Broward County Library Creation Station

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Tech Talk Weekly comes out every Thursday afternoon from Broward County Library's Creation Station. Each 20 minute episode features 3 to 4 interesting tech stories from the week.

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April 04, 2024 Tech Talk Weekly Number 175
Episode Number 175 – April 4th 2024 – Helium to save us, Faster than filling with gas, Hazardous waste disposal, the line between life and death

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

Links
to this week’s stories:
Helium
to save us:
https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/geology/its-had-11-billion-years-to-accumulate-helium-reservoir-in-minnesota-has-mind-bogglingly-large-concentrations

Faster than filling
with gas:
https://restofworld.org/2024/ev-battery-swapping-china/
Hazardous waste
disposal:
https://gizmodo.com/iss-battery-pallet-fragment-hit-florida-home-1851381481

The line between
Life and Death is…..
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/02/new-science-of-death-brain-activity-consciousness-near-death-experience

New
YouTube channel:
⁠https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTTW0eli8enOUTJ2FFEY-8Z55bxI1YNmJ⁠

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22min
March 28, 2024 Tech Talk Weekly Number 174
Episode Number 174 – March 28th 2024 – Destroying history, judging by who's standard, ChatGPT memory loss, and AI is not Search

This week's guest: Autumn Dec from Creation Station Science at North Lauderdale library

Links to this week’s stories:
Destroying history:
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/25/uk/microplastics-archeological-remains-study-scli-intl-scn-gbr/index.html

Judging by what standard?
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/03/24/the-anxious-generation-qa-00147880

ChatGPT causes memory loss?
https://www.psypost.org/chatgpt-linked-to-declining-academic-performance-and-memory-loss-in-new-study/

AI search is more than Search:
https://www.theverge.com/24111326/ai-search-perplexity-copilot-you-google-review

New YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTTW0eli8enOUTJ2FFEY-8Z55bxI1YNmJ

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2M3VXCR
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25min
March 26, 2024 Creation Station Monthly - March 2024 - Women in Tech
This month on Creation Station Monthly we feature two women passionate about working in technology.
Guests on this episode:
Gabrielle Crevecoeur
https://www.nowayshecodes.com/
Karishma Vanjani
https://twitter.com/ThisisVanjani
⁠⁠https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2M3VXCR
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53min
March 21, 2024 Tech Talk Weekly Number 173
Episode Number 173 – March 21st 2024 – El Nina is coming, Space DANGER, the air is bad, and how much would you pay for privacy?

This week's guest: Susan Middleton from Creation
Station Business at Main library

Links to this week’s stories:

El Nina is coming:
https://www.clickorlando.com/weather/2024/03/18/this-hurricane-season-will-be-very-different-heres-why/

Space danger :
https://www.livescience.com/space/asteroids/potentially-hazardous-asteroid-bennu-contains-the-building-blocks-of-life-and-minerals-unseen-on-earth-scientists-reveal-in-1st-comprehensive-analysis

The air is bad:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/19/air-pollution-health-report

How much for privacy?
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/19/24105660/meta-ad-free-subscription-facebook-instagram-gdpr-dma-eu-privacy-regulation

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2M3VXCR
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21min
March 14, 2024 Tech Talk Weekly Number 172
Episode Number 172 – March 14th 2024 – Animals watch the eclipse, when did you get that shirt? How many people are there? Is it your brain or your liver?

This week's guest: Carla Brown from The Studio at Main
library

Links to this week’s stories:

Animals watch the eclipse too:
https://apnews.com/article/animal-reactions-total-solar-eclipse-2024-7ae30b99edc5196f99d5501f2a902335
People can help too:
https://www.space.com/eclipse-megamovie-2024-nasa-project-citizen-science-solve-solar-mysteries-during-solar-eclipse-2024

When did we start wearing clothes? :
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/when-did-humans-start-wearing-clothes
Global life expectancy study:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)00476-8/fulltext

How many people are there?
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-population-growth-by-region-1900-2050f/

Is it your liver or your brain?
https://www.sciencealert.com/many-dementia-cases-could-actually-be-a-hidden-form-of-liver-disease

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21min
March 07, 2024 Tech Talk Weekly Number 171
Tech Talk Weekly Number 171

Episode Number 171 – March 7th 2024 – Screens but no camera, a way to space, robots working, Alexa where is Grandma?

