Episode #344
News Items
Who's That Noisy
- Answer to last week: Kabala
Science or Fiction
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Item #1
Science
Programmers have created a computer program that can score 150 on a standard IQ test. http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/bi/210201069
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Item #2
Fiction
Programmers have developed software that can monitor video chat in real time and accurately detect deception and other emotions in the target. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-lovelorn-liars-linguistic.html
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Item #3
Science
Forensic scientists have developed a system for identifying unknown skulls by computer comparison to pictures of living people. http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/bi/210201069
Skeptical Quote of the Week.
‘It is a truly wonderful fact — the wonder of which we are apt to overlook from familiarity — that all animals and all plants throughout all time and space should be related to each other in group subordinate to group’ - Charles Darwin