#59 - Don Quixote Syndrome Took Over

This week, we talk Let's Talk Science funding, wind turbines with no blades, and look forward to Google I/O later in the week.

Links:

• Humans Suck At Driving
• Let's Talk Science Gets New Funding
• Record-breaking Stone Tools Found
• Seismic Signals Used To Track Explosions
• Genetic Engineers Build Kill-Switch
• Spyware Shows Up In App Stores
• Bladeless Wind Turbines
• Google IoT Platform 'Brillo'
• XKCD - Competing Standards
• Google Tone Extension
• Recent Update to Google Hangouts
• Get Google Hangouts
• The 'Food Babe' Is Totally Wack
• Bigger Roads Mean More Cars
• CBC's The Irrelevant Show - Calgary Biking

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#58 - Canadian Problems

This week, are Google cars less safe than human-driven ones, Nick uses his pirate voice several times, and we all lust after $1000 blenders (or do we?).

Links:

• Google's Driverless Car Report
• Better beer with Fizzics
• Windows 10 Changes Stance on Pirates
• Editorial about perceived slowness using Google Chrome
• Killing Cancer with the help of femtolasers
• Futuristic skateboard - OneWheel
• Weird antimatter discovery in thunderstorm
• We should all be Zipper Merging
• High-End Blenders and the new must-have
• The New Best Buy Marketplace

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#57 - What's Slow About a Bear

In this episode, Tesla goes gangbusters, it's zeppelins vs. dirigibles, and trucks are driving themselves in Nevada. Get excited, because we'll be delivering this one to a Canada Post near you!

Links:

• Tesla Powerwall Sold Out Through 2016
• Gigafactory Not Big Enough
• Hawaii Telescope Debate Essay from Slate
• Made for Apple Watch Program
• Tesla Model 3 Timeline
• UK Airships Study
• Canada Post New FlexDelivery
• Nanotube-infused Spider Webs
• Self-driving Trucks on Nevada Highways

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#56 - We Don't Need A Biologist

This week, Rob gets a new job, we discuss Microsoft's Build conference (much to Nick's chagrin), Tesla's big new battery, and how a woolly mammoth burger would taste.

Links:

• Microsoft Continuum
• HoloLens Update
• Microsoft Band gets web apps
• Tesla Batteries
• Tesla Press Release
• Fresh water with solar power
• More on Electrodialysis (Wiki)
• Renewable Diesel from Audi
• Woolly Mammoth DNA Research
• YouTube making original TV
• Walking vs. sitting at work - Study

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#49 - The Great Stench Debacle

This week, we discuss the future of electric cars some more, decide if inappropriate drinking will save, or bring down our civilization, and endlessly debate the worthiness of a smell-detecting patent from Google. This one got a little crazy...

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Links:

• Battery to power your home
• Crazy-looking Toyota
• Can beer ward off dementia?
• People trust their opinions over science on science websites
• Get your free 2GB from Google
• Ruth Bader-Ginsburg nods off at State of the Union
• Objectively stupid smell patent

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