Season 6, Episode 3 - How do we make The Last of Us sound positive?

In this episode, we discuss all kinds of advancements from rogue wave prediction to better ways we can use our current batteries. We try to answer the following questions. What could we achieve by storing DNA in Jurassic Park-esque amber resin? How do we solve a labor shortage in chip design? What do we need to grow plants in zero gravity, and would they even look the same? Do we reeeeaally want the outcome of a fungus-operated robot? And finally, do we want to be a spacefaring species?

Enjoy!

Sean’s links:

• Looming talent shortage in chip design

• Some of the experiments being conducted by the stranded astronauts

• University of Missouri scientists novel method for removing plastic from water

• Plastics now make up 0.5% of our brains

• Cornell’s wild fungus-operated robot

Ben’s links:

• Jurassic Park DNA storage

• Accidental discovery on how to turbocharge current batteries

• Tau proteins: “not just a bad guy”

• AI now able to predict rogue waves

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