You Did What Now?

This week Michael and Stephanie talking about research into intoxication and the accelerometer in your phone. Can it tell when you are drunk? Should it?

You can find the Neuralink conference everywhere. The Twitter thread about hacking Neopets is here. The reddit community about the targeted shirt ads is here. The title image is one of these shirts. I see them all the time, and now thanks to the Baader Meinhof effect, you probably will too.

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Intro Clips: 2001, Jurassic Park, Star Trek

So there's a video game approved by the FDA for treatment of ADHD, and Michael and Stephanie are here to talk about it. No, it's not Fortnite.

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Intro Clips: Simpsons, Mario, Jurassic Park

Just an FYI, that for the foreseeable future we're moving to an every other week type schedule.

So this week Michael and Stephanie are discussing a 'hidden' feature in Tesla cars called bidirectional charging. Could this untether us from our current routines? Can robots become roaming chargers? Can you just drive your car up to your lake house off the grid and power it with your vehicle?

Michael laments in this episode that he hasn't been starting his car regularly, and sure enough, the battery died. Got one of those portable charger packs off Amazon, and have been making a point to drive it at least every other day now. That was fun.

So it turns out that the feature Michael mentioned about the cars showing traffic cones on the display (right) gets tricked by trucks with those hanging testicle ornaments. You just can't ever account for every road circumstance I guess.

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Intro Clips: 1984, Matrix, Simpsons

New intro music! What do you think?

Stephanie and Michael discuss a new way to build in space, no, it's not minecraft, it's urine!

Tom Cruise and Elon Musk are indeed talking about making a movie ON the International Space Station. No idea if it'll happen, but man, that must've been an interesting conversation to listen in on. 

 

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Intro Clips: 2001, Jurassic Park, Mythbusters

Let's talk about R2D2, or cobots if you prefer. Stephanie and Michael discuss an article about robot assistants, specifically to self-driving cars, that may help passengers with needs that typically the driver would do.

R2D2, btw, doesn't really have a 'class', he's just a Second Generation Robotic Droid Series-2. 

This is a link to the Murderbot series that I haven't had a chance to read yet.

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Intro Clips: 2001, Matrix, Star Wars

Today Michael and Stephanie discuss the murder hornet invasion. Also fire ants, and lawns. If you see any bee heads on little stakes, please be wary of the murder hornets.

Here's an actual video of how the Japanese honey bees deal with an invading hornet.

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Intro Clips: Simpsons, Pinky and the Brain, Gattaca

Our, like your, world has been a little topsy turvy lately. We apologize for our unplanned hiatus, but we're back with a story about delivery robots! 

There are a few different theories about Black Mirror viewing order, I'll leave it to you to Google on your own if you're so inclined. I don't know if I'll stick to episode order or not, but if I don't I'll let you know. 

Here's the story about the feral scooters in Central Park Michael mentioned. 

Sourdough update! It's coming along I guess. This was a bit too dense. It still tasted good though.

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Intro Clips: Simpsons,Terminator, Star Trek

In a You Did What Now? first, Stephanie and Michael had a guest on. E. Rosalie Li Rodenborn is a graduate student in the Public Health Biology program at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and is here to talk about COVID-19, our latest coronavirus pandemic.

We recorded this about a week ago, so Rosalie quotes some numbers here and there that may have gotten updates in the meantime. You can follow her on Twitter or read her blog at NobelProse, or listen to her podcast for updates. Why not all three? 

We talk about origins, prevention, and innovative programs that have looked to predict and prevent outbreaks like this. I did NOT make a Corona beer joke, so please send your applause my way. 

Rosalie provided an exhaustive list of references, of which I'll mention a few. If you want some more info or where to look, please reach out.

This is an article about the shuttered USAID’s Predict program that was hunting viruses BEFORE they became pandemics to help prepare us. 

Here's one about how the warm weather may not kill this, something that the recent temporary canceling of things seems to be banking on. 

And here's a Tedx talk about using animals as sentinels against the spread of disease. 

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Intro Clips: Simpsons, Lilo and Stitch, Simpsons

Stephanie and Michael discuss a science experiment from the 1930s that explored whether Black Widow spiders are in fact poisonous. The scientific method is sound! How do you get a spider to bite a rat?

Harvey Washington Wiley was the American Chemist that created the poison squad. It's an interesting story, one that I heard about on Gastropod.

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Intro Clips: Mythbusters, Lilo and Stitch, Jurassic Park

Michael and Stephanie discuss 'anti-solar' panels and other new forms of energy generation, but first a quick update on our pal Elon Musk. He's saying the new Neuralink updates are awesome, but maybe he should keep an eye out, because there are competitors like this one called Neurosity that doesn't need to do surgery. Seems like Tesla's Solar Roof will be rolling out this year though, the company is hiring roofers. 

There's a video at the top of the CNN article that talks about the Japanese energy projects Michael mentioned, and it's not hard to find other interesting projects. Here's another about turning raindrops into power. 

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Intro Clips: Pinky and the Brain, Matrix, Terminator