Episode #1093
News Items
- Donut Lab Battery Followup
- Fungal Superhighway
- Echochambers
- Payam Method
- Strength Training and Longevity
Special Segment
https://www.theskepticsguide.org/events
Science or Fiction
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Item #1
Science
Researchers have developed a synthetic fabric that is highly insulating in cold temperatures, but is heat releasing at room temperature or warmer. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsenergylett.6c00363
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Item #2
Science
A new study finds that female chickadees preferentially mate with more intelligent males. https://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints/110905v1
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Item #3
Fiction
Neuroscientists at the University of Michigan have demonstrated an implantable wireless brain-computer interface that allows subjects with aphasia due to damage to their speech areas regain functional speech. https://www.michiganmedicine.org/news-release/university-michigan-implants-first-human-paradromics-wireless-brain-computer-interface-designed
Skeptical Quote of the Week.
“Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?” - Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, #1)

