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July 12, 2021117: The 'Sophia the Robot' Conspiracy
Sophia the Robot is one of the most famous robots in the world, outside of those in Sci-fi. Although, there may be more fiction than fact when it comes to her artificial intelligence…

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References & Further Reading

What is a Robot?
https://www.britannica.com/technology/robot-technology
Sophia The Robot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78-1MlkxyqI
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/05/hanson-robotics-sophia-the-robot-pr-stunt-artificial-intelligence.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fnCQC7bLs0
https://www.hansonrobotics.com/sophia/
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/article/sophia-robot-artificial-intelligence-science
https://www.businessinsider.com/meet-the-first-robot-citizen-sophia-animatronic-humanoid-2017-10?r=US&IR=T
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zarastone/2017/11/07/everything-you-need-to-know-about-sophia-the-worlds-first-robot-citizen/#18ede81546fa
https://www.businessinsider.com/sophia-robot-hanson-robotics-other-humanoids-2017-11?r=US&IR=T
Strong AI, Chinese Room & Turing Tests
https://www.ibm.com/cloud/learn/strong-ai
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-room/
https://iep.utm.edu/chineser/
https://www.britannica.com/technology/Turing-test#ref1252405
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1 hr 17 min
July 05, 2021116: The Science of Hay Fever
This week we get sneezy and wheezy, because the plants are being sleazy. Hay Fever is one of the most common allergies in the world & there’s a lot of science behind it that might surprise you...

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References & Further Reading

Hay Fever
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/hay-fever/
https://www.britannica.com/science/hay-fever-pathology
https://www.britannica.com/science/pollen
https://www.britannica.com/plant/timothy
https://www.britannica.com/science/rhinitis
https://www.allergyuk.org/information-and-advice/statistics
Antihistamines
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/antihistamines/#:~:text=How%20antihistamines%20work,which%20helps%20protect%20the%20body.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3667286/
Hay Fever In Japan
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20210317/p2a/00m/0na/029000c
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4160535/
Hay Fever Treatment
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/nhli/research/research-impact/allergen-immunotherapy-in-the-treatment-of-hayfever/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10441602/
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June 28, 2021 115: The Science of PTSD (with NoahFinnce)
NoahFinnce joins us this week to talk about PTSD, our patron-voted topic for this month!

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References & Further Reading

1. https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/conditions/post-traumatic-stress-disorder-ptsd/overview/#:~:text=Post%2Dtraumatic%20stress%20disorder%20(PTSD)%20is%20an%20anxiety%20disorder,stressful%2C%20frightening%20or%20distressing%20events.
2. https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/types-of-mental-health-problems/post-traumatic-stress-disorder-ptsd-and-complex-ptsd/symptoms/
3. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3181836/
4. https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/conditions/post-traumatic-stress-disorder-ptsd/complex/
5. https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/types-of-mental-health-problems/post-traumatic-stress-disorder-ptsd-and-complex-ptsd/symptoms/
6. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32847484/
7. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29502529/
8. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5604756/

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June 21, 2021114: Alien Hand Syndrome
What would you do if your hand developed a mind of its own? No, this isn’t sci-fi, this is a reality for people with Alien Hand Syndrome…

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References & Further Reading
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11910-016-0676-z
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19434588/
https://pn.bmj.com/content/practneurol/4/1/44.full.pdf
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11910-016-0676-z.pdf
https://www.jsmf.org/meetings/2008/may/Mark%20VW%202008%20Alien%20hand%20syndrome.pdf
https://n.neurology.org/content/91/11/527.long
https://jnnp.bmj.com/content/65/3/366
https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/inside-the-mind/human-brain/alien-hand.htm#pt3
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/uk-12225163.amp
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4059570/
1 hr 1 min
June 14, 2021 113: The Ridiculous Yellow Fever Experiments
Stubbins Ffirth was a mess student who really went above and beyond to become a doctor, by using himself as a guinea pig to test the infectiousness of yellow fever…

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Yellow Fever
1. https://www.britannica.com/science/yellow-fever
2. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/yellow-fever
3. https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/yellow-fever/
4. https://www.cdc.gov/yellowfever/vaccine/index.html
5. https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/diseases/yellow-fever
6. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2892770/

Stubbins Ffirth and his experiments
1. https://wellcomecollection.org/works/mrme9h3v
2. http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2050030-2,00.html
3. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newscientist.com/article/dn16735-eight-scientists-who-became-their-own-guinea-pigs/amp/
4. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/1163961
5. https://www.nature.com/articles/nj6959-745a
6. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44450391?seq=1
1 hr 3 min
June 07, 2021112: The Science of Sleepwalking
We know that some people can walk around while fast asleep, but how does it work? What else can you do in your sleep? What would happen if you broke the law?
Science might have the answers…
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References & Further Reading

