Episode Number 231 – May 1st  – Shaking Space, coming back to Earth, Retiring in Space?, Sperm Racing, Child labor in Social Media, turning a Country back on

This week's guest:  Creation Station Business

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Something Fun:

Shaking space:

https://gizmodo.com/a-massive-underwater-volcano-literally-shook-the-edge-of-space-2000594092

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024AV001470

Coming back to Earth:

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/a-failed-soviet-venus-lander-will-fall-back-to-earth-after-being-stranded-for-53-years

Retire in space?

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/04/meet-the-astronaut-who-celebrated-his-70th-birthday-by-thudding-into-the-planet/

Listener Article:

Sperm Racing

https://www.thetimes.com/us/news-today/article/sperm-race-event-sport-hollywood-la-qxf9l36bt

It is not flipping a switch:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/04/why-restarting-a-power-grid-is-so-hard/

Battery Backup for a Country:

https://www.wired.com/story/grid-scale-battery-storage-is-quietly-revolutionizing-the-energy-system/

When is it child labor for Social Media?
https://restofworld.org/2025/brazil-child-influencers-legal/

https://www.broward.org/Library/Pages/CreationStation.aspx

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This month on Creation Station Monthly we feature someone passionate about working as a Science Ambassador

Guests on this episode:Rose DF:https://www.rosedf.space/

Episode Number 230 – April 24th  – New Life? No Rhinos in Wales, New Color? Rebuilding Eyes, Ease of Access is not always a good thing.

This week's guest:

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Listener Article:

New Life out there?
https://gizmodo.com/did-scientists-detect-life-on-another-planet-experts-weigh-in-on-bombshell-biosignature-report-2000592296

https://www.reuters.com/science/scientists-find-strongest-evidence-yet-life-an-alien-planet-2025-04-16/

Something Fun:

Lack of Rhinos in Wales:
https://www.cnn.com/world/africa/dog-training-poaching-africa-wales-spc/index.html

A new Color?
https://www.livescience.com/health/neuroscience/scientists-hijacked-the-human-eye-to-get-it-to-see-a-brand-new-color-its-called-olo

The paper:

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adu1052

Rebuilding eyes:

https://scitechdaily.com/breakthrough-drug-restores-vision-researchers-successfully-reverse-retinal-damage/

The paper:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-58290-8

Not everything needs to be in one spot:
https://theconversation.com/from-help-to-harm-how-the-government-is-quietly-repurposing-everyones-data-for-surveillance-254690

https://www.aei.org/technology-and-innovation/the-dangerous-road-to-a-master-file-why-linking-government-databases-is-a-terrible-idea/

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Episode Number 229 – April 17th  – Dolphins, Dinosaurs, Screws, Carpentry, and Tariffs

This week's guest: Aaliyah Shaw from Creation Station Main

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Listener Article:

Canthey run a fade route?
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/04/google-created-a-new-ai-model-for-talking-to-dolphins/

Walking in your footsteps:

https://gizmodo.com/paleontologists-uncover-first-known-tracks-from-club-tailed-armored-dinosaur-2000588848

Carpentrywithout Pencils:
https://newatlas.com/vr/augmented-carpentry-system/

Screws fall out all the time:

https://www.fastcompany.com/91314612/this-tiny-screw-is-powering-the-humanoid-robot-revolution

It took almost a decade for this change:

https://restofworld.org/2025/vietnam-manufacturing-tariff/

https://www.broward.org/Library/Pages/CreationStation.aspx

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Episode Number 228 – April 10th  – Spanish weather, hydrofoil ferry, Direwolves,and Brains

This week's guest: Kristen Morrison from CreationStation Sunrise

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Listener Article:

Weather in Spanish

https://apnews.com/article/weather-spanish-translation-noaa-nws-trump-71c727dbe2e4956247c9d9152494f1dc

Something Fun:

From Season Three

https://electrek.co/2025/04/08/it-floats-it-flies-it-works-worlds-first-hydrofoil-electric-ferry-is-crushing-it/

Little Red Riding Hood has nothing to worry about

Direwolves, not really

https://www.sciencealert.com/did-dire-wolves-just-come-back-from-extinction-heres-the-truth

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2025/04/08/dire-wolf-extinction-gene-editing-colossal/

https://slate.com/life/2025/04/dire-wolf-wolves-brought-back-extinction-colossal-biosciences-khaleesi-got.html

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/407781/dire-wolves-deextinction-colossal-biosciences

What keeps your brain sharp?

