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Episode Number 177 – April 18th 2024 – AI after death, Sleep is good for you, politics of defending water, teens and screen time

  

This week's guest: Sergy Garber from Hallandale Beach library

 

Links to this week’s stories: 

 

AI after death:

https://restofworld.org/2024/china-ai-chatbot-dead-relatives/

 

Sleep is good for you:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/04/sleeping-more-flushes-junk-out-of-the-brain/

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07108-6.epdf

 

Politics of protecting water:
https://www.wired.com/story/cyber-army-of-russia-reborn-sandworm-us-cyberattacks/

https://dailytechnewsshow.com/2024/04/17/ps5-pro-specs-worth-it-dtns-4750/

 

Teens and screen time:
https://www.marketplace.org/shows/make-me-smart/what-we-often-get-wrong-about-teens-and-screen-time/

https://www.businessinsider.com/i-love-my-smartphone-use-more-not-less-iphone-why-2024-4

 

 

New YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTTW0eli8enOUTJ2FFEY-8Z55bxI1YNmJ




https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2M3VXCR 

Episode Number 176 – April 11th 2024 – Still cool stuff in the sky, Hope I do not alter the deal further, Maybe someone will listen this time? And Metafluids

 

 

This week's guest: Renette Bessard from North Regional
library

 

Links to this week’s stories: 

 

Still cool stuff up in the sky:

https://www.howtogeek.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-watching-the-lyrid-meteor-shower/

 

Hope I do not alter the deal further:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/after-pushing-cloud-storage-tv-provider-to-auto-delete-61-day-old-dvr-recordings/?comments=1&comments-page=1

 

Maybe someone will listen before it is too late:
https://theconversation.com/in-a-future-with-more-mind-reading-thanks-to-neurotech-we-may-need-to-rethink-freedom-of-thought-225033

 

Metafluids:
https://scitechdaily.com/not-science-fiction-harvard-scientists-have-developed-an-intelligent-liquid/

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07163-z

 

Noise in your Neighborhood Citizen Science kit:
https://digitalarchives.broward.org/digital/collection/p16146coll17/id/2/rec/1

 

 

New YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTTW0eli8enOUTJ2FFEY-8Z55bxI1YNmJ





 

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2M3VXCR

Episode Number 175 – April 4th 2024 – Helium to save us, Faster than filling with gas, Hazardous waste disposal, the line between life and death

 

 

This week's guest: Karina Mora from Creation Station at South Regional library

 

Links
to this week’s stories: 

Helium
to save us:https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/geology/its-had-11-billion-years-to-accumulate-helium-reservoir-in-minnesota-has-mind-bogglingly-large-concentrations

 

Faster than filling
with gas:

https://restofworld.org/2024/ev-battery-swapping-china/

Hazardous waste
disposal:https://gizmodo.com/iss-battery-pallet-fragment-hit-florida-home-1851381481

 

The line between
Life and Death is…..

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/02/new-science-of-death-brain-activity-consciousness-near-death-experience

 

 

 

New
YouTube channel:

⁠https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTTW0eli8enOUTJ2FFEY-8Z55bxI1YNmJ⁠

 

⁠https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2M3VXCR

Episode Number 174 – March 28th 2024 – Destroying history, judging by who's standard, ChatGPT memory loss, and AI is not Search

 

 

This week's guest: Autumn Dec from Creation Station Science at North Lauderdale library

 

Links to this week’s stories: 

Destroying history:
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/25/uk/microplastics-archeological-remains-study-scli-intl-scn-gbr/index.html

 

Judging by what standard?
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/03/24/the-anxious-generation-qa-00147880

 

ChatGPT causes memory loss?
https://www.psypost.org/chatgpt-linked-to-declining-academic-performance-and-memory-loss-in-new-study/

 

AI search is more than Search:
https://www.theverge.com/24111326/ai-search-perplexity-copilot-you-google-review

 

 

 

New YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTTW0eli8enOUTJ2FFEY-8Z55bxI1YNmJ

 

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2M3VXCR

This month on Creation Station Monthly we feature two women passionate about working in technology.

Guests on this episode:

Gabrielle Crevecoeur

https://www.nowayshecodes.com/

Karishma Vanjani

https://twitter.com/ThisisVanjani

⁠⁠https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2M3VXCR

Episode Number 173 – March 21st 2024 – El Nina is coming, Space DANGER, the air is bad, and how much would you pay for privacy?

 

 This week's guest: Susan Middleton from Creation
Station Business at Main library

 

Links to this week’s stories: 

 

El Nina is coming:
https://www.clickorlando.com/weather/2024/03/18/this-hurricane-season-will-be-very-different-heres-why/

 

Space danger :
https://www.livescience.com/space/asteroids/potentially-hazardous-asteroid-bennu-contains-the-building-blocks-of-life-and-minerals-unseen-on-earth-scientists-reveal-in-1st-comprehensive-analysis

 

The air is bad:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/19/air-pollution-health-report

 

 

How much for privacy?
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/19/24105660/meta-ad-free-subscription-facebook-instagram-gdpr-dma-eu-privacy-regulation

 

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2M3VXCR