Episode Number 223 – March 6th  – 3 stories about private companies in Space, and 4 stories about rare animals

This week's guest: Hadi Sheikhnia from The Studio atMain Library

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Private Companies in Space:
Intuitive Machines touches down a second lander, will this one stay upright?
https://www.space.com/the-universe/moon/intuitive-machines-lands-private-athena-lander-near-moon-south-pole-historic-touchdown

Stop with the lies:
https://gizmodo.com/starliner-astronauts-refuse-to-play-into-trump-musks-ploy-to-politicize-rescue-mission-2000572032

Blue Ghost lands:
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/02/science/video/blue-ghost-moon-landing-firefly-leroy-chiao-explainer-digvid

https://gizmodo.com/nasa-orbiter-captures-stunning-view-of-blue-ghost-lander-on-the-moon-2000572048

https://mashable.com/article/moon-landing-video-watch-blue-ghost-firefly-aerospace

Something Fun:

Animal past, present, and future:

Super rare rabbits:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/experts-celebrate-rediscovery-rare-species-110001588.html

Super old birds:

https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-have-uncovered-one-of-the-oldest-birds-ever-and-its-unlike-anything-weve-seen/

Unicorns:

https://petapixel.com/2025/03/03/extraordinary-drone-footage-reveals-what-narwals-use-tusks-for/

No new dinosaurs:

https://www.iflscience.com/why-didnt-dinosaurs-re-evolve-after-they-went-extinct-78275

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Episode Number 222 –February 27th  – Asteroids, B12, Trees, Gila Monsters, and AI Ink Blots

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

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Asteroids never really go away:
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/02/asteroid-2024-yr4-may-be-a-dud-but-we-will-soon-find-many-more-threats/

You need more B12 too
https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-just-found-a-major-problem-with-vitamin-b12-guidelines-and-your-brain-might-be-at-risk/

Gila monster venom, the NIH could help

https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2025/02/the-human-neanderthal-mystery/681737/

Citizen Science Trees:
https://www.tapinto.net/towns/coral-springs/sections/environment/articles/coral-springs-tree-problem-an-overabundance-of-two-species

Ink Blots for AI

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250224-what-happens-when-you-give-an-ai-a-rorschach-inkblot-test

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This month on Creation Station Monthly we feature two people passionate about working in Producing.

Guests on this episode:

Greg Steiner:

http://www.acrosstheuniverseband.com/about.php

Lauren Migaki:

https://www.npr.org/people/348774853/lauren-migaki

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Episode Number 221 –February 20th  – The squeaky gene, Bird Flu, Robots in MLB,Memories online, saving/losing access to data

This week's guest: Sheldon Burke from Creation StationSouth Regional

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Something Fun:

A gene for squeeking?

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-put-a-human-language-gene-into-mice-and-changed-their-voice

Listener Article:
Bird Flu is everywhere
https://phys.org/news/2025-02-antarctic-highly-pathogenic-avian-influenza.html

Robots replacing umpires?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/02/20/mlb-ball-and-strike-challenge-system/

Cultural Memory Online:
https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/the-cost-of-losing-government-webpages-and-public-data/

End of Term Archive:
https://eotarchive.org/about/

Back up your own data:
https://www.theverge.com/news/612898/amazon-removing-kindle-book-download-transfer-usb

One option:
https://calibre-ebook.com/

Bonus Article:
Can the Census survive?
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/12/nx-s1-5289329/us-census-bureau-survey-data

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Episode Number 220 –February 13th  – Teeth, Advertising, Bird colors, Health Tracking, & AI copyright again 

This week's guest: Serena Idoe from Creation Station Main 

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Something Fun:

Real teeth –

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/10/nx-s1-5290022/scientists-grow-human-like-teeth-in-pigs

Advertising on screens with no power
https://www.techradar.com/pro/samsung-has-shown-a-massive-75-inch-epaper-5k-display-that-is-the-worlds-largest-ever-produced-and-even-has-a-battery

What we can’t see about birds:

https://phys.org/news/2025-02-widespread-biofluorescence-birds-paradise-hierarchy.html

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/12/many-birds-of-paradise-species-emit-light-through-their-plumage-study-finds

Should private companies do primaryresearch in Health?

https://www.theverge.com/news/610308/apple-health-study-wearables-iphone-apple-watch-airpods

Can you copyright AI?

