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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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8:17

Meet the Company Trying to Democratize Clinical...

Science, Spoken ·

2018/01/30

A decade ago, Pablo Graiver was working as a VP at Kayak, the online airfare aggregator, when he sat down to dinner with an old friend—a heart surgeon from his home country of Argentina. The talk turned to how tech was doing more to save folks a few bucks on a flight to Rome than to save people’s lives. The biggest problem in healthcare? “Clinical trials,” she said. “They’re a disaster. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:22

Don’t Call It a Blood Moon. Or Supermoon. Or Blue Moon

Science, Spoken ·

2018/01/30

On Wednesday, humanity will be treated to a celestial trifecta: A supermoon (meaning it’s relatively close to Earth), but also simultaneously a blood moon (it’ll be orange or red), but also simultaneously a blue moon (the second full moon in one calendar month) will pass in the shadow of Earth, for a total lunar eclipse. It’s going to be righteous. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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12:00

Yes, There Is Gravity in Space

Science, Spoken ·

2018/01/29

This week, I settled down to watch the first episode of The 100. If you haven't seen the show, I'll just point out that it takes place in the near future (though it ran, on the CW, in the near past). For reasons that I won't get into, there is a spacecraft with a bunch of teenagers that is traveling from a space station down to the surface of the Earth. During the reentry process, one kid wants to show that he is the master of space travel and that he's awesome. Learn more about your ad choices

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12:07

Scientists Hate the NIH’s New Rules for Experimenting...

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2018/01/29

She’s probably mostly kidding when she tells the origin story this way, but Kathy Hudson—until last year the deputy director for science, outreach, and policy at the National Institutes of Health—says that a massive update to the NIH’s rules for funding science started with humiliation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:02

Why No Gadget Can Prove How Stoned You Are

Science, Spoken ·

2018/01/26

If you’ve spent time with marijuana—any time at all, really—you know that the high can be rather unpredictable. It depends on the strain, its level of THC and hundreds of other compounds, and the interaction between all these elements. Oh, and how much you ate that day. And how you took the cannabis. And the position of the North Star at the moment of ingestion. OK, maybe not that last one. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:16

How Much Kinetic Energy Could Black Panther Collect...

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2018/01/26

A new clip from the upcoming movie Black Panther was recently shown during an episode of Ellen. In the scene (which I assume isn't a spoiler, since it was on TV), the Black Panther is in pursuit of (or being pursued by) some people in another car. As the Black Panther rides on top of the car (which is, of course, the most efficient way to travel as a superhero), the bad guys are pelting him with bullets. Honestly, I shouldn't make such judgements—maybe they're not bad, just misunderstood. Learn more

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7:58

SpaceX Test Fires Its Falcon Heavy Rocket for the...

Science, Spoken ·

2018/01/25

The long-awaited Falcon Heavy rocket roared to life on Wednesday at 12:30 pm Eastern, as SpaceX fired up the 27 Merlin engines that power the triple-booster rocket at Kennedy Space Center. Perched atop what CEO Elon Musk claims will be the most powerful lift vehicle in the world is the billionaire’s Tesla Roadster, which will launch toward a Mars elliptical orbit on the Falcon Heavy’s upcoming maiden flight. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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15:35

The Science of Why Swearing Physically Reduces Pain

Science, Spoken ·

2018/01/25

For a very long time, conventional wisdom held that swearing was not a useful response to pain. Many psychologists believed that swearing would actually make pain feel worse, thanks to a cognitive distortion known as catastrophizing. When we catastrophize we leap to the conclusion that the bad thing that is currently happening is the absolute worst thing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:43

Why Robots Should Shake the Bejeezus Out of Cherry Trees

Science, Spoken ·

2018/01/24

I don’t think sci-fi saw this coming. For so long, futuristic books and films have promised us robots like C-3PO that translate alien languages and assist us in hijinks. Or ones like Rosie that clean our houses. Or, on the other end of the spectrum, robots that level our houses and destroy humanity. Looking at you, Arnold. The reality of modern robotics couldn’t be more different. These days, it’s more about developing robots that ... shake the bejeezus out of cherry trees. Learn more about your ad

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11:02

The Second Coming of Ultrasound

Science, Spoken ·

2018/01/24

Before Pierre Curie met the chemist Marie Sklodowska; before they married and she took his name; before he abandoned his physics work and moved into her laboratory on Rue Lhomond where they would discover the radioactive elements polonium and radium, Curie discovered something called piezoelectricity. Some materials, he found—like quartz and certain kinds of salts and ceramics—build up an electric charge when you squeeze them. Sure, it’s no nuclear power. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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8:24

How Smallsats Could Make a Big Difference for NASA...

