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| SGU Episode 925 |
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| April 1st 2023 |
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"A mammoth meatball has been created by a cultivated meat company, resurrecting the flesh of the long-extinct animals. The project aims to demonstrate the potential of meat grown from cells, without the slaughter of animals, and to highlight the link between large-scale livestock production and the destruction of wildlife and the climate crisis." [1] |
| Skeptical Rogues |
| S: Steven Novella |
B: Bob Novella |
C: Cara Santa Maria |
J: Jay Novella |
E: Evan Bernstein |
| Guest |
BL: Blake Lemoine, software engineer |
| Quote of the Week |
The best science communication invites you to consider the complexity of the world, and the worst invites you to ignore the complexity. |
Michael Hobbes, journalist & podcaster |
| Links |
| Download Podcast |
| Show Notes |
| Forum Discussion |
Introduction, Steve's senate committee hearing
Voice-over: You're listening to the Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, your escape to reality.
Quickie with Steve (8:08)
- [url_from_show_notes _article_title_][2]
Quick News Items
S:
B:
C:
J:
E:
(laughs) (laughter) (applause) [inaudible]
Mammoth Meatball (10:49)
meatball
Lunar Ice (17:03)
First Blitzar Observed (19:15)
England Allows Gene-Edited Crops (27:35)
Who's That Noisy? (31:24)
New Noisy (35:21)
[Grinding background with a light clanging in the foreground ]
Announcements (36:00)
Interview with Blake Lemoine (40:05)
- Talking about LaMDA, Lemoine's firing by Google[6] and AI sentience
Science or Fiction (1:33:09)
Item #1: A large survey of life on Earth finds that total biomass remains fairly consistent (within one order of magnitude) across the entire range of body size for all living things.[7]
Item #2: Researchers find that plants under stress emit recordable sound, about as loud as a normal speaking voice.[8]
Item #3: Researchers created intracellular sensors that use nanodiamond quantum sensing.[9]
| Answer | Item |
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| Fiction | Total biomass consistent |
| Science | Plants emit sound |
| Science | Intracellular sensors |
| Host | Result |
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| Steve | swept |
| Rogue | Guess |
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Bob | Total biomass consistent |
Cara | Total biomass consistent |
Evan | Total biomass consistent |
Jay | Total biomass consistent |
Voice-over: It's time for Science or Fiction.
Bob's Response
Cara's Response
Evan's Response
Jay's Response
Steve Explains Item #3
Steve Explains Item #2
Steve Explains Item #1
Skeptical Quote of the Week (1:44:45)
The best science communication invites you to consider the complexity of the world, and the worst invites you to ignore the complexity.
– Michael Hobbes, journalist & podcaster
Signoff
S: —and until next week, this is your Skeptics' Guide to the Universe.
S: Skeptics' Guide to the Universe is produced by SGU Productions, dedicated to promoting science and critical thinking. For more information, visit us at theskepticsguide.org. Send your questions to info@theskepticsguide.org. And, if you would like to support the show and all the work that we do, go to patreon.com/SkepticsGuide and consider becoming a patron and becoming part of the SGU community. Our listeners and supporters are what make SGU possible.
Today I Learned
- Fact/Description, possibly with an article reference[10]
- Fact/Description
- Fact/Description
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Guardian: Meatball from long-extinct mammoth created by food firm
- ↑ [url_from_show_notes _publication_: _article_title_]
- ↑ CNN: Water is trapped in glass beads on the moon’s surface, lunar samples show
- ↑ Ars Technica: Did we already observe our first “blitzar”?
- ↑ Neurologica: England Allows Gene-Edited Crops
- ↑ Business Standard: Google fires employee who said its conversation AI is sentient, has feeling
- ↑ PLOS One: The sizes of life
- ↑ Cell: Sounds emitted by plants under stress are airborne and informative
- ↑ Optica: Researchers use tiny diamonds to create intracellular sensors
- ↑ [url_for_TIL publication: title]
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