Take a deep dive into the iconic Stegosaurus: how Marsh first imagined a slow, turtle-like herbivore, why S. stenops became the standard, and what the plates really reveal about display, thermoregulation, and their keratin sheath. We explore the zigzag plate arrangement, the evidence behind the thagomizer as a defensive weapon, and the long-running myth of a 'second brain'—the glycogen body. We also consider its low-browsing lifestyle, the 2024 Apex skeleton sale and the science-access debate...

A deep dive into zero-player games (ZPGs): self-running simulations that remove the human player. We map four archetypes—from setup-only models like Life to AI-vs-AI battles, solved games, and generative agents—and explore what they reveal about AI, autonomy, and simulating minds. Drawing on Stanford HAI’s work, Thermodome’s Markov NPC, real-time hermeneutics, and the idea of the “theory of the system,” we ask what it means to delegate agency, intention, and aesthetics to machines—and whether...

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Lotte Harper is online and recording. Watch the livestream online at https://lotteh.com/stream/Daisy/ My name is Charlotte Harper, and I am a full stack Linux website and web app developer, actress, model, mother and cosmetics enthusiast living in Seattle, WA. Listen to the podcast as audio at https://damita.transistor.fm/ Visit online at https://lotteh.com and glamgirlx.com Chat with me at https://glamgirlx.com/chat Contact me at https://glamgirlx.com/contact See you there xoxo Recorded on

Lotte Harper is online and recording. Watch the livestream online at https://lotteh.com/stream/Daisy/ My name is Charlotte Harper, and I am a full stack Linux website and web app developer, actress, model, mother and cosmetics enthusiast living in Seattle, WA. Listen to the podcast as audio at https://damita.transistor.fm/ Visit online at https://lotteh.com and glamgirlx.com Chat with me at https://glamgirlx.com/chat Contact me at https://glamgirlx.com/contact See you there xoxo Recorded on

Lotte Harper is online and recording. Watch the livestream online at https://lotteh.com/stream/Daisy/ My name is Charlotte Harper, and I am a full stack Linux website and web app developer, actress, model, mother and cosmetics enthusiast living in Seattle, WA. Listen to the podcast as audio at https://damita.transistor.fm/ Visit online at https://lotteh.com and glamgirlx.com Chat with me at https://glamgirlx.com/chat Contact me at https://glamgirlx.com/contact See you there xoxo Recorded on

Lotte Harper is online and recording. Watch the livestream online at https://lotteh.com/stream/Daisy/ My name is Charlotte Harper, and I am a full stack Linux website and web app developer, actress, model, mother and cosmetics enthusiast living in Seattle, WA. Listen to the podcast as audio at https://damita.transistor.fm/ Visit online at https://lotteh.com and glamgirlx.com Chat with me at https://glamgirlx.com/chat Contact me at https://glamgirlx.com/contact See you there xoxo Transcript:

Lotte Harper is online and recording. Watch the livestream online at https://lotteh.com/stream/Daisy/ My name is Charlotte Harper, and I am a full stack Linux website and web app developer, actress, model, mother and cosmetics enthusiast living in Seattle, WA. Listen to the podcast as audio at https://damita.transistor.fm/ Visit online at https://lotteh.com and glamgirlx.com Chat with me at https://glamgirlx.com/chat Contact me at https://glamgirlx.com/contact See you there xoxo Recorded on

Lotte Harper is online and recording. Watch the livestream online at https://lotteh.com/stream/Daisy/ My name is Charlotte Harper, and I am a full stack Linux website and web app developer, actress, model, mother and cosmetics enthusiast living in Seattle, WA. Listen to the podcast as audio at https://damita.transistor.fm/ Visit online at https://lotteh.com and glamgirlx.com Chat with me at https://glamgirlx.com/chat Contact me at https://glamgirlx.com/contact See you there xoxo Recorded on

Lotte Harper is online and recording. Watch the livestream online at https://lotteh.com/stream/Daisy/ My name is Charlotte Harper, and I am a full stack Linux website and web app developer, actress, model, mother and cosmetics enthusiast living in Seattle, WA. Listen to the podcast as audio at https://damita.transistor.fm/ Visit online at https://lotteh.com and glamgirlx.com Chat with me at https://glamgirlx.com/chat Contact me at https://glamgirlx.com/contact See you there xoxo Recorded on

A deep dive into the Permian Basin's 400-million-year saga—from the Tobosa passive margin and two tectonic upheavals to the Capitan Reef’s fossil-fuel legacy. We trace how a thick Castile evaporite seal trapped hydrocarbons, how modern horizontal drilling and fracking unlocked them, and why the basin’s vast scale still shapes today’s energy landscape and environmental challenges. Note: This podcast was AI-generated, and sometimes AI can make mistakes. Please double-check any critical informa...

