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Episode 10110 Hey Google, Am I Drunk? from 2020-09-24T17:53:31
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 everywh...
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Episode 23 More Video Games, Better Focused Kids from 2020-09-01T03:06:47
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. Please rate and review our show! Share us with a fr...
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Episode 10101 You Charged What Now? from 2020-07-02T04:19:52
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 bidirectio...
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Episode 22 When You’ve Gotta Go, You’ve Gotta Go from 2020-06-18T04:21:05
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...
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Episode 10100 Your Own Personal R2D2 from 2020-05-27T04:11:15
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 typicall...
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Episode 21 The Second Plague: Murder Hornets from 2020-05-14T05:07:44
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...
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Episode 0b10011 A Van Full Of Delivery Spiders from 2020-04-16T03:37:33
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...
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Episode 39 Germs Entering Every Orifice In My Face! from 2020-03-12T14:51:07
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 He...
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Episode 20 Poisoned Or Superhero, What’ll It Be? from 2020-03-06T07:00:23
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 ...
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Episode ob10010 So Long And Thanks For All The Renewable Energy from 2020-02-28T05:09:34
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...
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Episode 19 WLGM 101.7 The Spiralnauts from 2020-02-21T04:25:29
In this episode Michael and Stephanie discuss the weird radio bursts from FRB 180916.J0158+65 that are repeating every 16 days. Is it aliens? Specifically, there are one or two bursts every hour fo...
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Episode 18 Pot Making The Kettle Sicker from 2020-02-14T05:14:11
Stephanie and Michael talk about a new study that's looking into possible negative effect of of marijuana on HPV. The"World's Coldest Martini"that Michael was talking about is here. Please rate ...
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Episode ob10001 Borrowing Harry Potter’s Invisibility Shield from 2020-02-07T04:41:25
Michael and Stephanie discuss something called Quantum Stealth from the HyperStealth company that acts as an invisibility shield using basic physics. Lenticular Lenses for the win! The Adventures O...
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Episode 17 Hey Baby What’s Your Predisposition For A Variety Of Possible Genetic Disorders? from 2020-01-31T04:50:12
Michael and Stephanie discuss a potential dating app from George Church that would screen out potential matches whose pairing might let to children with serious genetic disorders. There's plenty t...
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Episode 0b10000 Our AI Isn’t Weird Enough Yet from 2020-01-24T04:28:40
Michael and Stephanie discuss a Ted Talk by Janelle Shane that talks about the weird ways AI and algorithms try to solve problems, especially when given vague controls. Janelle actually wrote a boo...
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Episode 16 The Good Tweeters from 2020-01-17T03:28:07
Stephanie and Michael discuss an experiment that seeks to find altruist birds. That's right, good birds. Or are we just projecting? Should we build giant good bird robots? The computer algorithm M...
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Episode 0b1111 The 5g Of Weather Prediction from 2020-01-10T04:16:19
Michael and Stephanie discuss the idea that new 5g technology might threaten the weather technology we rely on for storm prediction. 5G is being rolled out faster in China and Korea, spearheaded by...
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Episode 15 Hey Baby What’s Your Haplogroup? from 2019-12-19T04:59:30
Stephanie and Michael discuss the accuracy of DNA analysis to figure out your algorithms, health risks, and ancestry. Is this just 21st century astrology? 2019 is winding down. Help us out in 2020 ...
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Episode 0b1110 Whiskey Pod Challenge from 2019-12-12T21:22:44
Michael and Stephanie catch up on some old episode notes, and then talk about a company called Notpla that's worked with Glenlivet to make cocktails in a biodegradable pod. The holidays are coming...
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Episode 14 No Sleep’till Baby Shark from 2019-12-05T21:56:28
Michael and Stephanie discuss a discovered gene mutation that may allow us to need less sleep, and all the ramifications that may come with it. Maybe we'll finally catch up with our Netflix queues....
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Episode ob1101 It’s A Bird, No It’s a Plane, No It’s Your Kidney Transplant! from 2019-11-21T04:27:24
A drone flew a kidney to a transplant patient in a proof-of-concept flight. Stephanie and Michael discuss the feasibility of this, and muse about our drone future. Is it full of drone pirates? We s...
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Episode 13 Surfer Baby from 2019-11-14T22:02:14
Michael and Stephanie discuss culture in child development and the related milestones. Different cultures raise babies different, and it turns out you CAN teach a five month old to stand on their o...
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Episode ob1100 Pounding Pavement For Smarter Roads from 2019-11-08T04:52:19
Michael and Stephanie discuss solar roadways, and Solar Roadways, whether or not they're currently feasible, and how we'd put the sun and road to work for us. Here's a post from Green Tech Media la...
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Episode 12 A Science-y discussion of Gattaca in 2019 from 2019-10-31T18:06:34
Michael and Stephanie discuss the movie Gattaca, and the science and tech ideas it talked about. A look at privacy, data, tracking and all the modern day concerns that are very present in the movie...
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Episode 11 Laying Out For CRISPR from 2019-10-24T17:33:50
Stephanie and Michael discuss a California man who has a genetic disorder that basically makes him allergic to the sun, and his desire to give scientists carte blanche to try to fix it with CRISPR....
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Episode 10 There Is No Dana, Only Juul from 2019-10-17T14:04:05
Michael and Stephanie discuss the growing e-cigarette injuries and the science that might have teens smoking cyanide. This article sums it up, as well as talks about the successful lobbying that we...
