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  • 224. 224 - Is AI Trying to Trick Us?

    01:08:12||Ep. 224
    On today’s episode: Good news for electric vehicle owners; your batteries will last much longer than we thought! Is AI becoming more deceptive in an effort to keep itself from being deleted? All that and more today on All Around Science...RESOURCESExisting EV batteries may last up to 40% longer than expected | Stanford ReportIs It Bad to Charge an Electric Vehicle to 100%?OpenAI o1 System CardSpecific Gaming Examples in AIOpenAI o1 explained: Everything you need to know | Tech TargetOpenAI's o1 lies more than any major AI model. Why that matters | ZDNETOpenAI's new o1 model sometimes fights back when it thinks it'll be shut down and then lies about it | Business InsiderThe new followup to ChatGPT is scarily good at deception | VoxWhat Is Chain-of-Thought Prompting in Generative AI? | Videohttps://www.transformernews.ai/p/openais-new-model-tried-to-avoidCREDITS:Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura ArmstrongBooking - September McCrady THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allenhttps://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOULhttp://andrewallenmusic.com

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  • 223. 223 - Where Are All The Aliens?

    01:14:29||Ep. 223
    On today’s episode:It turns out that it doesn’t matter whether it’s true or not… your uncle is still going to share that weird article he found. And we once again explore the Drake equation; could intelligent life be out there? All that and more today on All Around Science...RESOURCESPeople will share misinformation that sparks “moral outrage”https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-we-probably-wont-find-aliens-anytime-soon/https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/technosignatures-and-the-search-for-extraterrestrial-intelligence/https://cires.colorado.edu/news/potential-indicators-life-other-planets-can-be-created-labhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2410.08724https://www.sci.news/astronomy/webb-biosignature-gas-k2-18b-12904.htmlhttps://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/space-science/biosignatures-exoplanetshttps://science.nasa.gov/exoplanets/can-we-find-life/CREDITS:Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura ArmstrongBooking - September McCrady THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allenhttps://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOULhttp://andrewallenmusic.com

  • 222. 222 - Why Do We Cry?

    01:11:08||Ep. 222
    On today’s episode: Pandrug-resistant bacteria might be better at causing disease than we thought. Why do we cry? It doesn’t seem to be very useful… or does it? All that and more today on All Around Science...RESOURCESPandrug-resistant bacteria from the war in Ukraine are extremely pathogenic | Lund Universityhttps://time.com/4254089/science-crying/https://www.jstor.org/stable/43714978https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28831948/https://www.themarginalian.org/2012/09/07/curious-behvaior-provine/https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1135127182CREDITS:Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura ArmstrongBooking - September McCrady THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allenhttps://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOULhttp://andrewallenmusic.com

  • 221 - The Drake Equation

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    On today’s episode: Sitting or standing at work… which one is healthier? We examine the first three variables in the Drake equation. All that and more today on All Around Science...RESOURCESAre standing desks good for you? The answer is getting clearer.https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/53/6/dyae136/7822310?login=falsehttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33813968/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_Fkvtr2z8M&ab_channel=SETIInstitutehttps://www.livescience.com/space/exoplanets/there-may-be-hundreds-of-millions-of-habitable-planets-in-the-milky-way-new-study-suggestshttps://www.britannica.com/science/Drake-equationhttps://www.e-education.psu.edu/astro801/content/l12_p5.htmlhttps://science.nasa.gov/exoplanets/facts/CREDITS:Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura ArmstrongBooking - September McCrady THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allenhttps://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOULhttp://andrewallenmusic.com

  • 220 - The Dirt Beneath Your Feet

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    On today’s episode: Will Chonkus help save the climate? Dirt. What is it made of? And how did it get there? All that and more today on All Around Science...RESOURCEShttps://www.awi.de/en/about-us/service/press/single-view/erster-bernsteinfund-auf-antarktischem-kontinent.html Meet Chonkus, the mutant cyanobacteria that could help sink climate change https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udseIcrUxvA&t=25shttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil#Horizonshttps://iastate.pressbooks.pub/introsoilscience/chapter/parent-materials/https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/world-of-change/AralSeaCREDITS:Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura ArmstrongBooking - September McCrady THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allenhttps://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOULhttp://andrewallenmusic.com

  • 219. 219 - Hot Springs and Terror Birds

    01:04:50||Ep. 219
    On today’s episode: Terror birds are bigger than we thought they were. And we talk about where hot springs come from! All that and more today on All Around Science...RESOURCESFossil of huge terror bird offers new information about wildlife in South America 12 million years agohttps://study.com/academy/lesson/video/springs-definition-formation-types.htmlhttps://hotspringslocator.com/mineral-hot-spring-typeshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUA39d3_y_o&ab_channel=BBCEarthKidshttps://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2292_water.htmlhttps://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/life-in-the-extreme-terrestrial-hot-springs/https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/19/JEB245028/330705/Hot-spring-fish-live-life-on-the-edgeCREDITS:Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura ArmstrongBooking - September McCrady THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allenhttps://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOULhttp://andrewallenmusic.com

  • 218. 218 - Social Distancing Built Big Cities

    01:08:00||Ep. 218
    On today’s episode: How do you satiate your curiosity? Social distancing may have helped ancient cities thrive. All that and more today on All Around Science...RESOURCESStudy reveals three ways to disappear down a Wikipedia rabbit holeSocially distanced layout of the world’s oldest cities helped early civilization evade diseasesCREDITS:Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura ArmstrongBooking - September McCrady THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allenhttps://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOULhttp://andrewallenmusic.com