Future Tech Chat #25: Social Media in Crisis

On Future Chat this week, we talked about how social media and the Internet can be used and abused during crises and emergencies. We discussed how social media was important to us during the 100 year flood in Calgary last year, and during the Ottawa shooting this past week, as well as in the protests going on in Hong Kong right now.

Links:
http://blog.robattrell.com/2012/10/the-future-of-morality.html
We talk about this in the aftershow, weirdly it was written 2 years ago today.

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You can also check out the next episode of Future Sci Chat, live on YouTube next Saturday at 12:30 PM Eastern. We'll be discussing transportation and engine science, it will be an excellent episode.

Be sure to direct any questions you might have before, during, and after the show to Google+, Facebook or Twitter, or send them via email to futurechats@gmail.com.

Future Sci Chat #7: Public Funding for Science

In the most important episode we've tackled so far on Future Sci Chat, we talked about the changes in North American political policy with regards to public and governmental funding of scientific research. This topic is very important to all of us as scientists, but it's also important to the public in general, and it is important to be informed about just how this can affect you.

If you want to learn more, which you should, here are some links:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh_UZ0HHCcE
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gypPMmaiEo0
• http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/episodes/2013-2014/the-silence-of-the-labs
• http://cdn.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/InnovationResearchInvestments-1.pdf
• http://discovermagazine.com/2007/oct/sciences-worst-enemy-private-funding
• http://undsci.berkeley.edu/article/0_0_0/who_pays
• http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/research-cutbacks-by-government-alarm-scientists-1.2490081
• http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/blog/federal-programs-and-research-facilities-that-have-been-shut-down-or-had-th
• https://explorable.com/research-grant-funding
• http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v435/n7043/pdf/435737a.pdf
• http://nghoussoub.com/

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Check out the next episode of Future Tech Chat, live on YouTube next Saturday at 12:30 PM Eastern. We'll be discussing gadgets, it will be a really fun episode!

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Future Tech Chat #21: Bicycles

In this episode, we talked about bicycles, making it seem like our episode is sponsored by Trek bikes, which it is not. We chatted all about materials used to make bikes, interesting designs, and how the city of the future will incorporate bicycles much better. Enjoy the episode!

Links:
http://www.trekbikes.com/ca/en/bikes/road/performance_race/

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Check out the next episode of Future Sci Chat, live on YouTube next Saturday at 12:30 PM Eastern. We'll be discussing government funding of science, it should be a VERY interesting episode.

Be sure to direct any questions you might have before, during, and after the show to Google+, Facebook or Twitter, or send them via email to futurechats@gmail.com

Future Sci Chat #5: Space

We talked this week about space exploration, the search for exoplanets, new civilian rocket technology, and many other topics! Hope you like it.

If you want to know more about Dyson Spheres, the Drake Equation and the Mars Project, Wikipedia has a ton more information than we could cover!

Links:
www.spacex.com/
www.virgingalactic.com/
http://NASA.gov/

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Check out the next episode of Future Tech Chat, live on YouTube next Saturday at 12:30 PM Eastern.

Be sure to direct any questions you might have before, during, and after the show to Google+, Facebook or Twitter, or send them via email to futurechats@gmail.com

Future Sci Chat #4: Beer

We are changing things up a little on Future Chat as of this week. You'll notice that as you read this, the webcast has already happened. If you want to follow the chats live, they normally happen on Saturdays at 12:30 PM. Subscribe to Future Chat on YouTube, Twitter, Facebook or Google+ to keep up to date on when the live webcasts are happening. However, by the time you see this article now, it means that you can watch the video itself, and it also means you'll be able to go listen to the podcast version of the episode. These should in most cases appear within 24 hours of the airing of the show.

I'd love to hear from viewers if you like this system more or less than the old way, and to everybody else, I hope you enjoy our episode on beer, which can be found below!

In this episode, we talked about beer! Nick is brewing his own beer, so we chatted about his experience and results in brewing, how you can absolutely tell beers apart by taste, and how provincial regulations are taking money from beer out of Ontario.

Links:

Interesting Beer Links
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/beer

https://www.google.ca/search?q=facts+about+beer&oq=facts+about+beer&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.6609j0j7&bmbp=1&sourceid=chrome&espv=213&es_sm=119&ie=UTF-8

Ontario "Propaganda" paid for by the big profitable breweries.
http://www.ontariobeerfacts.ca/

Craft beer facts
http://www.foodbeast.com/2013/11/14/22-craft-beer-facts-you-can-toast-to/

Sixty Symbols - Guinness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNBTygWcy0s

Subreddit on Homebrewing

http://www.reddit.com/r/Homebrewing/

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Next week we will be chatting about activity monitors, including run/bike apps, heart monitors, and sleep monitoring apps. Check out the episode live on YouTube next Saturday at 12:30 PM Eastern.

Be sure to direct any questions you might have before, during, and after the show to Google+, Facebook or Twitter, or send them via email to futurechats@gmail.com.

Future Sci Chat #2: Alternative Energy

Starts live at 5:00 PM EDT on Saturday June 21st, 2014!

You might have seen or heard about Future Tech Chat, but have maybe found it to be a little inaccessible. I really hope you'll enjoy some of the science topics we plan to discuss on this new show (GMOs, robotics, pharmaceuticals, etc.), we have a lot of great stuff planned to discuss in the coming months.

In this episode, we will be getting into the nitty gritty details of alternative energy (basically anything that isn't "classical" non-renewable energy, like coal, oil and natural gas. There are a baffling number of problems with these resources' use in our world, and the alternatives are getting cheaper and more beneficial with each passing year. I really hope you enjoy our conversation!

We always love when we get questions from interested parties, and there is a Q&A section on Google+ where the chats are hosted, as well as in the comment section on YouTube.

Some links to check out:

https://plus.google.com/+AlexP/posts/9gNzhzcVMpZ
http://media.cns-snc.ca/ontarioelectricity/ontarioelectricity.html

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I hope you'll tune in live at 5:00 PM EDT on Saturday, June 21st for the episode, and you'll be able to watch it in full above live or after it's aired.

You can direct any questions you might have to the Q&A on the event page (https://plus.google.com/events/c8ab48ipg1bshgkfs3v5ujdk1is), or on Facebook, Twitter and Google+. We look forward to seeing you here live!