A concise tour of physics' deepest puzzles: the clash between quantum mechanics and general relativity, the mysteries of the dark sector (dark matter, dark energy, and the cosmological constant problem), the Hubble tension, the black hole information paradox, the neutron lifetime puzzle, and the arrow of time. We explore how these frontiers push us toward a possible theory of everything and whether fundamental constants could emerge from deeper mathematics. Includes reflections on the latest ...

Join us as we unpack KL divergence (also called relative entropy or I-divergence), the precise, always non-negative measure of how far your model Q is from the true distribution P. We explain its interpretation as the expected excess surprisal, how it shows up in data compression and cross-entropy, and why, unlike a true distance, KL divergence is asymmetric and does not satisfy the triangle inequality. We’ll see why this asymmetry matters for Bayesian updating and information gain, and how D...

Trace the Group 7 phenomenon—from Sophia James’s seven-video experiment to a global meme—and unpack how TikTok’s For You Page and human psychology fuse to shape belief, not just clicks. We connect her volume-over-quality strategy to Amir Hamza et al.’s April 2025 study, which uses the Theory of Planned Behavior to show the algorithm’s influence on engagement (r = 0.623) and, even more strongly, on self-persuasion (r = 0.769). We discuss implications for creators, brands, and users, plus real-...

Lotte Harper is online and recording. Watch the livestream online at https://lotteh.com/stream/Daisy/ My name is Charlotte Harper, and I am a full stack Linux website and web app developer, actress, model, mother and cosmetics enthusiast living in Seattle, WA. Listen to the podcast as audio at https://damita.transistor.fm/ Visit online at https://lotteh.com and glamgirlx.com Chat with me at https://glamgirlx.com/chat Contact me at https://glamgirlx.com/contact See you there xoxo Recorded on

We tour how general relativity can tilt the light cone and create closed timelike curves—paths that loop back to where and when you started. From Gödel’s rotating universe to Kerr black holes and Hawking’s chronology protection, we explore the physics, the paradoxes, and the ideas meant to keep causality safe. A brain-bending dive into the possibility—and the limits—of time travel in our universe. Note: This podcast was AI-generated, and sometimes AI can make mistakes. Please double-check any...

We unpack the viral TikTok chair challenge to reveal how center of gravity, base of support, and body proportions determine whether you can stand up with a chair tucked to your chest. Through simple physics and kinesiology, we explain why averages differ between men and women, how starting position and foot size affect the outcome, and why these ideas matter for sports biomechanics, physical therapy, and design. Note: This podcast was AI-generated, and sometimes AI can make mistakes. Please ...

We explore how a simple coloring rule on a triangulated triangle guarantees a rainbow triangle and how that snapshot ties to Brouwer's fixed point theorem. From the 1D parity intuition to the 2D guarantee of a rainbow simplex, we see how coloring, topology, and computation intersect. Along the way we touch on fair division, Minsky's theorem, and the surprising complexity twist: finding a Sperner simplex is PPA-complete, so existence is guaranteed, but efficient search is another story. Note: ...

A gripping look at how the late 19th‑century ‘Bone Wars’ transformed American paleontology. Rivalry between Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh sparked a feverish westward fossil hunt, espionage, and public humiliations, as the two men raced to name new dinosaurs—nearly 142 species—while sometimes destroying rivals’ work and bankrupting themselves. This episode unpacks the drama, methods, and lasting impact of one of science’s most infamous rivalries. Note: This podcast was AI-gener...

An in-depth look at how a one-dimensional array of Yb-171 nuclear-spin qubits enables scalable quantum networking. We explore direct generation of photons at 1389 nm (telecom band) to achieve high entanglement fidelity (~0.95) without frequency conversion, and how spatial multiplexing across multiple atom–fiber channels yields parallel entanglement generation. We also cover mid-circuit networking with a shielding technique that protects memory qubits during communication, tying together fast,...