Episode number 142 – August 17th 2023

This week's guest: Daniella Daguerre from Main Library

Links to this week’s stories:

What is in your belly button?:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/08/14/bellybutton-lint-what-is-it/

Worldcoin:

https://restofworld.org/2023/worldcoin-kenya-suspended-scammers-cash-in/

Internet Archive versus RIAA:

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/14/riaa-piles-on-in-the-effort-to-kill-the-worlds-greatest-library-sues-internet-archive-for-making-it-possible-to-hear-old-78s/

OpenAI financial woes:

OpenAI purchasing?:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2M3VXCR

Episode number 141 – August 10th 2023

This week's guest: Robert Ahlness from Broward County Library Foundation

Links to this week’s stories:

Take a look up at the night sky:

https://lifehacker.com/check-out-what-s-happening-in-space-this-month-1850714259

Listen to meteors by radio:

https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/advice/how-hear-meteors-fm-radio

Practice landing safely:

Our previous conversation with Slade Peters:

NASA working with wine:

Fusion might be a thing:

LK-99 is not a thing:

Broward Library Foundation META program:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2M3VXCR

Episode number 140 – August 3rd 2023 – Voyager is still listening, What is up with hurricanes and fires, 40,000 year old worms, do robots need to look like you?

This week's guest: Shenika Romeus from North Regional Library

Links to this week’s stories:

Voyager is still listening:

No hurricanes is a good thing right?

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/08/the-atlantic-is-frying-but-so-far-hurricanes-are-dying-whats-going-on/?comments=1&comments-page=1

Everything is on fire:

Should we be waking up zombies?

Why do robots need to look like humans?

 Pseudoscience is not science:

https://www.space.com/science-pseudoscience-what-is-the-difference

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2M3VXCR

Tech Talk Weekly Number 139

Episode number 139 – July 27th  2023 – Text on Tic Tok, how do clouds work? The Gulf Stream is dying, who goes to space?

This week's guest: Brianne Pierre Southwest Regional Library

Links to this week’s stories:  

Text for Tic Tok:

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/24/23805530/tiktok-text-posts-micro-blogging-twitter-threads

Why do clouds stay up?

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/why-do-clouds-float

The Gulf Stream is going to collapse:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/25/gulf-stream-could-collapse-as-early-as-2025-study-suggests

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/climate-change/gulf-stream-current-could-collapse-in-2025-plunging-earth-into-climate-chaos-we-were-actually-bewildered

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-39810-w?CJEVENT=e83db43e2cb311ee811d45eb0a82b839

Who should be in control of who goes to space?

https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/07/a-nearly-20-year-ban-on-human-spaceflight-regulations-is-set-to-expire/

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2M3VXCR

This month on Creation Station Monthly we feature two about hosting family reunions and how they need to be creative.

Guests on this episode:

Mary Ellen Rittle

Jona Brown

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2M3VXCR

Episode number 138 – July 20th 2023 - How to think, AI reviews for parents, AI for drug dealers, flying cars, augmented trees

This week's guest: Orrin Fraser from North Regional Library

Links to this week’s stories:

54 years ago today we walked on the moon

How to think:

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/occams-razor-science-literacy/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor

Reviewing AI for parents:

https://www.commonsense.org/

AI for drug dealers:

Electric flying cars:

Augmented trees:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2M3VXCR

Episode number 137 – July13th 2023 - AI in your language, timing is everything in space, paying attention to the details, and picking a new Era

This week's guest: Surina Khan from Southwest Regional

Links to this week’s stories:

AI needs to speak your language:

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/12/23792167/now-youre-speaking-mai-language-adobe

Timing is complicated in space:

How many trips to the Moon?

https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/07/here-come-the-moon-landing-missions-probably/

New Earth vehicles for Artemis:

Pay attention to the details:

It is hard to pick an exact time:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2M3VXCR

Episode number 136 – July 6th 2023 - The deep sea is safe, what does the past look like in the future, out of body is in your mind, and should everything be available all the time?

This week's guest: Olundae Byrd from Main Library

Links to this week’s stories:

Deep sea is safe?:

https://slate.com/technology/2023/07/deep-sea-research-alvin-submersible-oceangate-titan-implosion.html

What will the past in the future look like?

Out of body is all in your mind:

Should everything be available all the time?:

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/disney-plus-movie-deleted-just-102419924.html

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2M3VXCR

Episode number 135 – June 29th 2023

This week's guest: Amoli Kulkarni from Community Engagement

Links to this week’s stories:

Factories in space:

https://www.designboom.com/technology/first-space-factory-orbit-varda-space-industries-rocket-lab-06-26-2023/

Cyber attacks - War? Terrorism? Espionage?:

https://digitalpeacenow.org/

AI created more jobs last time:

https://www.nber.org/papers/w31357

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/microdata/european-union-labour-force-survey

How do you identify who a kid is:

 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/identifying-the-trade-offs-in-online-age-verification/

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2M3VXCR

This month on Creation Station Monthly we feature two activists to talk about what makes them creative.

Guests on this episode:

Nancy Metayer Bowen : https://www.instagram.com/nancymetayerbowen/

Karen Smith: https://www.facebook.com/sicklefreebroward/

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2M3VXCR