Let's Learn Everything!

Let's Learn Everything!

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  • 42: Gender Complexity, Mars Water Deja Vu, and Pigeons

    How complicated is trying to scientifically study gender? Why does it feel like water get discovered on Mars every other month? And what's so great about these pigeons I see everywhere?

    Images we talk about:
    The Brain Gender Chart
    The Jacobin Pigeon
    The Pouter Pigeon

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    Timestamps:
    (00:00:00) Intro
    (00:03:38) Gender Complexity
    (00:42:27) Mars Water Deja Vu
    (01:18:16) Pigeons
    (01:38:21) Outro

    We also learn about: 

    Caroline snipes Tom’s joke, let’s talk about sex, “I do it and I have one”, sex is a bimodal distribution, defining sex is like defining a tree, have you ever had a gender that… that…, women men girls and boys, gender as separate from sex, Money’s awful gender experiment, sample size: David, why haven’t they just tried… talking to people? Hasbro lobbying Big Hormone pink and blue brains have a lot of overlap, news of mars water is like news of the first gay Disney character, we found a full britta filter on mars, the first water on mars theory, Herschel thought people lived in the sun, all the things we’ve sent to mars, the “““first””” evidence of water on mars, “““recent””” water on mars, saying we found water on mars makes it sound like we’re tackling the same problem over and over, we’re learning all kinds of stuff about mars, yes there’s water on mars but first let’s define water, gender neutral martians, “sublimate” makes Caroline happy, there is sometimes and maybe water on mars, there definitely used to be water on mars, martian time periods, stop personifying mars Caroline, “the planet Vulcan’; the astronomers still watching intently”, the precovery of Pluto 15 years before its discovery, the rock dove became the pigeon, pigeons were  domesticated multiple times, pigeons may be the first domesticated bird, 350 breeds of domesticated pigeons, met gala pigeon looks, endurance pigeons flying for 22 hours, homing pigeon navigation, reddit quotes, the pigeon origins of Reuters, these are kinds of jokes you can support with your donation, listener submitted comeback, world war pigeons, 36 Dickin Medals went to pigeons, feral domestic pigeons, pigeons are better pets than parrots, stress egg laying, Darwin loved pigeons.

    Sources:
    Sex and Gender by Archer and Lloyd, 2002.
    A Brief History of ‘Gender’
    Nature or Nurture: The Case of the Boy Who Became a Girl 
    PEW: On Gender Differences, No Consensus on Nature vs. Nurture
    2008 Paper: The Nature and Nurture of Gender
    1993 Paper: Physical attractiveness of boys with gender identity disorder
    2019 Paper: Neurobiology of gender identity and sexual orientation
    Cleveland Clinic: Androgens
    2022 paper: Brain Sex in Transgender Women Is Shifted towards Gender Identity
    2020 Paper: Brain Sex Differences Related to Gender Identity Development: Genes or Hormones?
    2020 Paper: Neuroscience and Sex/Gender: Looking Back and Forward
    PBS: Map of Gender Diverse Cultures 
    Article: Indigenous Tribes Embraced Gender Fluidity Prior to Colonisation
    MIT: Gender Pay Gap
    STEM Women: The Gender Pay Gap in STEM
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    Early Mars Ovservations and the Canals
    William Herschel on Mars to the Royal Society
    Basalla on Herschel's Sun People Theory
    Lowell to Nature on Life on Mars
    Lowell's Mars Canal Obsession
    List of Mars Missions
    Vox's Mars Water Article
    Nasa 2015 Press Release
    Nasa 2017 Walk Back Press Release
    NYTimes 2015 Water on Mars
    NYTimes 2018 Lake on Mars
    Space.com 2022 Water could be Magma
    "Recent" Water Found on Mars
    Ask a Nasa Scientist "Is There Water on Mars"
    Stability of the Liquid Water Phase on Mars
    Nasa on Mars In Depth
    Smithsonian Magazine Water on Mars
    NYTimes Planet Vulcan Reporting 1876
    The Precovery of Pluto
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    Wendall Levi: Pigeon Guy
    Jacobin Pigeon
    Pouter Pigeon
    Squabs
    Gilbert & Shapiro: Pigeon Domestication
    Domestic Pigeons Paper
    Why Pigeons, Not Parrots

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    1 hr 43 min
  • Best Of Everything!

    It's our first Best Of episode! We sat down to listen to and talk about the topics YOU told us were your favorites!

    Temporal Illusions! Eurovision! Dodos, and so much more! 

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    We also learn about: 

    The handsome Dr. Ella Hubber, if a friend recommended this to you they’re amazing and didn’t start that orphanage fire, declaring Tom’s love for Carly in the first episode, the first “Comedy”, Tom’s Eurovision indoctrination, the grim Holiday Episode, *aggressively podcasts at man*, seeing Tom’s wheels spinning, Let’s Go To Therapy Together!

     

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    1 hr 33 min
  • 41: Eyevolution, Eliminating Mosquitos, and Bagged Milk w/ Sabrina Cruz

    What are some of the wildest ways that eyes have evolved?  What would happen if we got rid of all mosquitos, and how would we even do it?  And how on Earth did some Canadians come to love bagged milk?

    Images we talk about:
    The  Picture Tom had on his Dorm Wall
    The Sheep Video

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    Timestamps:
    (00:00:00) Intro
    (00:05:15) Eyevolution
    (00:44:03) Eliminating Mosquitos
    (01:18:11) Bagged Milk
    (01:41:18) Outro

    We also learn about: 

    Ella you’ve made it! it’s bagged milk all the way down, organs of extreme perfection and complication, misquoting Darwin, this is cliche because this is where this came from, Darwin’s clickbait, Eyevolution 2 Eyelectric BoogEyeloo, eye diagrams on Tom’s dorm wall, octopi are aliens, we are the ones with backward photoreceptors, you’re perfect just the way you are, horizontal and vertical pupils, cats have built in sunglasses, taller animals have rounder pupils, using the blur gradient for depth perception most, birds have circular pupils, compensatory cyclovergence in goats, horror writers have rotating goat eyes, w shaped pupils in cuttlefish, heart shaped pupils, frog pupils are a mystery, “I ought to conquer the cold shudder”, it’s just 1 mosquito species or 3,000, mosquitos are on every continent, vegetarian mosquitos, blood drinking mosquitos only drink blood to reproduce, I thought we were capri suns, *joke about women here*, palette, no plant requires mosquito pollination, the mosquito fish, mosquitos are delectable… uh… for fish, does every entomologist eat bugs, dark clouds of arctic mosquitos, cleaning pools just lacks that wow factor, mosquitos annoy caribou to death, the ecosystem would hiccup and move on, the invisible hand of mosquitos, nearly half of all people ever to live have been killed by mosquito disease, extirpation, the classic sterile insect technique has been used since the 1950s, you are the third person I’ve known whose had to sex fruit flies, “Ella’s Virgins”, filling mosquitos with good bacteria, spider venom fungus to brutally kill mosquitos, why are you here Sabrina, casual Ella lore drop about living in Canada, milk with the skin on, you don’t raw dog the milk bag, a heavy cold hacky sack, metric system looking pretty sexy, the metrication of Canada, this new fancy bag milk technology, too much marketing brain, demetricating, DIY bag milk, Sabrina’s got big misc energy.

    Sources: 
    The Origin of Species
    Serb & Eernisse on Cephalopod Eyes
    David Holmes on the "Weird Wiring" of our Eyes
    Labin & Ribak One Theory Why Our Eyes are Wired Backwards
    The Amazing Meta-Analysis of Pupil Shape from Banks et al.
    NPR Interview of Eye Researchers
    W Shaped Pupil of Cuttlefish
    Pupil Diversity in Frogs
    Darwin's Leter to Asa
    ---
    Ecology: A world without Mosquitoes
    What would happen if we eliminated the worlds mosquitoes
    The different types of mosquitoes
    Malaria Facts
    Irradiated mosquitoes
    GM Mosquitoes
    World Mosquito Program
    Mosquito Killing Fungus
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    CBC on Selling Milk in Bags
    Metrication - A Guide for Consumers (1974)
    Report on Canadian Metrication Progress
    CBC on Canada's Bagged Milk History

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    1 hr 47 min
  • 40: Mitochondrial Eve, Climate Change CRISPR, and Telephone Music

    Who is the most recent human we all share our DNA with?  How can CRISPR be used to help the climate crisis?  And what do telephones have to do with music?

