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As SpaceX delivers its first payload of astronauts to the ISS, we look at low gravity toilets, using bacteria to mine metals on Mars and the expansion of plant-based food options here on earth. 

Hosts: Matt Armitage & Richard Bradbury 

Produced: Richard Bradbury for BFM89.9

Episode Sources:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/11/10/1011935/microbes-extract-metals-minerals-space-rocks-mining/

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/nov/17/spacex-dragon-capsule-astronauts-crew-docks-with-the-international-space-station-nasa

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2259920-your-own-sweat-could-be-used-to-produce-a-natural-antiperspirant/

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/nov/18/fleets-twitter-launches-disappearing-tweets-tool-worldwide

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/17/movies/harry-potter-tiktok.html

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/nov/18/unilever-sets-target-of-1bn-in-annual-sales-of-plant-based-foods

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2260415-computer-vision-can-estimate-calorie-content-of-food-at-a-glance/

https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/09/mcdonalds-to-launch-a-mcplant-vegetarian-option/

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2259491-ai-vision-could-be-improved-with-sensors-that-mimic-human-eyes/

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2020/nov/16/sound-walks-new-way-to-travel-in-lockdown

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The digital world is a place where the fast, the dynamic and the disruptive rule. Would it shock you to find out that same world sits on top of 50 year old software that only a handful of people remember how to code?
Hosts: Matt Armitage & Richard Bradbury
Produced: Richard Bradbury for BFM89.9

Episode Sources:
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24833070-800-how-covid-19-has-exposed-a-huge- computing-disaster-in-the-making/
https://twitter.com/bbcmicrobot?s=20

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Can we save the Internet by breaking it and making the digital world less streamlined and friction free? 

Hosts: Matt Armitage & Richard Bradbury 

Produced: Richard Bradbury for BFM89.9

Episode Sources:

https://www.wired.com/story/to-mend-a-broken-internet-create-online-parks/ 

https://www.wired.com/story/digital-nunchi-virtual-empathy-tips/

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Sky diamonds, life on Venus, facial recognition earphones and artistic drone swarms. It must be the future.

Episode Sources:
https://scitechdaily.com/what-is-phosphine-and-why-does-it-point-to-extra-terrestrial- life-floating-in-the-clouds-of-venus/
Sky diamonds https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/oct/30/ecotricity- founder-to-grow-diamonds-made-entirely-from-the-sky  https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24833063-800-there-may-not-be-life-on-venus- after-all-but-we-shouldnt-despair/ https://news.mit.edu/2020/solar-extracts-drinkable-water-1014 https://www.newscientist.com/article/2256925-earphone-cameras-watch-your-facial- expressions-and-read-your-lips/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/2256822-microwaving-plastic-waste-can-generate- clean-hydrogen/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/2257229-water-could-be-extracted-from-desert-air- using-heat-from-sunlight/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/2257926-robot-trained-in-a-game-like-simulation- performs-better-in-real-life/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/2258426-hawk-inspired-robot-with-movable-wings-is- an-agile-long-distance-flyer/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/2256803-robot-swarms-guided-by-human-artists- could-paint-colourful-pictures/

EPISODE TRANSCRIPT
Hosts: Matt Armitage & Richard Bradbury

Produced: Richard Bradbury for BFM89.9

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Last weekused the term endsourcing to describe the phasing out of human workers in a growing number of sectors of the economy. This week, we’re going a step further to ask: are we prepared for a post work world

Hosts: Matt Armitage & Richard Bradbury 

Produced: Richard Bradbury for BFM89.9

Episode Sources:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24833031-000-will-robots-and-ai-take-our-jobs-in-covid-19s-socially-distanced-era/

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Can we engineer our way out of our current climate and health crises? Meet the science that is hacking evolution, and in some cases, turning back time.

Hosts: Matt Armitage & Richard Bradbury 

Produced: Richard Bradbury for BFM89.9

Episode Sources:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24833031-000-will-robots-and-ai-take-our-jobs-in-covid-19s-socially-distanced-era/ 

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Can we engineer our way out of our current climate and health crises? Meet the science that is hacking evolution, and in some cases, turning back time.

Hosts: Matt Armitage & Richard Bradbury 

Produced: Richard Bradbury for BFM89.9

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As the CIA announces new revenue sharing models for spies, we take a look at nuclear batteries, touchy-feely cameras and Deep Fakery.

Hosts: Matt Armitage & Richard Bradbury
Produced: Richard Bradbury for BFM89.9

Episode Sources:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2254877-ai-camera-can-tell-what-surfaces-feel-like-with-just-a-glance/ 

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/sep/22/elon-musk-says-cheaper-more-powerful-electric-vehicle-batteries-are-3-years-off

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/09/21/1008654/cias-new-tech-recruiting-pitch-more-patents-more-profits/

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24733010-700-safe-extra-long-life-nuclear-batteries-could-soon-be-a-reality/

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/09/29/1009098/ai-deepfake-putin-kim-jong-un-us-election/ 

https://youtu.be/ERQlaJ_czHU

https://youtu.be/sbFHhpYU15w 

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“How do you wake up from the matrix when you don’t know you’re in the matrix?” That’s pne of the key questions posed in Netflix docudrama The Social Dilemma. Matt Armitage takes the red pill and the blue pill and wakes up in the future.

Hosts: Matt Armitage & Richard Bradbury
Produced: Richard Bradbury for BFM89.9

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We often refer to technology as ‘a step in the right direction’ on the assumption that better things will follow. What happens when those steps themselves become the problem? Walk This Way as MSP’s Matt Armitage takes you into the strange world of step recognition.

Hosts: Matt Armitage & Richard Bradbury

Produced: Richard Bradbury for BFM89.9

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Episode Sources:

• https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-16/singapore-to-pay-citizens-for-keeping-healthy-with-apple-watch 
• https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24733000-800-the-way-you-walk-may-soon-be-used-by-authorities-to-identify-you/