Episode #925

Episode #925

News Items

• Mammoth Meatball
• Lunar Ice
• First Blitzar Observed
• England Allows Gene-Edited Crops

Who's That Noisy

• Answer to last week: First recording

Interview with Blake Lemoine

• https://www.business-standard.com/article/international/google-fires-employee-who-said-its-conversation-ai-is-sentient-has-feeling-122072300483_1.html

Science or Fiction [ Show Answers ]

• Item #1 Fiction

  A large survey of life on Earth finds that total biomass remains fairly consistent (within one order of magnitude) across the entire range of body size for all living things. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0283020

• Item #2 Science

  Researchers find that plants under stress emit recordable sound, about as loud as a normal speaking voice. https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(23)00262-3

• Item #3 Science

  Researchers created intracellular sensors that use nanodiamond quantum sensing. https://www.optica.org/en-us/about/newsroom/news_releases/2023/march/researchers_use_tiny_diamonds_to_create_intracellu/

Skeptical Quote of the Week.

“The best science communication invites you to consider the complexity of the world, and the worst invites you to ignore the complexity.” Michael Hobbes