#60 - Some Sheldon Cooper-esque Dialogue

In this episode, we discuss our favourite new things from Google I/O, go deeper on bike lanes, and we determine Mike would be a terrible research dictator in a conversation about physical vs. mental attraction.

Links:

• Audi's New Synthetic Biofuel
• Alberta's New Natural Gas Plant
• NPR: Will Your Job Be Automated
• Planet Money on NPR
• Why We Should Have More Bike Lanes
• Bus vs. Bikes vs. Cars
• Chocolate ≠ Weight Loss
• Men Value Intelligence and Symmetry Over Boobs and Legs
• Cortana on Android and iOS
• Apple's New "Proactive" Search
• Why Swiss Cheese Has Holes
• Montreal Is Becoming A Smart City
• Don't Wash Clothes In Warm Water

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#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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#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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#55 - Playing Chess with a Pigeon

In this episode, we discuss Google's new mobile network, Google Fi, the possible "cure" for asthma, and decide whether buying a field Roomba (aka a tractor) means you own it.

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Links:

• Trek Bike Recall
• Recall RSS Feed
• Android Wear Update
• Lower-calorie rice
• Tesla Battery Event
• Canada's Google Anti-Trust Investigation
• Google Fi
• John Deere DMCA Inquiry
• Asthma "Cure"
• Wind Turbines are "Annoying", study finds
• New Largest Supervoid
• More on Cybersecurity
• Dark Matter is getting closer
• What makes up the universe?
• Twitter Limits Abusive Powers

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#52 - Ceres, Get It Together

In this episode, we discuss Canadian Open Source science research, updates to nuclear fusion, and dwarf planets. And much, much more!

This is the last full Future Chat episode until April, when we begin Season 2, so buckle up!

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Links:

• NSERC & SSHRC Open Access
• Hilary Clinton Emails
• New Fusion Reactor
• Bill Nye on GMOs
• Dawn at Ceres
• Curiosity Short Circuit
• J-Law Movie Streaming Pre-Theatre Release
• K-Cup Regrets
• Sugar Intake 5-10% of Calories
• MOBEO: The Game We Were Talking About

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#51 - Some Kind of Magic

This week, net neutrality wins big, we debate the validity of hydrogen fueled cars, and maybe "gluten sensitivity" is really a thing.

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Links:

• #TheDress
• Net Neutrality Win
• Android Pay
• Pebble Time on Kickstarter
• Toyota Fuel Cell
• 5G Cellular
• Hyperloop Test Track
• More on Hyperloop (Wikipedia)
• New Inflight Wifi Tech
• Aspartame Studies funded by Big Sweetener
• Science of Gluten Sensitivity (we got p-value wrong)
• XKCD: P-Values
• Emulsifiers and Obesity

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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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#48 - The First Poop Segue

This week, net neutrality has a fighting chance, Google Glass starts over, and we have more than one story about poop.

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Links:

• WhatsApp Voice
• Net Neutrality
• More on anti-terrorism bill C-51
• Organism that hasn't evolved
• Explain XKCD 892 - Null Hypothesis
• Poop Transplant Obesity
• There's Gold in that there sewage!
• Ubuntu Phone gets a release date!
• The word "oxt"

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#47 - That Unfortunate Looking Car

This week, we follow up on Windows 10, the Internet gets better in the US, and scientists can't get no respect.

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Links:

• No Free Windows 10 Enterprise
• Unboiling an Egg
• FTC Throttling
• FCC Redefines Broadband
• IIHS Report on Death Rates
• Ugly Mercedes-Benz
• Drone Shooting Roman Candles
• Everyone Disagrees with Scientists
• Avian Flu Hits Canada
• Bill C-51 (developing)

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#46 - What About Duck Hunt

This week, we get up to speed on the week in Microsoft news, reflect on why people keep using 'password' for security, and dream about Google Voice going mainstream.

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Links:

• Microsoft HoloLens
• BPA - No risk?
• No more hoaxes on Facebook
• Illinois bullying password debacle
• The worst passwords are getting better
• Public Solar and Wind Lightposts
• NHL and GoPro

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#45 - Rogers Whispered Sweet Nothings

This week, more pseudoscience debunking, cool stuff Google's been up to, and are we doing enough to deter fraud as services move online?

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Links:

• BPA-free could still be dangerous
• The Town Without Wifi
• Google Translate Real-Time Translation
• Future Rant #4 - Rogers Troubles
• Crowdfunding PhDs
• UK Encryption "Ban"

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#44 - Not Sorry for Party Rocking

This week, a CES recap of all our most exciting futuristic tech, lots of science entertainment news, including Discovery Channel, Phil Plait and Neil DeGrasse Tyson, as well as some thoughts on "human" rights for primates.

Links:

• More on Hoverboards
• Self-parking car
• Self-driving car
• Wireless charging "router"
• Wireless standards merger
• Wireless earbuds
• Discovery vows real content
• Hand Sanitizer - BPA absorption
• Primate rights

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#43 - An Epidemic of Bear Flu

This week, we covered Back to the Future's view of 2015, and how close we came to that vision, how much of cancer is just bad luck, and what the implications of the Canadian piracy crackdown means for consumers.

Links:

• The Interview Online Release Numbers
• Canadian ISPs Customer Alerts
• How much of cancer is "bad luck"?
• New Microsoft Browser?!
• OnePlus forking Android

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#42 - Happy Saturnalia, Everyone!

This week, we wrapped up the year in a neat little bow, learned a little bit more about solar power, and mourned Mike's mauling from the wild Alberta bear.

Links:

• Long Range Induction Charging
• Poison Beer - Reddit
• Intelligence Squared US: GMO debate
• Fat's not bad for you

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#41 - That'll Cook Your Phone

We discuss the science and tech movies and trailers that have come out in the last few weeks, get into the nitty-gritty of magnetic induction, and Nick finally gets Teksavvy internet hooked up!

Links:

• Cafe of the Future
• Seawater Powered Model Plane
• Gangnam Style 32-bits of views
• XKCD on 32-bit Y2K
• Sokal Affair
• Crazy scientific publications
• Stuff You Should Know - Terraforming
• Solar Cell Efficiency

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Future Sci Chat #12: GMOs

In this episode we talked natural vs biotechnological GMOs, Monsanto, and gave a verdict whether GMOs are a positive or negative force in the world.

Links:

• GMOs can be good (Analysis)
• GMO Documentary
• Monsanto Wikipedia (LOL: Lots of litigation)
• LA Times: Letter on "Natural"
• CollegeHumor - Adam Ruins Dogs
• 100 Years of Breed "Improvement"
• Truck got Stuck - Canola Oil Reference
• Rob is famous (in the Toronto area)
• CGP Grey on Copyright

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Future Sci Chat #10: Health

We tackled health this week on Future Chat, with talk of vitamins, the debunking of homeopathy and the placebo effect. We also spent the aftershow coming up with the best way to talk about death for a whole episode, so don't miss it!

Links:

Dog Breeds - Collegehumor

Poop Transplants - Minute Earth

Skin Microbiome Post - NY Times
*I think we took the discussion off the public forum at that point.

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