Episode Number 243 – July 24th – Kryptonite, Earthquakes,Maps, Tracking without sensors, & can music save your mortal soul?

This week's guest: Autumn Dec from Creation Station Science

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Listener Article:
More real than themovies:

https://scitechdaily.com/earths-kryptonite-the-real-mineral-stranger-than-fiction/

Can music save your mortal soul?

https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-brains-best-defense-against-aging-could-be-your-new-favorite-hobby/

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003247

Super accurate maps:
https://www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/nasa-ground-movements-portal/

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-ready-to-use-dataset-details-land-motion-across-north-america/

Earthquakes:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/07/250722035653.htm

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/earthquakes/first-video-of-an-earthquake-fault-cracking-has-revealed-another-surprise

Warning:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/07/how-android-phones-became-an-earthquake-warning-system/

No camera needed:
https://www.techspot.com/news/108775-scientists-develop-method-identify-people-how-their-bodies.html

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Episode Number 242 – July 17th –  Meteor shower season, Dodos were not dumb, warning is hard, solar power, how old is your brain, and where are you really from?

This week's guest: Neilah & Jade Sunrise CreationStation Summer Workers

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Listener Article:
Meteor Shower Season

https://www.space.com/stargazing/meteor-showers/the-perseid-meteor-shower-kicks-off-summer-shooting-star-season-this-week-heres-how-to-see-it

Notthat dumb:
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250714-why-history-got-the-dodo-so-absurdly-wrong

Planning is complicated, Warning even more:

https://theconversation.com/why-it-can-be-hard-to-warn-people-about-dangers-like-floods-communication-researchers-explain-the-role-of-human-behavior-260780

Solar Power:

Recycling is hard:

https://theconversation.com/why-recycling-solar-panels-is-harder-than-you-might-think-an-electrical-engineer-explains-259115

New cash for farmers:

https://theconversation.com/california-farmers-identify-a-hot-new-cash-crop-solar-power-259653

How old is your brain?

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/07/16/nx-s1-5468647/healthy-brain-aging-alzheimers-sleep-science

The quiz:

https://mindcrowd.org/

Bonus link:

Podcast series – Where are you really from?

https://globalvoices.org/special/where-are-you-really-from/

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Episode Number 241 – July 10, 2025 

This week Hadi is filling in for Bob 

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Something fun 

How long would it take Superman to travel from Krypton to Earth?

https://www.space.com/entertainment/how-long-would-it-take-superman-to-travel-from-krypton-to-earth

Robots who can now do surgery

https://today.ucsd.edu/story/the-robot-will-see-you-now⁠ 

July 9th may be the shortest day ever in history

https://www.nola.com/news/earth-rotation-speed-shortest-day/article_c9bb0d61-774b-47ed-8352-f4f84e1c54e2.html 

Rare find: interstellar visitor seen blazing through ourSolar System

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02141-5

Echoes from the Big Bang suggest Earth is trapped inside agiant cosmic void: 

https://www.livescience.com/space/cosmology/echoes-from-the-big-bang-suggest-earth-is-trapped-inside-a-giant-cosmic-void-scientists-claim

Arizona fossils reveal an ecosystem in flux early in the ageof dinosaurs.

https://www.reuters.com/science/arizona-fossils-reveal-an-ecosystem-flux-early-age-dinosaurs-2025-07-08/

Episode Number 240 – July 03 2025 

This week's guest: Hadi from The Studio at Main 

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Something fun 

#2 and 3 of the top 100 ice cream shops are here in Broward County 

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/07/01/yelp-names-top-100-u-s-ice-cream-shops-2025-and-no-2-is-a-coral-springs-creamery/ 

Brain Computer Interface updates 

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/06/a-neural-brain-implant-provides-near-instantaneous-speech/ 

If you are cool you know it: 
https://phys.org/news/2025-06-cool-cultural-agreement.html 

https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/xge-xge0001799.pdf 

https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fxge0001799 

Satellites and the Internet 

https://restofworld.org/2025/satellites-space-based-internet/ 

A different way of deciding who is responsible: 

https://restofworld.org/2025/brazil-social-media-content-ruling/ 

Episode Number 239 – June 26th –  Losing air is a problem, 2,000 year old puzzles, Reverse Evolution, if there are no humans is it a film? and no hands but using tools

This week's guest: Fedora South Regional CreationStation Summer Worker

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Listener Feedback:
I did not know how to pause the monitoring untilI heard you question how on your podcast. For Apple users, on the iPhone gointo the watch app. From the My Watch button scroll down to Workout; thereis an option to auto-pause and farther down there is an option to turn on pressto pause. 

