Technolotics - An antique show about technology

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Technolotics was an irreverent look at technology, politics and the media; from a ragtag bunch of Irish students. The show was the first regularly updated Irish vidcast, and ran from August 2005 – August 2006.

  1. 08/28/2006

    Technolotics #45 – Girly Men

    audio https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/45_technolotics.mp3 Listen: Episode 45 Watch: Youtube Notes A cure for depression? If you’re a mutant mouse that is Scientists breed mice without gene related to serotonin transmission. Serotonin important on mood, sleep and sexuality. Mice found to act if they had been treated with antidepressants. First time genetic ‘cure’ for depression found. Links Science Blog […]

  2. 08/18/2006

    Technolotics #44 – Flying Naked

    Listen: Episode 44 Watch: Youtube Notes News from the world of Yaaar Owner-Free File System takes aim at copyright What was the name of the previous effort at this? – we covered this in an early technolotics show System creates situation (using encryption) whereby copyrighted data can be claimed by two copyright owners. Since two […]

  3. 08/05/2006

    Technolotics #43 – Villains of Video

    Listen: Episode 43 Watch: Youtube Notes Scanning Your Email Update Update to the email scanning story from #41 One of our viewers was so concearned by the encroachment on privacy represented by website blocking at the ISP / email scanning MP responds stating that there is no reason to change this policy Nothing wrong with the Internet […]

  4. 07/29/2006

    Technolotics #42 – Palm Jam

    Listen: Episode 42 Watch: Youtube Notes Is Blue sky R&D dead? Scientific capital is not being replenished via Blue Sky research. Start-ups are being locked out of the market by patent and trade secrets litigation. Cold War era brought us the transistor and Arpanet, seeds of todays information economy at great private and public expense – Kansian […]

  5. 07/21/2006

    Technolotics #41 – Too Quick to Taze

    Listen: Episode 41 Watch: Youtube Notes Guilty by conception UK goverment unveils scheme to identify future criminals at birth. Aim is to identify those at risk of failure, violent behaviour or criminality and then take action to prevent that happening. Midwives, doctors and nurses asked to identify ‘chaotic’ families whose babies are in danger of growing […]

  6. 07/16/2006

    Technolotics #40 – Boggeraguans

    https://garethstack.com/content/audio/technolotics/40_technolotics.mp3 Listen: Episode 40 Watch: Youtube Notes Police State UK – The abuse of antisocial behaviour orders A physics graduate is fined £80 for describing a metal detector as “piece of shit that wouldn’t stop anyone” in public. Kurt Walker fined £80 for using the word “f**k” in a public park in Kent. He’s refusing to pay. […]

  7. 07/08/2006

    Technolotics #39 – Lollystop

    [audio https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/39_technolotics.mp3] Listen: Episode 39 Watch: Youtube Notes   Fear and loathing in single sex schools Review of data from across the world showed no evidence that single-sex schools were consistently better. Ability and social background of the pupils reason for their performance in school league tables. Success of single sex schools could be attributed to them creaming […]

  8. 07/02/2006

    Technolotics #38 – Queenie

    Listen: Episode 38 Watch: Youtube Notes Bush to set up domestic spy service George Bush has announced a new Intelligence agency to be set up within the FBI – the National Security Service The agency will be empowered to sieze the property of those suspected of spreading WMD This story ironically comes shortly after GB intervened to […]

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