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Tech Talk Weekly Number 140


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Episode number 140 – August 3rd 2023 – Voyager is still listening, What is up with hurricanes and fires, 40,000 year old worms, do robots need to look like you?

 

This week's guest: Shenika Romeus from North Regional Library

 

Links to this week’s stories:

Voyager is still listening:

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/02/1191341035/nasa-voyager-2-spacecraft-contact

 

No hurricanes is a good thing right?

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/08/the-atlantic-is-frying-but-so-far-hurricanes-are-dying-whats-going-on/?comments=1&comments-page=1

Everything is on fire:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/longer-fire-seasons-alberta-western-canada-1.6908230

 

Should we be waking up zombies?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2023/07/27/nematode-revived-siberian-permafrost/

Why do robots need to look like humans?

https://hackaday.com/2023/07/31/ask-hackaday-whats-the-deal-with-humanoid-robots/

 Pseudoscience is not science:

https://www.space.com/science-pseudoscience-what-is-the-difference

 

 

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

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