Mosquitoes are learning how to ignore your repellents, cows can recognise human faces on TV, and Wi Fi can identify you through a wall with the help of AI. This week, Will and Rod flick between animal intelligence, ocean weirdness, and technology that is getting a little too confident. 

We start with mosquitoes and conditioning, because apparently even the most annoying creature on Earth can learn, grow and develop. Then we move to cows, who can tell familiar from unfamiliar human faces even when those faces are shown on a screen, and seem especially curious about strangers.

Finally, we head underwater for remoras and their bizarre cloacal diving behaviour with manta rays, before finishing with the creepiest story of the week: Wi Fi signals paired with AI that can identify people through walls. That isn't worrying at all...

 

CHAPTER MARKERS

00:00 Animals That Learn

00:35 Mosquito Study Teaser

01:00 Show Intro And Segments

01:44 Arctic Trip And Flower News

02:41 Why Mosquitoes Bite

04:12 DEET Basics And Mysteries

05:13 Mosquitoes Adapt To DEET

06:06 Training Mosquitoes To Like DEET

09:12 Remoras And Host Hitchhiking

11:29 Cloacal Diving Explained

14:41 Can Cows Recognize People

15:07 Do Cows Recognize Us

15:59 Cows Watching Human Faces

16:50 What The Study Found

17:38 Mutant Super Pigs Explained

20:22 Where Is Your Self

21:34 Head Versus Heart Research

23:56 Touch To Shift Thinking

25:19 Wi Fi Privacy Shock

27:43 AI Identifies People Via Wi Fi

29:34 No Privacy Future Wrap Up

30:35 Final Recap And Sign Off

 

SOURCES:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2526370-where-do-you-think-your-self-is-your-answer-is-revealing/

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00224499.2022.2044446

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/onanism

Speedy’s Big O video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tSfLKTTxtc

https://theconversation.com/mosquitoes-learn-to-link-the-smell-of-deet-with-a-blood-meal-new-study-283695

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.73548

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/fukushima-nuclear-disaster-tsunami-radioactive-37180117?_bhlid=82764a8d956c8f1927ebd802c09640e569aeaaf9

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0329529&ref=404media.co

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3719027.3765062

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