#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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#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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#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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#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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Future Chat #39: Light

This week's show is a special science AND technology extravaganza. We talked about some scientific and technical applications of light of all energy, from radio waves to gamma rays.

Links:

• The Ad Hominem Fallacy - PBS Idea Channel
• Why Everything Wireless is 2.4 GHz - Gizmodo
• Nocebo - CGP Grey
• Stoichiometry - Crash Course
• NMR Facility Closing (La Presse)

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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.

We are taking a week off next week, but we'll be back in two weeks with all new energy!

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