It's Space Week on Short Wave! Today, an encore of our episode on dark energy. This mysterious energy makes up almost 70% of our universe and is believed to be the reason the universe is expanding. Yet very little is known about it. To figure out what we do know — and what it could tell us about the fate of the universe — we talk to astrophysicist Sarafina Nance.
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In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt - Toolkit: School’s in Session
This Monday Toolkit episode is timed to help parents, teachers, and students figure out what to expect and how to make it through a challenging school year. Two incredible guests, Chicago Public Schools CEO Janice Jackson and former Secretary of Education John B. King, Jr. answer your questions about remote learning, special needs, mental health, social and emotional needs, and equity issues. They also talk about how the decisions over who to bring back -- and when -- are likely to work.
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Check out these resources from today’s episode:
- Learn more about John’s organization, The Education Trust: https://edtrust.org/
- Here’s what a virtual school day will look like for CPS students this fall: https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2020/8/5/21355791/cps-remote-virtual-learning-public-schools-covid-fall-high-elementary
- Read more about the Pew Research Center report on who has access to reliable internet: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/fact-sheet/internet-broadband/
- Learn more about the Chicago Connected program, which provides free high-speed internet for families in need: https://www.cps.edu/strategic-initiatives/chicago-connected/
- Check out the CDC’s toolkit for K-12 schools: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/communication/toolkits/schools.html
- Read more about what Michelle Obama said about experiencing “low-grade depression:” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/06/us/michelle-obama-depression.html
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The left largely has ignored the Trump administration's role in negotiating the recent peace agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates.
The Abraham Accord, announced Aug. 13, normalizes relations between the Jewish state and the UAE. Helen Raleigh, policy fellow at the Centennial Institute and a senior contributor at The Federalist, calls the agreement a historic achievement.
Raleigh joins the podcast to explain how the Israel-UAE accord could affect diplomatic relations in the Middle East for years to come, and why the mainstream media has chosen to ignore its significance. She also discusses how the Chinese Communist Party strategically spreads propaganda on American college campuses.
Plus, we read your letters to the editor and share a good news story about a nonprofit that converted its parking lot into an outdoor learning center and tutoring hub for children who are distance learning this fall.
Enjoy the show.
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Lex Fridman Podcast - #120 – François Chollet: Measures of Intelligence
François Chollet is an AI researcher at Google and creator of Keras.
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OUTLINE:
00:00 – Introduction
05:04 – Early influence
06:23 – Language
12:50 – Thinking with mind maps
23:42 – Definition of intelligence
42:24 – GPT-3
53:07 – Semantic web
57:22 – Autonomous driving
1:09:30 – Tests of intelligence
1:13:59 – Tests of human intelligence
1:27:18 – IQ tests
1:35:59 – ARC Challenge
1:59:11 – Generalization
2:09:50 – Turing Test
2:20:44 – Hutter prize
2:27:44 – Meaning of life
Everything Everywhere Daily - The First Pandemic
Pandemics can be world-changing events. The aftermath of a pandemic can shape societies and topple empires.
Whether it's the flu, smallpox, cholera, or the bubonic plague, these pandemics have killed more people than all the wars in human history.
However, pandemics weren’t always a part of humanity. There was a first pandemic that caught civilization by surprise, and the legacy of that pandemic can still be felt in our world today.
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CoinDesk Podcast Network - BREAKDOWN: The Case for $500,000 Bitcoin
The Winklevoss brothers make an argument that, in the long run, bitcoin is the only good safe haven.
This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Bitstamp and Nexo.io.
This week’s episode of Long Reads Sunday is a reading of the latest essay from Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss.
The essay looks systematically at the problems of the slate of current store-of-value assets, including the U.S. dollar, oil and gold.
The brothers argue why those assets have, or are starting to have, value in their safe haven function, while bitcoin is on the rise.
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The Phil Ferguson Show - 354 Secular Student Alliance & Polaris Plan Part 4
Interview with Kevin Bolling. He is the Executive Director of the Secular Student Alliance (SSA). We talk about growth of the SSA and how it helps almost 50,000 students in almost 3,000 schools / Universities. We need more secular thinkers and the SSA is a big part of the solution.
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Investing skeptically segment: The Polaris Plan Part 4!
Bonus audio-
Ayaan Hirsi Ali - I disagree with my father.
John F. Kennedy - Seperation of church and state
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Investing skeptically segment: The Polaris Plan Part 4!
Bonus audio-
Ayaan Hirsi Ali - I disagree with my father.
John F. Kennedy - Seperation of church and state
Curious City - Displaced: When The Eisenhower Expressway Moved In, Who Was Forced Out?
The Ike was the city’s first superhighway. In this special presentation, people affected open up about how it scattered ethnic neighborhoods and changed many lives forever.
Unexpected Elements - Covid-19 Therapy Controversy
This week Science in Action examines the evidence around the Trump Administration’s emergency use authorisation of convalescent plasma therapy for the treatment of Covid-19. Donald Trump described its US-wide roll-out as ‘historic’ but the majority of scientists and doctors disagree, questioning the scientific basis for the government’s decision. Roland Pease talks to Mayo Clinic’s Michael Joyner, the leader of the convalescent plasma therapy study on which the action was based. The Mayo Clinic trial involved a large number of patients but none of them were compared to Covid-19 patients who were not treated with convalescent plasma. Trials that incorporate that comparison are the only way to properly assess the therapy’s effectiveness. Roland talks to Martin Landray of the University of Oxford who is testing convalescent plasma therapy in the UK’s Recovery randomised control trial, and to medical ethicist Alison Bateman-House of the New York University Grossman School of Medicine.
We also talk to nanotechnologist Marc Miskin about the million-strong army of microscopic robots he’s creating in his lab at the University of Pennsylvania.
The idea of creating underwater habitats has captured the imagination of writers, thinkers and scientists for decades. However, despite numerous grand visions, these dreams of aquatic metropolises have not yet come to fruition. Crowdscience listener and scuba enthusiast Jack wonders whether - given improved technology and the growing environmental pressures facing humans on land - it is time to reconsider the ocean as an alternative permanent living space for humans. Marnie Chesterton dons her flippers for Crowdscience in search of the oceanographers and architects who have dedicated their lives to designing vessels, labs and underwater habitats. She explores whether oceanic cities remain a sci-fi dream or a realistic solution to some of our modern challenges. Can the oceans’ largely unexplored resources be harnessed to support living underwater?
(Main image: New York lab tests serum from recovered covid-19 patients for possible therapy. Credit: Misha Friedman / Getty Images)
Everything Everywhere Daily - Eponymous Laws
Everyone is probably familiar with Murphy’s Law which says that “Anything which can go wrong will go wrong.” However, there are many such laws, known as eponymous laws, which are sayings, adages, or truisms, which have been attributed to people over the years.
These are not hard and fast mathematical or physical laws, but rather are general truths which can help you see and understand the world better...and they are usually named after someone.
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