Episode #682

Episode #682

News Items

• Terraforming Mars
• Shifty Eyes
• Scutoid

Who's That Noisy

• Answer to last week: French Bulldog

Robert Kurson

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Science or Fiction [ Show Answers ]

• Item #1 Fiction

  A new study finds that training on a task of working memory improves performance on similar memory tasks. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002839321830321X?via%3Dihub

• Item #2 Science

  Researchers modeling the great pyramids of Giza find that they are capable of concentrating electromagnetic waves in their interior chambers. https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.5026556

• Item #3 Science

  Researchers find that great tits, with a brain 0.1% the size of chimpanzees, performed almost as well on a test of self-control. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180730104712.htm

Skeptical Quote of the Week.