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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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6:24

If There's Life on Saturn's Moon Enceladus, It Might...

Science, Spoken ·

2018/02/28

Saturn’s moon Encedalus has become an alien-hunting hot spot, and not just for the tinfoil hat crowd. Thought to be a barren cue ball until NASA’s Cassini mission found both active geysers and a liquid ocean beneath its frozen surface, the icy little moon is now one of the likeliest places to encounter extraterrestrial life in our solar system. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:05

Why It's So Hard to Dose Weed

Science, Spoken ·

2018/02/27

Cannabis is a notoriously finicky drug. Take the right amount and you get relaxation or euphoria, but take too much and it’s a long ride of paranoia. Which makes marijuana tricky for casual users, and potentially problematic for new users who want to use cannabis to treat ailments like pain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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13:12

Inside Robert Bigelow's Decades-Long Obsession With UFOs

Science, Spoken ·

2018/02/26

In 1994, a Mormon family bought a 480-acre plot in in Utah’s Uintah Basin, thinking they’d get back to the land. But this particular land was weird. It came with too-large-thrice-over wolves that refused to die by bullet, cattle with their reproductive organs sucked clean out, and a multitude of UFOs, as they told the Deseret News in 1996. It was driving them bonkers. Robert Bigelow saw their story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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17:31

The Ongoing Battle Between Quantum and Classical...

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2018/02/26

A popular misconception is that the potential—and the limits—of quantum computing must come from hardware. In the digital age, we’ve gotten used to marking advances in clock speed and memory. Likewise, the 50-qubit quantum machines now coming online from the likes of Intel and IBM have inspired predictions that we are nearing “quantum supremacy”—a nebulous frontier where quantum computers begin to do things beyond the ability of classical machines. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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12:25

The Struggle to Predict—and Prevent—Toxic Masculinity

Science, Spoken ·

2018/02/23

Terrie Moffitt has been trying to figure out why men are terrible for more than 25 years. Or, to calibrate: Why some men are really terrible—violent, criminal, dangerous—but most men are not. And, while she’s at it, how to tell which man is going to become which. A small number of people are responsible for the vast majority of crimes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:29

To Stop Climate Change, Educate Girls and Give them...

Science, Spoken ·

2018/02/23

Climate change is a ubiquitous hydra, a many-headed beast that affects everyone and everything in some form. Solutions to climate change range from the effective and the practical to the potentially catastrophically dangerous—but, in this somewhat heated debate, a potent weapon in our arsenal is falling by the wayside: the empowerment of women. WIRED OPINION ABOUT Robin George Andrews (@squigglyvolcano and robingeorgeandrews. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:34

You Don't Need a Personal Genetics Test to Take...

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2018/02/23

The online storefront for the consumer genetics company Orig3n features an image of a young woman facing toward a sepia horizon. Her tresses are wavy, her triceps enviably toned. Her determined stance complements the copy floating beside her: "Take charge of your future," it reads. "Orig3n DNA tests uncover the links between your genes and how you think, act, and feel. The more you know, the easier it is to reach your highest potential. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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2:15

Snakelike Skin Gives a Robot the Power to Crawl

Science, Spoken ·

2018/02/22

Snakes, serpents, danger noodles. Whatever you call them, you’ve gotta respect them. I mean, have you tried getting around without any arms or legs? (Also, they can bite you.) The snake’s ambulatory secret is its special belly scales, which grip a surface like cleat spikes to help the reptile push forward. And now that secret has made it into robotics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:04

Solve Genomics with the Blockchain? Why the Hell Not

Science, Spoken ·

2018/02/21

Scientists lust after genomes like the wolf from a Tex Avery cartoon, heart pounding in throat, tongue lolling, fist pounding on the table, submarine-dive-ahOOOgah!-alarm sounding—all out of desire for the hot, hot data curled coaxingly inside every one of your cells. Think of all the information tucked into those sinuous DNA spirals—and the life-saving discoveries that some smart machine learning could pull out if it had lots and lots and lots of it to learn from. Learn more about your ad choices

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8:41

SpaceX Will Launch the First of Its Global Internet...

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2018/02/21

Last week, SpaceX realized a decade-long dream of successfully launching the most powerful rocket in the world. The Falcon Heavy’s achievement, marked resoundingly with thunderous sonic booms following twin booster touchdowns at Cape Canaveral, was only upstaged by Starman—a doomed mannequin at the wheel of Elon Musk’s Roadster With the Heavy’s test flight complete, SpaceX is back to business as usual. Or maybe not. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:06

Winter Olympics 2018: The Physics of Blazing Fast...