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    Timestamps:
    (00:00:00) Intro
    (00:04:22) Mitochondrial Eve
    (00:39:21) Climate Change CRISPR
    (01:14:15) Telephone Music
    (01:47:15) Outro

    Images we talk about:

    Early Headphone Advertisement

    We also learn about: Dartboard topics, Most recent common female ancestor, that’s actually the topic! endosymbiotically engulfing mitochondria, every animal now has this little friend, a fly gets caught in a photocopier and now we can’t live without it, mitochondrial DNA is only passed down the female line, mitochondrial DNA mutates once every 8,000 years, mitochondrial eve may have existed 150,000 years ago, eve wasn’t alone but she was our common ancestor, the eve of sperm whales was only 10,000 years ago, for squids it was 35,000 years, “won’t somebody think of the men”, Y Chromosomal Adam may have come from 210,000 years ago, concestor, simulating the concestor in a simulation, it’s not really a family tree it’s a messy web that we can draw a triangle around, GMOs vs Gene Editing, cool rad interspersed short palindromic repeats, tell them about how repairs happen! just some extracurricular learning, tom guesses cow farts in one, fartless cows without editing the cows themselves, we could eat less meet or just genome edit our way out of this, blue ribbon cow fart judge, is this a bandaid? making plants work harder to absorb CO2, photosynthesis labor laws, it’s not just “eat more carbon” it’s also grow deeper roots, “adapting the world to suit our misuse, rather than trying to improve our own behavior”, who needs pesticides when you have ugly plants, the scientific community is carefully thinking about these things, head phones, switchboard operators, that’s so gool, tom puts the podcast on hold, the devil invented hold music, hold music and temporal perception. no music makes time slow down, the fans of hold music, Tim Carleton’s stereo mistake “yeah… sorry about that”, the vocal encoder, mmm whatcha say, “it is the identity of our artistic project”, Ella’s Sherlock ringtone, Dark Blue, a book about making ringtones, 346   certified gold ringtones, Beyonce is the ringtone queen, ringtone podcasts, can only hope we’re causing as many people bodily harm as possible

    Sources:
    No, a Mitochondrial “Eve” Is Not the First Female in a Species
    Origin of Mitochondria
    Biologos: Mitochondrial Eve and Y Chromosome Adam
    Mitochondrial DNA and human evolution
    All About Mitochondrial Eve: An Interview with Rebecca Cann
    Molecular Clock
    Haplogroups
    Giant Squid Mitochondrial Eve
    Sequencing Y Chromosomes Resolves Discrepancy in Time to Common Ancestor of Males Versus Females
    The 'extremely ancient' chromosome
    Most Recent common ancestor
    ---
    National Human Genome Research Institue: What is genome editing?
    GOV.UK: Plans to unlock power of gene editing unveiled
    Nature: History of Agricultural Biotechnology: How Crop Development has Evolved
    Synthego: History of Genetic Engineering and the Rise of Genome Editing Tools
    BROAD Institute: Questions and Answers about CRISPR
    2021 Paper: Application of Gene Editing for Climate Change in Agriculture
    Innovature: Gene Editing Is A Key To Environmental Sustainability
    2021 Paper: EU policy must change to reflect the potential of gene editing for addressing climate change
    2019 Paper: Application of genetic modification and genome editing for developing climate-smart banana
    UC Davis: Can CRISPR Cut Methane Emissions From Cow Guts?
    Article: Biotech company claims genetic selection can cut methane emissions in cattle
    2017 Paper: Is Editing the Genome for Climate Change Adaptation Ethically Justifiable?
    Cut and Paste - Francis Crick Institude
    ---
    Headphone History from Smithsonian Mag
    Hold Music Technicalities from NPR
    The Influence of Music on Temporal Perceptions in an on-hold Waiting Situation
    This American Life Hold Music Episode
    Tim Carleton's Opus No 1 from The Atlantic
    Opus No 1 in Mono and Carleton's Comment
    Vocal Encoder Patent
    Logic Manual on Vocoder History
    Daft Punk Vocoder Interview
    Book on Ring Tones
    CNN Ring Tone Interviews from 2006
    RIAA Gold & Platinum Ringtones
    CNN on Phone Music

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    1 hr 51 min
  • Tom-nical Difficulties: Back in a Week! (And the week after that!)

