Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1412: NonExercise Activity Thermogenesis
Episode: 1412 NonExercise Activity Thermogenesis (or NEAT) and weight gain. Today, we lose weight.
More or Less: Behind the Stats - Does a single AI query use a bottle of water?
We’re living through boom-times for Artificial Intelligence, with more and more of us using AI assistants like ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Grok and Copilot to do basic research and writing tasks.
But what is the environmental impact of these technologies?
Many listeners have got in touch with More or Less to ask us to investigate various claims about the energy and water use of AI.
One claim in particular has caught your attention - the idea that the equivalent of a small bottle of drinking water is consumed by computer processors every time you ask an AI a question, or get it to write a simple email.
So, where does that claim come from, and is it true?
Reporter: Paul Connolly Producer: Tom Colls Production co-ordinator: Brenda Brown Sound mix: Donald McDonald Editor: Richard Vadon
It Could Happen Here - It Could Happen Here Weekly 192
All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.
- How We Saved Trans Medicaid Healthcare Coverage
- Tracking ICE Removal Flights
- How LA Resisted ICE
- Why Is Trump So Afraid of Epstein?
- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #26
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How We Saved Trans Medicaid Healthcare Coverage
https://transnewsnetwork.networkforgood.com/
Social Media: @thefreeradical.org, @davidforbes.bsky.social, @madycast.com
Tracking ICE Removal Flights
https://hardghistory.ghost.io/exclusive-ice-may-have-secretly-done-more-third-country-removals-than-previously-known/
https://hardghistory.ghost.io/new-ices-eswatini-flight-went-through-us-base-in-djibouti-americans-stationed-there-are-angry/
https://hardghistory.ghost.io/a-call-to-action-for-airline-workers-to-stop-ices-deportation-machine/
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https://www.pogo.org/investigations/meet-the-ice-contractor-running-deportation-flights
https://capitalandmain.com/a-drunk-mechanic-shackled-immigrants-a-crash-landing-the-dangers-of-ice-flights
https://alexplank.substack.com/p/photos-shackled-migrant-escorted
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How LA Resisted ICE
@acatwithnews.bsky.social
@melbuer.bsky.social
Why Is Trump So Afraid of Epstein?
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https://apnews.com/article/trump-rape-carroll-trial-fe68259a4b98bb3947d42af9ec83d7db
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Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #26
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1A - The News Roundup For July 25, 2025
New reporting in The Wall Street Journal indicates that the FBI told President Donald Trump in May that his name was mentioned in the Epstein Files. Congressional Republicans have mostly shrugged off the news. Speaker Mike Johnson shuts down the House for the summer.
Meanwhile, the European Union and at least 28 governments are criticizing Israel for "drip feeding" Palestinians in Gaza, as starvation grows worse in the Strip. More than 110 people have now died from hunger.
Reports indicate that Russian officials have involved teenagers as they test and deploy drones into Ukraine. Daily drone warfare has increased, as Russian president Putin inches towards a deadline imposed by President Trump to end the fighting.
The Trump administration withdraws the U.S. from UNESCO, the United Nations' cultural agency, just two years after rejoining.
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Meanwhile, the European Union and at least 28 governments are criticizing Israel for "drip feeding" Palestinians in Gaza, as starvation grows worse in the Strip. More than 110 people have now died from hunger.
Reports indicate that Russian officials have involved teenagers as they test and deploy drones into Ukraine. Daily drone warfare has increased, as Russian president Putin inches towards a deadline imposed by President Trump to end the fighting.
The Trump administration withdraws the U.S. from UNESCO, the United Nations' cultural agency, just two years after rejoining.
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the memory palace - Episode 234: Looking for Parking, Late Winter, 1996
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Notes
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- Listen to the incredible documentaries by Lloyd Newman, LeAlan Jones, and David Isay, at David's (Corporation for Public Broadcasting funded) Storycorps.org
Music
- Herbert's Story from Mark Orton's score to Nebraska.
- Kyu from Sylvain Chaveau
- Smygkatt by Shida Shahabi
- Roedelius plays Rolling
Global News Podcast - Gaza aid airdrops to resume, as outrage over hunger crisis grows
Israel says it will allow aid airdrops into Gaza, as the UN says almost one in three people are going days without eating. Also: the new technology that could finally complete Gaudi's famous Sagrada Familia basilica.
State of the World from NPR - Extreme Hunger In Gaza. France To Recognize Palestinian State
A deepening hunger crisis is gripping Gaza, with more than 120 deaths from starvation reported — most of them children. As Gaza's humanitarian crisis deepens and ceasefire talks stall, French President Emmanuel Macron says his country will formally recognize a Palestinian state— becoming the first G7 nation to do so.
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CBS News Roundup - 07/25/2025 | World News Roundup Late Edition
DOJ questions Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell for a second day.
President Trump to meet with EU president while in Scotland.
Extreme heat on the East Coast.
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PBS News Hour - World - News Wrap: Israel considering ‘alternative options’ to ceasefire with Hamas
In our news wrap Friday, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu says he's considering "alternative options" to ceasefire talks with Hamas, European diplomats attempted to restart negotiations over limiting Iran's nuclear program and Ghislaine Maxwell wrapped up questioning as the Justice Department pushes back on criticism it's concealing aspects of Jeffrey Epstein's relationship with President Trump. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders