Episode #1040
News Items
- NASA Budget
- RFK Jr. Sacks Vaccine Panel
- Digital Life After Death
- Light out of Nothing
- Possible New Treatment for HIV
Dumbest Thing of the Week
Questions and Emails
I wanted to bring the experiment that SciManDan is organizing to A:disprove flat earth but B:have a massive, possibly largest replication of Eratosthenes. On June 21, the summer solstice in the norther hemisphere he wants as many people to measure the angle of the sun at noon as possible and send photographic or better yet video evidence of the measurements. Seemed like something up you’re ally. Have a good one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mwDIAqm-hs Jay, Boston
Science or Fiction
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Item #1
Science
Researchers have demonstrated a brain-machine interface system that allows a subject with ALS who cannot physically speak to speak in real time and with 97% accuracy. https://health.ucdavis.edu/news/headlines/new-brain-computer-interface-allows-man-with-als-to-speak-again/2024/08
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Item #2
Fiction
A new genetic analysis finds that Florida alligators are actual two distinct species, which may have resulted from interbreeding with introduced Asian alligators. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_alligator
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Item #3
Science
For the first time engineers have built a working computer entirely of 2- dimensional material without any silicon. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08963-7
Skeptical Quote of the Week.
“The progress of science depends less on the accumulation of facts than on the emergence of new ways of thinking about them, often by specialists deeply immersed in a problem.” ― Stephen Jay Gould (Paleontologist and evolutionary biologist)