This week's guest: Danielle Daguerre from Main library

Links to this week’s stories:

We have better screens than cameras:
https://petapixel.com/2024/03/01/canon-no-currently-available-camera-is-high-res-enough-for-apple-vision-pro/
A new way to fly people to the moon:
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/03/blue-origin-staffing-up-to-build-a-human-spacecraft/
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/03/the-worlds-most-traveled-crew-transport-spacecraft-will-launch-again-tonight/

Robots at work:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-04/amazon-warehouses-provide-glimpse-of-workplace-humanoid-robots?embedded-checkout=true

Alexa where is Grandma?
https://www.theverge.com/24080494/smart-home-assistant-amazon-alexa-caregiver-elders

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2M3VXCR
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21min
February 29, 2024 Tech Talk Weekly Number 170
Episode Number 170 – February 29th 2024 – Moon landing details, too much of a good thing, women are psychopaths too and can you trademark reality

This week's guest: Ann Maria Bitere from Southwest Regional
library

Links to this week’s stories:

Details about landing on the moon:
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/28/world/odysseus-spacecraft-first-images-moon-surface-scn/index.html

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/02/it-turns-out-that-odysseus-landed-on-the-moon-without-any-altimetry-data/

Too much of a good thing:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/surprising-link-found-between-niacin-and-risk-of-heart-attack-and-stroke/

Women are psychopaths too
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/feb/26/more-women-may-be-psychopaths-than-previously-thought-says-expert

Episode 164:
https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/erJrEmqQAHb

Can you trademark Reality?
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/apple-sues-win-trademarks-augmented-reality-software-2024-02-26/

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21min
February 27, 2024 Creation Station Monthly - February 2024 - Weather
This month on Creation Station Monthly we feature two people passionate about weather.
Guests on this episode:
Henry Swenson
https://www.instagram.com/henrysweatherchannel/

Mike Boylan
https://www.spaghettimodels.com/

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56min
February 22, 2024 Tech Talk Weekly Number 169
Episode Number 169 – February 22nd 2024 – Moon
landing, 200 miles on a bicycle, robots replacing workers, your brain is not protected

This week's guest: Kristen Morrison from SN

Links to this week’s stories:

Landing on the moon again… maybe?
https://apnews.com/article/moon-landing-private-company-fed3a76d25c9f68cf20d2b6efd48b593
https://www.npr.org/2024/02/22/1232912368/moon-landing-intuitive-machines-odysseus-private-company-american
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/02/as-companies-shoot-at-the-moon-nasas-tolerance-of-failure-is-tested/

200 miles a bicycle
https://electrek.co/2024/02/21/tern-launches-wild-new-off-road-adventure-cargo-e-bike-with-200-mile-range/

Robots replacing the workers who are not there
https://apnews.com/article/inflation-pay-economy-productivity-workers-technology-prices-c1e0163d51b430fcb18f0c80e32b2d81

You brain is not protected:
https://www.androidcentral.com/gaming/virtual-reality/zuckerberg-says-neural-interface-controls-are-close-to-ready
Only Chile
https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL8N3AH6D6/

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23min
February 15, 2024 Tech Talk Weekly Number 168
Episode number 168 – February 15th 2024 – Sunspot glasses, Underwater kites, bugs know when you die, and AI content is
not illegal

This week's guest: Maria Vega – Hollywood Library

Links to this week’s stories:
Sunspots need eclipse glasses (coming March 1st)
https://www.spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=08&month=02&year=2024

Underwater Kites for power:
https://newatlas.com/energy/minesto-tidal-kite/

Your microbes know when you died:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/how-a-corpses-microbiome-can-help-scientists-nail-down-time-of-death/

AI content is not illegal:
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/02/judge-sides-with-openai-dismisses-bulk-of-book-authors-copyright-claims/
https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/13/24072241/ai-patent-us-office-guidance

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2M3VXCR
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23min

FAQs about Broward County Library Creation Station:

How many episodes does Broward County Library Creation Station have?

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