Episode #728
News Items
Who's That Noisy
- Answer to last week: The Day the Earth Stood Still
Interview with Richard Wiseman
- https://www.amazon.com/Moonshot-Landing-Collaboration-Creativity-Mind-set-ebook/dp/B07KNTD5SD
Science or Fiction
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Item #1
Fiction
A new study finds that educational interventions aimed at reducing antibiotic overprescribing had no significant effect on emergency room antibiotic prescriptions. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-06-approaches-inappropriate-antibiotic.html
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Item #2
Science
Scientists have developed artificial muscles that can be powered by glucose and oxygen. https://liu.se/en/news-item/konstgjorda-muskler-som-drivs-av-glukos
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Item #3
Science
Researchers have demonstrated smooth continuous mental control of a robot arm without implanted electrodes. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/first-ever-successful-mind-controlled-robotic-arm-without-brain-implants-300870589.html
Skeptical Quote of the Week.
‘This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune – often the surfeits of our own behaviour – we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars, as if we were villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on.’ Edmund in King Lear by William Shakespeare