Science, Spoken ·

2018/02/20

I don't know very much about bobsleds—but I know quite a bit about physics. Here is my very brief summary of the bobsled event in the winter Olympics. Some humans get in a sled. The sled goes down an incline that is covered in ice. The humans need to do two things: push really fast to get the thing going and turn to travel through the course. But from a physics perspective, it's a block sliding down an incline. Just like in your introductory physics course. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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7:50

Could Scientists Use Silver Iodide to Make Snow for...

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2018/02/20

As the glam metal band Cinderella once said, you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone. I’m relatively certain they weren’t talking about snow, but let’s pretend they were anyway: Global warming threatens to wreak havoc on snowpack. The American west in particular already has a snowpack problem, which means less water for drinking and powering hydroelectric plants. Unfortunately you can’t just force snow to fall out of the air. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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2:25

China Wants to Make a Mark in Space—But It'll Need a...

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2018/02/19

In a China Global Television Network video from 2003, taikonaut Yang Liwei leans back in his orbital capsule, the overstuffed stripes of his spacesuit legs filling the frame. His helmet shield is up, so the viewer can gaze into his eyes as he speaks: “Greetings to people around the world!” His eyes move leftward, out of the frame. “Greetings to my colleagues in space!” he says. Liwei was China’s first astronaut, reaching orbit decades after US and Soviet space-farers. Learn more about your ad

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8:22

The Big Engineering Behind Olympic Snowboarding's Big...

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2018/02/19

A jump with the exact proportions of the launch ramp for snowboarding’s big air event, which will make its Olympic debut in Pyeongchang, does not exist in nature. It must be built. And so, fewer than a dozen times a year, at venues ranging from ballparks to parking lots, impeccably orchestrated teams of engineers, ice suppliers, snowmakers, crane operators, up riggers, down riggers, scaffold designers—you get the picture—do exactly that. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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13:16

Peter Diamandis Is the Latest Tech Futurist Betting...

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2018/02/16

Peter Diamandis’ ambitions have always been too big for the measly planet onto which he was born. The serial entrepreneur built his first dozen companies as technological launch pads for future space colonies. But in more recent years, the founder of the X Prize Foundation has become increasingly interested in helping humans live their healthiest, longest lives right here on Earth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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23:27

Inside the Mind of Amanda Feilding, Countess of...

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2018/02/16

Amanda Feilding, Countess of Wemyss and March, also known as Lady Neidpath, sits cross-legged on a bench on a tiny island at the center of an artificial pond in her English country estate, a 15-minute drive outside of Oxford. At her feet is a tiny pure-white cloud of a dog, which traipses around chewing on the grass, only occasionally coughing it up. Feilding is 75 years old. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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11:50

How You Could Road Race—and Win—From Your Living Room

Science, Spoken ·

2018/02/15

Dave McGillivray is an improbable advocate of virtual exercise. The race director of the Boston Marathon for 30 years, McGillivray estimates he's logged more than 150,000 miles in his lifetime, the overwhelming majority of them outside, and a formidable number of those in Forrest-Gumpian feats of endurance. In 1978, he ran from Medford, Oregon to Medford, Massachusetts—a distance of 3,452 miles—for charity. In 2004, he did it again. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:26

LED Flashlights Are Bright—But Just How Bright, Exactly?

Science, Spoken ·

2018/02/15

It seems like I have been slightly obsessed with flashlights for quite some time. Perhaps it started when the Maglite lights became popular in the '80s. It was that mini Maglite that ran on 2 AA batteries that I really liked. It was small enough that you could carry around and bright enough that it could actually be useful. When I was a bit older, I would even build and modify my own flashlights. One of my favorites was an underwater light I used for cave diving. Learn more about your ad choices

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16:46

A Bid to Solve California’s Housing Crisis Could...

Science, Spoken ·

2018/02/14

Scott Wiener, the California state senator representing most of San Francisco, has a pretty good idea for how to save the world. In fact, sitting in a coffee shop in his city’s Financial District, Wiener seems downright perplexed that anyone would be against it. Here’s the idea: Build more housing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:27

Would Delivery Drones Be All That Efficient? Depends...

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2018/02/14

If the idea of swarms of delivery drones dropping packages all over our cities started out as a joke, for some reason the punchline hasn’t landed yet. Amazon applied for a patent in 2015 for a command center, like a beehive, plopped into your city, which isn’t a worrying metaphor at all. Google has its own program in the works, which at least for the moment involves delivering burritos. Again, if this is a joke, it’s got a very long fuse. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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