Episode Number 246 – August 14th 2025 – Batteries,Free AI, Water for Humans? Or Computers? How deepfakes work, and what are you seeing on the Internet?

This week's guest: Creation Station Music

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Links to this week’s stories: 

Batteries are the key to the future:

https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/virtual-power-plant-california-grid-battery-test/

Give them free access to bring the in:

https://restofworld.org/2025/chatgpt-alternative-uae-falcon-ai/

https://falconfoundation.ai/

Water - For humans? Or Computers?

https://globalvoices.org/2025/08/10/as-summer-temperatures-soar-irans-water-crisis-worsens/

https://time.com/7308925/elon-musk-memphis-ai-data-center/

https://www.protectouraquifer.org/issues/xai-supercomputer

How deepfake video works:

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/08/heres-how-deepfake-vishing-attacks-work-and-why-they-can-be-hard-to-detect/

We talked about this last year on Episode #211

Pay attention to what you are not seeing on the Internet

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250812-how-language-is-hiding-the-real-internet-from-you

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Episode Number 245 – August 7th – Solar panels atnight, training whales, Rosey is almost here, Dinosaur air, and who should cancel science?

This week's guest:   from West Regional Creation Station

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Whales training whales:

https://www.livescience.com/animals/orcas/watch-a-pod-of-orcas-pretending-to-drown-one-of-their-own-in-macabre-training-session

Making solar panels work at night:

https://newatlas.com/space/solar-power-plant-hunt-asteroids/

How close are we to Rosie?

https://www.popsci.com/technology/autonomous-home-robot/

Dinosaur Air:
https://www.sciencealert.com/prehistoric-air-has-been-reconstructed-from-dinosaur-teeth-in-an-amazing-first

Who should cancel science?

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/04/nx-s1-5453731/nasa-carbon-dioxide-satellite-mission-threatened

Bonus Link:
A new very different way to replace the ISS:

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/08/as-the-end-of-the-iss-nears-nasa-shakes-up-program-for-commercial-replacements/

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Episode Number 244 – July 31st  – Turtles, Bunnies, VR, AI, and GPS

This week's guest: Fedora from South Regional CreationStation

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Bugs Bunny catching Pythons:

https://gizmodo.com/robo-bunnies-are-the-latest-weapon-against-floridas-invasive-pythons-2000635832

Lights are bad for turtles:

https://www.chron.com/culture/article/georgia-bucees-lights-turtles-20789735.php

Why is VR only for games?

https://www.uploadvr.com/meta-ideal-vr-session-length-20-40-minutes/

AI in Courts:

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/two-us-judges-withdraw-rulings-after-attorneys-question-accuracy-2025-07-29/

Training robots to not be robots:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/07/openais-chatgpt-agent-casually-clicks-through-i-am-not-a-robot-verification-test/

GPSshould be free:
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/7/27/irans-plan-to-abandon-gps-is-about-much-more-than-technology

Bonus Link:

Starlink is disastrous for astronomy

https://www.space.com/astronomy/scientists-analyze-76-million-radio-telescope-images-find-starlink-satellite-interference-where-no-signals-are-supposed-to-be-present

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This month on Creation Station Monthly we feature two people passionate about working with Art Therapy.

Guests on this episode:

Deanna Barton

https://www.allumabewell.com/

https://www.instagram.com/allumabewell/

Jasper Bryan

https://queerarttherapy.com/

https://www.instagram.com/queerarttherapy/

https://bsky.app/profile/queerarttherapy.bsky.social

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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 

Links to this week’s stories:  

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 

Links to this week’s stories:  

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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