Robots have been a thing for a long time, but they've never quite met expectations. While AI has changed the game for chatbots, it's not quite so clear for robots. NPR science desk correspondent Geoff Brumfiel spoke to our colleagues over on our science podcast Short Wave on how humanoid robots are actually developing with the help of artificial intelligence. It was a fascinating discussion and so we are sharing that conversation with you today on the Indicator.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1371: Soapy Sam and Huxley
Episode: 1371 The great evolution war at Oxford in 1860. Today, we join the first major battle in a long war.
Everything Everywhere Daily - The Ancient Greek Olympics
Almost 3000 years ago, the Ancient Greeks established what was a unique method of honoring their gods: an athletic competition.
Men from city states all over the Greek world would come to Mount Olympus to compete. For those crowned champion, there were few honors greater.
Over the centuries, more and more competitions were added until one day, an emperor put an end to everything until its modern revival.
Learn more about the ancient Olympics, what they were, and how they were contested on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Episode: 1370 Anno Domini 1370: So much going on just below the surface. Today, the story behind an arbitrary date.
Everything Everywhere Daily - Dubrovnik
Located on the Adriatic Sea in the southernmost part of Croatia is the city of Dubrovnik.
Founded in the 7th century, it rose in prominence and became one of the leading city-states in Europe.
It was a major competitor with Venice in the region and had complicated relations with both the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1369: Fokker’s Interrupter Mechanism
Episode: 1369 Fokker and the machine gun interrupter mechanism. Today, we meet a nice young man and his killing machines.
Everything Everywhere Daily - The Third Amendment
The Bill of Rights to the United States Constitution holds some of the most treasured rights held by Americans.
This includes the rights of free speech, religion, assembly, due process, and protections against unreasonable searches and seizures, and self incrimination.
However, there are other parts to the bill of rights. Parts that don’t get quite as much as attention.
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NPR's Book of the Day - In ‘Romantic Friction,’ ‘The Fact Checker’ the publishing world is fodder for fiction
In their new novels, authors Lori Gold and Austin Kelley draw from personal experiences in the publishing and magazine industries. First, Gold's Romantic Friction follows Sofie Wilde, a popular fantasy romance author and self-proclaimed outcast. At a book event, she finds out about a new author who's billed herself as "the next Sofie Wilde" – and is using AI to write books pulled directly from Sofie's. In today's episode, Gold speaks with Here & Now's Tiziana Dearing about the author's feelings about AI's role in publishing, the rabid fandom of romance readers, and books that go viral. Then, we hear from Kelley about his new novel The Fact Checker, in which a fact checker ends up on a quest for a missing source. In today's episode, Kelley joins NPR's Scott Simon for a conversation about the book and the author's time as a fact checker with The New Yorker.
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The Indicator from Planet Money - Prepping for a rainy day and higher used car prices
It's ... Indicators of the Week! Our weekly look at some of the most fascinating economic numbers from the news.
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On today's episode: China bulks up for a financial chill, how much to save for a rainy day, and the price of used cars goes up.
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America's small GDP bump, China's big stimulus dispersal, and a Monkey King (Apple / Spotify)
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Episode: 1368 Edmund Beckett, Lord Grimthorpe: of clockwork and convervatism. Today, clocks for the rich and clocks for the poor.