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/this-company-got-a-copyright-for-an-image-made-entirely-with-ai-heres-how/

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Episode Number 219 –February 6th  – Wiggle your ears, Apes will help, good and bad space steps, don’t rely on one platform, and how much human is needed to be

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

Links to this week’s stories: 

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Something Fun:

Can you wiggle your ears?

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/02/nx-s1-5281984/your-ears-cant-prick-up-but-your-ear-muscles-sure-try

The study:

Maybe the ape can help?

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/02/bonobos-know-when-youre-clueless/

You cannot rely on one platform:

A good step for one space company:

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/human-spaceflight/blue-origin-mimics-moon-gravity-on-1st-of-its-kind-new-shepard-suborbital-research-flight-video

 A bad step for another space company:

How much human do you need to be human

https://www.theverge.com/news/602096/copyright-office-says-ai-prompting-doesnt-deserve-copyright-protection

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Episode Number 217 – January 30th  – Vomit, Bats, Robots, and that AI story

This week's guest: Kala Luzia from Creation StationBusiness

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Something Fun:

Fossil vomit:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp82jle12j7o

Do you want wings?

https://www.livescience.com/health/if-humans-could-fly-how-big-would-our-wings-be

https://www.livescience.com/animals/why-do-bats-hang-upside-down-to-sleep

Robots for when you do not have people:
https://restofworld.org/2025/vietnam-viettel-post-delivery-robots/

Yes that AI story:
https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/what-is-deepseek-why-is-it-disrupting-ai-sector-2025-01-27/

https://apnews.com/article/china-ai-models-usa-technology-92d10dc20e3110b2774a5bc8f976e8f9

https://www.livescience.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/chinese-company-alibaba-says-its-ai-model-trounces-its-deepseek-and-openai-competitors

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/28/nvidia-is-rebounding-after-biggest-market-cap-loss-in-history-but-its-a-fragile-bounce.html

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This month on Creation Station Monthly we feature two people passionate about Herpetology.

Rosie Moore

https://www.instagram.com/rosiekmoore/?hl=en

https://www.amazon.com/Forged-Florida-Floridas-Wildest-Adventures/dp/B0DRLXPJQN

Nicholas Font:

https://www.instagram.com/nicktheanimalguy/?hl=en

https://www.evergladestours.com/

Episode Number 217 – January 23rd – FL Snow, Ghost Islands, CTE, Kessler, Fusion, & Walking on the Moon

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

Links to this week’s stories: 

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Something Fun:

The Florida Snowstorm:

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/weather/floridas-snowfall-record-smashed-as-historic-storm-blasts-gulf-coast

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/florida-snow-looks-otherworldly-see-165415716.html

Ghost islands:

Do you have CTE?

Kessler Sydrome is closer than ever:

These boots are made for walking:

How close are we to fusion?

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Episode Number 216 – January 16th – Whales, Fact Checking, Drones, Wildfires, and Do you feel alone?

This week's guest: Sheldon Burke from South Regional

Links to this week’s stories: 

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Something Fun:

Whales imitating humans:

https://www.unilad.com/news/animals/killer-whale-mimic-human-speech-reaction-833594-20250108

Watch Duty is what the Internet was

https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/11/24340913/watch-duty-wildfire-tracking-app-los-angeles-nonprofit

Fact checking matters for more than

https://restofworld.org/2025/meta-drops-fact-checking-partnerships-global-watchdogs-scramble/

Drones in the news:

https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/10/24340524/drone-collision-grounds-super-scooper-aircraft-la-wildfires

https://deadline.com/2025/01/two-arrested-flying-drones-eaton-fire-1236255124/

https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/13/24342571/dont-be-a-drone-dummy

https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/14/24343928/dji-no-more-geofencing-no-fly-zone

Get the facts before you fly:

https://www.faa.gov/uas

Do you feel alone?

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