Episode #930
News Items
Who's That Noisy
- Answer to last week: Embers
Interview with Brian Brushwood
- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/worlds-greatest-con/id1572307941
Science or Fiction
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Item #1
Science
Scientists find that wild chimpanzees are capable of combining calls into “compositional syntactic-like structure” with new meanings that derive from the meaning of the individual parts. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-37816-y
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Item #2
Science
The latest dark energy survey finds that it comprises 76% of total energy density in the universe, and that it is uniform in space and constant in time. https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/522/2/1601/7110415?redirectedFrom=fulltext
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Item #3
Fiction
A recent systematic review finds that telehealth can save on average 40% of the carbon footprint of outpatient patient care. https://www.jmir.org/2023/1/e44823/
Skeptical Quote of the Week.
“There is an ever-growing body of evidence that psychic abilities like telepathy, psychokinesis, astral projection, and channeling are not only real—they’re quite common,” “Those who ask questions find answers, Those who combat falsehoods find the truth, And those who see inside themselves will know the path ahead.” Jedi Survivor