Episode #826
News Items
- Experimental Electric Plane
- Website Diversity
- Evolution of Multicellularity
- NASA Solar Probe
- Chinese Space Program
Who's That Noisy
- Answer to last week: popcorn
Interview with Andy Weir
- https://www.andyweirauthor.com/
Science or Fiction
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Item #1
Science
Recent research finds that bats are born with an innate sense of the speed of sound, and judge distance entirely by time. https://www.pnas.org/content/118/19/e2024352118
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Item #2
Science
A new study in mice finds that the mammalian brain is able to process olfactory information much faster than previously thought, with mice able to detect a 10ms odor pulse. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03514-2
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Item #3
Fiction
While previously thought to be colorblind, octopuses have recently been found to have six distinct photoreceptors for color vision. https://octolab.tv/octopus-vision/
Skeptical Quote of the Week.
‘Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.’ – William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 3 Scene 1