What is in the This Week in Science Podcast?

Interview w/ Dr. Sarah Parcak, Stimulating Seeing, Parenting Brain, LOCKR, Changing Brains, Egg Vibrations, An Apple A Day, Hot Headed Haggling, Shrinking Birds, And Much More…

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The following acts of communication are all in your head

Nothing you are hearing now is happening now…

Not even the sound of this voice, saying these words

The person most often associated with the sound of this voice

is not actually saying this right now

If fact, his lips may not even be moving

What you are listening to now is a recording of a voice

A voice that in a short while will be accompanied by other voices

All telling you about amazing things that are happening now

Or happened long ago

Or might happen in the future

As we speak these voices are taking up residence in your head,

Re wall papering the interior of your skull

Setting up subtle sciencey subroutines in your subconscious mind

Navigating your every third thought in the direction of

This Week in Science

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First up, an interview!

Our guest in this episode is Dr. Sarah Parcak, a space archaeologist. Dr. Parcak is professor of Anthropology and director of the Laboratory for Global Observation at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. An expert in using satellites for remote sensing, and in archaeology and Egyptology, she is a National Geographic Explorer and a TED Senior Fellow. She won the 2016 $1 million TED prize, which she used to launch GlobalXplorer, a citizen science platform that “aims to bring the wonders of archaeological discovery to everyone”. She also has a book out now called, “Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past.”

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