krause was thinking of buying some bitcoin, as one does. But Krause is an engineer—mostly he works on modeling greenhouse gas emissions from landfills—so his first step was to run the numbers. He looked at price, of course, but also how fast the world’s bitcoin miners create new bitcoins and the ledger that accounts for them. And he looked at how much electricity that would seem to require. “I thought, man, this is a lot of energy,” Krause says. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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13:39

How Antivax PACs Helped Shape Midterm Ballots

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2018/11/05

In early 2015, Sen. Ervin Yen, an anaesthesiologist who became Oklahoma’s first Asian American state legislator, introduced a bill to require all schoolchildren to be vaccinated, unless they had a medical reason not to. California had recently debuted similar legislation after an outbreak of measles in Disneyland sickened 147 people and led to the quarantine of more than 500 others. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:43

Quantum Physicists Found a New, Safer Way to Navigate

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2018/11/05

In 2015, the U.S. Naval Academy decided that its graduates needed to return to the past and learn how to navigate using the stars. Nine years prior, it had dropped celestial navigation from its requirements because GPS was so accurate and simple to use. But recent events had shaken the academy’s faith in GPS. Researchers had taken over a yacht’s navigation system as it steered in the Mediterranean. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:40

The ISS Has a Supercomputer! Never Mind the Fried Disks

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2018/11/02

One year ago, Hewlett Packard Enterprise sent an off-the-shelf supercomputer up to the International Space Station, to see if its mass-produced hardware could survive, basically unmodified, in the harsh environment of space. Now NASA and the computer company are declaring the experiment a success—even though nearly half of its hard disks failed after getting fried by solar radiation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:54

The Sea May Be Absorbing Way More Heat Than We Thought

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2018/11/02

If you ever meet a climate scientist, give them a hug. Not only is the work important, it involves an absolute mess of variables—emissions, maybe sequestering those emissions, atmospheric patterns, maybe geoengineering that atmosphere. Data is often sparse or non-existent. So give them a hug. The data problem is particularly acute in the oceans. A key part of figuring out how much the planet has warmed, and how drastically we need to cut emissions, is determining how the sea is changing. Learn more

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7:36

Apple's Heart Study Is the Biggest Ever, But With a...

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2018/11/01

Last November, Apple Watch owners began receiving recruitment emails from Apple. The company was looking for owners of its smartwatch to participate in the Apple Heart Study—a Stanford-led investigation into the wearable's ability to sense irregular heart rhythms. Joining was simple: Install an app and wear your watch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:31

Calling the Caravan's Migrants "Diseased" Is a...

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2018/11/01

It would be extraordinarily difficult—impossibly difficult—for any one of the several thousand asylum-seeking refugees in the so-called migrant caravan now on the border between Guatemala and Mexico to have smallpox. A global vaccination campaign eliminated the disease from the world at large in 1980. Yet that’s what a guest on the Fox Business Network show Lou Dobbs Tonight said earlier this week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:48

Los Angeles Must Pay Billions to Adapt—or Slip Into...

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2018/10/31

Los Angeles derives much of its charm from its diversity, both of its people and its amenities—rolling hills here, lovely architecture there, a national forest to the north and legendary beaches to the west. But much of it is in trouble: Sea level rise is coming for Los Angeles County and its 74 miles of coast. According to a new report from the New York Academy of Sciences, it’ll take LA as much as $6. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:39

A New Climate Change Lawsuit Takes Aim at ExxonMobil

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2018/10/31

This story originally appeared in the Guardian and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. New York is suing the oil giant ExxonMobil in a lawsuit that claims the company engaged in a “longstanding fraudulent scheme” to downplay the risks posed to its business by climate change regulations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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13:01

Does Climate Change Mean You Should Fly Less? Yeah,...

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2018/10/30

This story originally appeared on Slate and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Two weeks ago, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a dire report that made crystal clear that we have about a decade to stop catastrophic levels of climate change. The report caught fire for another extremely near deadline: It suggests that if we don’t manage to dramatically shift carbon emissions, we’ll start feeling the brunt of the effects as soon as 2040. Learn more about your ad choices

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10:26

Carbon Capture Is Messy and Fraught—But Might Be...