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/does-wordle-help-experts-reveal-ways-keep-your-brain-sharp/

Does a brain need a body?

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a64409163/consciousness-before-life-asteroid-bennu/

The math of life:
https://www.seti.org/press-release/what-if-we-find-nothing-our-search-life-beyond-earth

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Episode Number 227 – April 3rd  – Three time travel stories, Beyonce tickets, 50 year batteries and how do dogs smell?

This week's guest: Bryan Simpson from Creation StationScience

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Something Fun:

Time travel is real:

https://www.ladbible.com/news/science/does-time-travel-exist-einstein-dilation-223627-20250330

Old tech won’t die:

https://www.theverge.com/tech/638566/micro-usb-is-the-worst

We can revive them:
https://gizmodo.com/buried-for-millennia-scientists-coax-7000-year-old-algae-back-to-life-2000583490

Listener Article:

Ticket Scalpers costing money, in other ways:
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-sign-executive-order-protect-americans-from-exploitive-ticket-scalping-entertainment-industry

Beyonce:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/marriott-bonvoy-unlocks-exclusive-access-133000702.html

Lady Gaga:

https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/03/31/lady-gaga-ticket-prices-mayhem-tour/

50 year batteries:
https://www.techspot.com/news/107357-coin-sized-nuclear-3v-battery-50-year-lifespan.html

How do dogs smell?
https://theconversation.com/dogs-see-their-world-through-smell-and-scientists-are-starting-to-translate-it-like-never-before-252659

The paper:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jbio.202400501

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Articles for today!

Toxic Mars https://www.sciencealert.com/toxic-mars-dust-could-pose...Curiosity Makes a Discovery https://www.space.com/.../curiosity-mars-rover-discovers...Two-toed Dinosaur https://www.iflscience.com/new-species-of-90-million-year...Demonic Sea Lions https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3vwg73xndeoPartial Solar Eclipse https://www.npr.org/.../nx-s1.../partial-solar-eclipse-march

This month we feature Autumn Dec as the guest host for this episode on Collections.

Guests:

Erin Purdy and Jamie

Episode Number 225 – March 20th – Overtime in Space, BlueGhost, EVs live on, AI stealing art, Wiley Coyote, and email can kill

 This week's guest: Karina from South Regional Creation Station

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Something Fun:

No overtime in space:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/boeing-starliner-astronauts-returned-earth-162607992.html

Bonus Article:

NASA should be non-partisan:
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/03/can-nasa-remain-nonpartisan-when-basic-spaceflight-truths-are-shredded/

A full success for Blue Ghost, now aghost

https://apnews.com/article/firefly-aerospace-lunar-lander-blue-ghost-edbcc2baa722bae3b423b92ba43e90d6

Listener Article:

EVs living on

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/old-bolt-new-tricks-making-an-ev-into-a-backup-power-station-with-an-inverter/

AIto steal more art:
https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/16/people-are-using-googles-new-ai-model-to-remove-watermarks-from-images/

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/farewell-photoshop-googles-new-ai-lets-you-edit-images-by-asking/

Warner Brothers is gone but the wall lives on:

https://electrek.co/2025/03/16/tesla-autopilot-drives-into-wall-camera-vs-lidar-test/

Emailsignatures can kill:
https://theconversation.com/email-signatures-are-harming-the-planet-and-could-cost-people-their-lives-its-time-to-stop-using-them-251215

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Episode Number 224 – March 13th – Eclipse, trackingtakes time and money, shifting tracks, AR location is everywhere, Lethologica, and Dolphins

This week's guest: Jyesha Morris from Creation StationMusic

Links to this week’s stories: 

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Something Fun:

Eclipse Tonight

https://www.space.com/what-time-total-lunar-eclipse-march-2025

Shifting Tracks:
https://studyfinds.org/hurricanes-shifting-south-threats-caribbean-us-coastlines/

Tracking takes time and money:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/oops-scientists-may-have-miscalculated-our-global-warming-timeline/ar-AA1Aymcm

Location is everything:
https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/pokemon-go-has-a-new-owner-but-niantics-evolving-its-maps-into-a-way-to-fold-in-ai-and-ar/

The press release:
https://nianticlabs.com/news/niantic-next-chapter

Lethologica:
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-discover-a-trait-in-speech-that-foreshadows-cognitive-decline

Dolphins and red tide:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/experts-alarmed-researching-bottlenose-dolphins-101516149.html

https://www.broward.org/Library/Pages/CreationStation.aspx

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