    Tom threw out his voice screaming about the new Zelda game (not actually) so we're delaying the next episode.  But! We're not shifting the release schedule so the next episode will still come out the Thursday after!

    In the meantime, check out the episode of Veritasium that Tom researched and wrote! 

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMQbHMgK2rw

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    3 min
  • 39: The Pill, The 2 Highest Points on Earth, and Period Products

    What are the myths and facts around the hormonal birth control pill?  Why are there two highest points on Earth, and does that teach us about our planet?  And what are all the ways period products affect the world we live in?

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    Timestamps:
    (00:00:00) Intro
    (00:03:04) The Pill
    (00:52:01) The 2 Highest Points on Earth
    (01:28:28) Period Products
    (01:49:10) Outro

    We also learn about: Now that’s a rabbithole I can go down, taking half the pill makes you bi, LLE now played in health classes across the nation, the Ebers papyrus, they weren’t just using contraception they were communicating it, ancient Egyptian RAs, can’t get pregnant when you’re dead from mercury poisoning, the witch bull, bundling is the x games of abstinence, Tom definitely knows how the pill works, it’s not that men don’t know about women’s health it’s that women have to know about men’s health too, 1827 we discover the egg, 1843 confirmed conception happens when sperm enters the egg, the worlds fair of contraception, the American Birth Control League, Ella has a revelation, if I were a contraception and you took me I’d be an oral contraception, the original pill was 66x stronger to try to prove it was effective, bogus bad faith birth control studies, don’t well me, the Earth is squished because it spins, Team Everest vs Team Chimborazo, what the fuck is sea level, NERD I KNOW YOU’RE DOING MATH, nonbinary sex ed is just learning about mountains, 8,000 meters above Church, the air-sea interface, the metonic cycle of 19 years, carrying sea level, that’s what Tom gets for planning a joke, the geoid, a slide from Everest to Chimborazo, the death zone, our third ancient Egypt reference, Hypatia throws a pad, i got you a 100 rock that’s what you need right? the black hole of period history, you can’t abstinence periods, if you’ve used a sanitary belt join the discord! using WWII bandages, menstrual products vs the environment, the menstrual cup recommended by 3/3 members of the podcast, period poverty, the pink tax and the tampon tax, menstrual contact “turns new wine sour” “hives of bees die”, the stigma and cost of menstrual products, efforts to reduce period poverty, sniping review corner.

    Sources:
    Paper: The history of contraception: From ancient egyptians to the "morning after"
    NYT: In Ancient Times, Flowers and Fennel For Family Planning
    NHS: Sex and contraception after birth
    The Bull of Innocent VIII
    Mercury Policy MIT: History Of Mercury Use in Products and Processes
    Book: Encyclopedia of Motherhood, Volume 1
    Paper: Resisting Reproduction: Reconsidering Slave Contraception in the Old South
    UN: Contraceptive Use by Method
    PBS: The Timeline of the Pill
    Vox: Where The Pill is Free
    Planned Parenthood: History of the Pill
    Paper: Return to fertility following discontinuation of oral contraceptives
    Paper: “They Destroy the Reproductive System”: Exploring the Belief that Modern Contraceptive Use Causes Infertility
    The Guardian: Contraceptive Pill 'Can Lead Women to Choose Wrong Partner'
    Paper: MHC-correlated odour preferences in humans and the use of oral contraceptives
    Paper: The impact of combined oral contraceptives on ocular tissues: a review of ocular effects
    Paper: Oral contraceptive use in women changes preferences for male facial masculinity and is associated with partner facial masculinity
    Paper: Relationship Satisfaction and Outcome in Women Who Meet Their Partner While Using Oral Contraception
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    NOAA on the Tallest Mountain
    Nat Geo on Sea Level
    Britannica Definition of Sea Level
    Bradshaw's History of English Levelling
    NOAA on the Metonic Cycle
    Vox on the GeoPolitics of Surveying
    NOAA's New Datum for 2025
    GIS Geography on the Geoid
    ESRI on the Geoid
    Everest's Death Zone
    Scientific American on the Geoid
    Ciro Pabon on the Practicality of Sea Level
    ---
    Menstruation Products in the Science Museum
    History of The Tampon
    The Evolution of Menstrual Products
    Enviromenstrual Fact Sheet
    Which Period Products Are Best for the Environment?
    The Tampon Tax: Everything You Need to Know
    Tampon Tax Abolished
    Action Aid: Period Poverty

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    1 hr 54 min
  • 38: Ellen Weatherford, Can Fish Drown, and Real Pokemon

    Special guest Ellen Weatherford joins us to ask: just how interesting can water and fish be?  And are there any pokemon inspired by strange but real animals? 

