#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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#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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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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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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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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Future Sci Chat #6: Climate Change

We talked this week about causes of climate change, ways to get carbon out of our atmosphere and why throwing nuclear waste into a volcano might make a better action movie supervillain scheme than climate change solution! Hope you like it.

If you want to know more about carbon sequestration, or the IPCC, Wikipedia has a ton more information than we could cover!

Links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzUKPYw6UsA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7so8GRCWA1k
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

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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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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!