Science, Spoken ·

2018/01/23

Information from space has historically been the province of the rich and powerful. Big Earth-observing satellites can cost hundreds of millions of dollars to build and launch, and the price of their data scales accordingly. Scrappy scientific upstarts have, for a while, been building smallsats to get orbital data on the cheap. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:55

How Engineering Earth’s Climate Could Seriously...

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2018/01/23

Travel with me to the year 2100. Despite our best efforts, climate change continues to threaten humanity. Drought, superstorms, flooded coastal cities. Desperate to stop the warming, scientists deploy planes to spray sulfur dioxide in the stratosphere, where it converts into a sulfate aerosol, which reflects sunlight. Thus the planet cools because, yes, chemtrails. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:52

The Little Rocket That Could Sends Real Satellites to...

Science, Spoken ·

2018/01/22

The launch company Rocket Lab has amusing names for its missions. The first, in May, was called “It’s a Test” (it was). When the staff debated what to call the second launch of their diminutive Electron rocket, so sized (and priced) specifically to carry small satellites to space, they said, “Well, we’re still testing, aren’t we?” They were. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:43

Why This Quantum-Encrypted Video Hangout Is a Big Deal

Science, Spoken ·

2018/01/22

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10:24

How Did President Trump Do on His Physical? It’s...

Science, Spoken ·

2018/01/19

The numbers don’t lie, unless they do. After much resistance and under increasing pressure, President Trump’s White House this week allowed Rear Admiral Ronny Jackson, the White House doctor, to release results from a physical examination. How’d Trump do? Well, that’s tricky to answer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:36

Cancer Diagnosis from a Blood Draw? Liquid Biopsies...

Science, Spoken ·

2018/01/19

Nick Papadopoulos tracks down tumors for a living. Not with X-rays or CT scans, but with DNA. The oncologist and director of translational genetics at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center has spent decades uncovering the unique sets of mutations that define cancers—the kind of genetic signals that not only drive tumor formation and metastasis, but distinguish one cancer from another. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:28

NASA Just Proved It Can Navigate Space Using Pulsars....

Science, Spoken ·

2018/01/18

Half a century ago, astronomers observed their first pulsar: a dead, distant, ludicrously dense star that emitted pulses of radiation with remarkable regularity. So consistent was the object's signal that astronomers jokingly nicknamed it LGM-1, short for "little green men." It wasn't long before scientists detected more signals like LGM-1. That decreased the odds that these pulses of radiation were the work of intelligent extraterrestrials. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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8:05

Global Warming Predictions May Now Be a Lot Less...

Science, Spoken ·

2018/01/18

If one is the loneliest number, two is the most terrifying. Humanity must not pass a rise of 2 degrees Celsius in global temperature from pre-industrial levels, so says the Paris climate agreement. Cross that line and the global effects of climate change start looking less like a grave situation and more like a catastrophe. The frustrating bit about studying climate change is the inherent uncertainty of it all. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:24

The Physics of the 69-Degree Intersection That Kills...

Science, Spoken ·

2018/01/17

Sometimes when I see an awesome analysis on the internet, I just want to make it more awesomer. Really, this should be everyone's goal on the internet—either make stuff or make it more awesome. In this case, it's a post from Singletrack (and also covered by Boing Boing) looking at a particular crossroad in the United Kingdom that leads to a large number of accidents between bicycles and cars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:06

Job Alert: How Would You Like to Babysit Robots?

Science, Spoken ·

2018/01/16

Book a night at LAX’s Residence Inn and you may be fortunate enough to meet an employee named Wally. His gig is relatively pedestrian—bring you room service, navigate around the hotel's clientele in the lobby and halls—but Wally’s life is far more difficult than it seems. If you put a tray out in front of your door, for instance, he can’t get to you. If a cart is blocking the hall, he can’t push it out of the way. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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