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April 23, 2021 Mutant rats are taking over your office
Coming up today… we get acquainted with the mutant rats taking over the office you abandoned a year ago and ask a seemingly simple question: robots… humans or animals?

The stories we talked about this week:

Your office has been taken over by an army of mutant rats
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/office-mutant-rats

Robots are animals, not humans
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/robots-animals-kate-darling

Music by Filip Hnizdo
Produced and edited (remotely) by Matt Burgess

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39 min
April 16, 2021 Golf is facing an existential crisis
Coming up today… we delve into golf’s existential crisis and have a very serious chat about puppies.

The stories we talked about this week:

Golf is facing an existential crisis
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/golf-crisis-masters-bryson-dechambeau

How to stop your pandemic puppy from going loco as lockdown lifts (available from April 17, 2021)
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/pandemic-puppies-loneliness-anxiety-dogs

Music by Filip Hnizdo
Produced and edited (remotely) by Matt Burgess

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42 min
April 09, 2021 The quest to make cheesy cheese-free cheese
Coming up today… we go on a quest to find out how to make cheesy cheese-free cheese and we delve into New Zealand’s Covid-19 bin mystery.

The quest to make genuinely cheesy dairy-free cheese
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/dairy-free-cheese

What the world can learn from New Zealand’s Covid-19 bin mystery
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/new-zealand-zero-covid-transmission

Music by Filip Hnizdo. Show produced and edited (remotely) by Matt Burgess

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40 min
April 02, 2021 Lewis Hamilton opens up about activism and life beyond F1
Coming up today… F1 supremo Lewis Hamilton on the science of success, activism and what comes next and we explore the future of artificial intelligence.

The stories we talked about this week:

Lewis Hamilton opens up about activism and life beyond F1
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/lewis-hamilton

Getting AI to work in a fleshy, messy world is harder than you think
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/artificial-intelligence-future

Music by Filip Hnizdo
Produced and edited (remotely) by Matt Burgess

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48 min
March 26, 2021 The drug that changed medicine
How one of the world's largest tech trade shows still plans to go ahead this year and we explore the fascinating future of personalised medicine.
MWC's biggest exhibitor is a tiny startup nobody's ever heard of
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/mwc-2021-exhibitors
A dying child, a mother's love and the drug that changed medicine
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/milasen-aso-gene-therapy
Music by Filip Hnizdo
Produced and edited (remotely) by Matt Burgess

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37 min
March 19, 2021 What’s the deal with NFTs?
Coming up today… we chart the rise and fall of Football Index and explain what the hell is going on with non-fungible tokens.

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43 min
March 12, 2021 The terror and trauma of surviving ICU with Covid-19
Coming up today… the long-term psychological impacts of surviving ICU with Covid-19 and how Slack can actually fix workplace communications.

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46 min
March 05, 2021 Can deepfakes replace The Simpsons?
Coming up today: we explain why anecdotal benefits of microdosing might only be a placebo effect and find out how a bunch of deepfakes could one day replace the cast of The Simpsons.

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42 min
March 05, 2021 In conversation with DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis
Demis Hassabis, CEO and co-founder of DeepMind, joins Greg Williams to discuss how AI can impact scientific research, building multidisciplinary teams – and how to combat algorithmic bias
24 min
February 26, 2021 Why grow grapes in space?
The Uber lawsuit feeding frenzy, how growing grapes in space can make wine better on Earth and the reality of life under Myanmar’s internet shutdown.

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47 min

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