Sleepwalking Basics
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/sleepwalking/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28363449/
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(18)31288-0?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0960982218312880%3Fshowall%3Dtrue
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17931980/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-science-of-sleepwalking-97626685/
https://n.neurology.org/content/78/20/1583
Sleepwalking & The Law
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15229043/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1286639/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4506454/
https://www.sleep.theclinics.com/article/S1556-407X(11)00086-5/fulltext
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain (2011) David Eagleman

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May 31, 2021111: The Science of DPRD (with Dodie)
This week our patrons voted for Depersonalisation Derealisation Disorder and Dodie joined us to give her insight on the topic!

CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of Drug Use between 44:38 and 47:53.
Listen to dodie’s album: https://dodie.ffm.to/buildaproblem

Unreal Charity: https://www.unrealuk.org/

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References & Further Reading
Psychopathology (2019) Graham Davey
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain (2011) David Eagleman
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24967634/
https://oce.ovid.com/article/00005053-199809000-00004/HTML
https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/pdf/10.1176/appi.ajp.2016.16010029
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0165032716318961?via%3Dihub
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6964445/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7239558/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4924239/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29877178/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4204471/
https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/conditions/dissociative-disorders/
https://frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.535652/full
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1 hr 20 min
May 24, 2021110: The Science of Blackness
You’ve probably heard of Vantablack, the black that was once the blackest in the world, but you probably haven’t heard of the war it started between two artists - Stuart Semple & Anish Kapoor.

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References & Further Reading
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/artist-only-person-banned-using-worlds-pinkest-pink-180961464/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NzVmtbPOrM
https://www.surreynanosystems.com/about/vantablack
https://www.wired.com/story/vantablack-anish-kapoor-stuart-semple/
https://news.mit.edu/2019/blackest-black-material-cnt-0913
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/mummy-art-painting-delacroix-pigment-ancient-Egypt
https://culturehustle.com/
https://www.archpaper.com/2017/07/anish-kapoor-blackest-black/
http://stuartsemple.com/about/
https://www.livescience.com/32559-why-do-we-see-in-color.html
https://science.howstuffworks.com/vantablack.htm
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/06/garden/what-you-can-do-with-vantablack-the-darkest-material-ever-made.html

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47 min
May 17, 2021109: This Will Get On Your Nerves
Rita Levi-Montalcini is probably one of the greatest scientists you’ve never heard of. She created a lab in a spare room when Jews were banned from science in WWII, continued to work when she was 100 years old, and fought against fascism! Oh, and she knew a lot about nerves…

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https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1986/levi-montalcini/facts/
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Rita-Levi-Montalcini
https://www.pnas.org/content/110/13/4873
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/finding-the-good-rita-levi-montalcini/
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/science/2012/dec/30/rita-levi-montalcini
https://www.nature.com/news/2009/090401/full/458564a.html
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jez.1400680305
https://nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1749-6632.1952.tb26548.x

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1 hr 5 min
May 10, 2021108: The Deepest Hole on Earth (with Bliss)
What is at the centre of the planet? Surprisingly… We have a really good idea but we’re still not 100% sure. Turns out it’s pretty hard to get to.

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References & Further Reading
http://www.bbc.com/future/bespoke/story/20150306-journey-to-the-centre-of-earth/
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190503-the-deepest-hole-we-have-ever-dug#:~:text=This%20is%20the%20Kola%20Superdeep,of%20souls%20tortured%20in%20hell.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/earth/story/20150814-what-is-at-the-centre-of-earth
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19926751-800-unknown-earth-what-is-at-the-centre-of-the-earth/
https://www.sciencefocus.com/planet-earth/what-is-at-earths-core/
https://www.livescience.com/new-earth-layer-solid-inner-core.html#:~:text=The%20liquid%20outer%20core%20starts,and%20a%20bit%20of%20nickel
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2020JB020545
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/ask-smithsonian-whats-deepest-hole-ever-dug-180954349/
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/EarthSci/people/lidunka/GEOL2014/Geophysics7%20-%20Deep%20Earth/Earth%20Structure.htm
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190503-the-deepest-hole-we-have-ever-dug
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Sci Guys is a podcast all about the weird and unbelievable ways that scientists learn about the world around us. Each week, Corry (@notcorry) tells the story of a particularly strange scientific study while his cohost Luke (@lukecutforth) does his best to derail the conversation with questions, jokes, and whatever nonsense he can think of.