Listening to cosmologist Brian Greene on brand new RadioLab. If it hasn't populated to your podcast feeds yet here's a link. It's the 2nd half of "The Existential Crisis of Space. #cosmology #space #RadioLab https://www.radiolab.org/on-the-radio

The Internet Dilemma
#Radiolab explores the ins and outs of #Section230 focusing particularly on harassing, abusive users.

I am a little miffed that they don’t address the ability of law enforcement to go after the actual perpetrators in these cases.
https://radiolab.org/podcast/internet-dilemma

This joyful podcast episode of #Radiolab about disabled astronauts is very insightful to think about #accessibility across disciplines.

First, it reports on disabilities as superior potential.

Second, it shows that we have so much to learn still. Accessibility is not a finite set of rules, it’s another way to look at the world and it’s under constant development.

#dataviz

https://pca.st/podcast/f5b97290-0422-012e-f9a0-00163e1b201c

https://lateboomersden.blog/2023/08/05/what-makes-us-humans-so-loopy/
Anyone else get stuck in a loop? Groundhog Day but only like 15 minutes? I've been thinking. What makes that even possible? Does it tell us anything about the human brain?
#Existentialism, #KristenSchaal, #Linguistics, #Psychology, #RadioLab, #Science

I'm usually about 3-4 weeks behind on my #podcast queue but I finally listened to the recent #Radiolab on a colony of lesbian seagulls on a tiny island off the coast of California.

Turns out there are a gazillion examples of gay animals out there, just doing their thing - pretty hard to argue that it's unnatural when there's evidence across such a wide range of species. Sexual & gender fluidity is everywhere.

https://pca.st/episode/e234af30-7347-4f2f-a972-8c1c1dcda393

#gay #lesbian #lgbtq

Anyone who has dealt with a-holes that are #raccoons may find familiarity in this episode of #Radiolab from 2017

Stranger in Paradise

https://radiolab.org/podcast/stanger-paradise

@risottobias The #Radiolab on proportional representation systems is also worth a listen http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/tweak-vote/
@otfrom

The Seagulls, a #Radiolab episode about an important story about the #nature of being #LGBTQ. #PrideMonth

In the 1970s, as LGBTQ+ people in the US faced conservatives whose top argument was that homosexuality is “unnatural,” scientists discovered a colony of seagulls that included… lesbian couple raising chicks together. The article that followed upended the culture’s understanding of what’s natural and took the discourse on homosexuality in a new direction.

https://pca.st/episode/33e1beda-c84c-4be6-9430-4e23a9c9783d

It's amazing that #RadioLab recorded The Wubi Effect back in 2020 well before western LLM's were in public discourse. So relevant to discussions of #LLM and augmentative and alternative communication (#AAC) today!
#AI #ChatGPT #Copilot #OpenAI

RadioLab: "The Wubi Effect" (Aug 2020)
https://radiolab.org/podcast/wubi-effect

This episode of @radiolab is one of the best I’ve heard from them (and they were one of the first podcasts I ever started listening to, 16-ish (!!!) years ago! It twists and turns in surprising way, covering the process of solving ecological mysteries, the importance of vultures, and how humans can come together to solve important problems: https://radiolab.org/podcast/corpse-demon #Radiolab #vultures #podcast

The good Samaritan on
#Radiolab - on #Crime #Punishment #opioids #incarceration & #massPsychogenicIllness ...

No good deed goes unpunished.

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/projects/podcasts

RSS address: http://feeds.feedburner.com/radiolab

@XanIndigo
They also appear in one of my favourite classic #radiolab episodes
https://youtu.be/jibvu9BHV_k
@doot

@kairyssdal

#RadioLab

Learned about #radiolab via #NYTimes and heard this great episode with 3 stories related to buttons. The 3rd story explains how Hiroshima was a vague order. So, make it harder for #potus46 to push the button and end the world, by making the act extremely personal 😬🤯

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/radiolab/id152249110?i=1000603596663

Loved this, quirky, funny, thoughtful.
#Radiolab on #Buttons of power and buttons of destruction

Radiolab: Buttons Not Buttons

Episode webpage: http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/buttons-2303/

Media file: https://chrt.fm/track/53A61E/pdst.fm/e/dts.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/waaa.wnyc.org/radiolab_podcast/radiolab_podcast031023_notbuttons.mp3?awCollectionId=15957&awEpisodeId=1307386

Incredible #Radiolab podcast on the effort to rush mifepristone and misoprostol* to #Ukraine post-invasion.

And what a disgrace that #Poland's anti-abortion laws basically made this dubiously legal. Would be nice if the #EU could come to agreement on #AbortionRights

*(The 2 drugs have many uses in gynaecology including bit not limited to inducing #abortion)

Radiolab: Ukraine: Under the Counter

Episode webpage: http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/ukraine-under-counter/

Media file: https://chrt.fm/track/53A61E/pdst.fm/e/www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/waaa.wnyc.org/radiolab_podcast/radiolab_podcast012023_ukraine.mp3?awCollectionId=15957&awEpisodeId=1291293

@Ruth_Mottram I really enjoy #Radiolab. If you haven't heard them, and you want a nice starting point, try their Mixtape series that came in 2021: https://radiolab.org/series/mixtape

I have no idea what I’m going to use this #foldscope for, but I am excited to find out. I learned about it from a #radiolab podcast (https://overcast.fm/+E79iRXTsk).

The new #radiolab #podcast episode is brilliant!

It covers Golden Goose scientific research awards and it's quite a roller-coaster.

https://radiolab.org/episodes/golden-goose

I just finished listening to the latest #radiolab about basic #science and it was awesome, highly recommend and please share it with your relatives that mock basic scientific discovery.
https://radiolab.org/episodes/golden-goose