11 episodes
A Different Topic Mike and John
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- Society & Culture
Welcome to A Different Topic, a podcast where John and Mike discuss things. And stuff. Sometimes it's articles and sometimes it's just general ideas, like those REALLY good ones you have in the shower. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/adifferenttopic/support
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Episode 1.11 - Meat, Nuclei, and BabyShark Malware
Mike and John discuss artificial meat, some malware with a great name, and an atomic mystery 35 years in the making.
35-year Atomic Mystery Solved - https://www.livescience.com/64844-quarks-emc-effect-nucleus.html
BabyShark Malware - https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/new-babyshark-malware-targets-u-s-national-security-think-tanks/
Rhett and Link mess around with Beyond Burgers and trying Beyond Meat in other products - https://youtu.be/T6AeO7flGx8
Thumbnail image by Stijn te Strake: https://unsplash.com/@stijntestrake
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Episode 1.10 - Mike and John did NOT kidnap Matt
Our first guest, Matt, joins us for our tenth episode. We touch on the topics of learning, genetically enhanced learning, and living in a fantasy place.
Mentions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGm8qPEzgoc - Finding the Mystical in... Quidditch - Jordan Peterson
Sources:
http://mentalfloss.com/article/574449/harry-potter-hogwarts-apartment-rentals?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter - Harry Potter Fans Can Now Live at Hogwarts
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612997/the-crispr-twins-had-their-brains-altered/ - China’s CRISPR twins might have had their brains inadvertently enhanced
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Episode 1.9 - We want to hear each other faster than sound
We wax not quite poetic on the topics of games, entangled networking, evolution, frightening AI, and curing DMD through DNA.
Sources:
AAV-CRISPER genome editing: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-019-0344-3
Quantum Communications: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612964/what-is-quantum-communications/
OpenAI text generator too scary to release: https://bgr.com/2019/02/17/openai-fake-news-elon-musk-too-scary-release/
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Episode 1.8 - Lasers are making a lot of noise and machines are speaking
Mike and John discuss lasers in use as private sound transport (from MIT Review), searching for extraterrestrial life, and speech synthesized from brain activity (also from MIT Review).
You'll be surprised where those topics take them!
Other sources mentioned are It's Okay to be Smart and Minute Physics.
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Episode 1.7 - Spying electronics and laughing in groups
Mike and John complain about technology spying on us and some other stuff.
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Episode 1.6 - Do we have free will?
Mike and John try sorting through some complicated stuff about the nature of free choice.
Shower thought: https://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/ak25vk/thanks_to_siri_alexa_and_google_a_whole/
Resources on free will research:
https://samharris.org/the-illusion-of-free-will/
https://www.wired.com/2008/04/mind-decision/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience_of_free_will
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