Episode #983

Episode #983

News Items

• Electric Propulsion
• Blowing Off Steam
• Washington Post and Past Lives
• Programmable Living Materials
• Fighting Holocaust Denial

Who's That Noisy

• Answer to last week: Bantha

Interview with Robert Bartholomew

• https://rebartholomew.com/

Question #1: Deep Fakes and Grief

• https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/05/07/1092116/deepfakes-dead-chinese-business-grief/

Science or Fiction [ Show Answers ]

• Item #1 Fiction

  The four-eyed fish has one pair of eyes for viewing above the water line and one pair for viewing below the water. https://www.burgerszoo.com/nieuws/2023/09/four-eyed-fish

• Item #2 Science

  Reindeer are the only animals whose eyes change color seasonally, changing from a gold-turquoise in the summer to a deep blue in the winter. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2022.1002

• Item #3 Science

  Owls do not have eyeballs – their eyes are more mushroom or cylindrically shaped. https://www.treehugger.com/owl-facts-that-will-amaze-you-4863920

Skeptical Quote of the Week.

‘The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.’ Benjamin Franklin