Losing air is a problem:

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/25/science/axiom-space-iss-leak-zvezda-module

2,000 year old puzzles:

https://archaeologymag.com/2025/06/roman-wall-paintings-found-in-southwark-london/

Reverse Evolution:

https://phys.org/news/2025-06-tomatoes-galpagos-quietly-de-evolving.html

If no humans is it a film?

https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025/06/curated-realities-an-ai-film-festival-and-the-future-of-human-expression/

Using tools without hands:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/23/killer-whales-kelp-grooming-tool-use

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This month on Creation Station Monthly we feature someone passionate about Government Reporting jouurnalism.Guests on this episode:Joshua Ceballoshttps://www.wlrn.org/joshua-ceballos-1  / joshua-ceballos-66185a138  

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Episode Number 238 – June 18th –  Honda, VR Haptics, Mosquitoes, Fitness Trackers, AI voice deepfake, your brain glows

This week's guest: No Guest

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Something to smile about:

Honda (yes that Honda) in space:
https://gizmodo.com/honda-unexpectedly-enters-the-space-race-with-first-successful-rocket-launch-2000617042

VR Haptics that are too good?

https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/vr-ar/i-tested-the-most-advanced-haptic-vr-vest-and-gloves-it-made-petting-a-cat-feel-too-real

Mosquitoes in Hawaii:
https://www.vox.com/down-to-earth/416699/hawaii-endangered-species-birds-mosquitoes

Fitness Tracker problems:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jun/14/download-festivalgoers-warned-accidental-999-calls-moshpit

Deepfake AI Voice in politics:

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/06/13/broward-judge-denies-violating-judicial-conduct-code-over-deepfake-ai-call/

Your brain glows:
https://www.sciencealert.com/your-brain-emits-a-secret-light-that-scientists-are-trying-to-read

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Episode Number 237 – June 12 2025

This week's guest: No Guest

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Something fun

That Asteroid is back in the news

https://www.space.com/astronomy/asteroids/nasa-raises-the-odds-that-an-asteroid-could-hit-the-moon-in-2032

Something good about windmills:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/scientists-surprising-discovery-waters-below-111554729.html

Robots doing people’s jobs…

https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/09/xrobotics-countertop-robots-are-cooking-up-25000-pizzas-a-month/

Deadly Books:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g2y9xq58no

Privacy in Public:

Cars
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/milwaukee/2025/06/11/common-council-explores-more-license-reading-cameras-in-milwaukee/84120968007/

https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2025/06/09/milwaukee-asks-again-for-red-light-cameras-to-nab-speeders/

Drones

https://katu.com/news/local/oregon-bill-on-drone-surveillance-sparks-privacy-concerns-and-opposition-privacy-second-amendment-constitution-immigration-ice-customs-enforcement-senate-salem-portland-police-department-enforcement-law-drones-uas-pilot-unmanned-protests-first-response

Apple and AI

https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/illusion-of-thinking

https://ml-site.cdn-apple.com/papers/the-illusion-of-thinking.pdf

They hypecyle in full swing:
https://theconversation.com/the-ai-hype-is-just-like-the-blockchain-frenzy-heres-what-happens-when-the-hype-dies-258071

Episode Number 236 – June 5th – A living dictionary, ISPlawsuits, Social Media Bans don’t make sense, surveilling employees, own your data, sell your data

This week's guest: Kristen from Sunrise Creation Station

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Something to smile about:

Creating a living dictionary:

https://globalvoices.org/2025/05/29/a-living-multimedia-dictionary-in-the-nam-trik-language-lucy-tunubalas-project-in-colombia/

Long running lawsuits….

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/06/isp-settles-with-record-labels-that-demanded-mass-termination-of-internet-users/

Surveilling your employees:

https://restofworld.org/2025/employee-surveillance-software-vc-funding/

Social Media Bans are not realistic:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/06/federal-judge-blocks-florida-law-that-bans-kids-from-social-media/

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/03/florida-braces-for-lawsuits-over-law-banning-kids-from-social-media/

The actual law:

https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/3/BillText/er/PDF

You own your data so you can sell it if you want:
https://restofworld.org/2025/brazil-dwallet-user-data-pilot/

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Episode Number 235 – May 29th – Landing on the Moon, Venus has friends, Art before humans, rare photographs, too big to survive, AI model collapse?

This week's guest: Sean Skinner from West Regional Library

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Landing on the Moon:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/time-lapse-imagery-of-china-s-chang-e-6-after-landing-on-far-side-of-the-moon/vi-AA1FqoTY

Researchno need to panic yet:
https://gizmodo.com/venus-harbors-secret-asteroids-that-could-threaten-earth-study-warns-2000607801

Somethingfun:
Art prior to homo sapiens:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/may/26/like-a-face-discovery-reinforces-idea-neanderthals-created-art-say-experts

Lastchance to photograph?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/26/antelope-photo-upemba-lechwe

Too big to survive:

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/scientists-have-figured-out-how-extinct-giant-ground-sloths-got-so-big-and-where-it-all-went-wrong/

Impending AI Model collapse?

https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/27/opinion_column_ai_model_collapse/

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