Episode #942

Episode #942

News Items

• Can AI Learn Like Humans
• AI and Politics
• Room Temperature Superconductor
• A Galaxy Without Dark Matter
• Men Convicted For Mineral Solution

Who's That Noisy

• Answer to last week: Ice

Science or Fiction [ Show Answers ]

• Item #1 Science

  Scientists have been able to reanimate nematodes taken from Siberian permafrost that were frozen for 46 thousand years. https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1010798

• Item #2 Fiction

  New research finds that, despite diverging evolutionarily 179 million years ago, the honeycomb design of honey bee and paper wasp nests derives from a common ancestor. https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002211

• Item #3 Science

  Researchers were able to transplant mitochrondria into damaged kidney cells improving energy production and reducing toxicity and physiological stress. https://journals.lww.com/annalsofsurgery/Abstract/9900/Mitochondria_Transplantation_Mitigates_Damage_in.558.aspx

Skeptical Quote of the Week.

“Critical thinking is an active and ongoing process. It requires that we all think like Bayesians, updating our knowledge as new information comes in.” ― Daniel J. Levitin, A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age