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Episode ob1011 I’m Sorry Dave, I’m Afraid I Have To Raise You from 2019-10-08T20:50:50
Rejoice, as is this the last episode recorded before Michael purchased a new microphone. Future episodes should sound a lot better.MichaelBot and Stephanie discuss an AI named Pluribus that has bea...
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Episode 9 Live By the Knife, Poop the Knife from 2019-09-30T19:41:15
Stephanie and Michael discuss an urban legend about an Inuit man who survived in the wilderness by making a knife out of his own poop, and the scientists who decided to Mythbusters it. The third pa...
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Episode 0b1010 Your Boss Is Listening To This Podcast from 2019-09-18T15:39:57
Stephanie and Michael discuss software that allows your employer to build a data profile on you, to track you, to know what you're up to. What a world we're living in. Stephanie mentions a movie t...
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Episode 8 I Heart Robots from 2019-09-10T15:11:34
Stephanie and Michael discuss a 3D printed heart and what that could mean for the future of organ transplants and perhaps the future of science fiction. http://www.ceetar.com/YouDidWhatNow/wp-conte...
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Episode 0b1001 Big Brother Is Reading Your Photos from 2019-09-03T15:28:01
Michael and Stephanie discuss a brand new, still rolling out feature of Google Photos that can read the text in your images. They discuss a variety of possible issues or uses with it, create a bril...
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Episode 0b1000 Gotta Get That Tail from 2019-08-27T05:26:23
Stephanie and Michael discuss exosuits, or wearables, from the simple to the more complex. Do you want a tail, or do you just want to expend less energy moving around? Are you Iron Man? Stay tuned ...
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Episode 7 Dogs Don’t Know It’s Not Bacon from 2019-08-20T05:20:50
Michael and Stephanie discuss the Impossible Burger, how healthy it is, and the future of lab-created meat products. Here's an unprompted comment from a friend of mine yesterday: I had an Impossib...
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Episode 0b111 Spilling The Beans On Robots from 2019-08-13T05:46:40
Stephanie and Michael discuss a few robots, from Amazon's Vesta, to Stop and Shop's Marty, to the mall security robot Knightscope. Is this a slippery slope into giving up even more privacy in publi...
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Episode 6 DO Eat Where You Poop from 2019-08-06T05:55:42
Stephanie and Michael discuss 3D printed food, and a restaurant concept that will tailor their sushi's nutrition to your needs. Check out Open Meals on Instagram, which is where the header image is...
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Episode 0b110 Get Fitted For Your Cybernetic Enhancements Today! from 2019-07-30T05:45:48
Stephanie and Michael discuss the latest from Neuralink, Elon Musk's company that's trying to interface our brains with AI. Can we control computers with our minds? Text each other? Open locked do...
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Episode 5 The CRISPR Dilemma–If it Ain’t Broke, Maybe Fix It Anyway from 2019-07-22T06:30:19
Stephanie and Michael discuss CRISPR, the gene editor, and what it would mean to'cure'deafness. Michael has not seen Gattaca, have you? It's available via Amazon Prime Video right now. Michael al...
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Episode 0b101 Give In To Our Robot Overlords from 2019-07-12T06:01:17
Stephanie and Michael delve into the idea that our phones are listening to us, recording everything we say, and serving us ads based on those conversations.A correction: Michael mentioned the"wires...
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Episode 0b100 One Man’s Commute, Another’s Video Game from 2019-07-03T15:51:01
Stephanie and Michael really rambled on about self-driving cars and teleoperations in this one. Enjoy the bonus 10 minutes as a holiday present.If you want to give either one of us a ride in a self...
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Episode 4 You’re Only as Old as Your Biohack from 2019-06-27T08:38:08
Stephanie and Michael discuss the possibility of living until the ripe old age of 1000 as discussed in this article. Some notes: This was one of our earlier recorded episodes and the audio qual...
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Episode 3 The Silk Road Of Space Travel from 2019-06-11T08:56:07
Michael and Stephanie discuss a team of scientists cultivating bacteria that can create spider silk for all sorts of awesome uses. Michael mentions a'better concrete', which he heard about on E...
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Episode 0b10 Pikachu’s Virtual Bedroom from 2019-06-04T06:49:35
Stephanie and Michael discuss the Mirror World, also known as Augmentative Reality. A technological attempt to digitize everything. Follow the podcast at @ydwn_podcast and tweet at us your most r...
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Episode 2 Opioids of the Masses from 2019-05-28T14:52:43
Stephanie and Michael discuss a recent brain surgery treatment in China that may provide a cure of sorts for addiction. Michael then misquotes Karl Marx to name the episode'Opioids of the masse...
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Episode 0b1 Your Face Here from 2019-05-10T02:37:21
Michael and Stephanie chat about the recent experience of a Jet Blue traveler who was a little creeped out when automated facial scans were used in lieu of a boarding pass. How prevalent is it?...
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Episode 1 George A Romero’s Society For The Reanimation Of Dead Pigs And Other Dead Things from 2019-05-01T18:30:39
Stephanie and Michael discuss a recent NPR article where scientists successfully restored some function to dead pig brain cells. You might be saying,"Isn't George A Romero dead?". The answer is ...
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Welcome To You Did What Now? from 2019-04-10T20:32:14
Welcome to You Did What Now? A science and tech podcast exploring news that makes us ask that title question. This is just an episode that'll fill the space and test the feed, but we have 4 episode...
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