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Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and Others) [Episode 35] »

1 hour 10 minutes

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If you couldn't be a human, what animal would you want to be and why? What technology is necessary for us humans to be able to provide an evolutionary "update" to any of our sensory organs? Are there any implication of standardizing the identification of chemical signatures of odours? Is the fact that L-glucose and D-glucose taste the same mean that taste is not sensitive to chirality? Can the spectrometry for smell and taste be based on a saline scale? Do the neurons in the brain form a spatial manifold? Are the connections mostly local or non local? What happens with people with diabetes? View Less »
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Science & Technology Q&A for Kids & Others:
Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and Others) [Episode 34] »

1 hour 28 minutes

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How does the Bloomberg Terminal work? Did that guy find his satellite by the way? or did it just float off into space or lose power? What are Feynman Diagrams? How do holograms work and why don't we have more holographic technology? How do holograms work and why don't we have more holographic technology? How closely do you follow the field of AI? Is it possible, with quantum tunnelling, that eventually, long in the future, the universe will have mostly, or even a large proportion of, 'iron stars'? How would iron stars affect planets with iron cores orbiting these stars? View Less »
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Science & Technology Q&A for Kids & Others:
Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and Others) [Episode 33] »

1 hour 17 minutes

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What's that nested circular artifact on the shelf behind you (next to the spikey)? what math concept could it be used to teach? Does the pattern of shell formation have a mathematical 'scheme'? Do you think lifeforms have a baseline program that is informed and "coded" by our environment and experiences? if so is that baseline program evolving over generations or is it hard wired? Epigenetics if you don't chew on hard food for hundreds of years your jaws will get small your teeth will be crooked you'll have trouble breathing at night, etc. How did butterflies with their 4-stage life cycle evolve, where only the last stage is capable of reproducing? How do bean plants find their poles to climb up? How would you recommend developing a work ethic to get into science and technology as someone who is younger and a beginner? Why don't trees or plants resonate and break in high winds like tall buildings or towers? View Less »
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Science & Technology Q&A for Kids & Others:
Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and Others) [Episode 32] »

1 hour 22 minutes

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In addition to keystrokes, do you monitor your words spoken? Does your system record all your passwords? How do vaccines work? If a disease is such that the thing which kills is the immune response itself could a vaccine based on these principles be actually dangerous? Have you ever met Tim Berners-Lee, Douglas Engelbart, Edward Feigenbaum, and/or Shafi Goldwasser? ​Stephen Wolfram, my 3 years old sister told me that she doesn't likes math, and doesn't want to play with science with me, what can I do to change her mind? ​What are time crystals? Do they become ordinary space crystals when moving very fast? ​Do we have explanation why people have sense of discreteness (symbols, objects and such). Is world implicitly discrete or we just perceive it that way? ​Can't we upload all the data about the human body and fix everything. We have computing power and A.I to classify why don't we understand it? ​Has anyone looked at the complexity of a cell? can we not say that it exhibits intelligence? can intelligence exist without brains? View Less »
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Science & Technology Q&A for Kids & Others:
Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and Others) [Episode 31] »

56 minutes

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​​Have you studied the Crick-Mitchison theory of REM sleep? Do you think that their theory is relevant to artificial intelligence and/or the theory of pattern recognition? ​​Thoughts on the significance of the triangle and why it seems to be one of if not the strongest 2d shape? ​​Are quasicrystals useful? ​​What does it mean to map a brain? Why is there a race to map the brain correctly? View Less »
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Science & Technology Q&A for Kids & Others:
Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and Others) [Episode 30] »

1 hour 14 minutes

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​​Have you discussed the Wolfram Physics Project with any string theorists? ​​​What is the possibility of building an unmanned space craft to 'hitch a ride' on a comet, to reach (and perhaps launch) the space craft out of the solar system? ​​​I recently watched a video on youtube by Anton Petrov where he discussed a leak from the radio telescope laboratory about an unusual radio signal from our nearest stellar neighbor, alpha Centauri, and in the video he said that the reason the signal was so unusual was that it was stuck to a specific frequency of 982.002 MHz and I was wondering your thoughts on the unusual nature of it's specificity. ​Can you explain how APIs work and some difficulties in matching property addresses (variability in how an address is written) to relational databases? ​If the average human brain was represented as a PC, what would its technical specifications be? (Core count, clock speed, RAM, storage space, etc.) ​Why is difficult for our brains to perform many simple calculations in a row? ​Is the eightfoldwiay of Murray Gell-Mann easier or more difficult than just learning Quantum chromodynamics? View Less »
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