    Check out Ellen's podcasts "Just the Zoo of Us" and "Spellbound and Gagged"

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    We also learn about: defining fish, “just be cool about it”, defining drowning, Ellen and Caroline teach Tom and Ella about where water oxygen comes from, history of breathing, where we’re going we don’t need bones, christmas tree worm, osmoregulation and ion gradients i love it and i wish i understood it better, keeping a salt backpack, gills and lungs, “sorry for the crisis”, I’ve been sleeping on fish, mmmmm actually gonna evolve back to the water, can I get a return on these lungs? but what we’re talking about is drowning. cold water more oxygen, arapaima, ding ding ding drowning yay! thousand mile dead zones, only some sharks need to move to breathe, Ram Ventilation vs Buccal Pumping at Coachella, buccal vs buckle, asmr buccal pumping, tuna need to swim or drown, letting arapaima rest in your arms, learning to love fish, Spiders and Commitment, alligators vs manatees, singing a B flat for gators, alligator snapping turtle, bringing Ellen to party, Wooper and Clodsire, the iberian ribbed newt, obliterating your future husband with a Whimsicott.

    Sources:
    WHO Definition of Drowning
    Origin of Gills
    2022 Gill Ion Regulation Paper
    Evolution of Lungs
    Lung Conversion to Swim Bladders
    How Fish Deal with Salinity
    Salmon Osmoregulation
    Bullshark Osmoregulation
    Cold Water Holds more Oxygen
    Hypoxia Adaptations in the Amazon Rainforest
    Air Breathing Arapaima
    Gill Remodeling
    Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone
    Hypoxia Task Force
    Tuna Ram Ventilation

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    1 hr 22 min
  • 37: Loving Toxicity, Future Warnings, and Better Burials

    Is there more to learn than to fear from toxic animals? How would we warn future humans about present dangers? And what are  better ways for us to be buried? 

    Things we mention:
    WIPP Mock Up Images

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    We also learn about:

    This ant can kill 1 million elephants, haven’t found a venomous mushroom… yet, a lot of my friends are toxic frogs, nom nom nom I eat poison, don’t touch shit, from none to death, the schmidt sting index, I want the data not the sting, what schmidts data was actually saying, some toxins don’t correlate with pain or lethality, venomous mammals are have in common that they’re disregarded, shrews beareth a cruel mind, arguably venomous slow lorises, expanding our definition of toxicity, letting tom load a joke, protecting the future from caroline’s savage burns, the waste isolation pilot plant, 573 known extinct languages, I can haz nuclear waste? skull and crossbones, cubed morphines, “this place is a message…this place is not a place of honor”, landscape of thorns, forboding blocks, it’s giving kiki, taking a photo on a spike for the gram, nucelar priesthood, ray cats, “they didnt really care what we said i think”, understanding our past to connect to our future, just leave a dvd of the mummy, we’ve been burying people for 120,000 years, inventing oven crypts in the 1800s, gotta workshop the name oven crypt, “I want to be in a big bone pit”, lots of places resuse plots, just walking past a pile of tombstones! blasting our relatives into the stratosphere, natural burials, fungus coffins, water cremation.

