#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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#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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#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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Future Sci Chat #9: Transportation

This week on Future Chat, we shared our thoughts on transportation systems of the future, learned a little about the efficiency of various kinds of transportation, and dreamed about how we'd like to get around in the future.

We also decided to stay on air for an aftershow this week, so stay tuned for that around the 1 hr mark. We get to talking about the future of the show and request your feedback on what you'd like to see/hear.

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You can also check out the next episode of Future Tech Chat, live on YouTube next Saturday at 12:30 PM Eastern. We'll be talking about the new Google Y projects, like building a model city of the future (think EPCOT).

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Future Clip - Nick's Bike

In this excerpt from the bicycles episode, we talk about some of the cool stuff about +Nick Maddox's bike, the Trek Soho Deluxe 2012. If you like the clip, be sure to check out the full video here, and subscribe to Future Chat on your favourite social network.