AI Conversation, Robot Trust, AI Music. May 18, 2018, Part 2
Should autonomy be the holy grail of artificial intelligence? Computer scientist Justine Cassell has been working for decades on interdependence instead—AI that can hold conversations with us, teach u...
25 Mai 20181h 2min
Sleep Questions, Portable Museums, Digital Health Records. May 25, 2018, Part 1
What’s the difference between being fatigued and sleepy? Do melatonin and other sleeping aids work? And what can you do if you just can’t sleep?Neurologist and sleep specialist W. Chris Winter, author...
25 Mai 201847min
Psychedelics With Michael Pollan And Intel Student Science Fair. May 18, 2018, Part 2
In his latest book, How to Change Your Mind, Michael Pollan writes of his own consciousness-expanding experiments with psychedelic drugs like LSD and psilocybin, and he makes the case for why shaking ...
18 Mai 201847min
Consciousness In 'Westworld,' Heart Cells On Graphene, Bike Safety App. May 18, 2018, Part 1
In HBO’s series Westworld, human-like robots populate a theme park where human guests can have violent, gory adventures in the Wild West without the repercussions. The robots are so lifelike that they...
18 Mai 201846min
Does Time Exist, Elephant Seismology, Produce Safety. May 11, 2018, Part 2
How do you think about time? Most people experience it as Newton described it—as something that passes independent of other events, that’s the same for everyone, and moves in a straight line. Still, o...
11 Mai 201846min
Hawaii Eruption, Antibiotic Resistance, Florida Sea Rise. May 11, 2018, Part 1
Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano—located on the Big Island—has been continuously erupting for the past 30 years. But on May 3, magma began spewing through fissures in the Puna district, forcing nearly 2,000 r...
11 Mai 201847min
DNA Privacy, Dog Cognition. May 4, 2018, Part 2
Genetic testing sites are nothing new. They’ve grown enough in popularity over the past decade that the idea of spitting into a tube and sending it in the mail to a website to find out more about your...
4 Mai 201846min
Chasing Pluto, Space Warps. May 4, 2018, Part 1
In July of 2015, the world was stunned to learn that Pluto, a tiny, distant dot that some didn’t even consider a planet, was a dynamic, complex, and beautiful world. But for scientists in pursuit of P...
4 Mai 201847min