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2018/10/30

On paper, carbon capture is a simple proposition: Take carbon that we’ve pulled out of the Earth in the form of coal and oil and put into the atmosphere, and pull it out of the atmosphere and put it back in the Earth. It’s like hitting undo on the Industrial Revolution. And scientists can indeed yank CO2 out of thin air, except that the process is expensive, not very efficient, and morally complicated. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:49

The Science of the Sniff: Why Dogs Are Great Disease...

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2018/10/29

In November 2016, a team of scientists from the Medical Research Council in Gambia visited primary schools armed with hundreds of beige-colored nylon socks. Handing them out to children there aged five to 14, the researchers instructed them to wear the socks overnight, only taking them off if they were washing their feet for prayer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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11:00

How Trick-or-Treaters Can Stay Visible on a Dark and...

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2018/10/29

When I think of Halloween, I think of kids outside in the dark. Traditionally, this is the way it works. First, darkness makes everything just a little bit spookier and more Halloween-like. Second, the end of October used to be after the end of Daylight Savings Time such that it would get dark earlier. Of course this year, Daylight Savings Time doesn't end until November 4. However, let's assume it's dark. Kids running around in the dark on streets with cars can lead to bad things. Learn more

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5:56

Water, Flour, Syrup, Dye: Mastering the Elements of...

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2018/10/26

The internet is oozing (dripping? spurting?) with recipes for fake blood, but to get the exact color and consistency your Halloween costume calls for—be it bright and wet or dark and crusty—your best bet is to brew your own bloody concoction. To do it, it helps to know the properties of blood that you're approximating and the non-biohazardous ingredients you can use to imitate them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:59

Ginkgo Bioworks Is Turning Human Cells Into On-Demand...

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2018/10/26

From the windows of Ginkgo Bioworks’ Boston offices you can peer down into a grimy vestige of the city’s past. Across the street, workers in yellow-slicker overalls scrub, scrape, and repair the decks of worn-out warships and ocean tankers parked in a drydock. During World War II, 50,000 people worked the docks and the eight-story waterside warehouse that Ginkgo now calls home. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:30

An Ebola Outbreak in a War Zone Is About as Bad as It...

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2018/10/25

In July, a 65-year-old woman running a high fever checked into a hospital in the province of North Kivu, along the Democratic Republic of Congo’s border with Uganda. She was later discharged and returned home to her remote town, only to die a few days later. By the time health officials checked in on the case, seven members of her immediate family had also died the violent, bloody deaths that can usually only mean one thing: Ebola. Normally, this wouldn’t be reason to panic. Learn more about your ad

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7:50

These Wasp-Like Drones Lift Heavy Loads With Their...

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2018/10/25

You might know wasps for their ability to brainwash cockroaches or inflict one of the most painful stings on Earth—one so powerful that the actual scientific advice to victims is to just lie down and scream until it passes. Lesser-known is the wasp’s superlative ability to carry loads that are unexpectedly heavy given the creature’s size. Small drones, or “micro air vehicles,” are only able to lift the equivalent of their own weight. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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11:09

Fusty Ol' Scientific Texts Get a Gorgeous, Pricey...

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2018/10/24

Alexander von Humboldt began his working life as a mine inspector for the Prussian government. But in his late twenties, he left his government gig and set off to explore Venezuela, Cuba, Mexico, Colombia, and Peru with botanist Aime Bonpland. He did an astounding amount of work during his travels, in pursuit of his hypothesis that “all forces of nature are interlaced and interwoven”—and that, maybe, he could figure out how. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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3:31

3 Smart Things About Animal-Inspired Robotics

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2018/10/24

1. When turkeys strut, their leg muscles work as shock absorbers to boost energy efficiency. That gam action inspired a prosthetic exoskeleton for humans: The lightweight contraption is outfitted with a spring and clutch that take the impact off the user’s calf muscle. In experiments, a person wearing the braces while walking expended 10 percent less energy. 2. Though it has a brain, the lamprey—an eel-like beast—doesn’t need it to wiggle about the deep. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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6:06

Science Isn't About 'the Truth'—It's About Building...

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2018/10/23

You might think you can just leave the science stuff to scientists—but you can't. We live in a world that is surrounded by science and we use toys that depend on science (like that fancy smartphone in your hand). Other issues, like climate change and vaccinations, can have a significant impact on any one of us. You don't have to be science nerd, but you have to at least know the important parts of science. Here are the key aspects of science that everyone needs to know. Yes, this is for

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