    Sources:
    Poison, Venom, Toxungens
    Atlas Obscura Schmidt Sting Index
    NPR Justin Schmidt Interview
    First Sting Index Paper: Hemolytic Activities of Stinging Insect Venoms
    Evolution of Stings and Sociality
    NYTimes Interview with Schmidt
    Venomous Mammals: A Review
    Nekaris Paper on Loris Bites Between Each Other
    Loris Venom for Communication
    Loris Venom for Cobra Mimicry
    Shrew Spit Tames Cancer Cells
    Justin Schmidt Obituary
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    The US Energy Department Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
    EPA What is Transuranic Radioactive Waste?
    Understanding Extinct Languages: When and Why They Die Off
    Jolly Roger
    Pirates, Poison, and Professors: A Look at the Skull and Crossbones Symbol
    Expert Judgement on Markers to Deter Inadvertent Human Intrusion into the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
    Summary of WIPP Team A report with images
    Vice: How to Warn the Future About Toxic Waste
    Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository
    Nevada Attorney General: The Fight Against Yucca Mountain
    The Ray Cat Solution
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    BBC: Death Rituals in the Animal Kingdom
    BBC: What Happens When We Run Out of Space to Bury the Dead
    BBC: The World is Running Out of Burial Space
    A Thought Experiment by J. Harrington
    Forbes: Rising to Heaven 
    Dawn: South Africa's Graveyard Generation Mourns 
    IOL: What About the Ancestors 
    Paper: The environmental pollution caused by cemeteries and cremations: A review
    EA: The Grave Issue of Pollution From Cemeteries 
    Sending Your Ashes to Spaces
    Smithsonian: What is Water Cremation
    Ask A Mortician
    Ask A Mortician: Water Cremation
    Ask A Mortician: Green Burial Options

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    2 hr
  • 36: Scientific Language Models, The Smell of Space, and Forgotten Olympic Events

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    Can Large Language Models be used for good in scientific fields?  Could space smell... good?  And what olympic events have we tried, abandoned, and completely forgotten about?

    Things we mention:
    Compulsory Figures

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    We also learn about:

    Using ChatGPT to break up with your partner, it’s all very dry, you have to know the knowledge going in, LLMs are tools not databases, ChatGPT as a co-author, authorship carries accountability, Galactica was only public for 3 days, you can’t use galactica anymore happy??? racist protien AI, Protien and Chemistry Language Models are amazing, transparency with AI, the Bloom Project, ChatGPT emotionally ends the episode early, be funnier, in space no one can smell you smell, Venus smells like eggs, Tom volunteers to smell space, how smell works, don’t breathe if you’re driving, olfactory epithelium, 40 million olfactory neurons. a 40 million piece slimy jigsaw in my nose, asmr smells, 1 atom per cubic centimeter in space, Tim Peake’s answer, the smell of static, getting a refund for Tim’s answer, making ozone in space, sexy dying stars, Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon, your grill makes star smell, raspberries at the center of our universe, a number so big it makes you laugh, the IRAM telescope, one of the largest interstellar molecules, I’ll show you Tim Peake! I was looking for amino acids but now I know what the black hole cloud might smell like, combining all the smells into a cocktail, who knows what the rest of space smells like! No, I’m going to fight you Caroline, Koribos wins the entire Olympics, the rise in wells, ancient pump up music, armor racing a car with 4 minds of its own, the 5 month long Olympics, putting the figure in figure skating, dueling flash mob, the wonder of demonstration sports, goal ball, Olympic tiktoking, hurting Caroline and Ella with the art Olympics, write fanfiction for us, at least they had standards to not give medals, that’s my dad on a bike! trying can be more poetic than poetry.

    Sources:

    How ChatGPT works
    What ChatGPT and Generative AI Mean for Science – Nature
    Nature Biomedical Engineering Paper
    ChatGPT: Five Prioroties for Research – Nature
    Specialised LLMs – Toward Data Science
    Galactica Only Survived Three Days
    Med-BERT
    NVIDIA Blog on Biology LLMs
    Bloom: the Open LLM
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    TedEd: How Does Smell Work?
    Tim Peak- What Space Smells Like
    Australian Academy of Science
    Increased complexity in Interstellar Chemistry 2009
    NASA: Comet 67P/ Churyumov-Gerasimenko
    Space: Comet 67P
    Smithsonian: Asteroid 162173 Ryugu
    Scientific America: Four Great Scents From Outer Space
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    Hippias' History of Olympics
    Hugh Lee's Paper on the First Recorded Olympics
    MET: Ancient Olympics
    IOC: Chariot Racing
    Official Record of Early Olympics Games
    LA Times: Compulsory Figures
    Skating Scene: Compulsory Figures
    WSJ: Compulsory Figures
    Ellyn Kestnbaum's Culture on Ice
    Royal Armories: Dueling at the Olympics
    Gliding at he Olympics
    IOC: Horse Skijoring
    Goalball Origins
    Smithsonian Mag: Art at the Olym
    O Sport Poem

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    1 hr 59 min

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