Episode 222. Topic: Fatal familial insomnia. Theme: Sleep.  How can a genetic disease cause incurable and fatal insomnia? How does this disease work and are you likely to get it? 

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Episode 221. Topic: Sleep deprivation. Theme: Sleep. What happens when you go without sleep in the short term and the long term? What are the records for longest time without sleep and why is it so dangerous?

Episode 220. Topic: Trading stocks. Theme: Artificial intelligence. How does AI run the modern stock market? How pervasive is this technology? How good is this technology relative to human traders? Why does AI fall short? 

Episode 219. Topic: Chess. Theme: Artificial intelligence. How does computer chess work? Are computer chess programs better than humans? How do computer chess programs compete and which is the best right now? 

Episode 218. Topic: Neural networks. Theme: Artificial intelligence. How has the human brain inspired computational approaches to machine learning? How, generally, do neural networks work and how are they used? 

Episode 217. Topic: Supervised learning. Theme: Artificial intelligence. How does a machine learn to do a task? One of the simpler algorithms is supervised learning. How does it work and when is it implemented? 

Episode 216. Topic: The Turing test. Theme: Artificial intelligence. Who was Alan Turing? How did he help develop the theory of artificial intelligence? How could you tell if true human-level artificial intelligence is reached? 

Episode 215. Topic:  Adaptation to wildfires. Theme: Fires. How do plants and animals adapt to the natural occurrence of wild fires? Why are wild fires necessary for some plants and animals to reproduce and thrive? 

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Episode 214. Topic: Indigenous fire management. Theme: Fires. How did native people utilize fire to shape their environments? How did they manage wild fires? How can these practices help modern fire management? 

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Episode 213. Topic: Nero and The Great Fire of Rome. Theme: Fires. What was the Great Fire of Rome and did Nero really play the fiddle during it? Why are the historical accounts debated? And did this ultimately take down Emperor Nero?  

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