Throughput: Poop Pill Edition
The FDA has approved the first “poop pill” that would transplant bacteria from on person’s digestive system into another.
Category: Science and Technology
Thursday Throughput: Vaccines Vs Cancer Edition
On Wednesday, the scientists reported results that defied the long odds. The vaccine provoked an immune response in half of the patients treated
Video Throughput: The Eye of Aldhani and May the Fourth Be With You
I take a look back at Disney+’s spectacular Andor series and the episode The Eye. Would something like the Eye of Aldhani be possible?
Video Throughput: Serenity and Firefly
In this week’s video, I react to the 2005 film Serenity and the Firefly series that preceded it. What did it get right? What did it get wrong?
Rapidly Scheduled Assembly Throughput
Summoning up all the knowledge of my 30 in astrophysics and fourteen years in spacecraft operations, I can explain it thusly: Sh*t ‘sploded.
The Throughput: RSV Vaccine Edition
Respiratory syncytial virus, better known as RSV, has been one of those murderous viruses we’ve just accepted as a part of life.
Video Throughput: An Astronomer Reacts to Spaceballs
In this video, Dr Michael Siegel reacts to the 1986 sci-fi epic Spaceballs such as ludicrous speed, vacuuming planets, the Swartz, and more!
Throughput: Politicization Edition
When you attempt to merge science and politics, the results is not to scientize the politics but to politicize the science
Video Throughput: Science Fiction From Fritz Lang to the Daniels
Everything Everywhere All At Once won the Oscar for Best Picture, arguably the first science fiction film to do so. How have science fiction movies fared at the Oscars over the years? Are we...
Falling in and out of love with an AI: Part 2
I wondered if the regulator they put the handcuffs on was reading the text as it was being typed by the AI or whether it happened before that.
Falling in and out of love with an AI: Part 1
My friend got access to use Bing’s new AI chatbot. We spent a little bit of time with it.
Mini-Throughput: Why “Natural Immunity” Isn’t All That Hot
There is a tendency in our society to favor “natural” things over artificial things.
Thursday Throughput: Masked Astronomer Edition
Lots of evidence that the people telling you masks are useless either have an agenda or don’t know what they’re talking about. Or both.
Video Thoughput: The Science of Contact
Contact digs deep into the weeds on SETI and radio astronomy and I go in with it to see what it got right and what it got wrong.
ChatGPT Isn’t Taking Your Job
When it all started, the “OMG You Should Try Out This ChatGPT Thing!” craze, I thought I’d give it a whirl.
Throughput: AI Sexbot Edition
Maybe there will come a day when a computer-generated AI Sexbot can pass a sexual Turing Test. But we are a long way away from that.
Mini-Throughput: The Irrelevance of the Doomsday Clock
Consign the Doomsday Clock to complete irrelevancy. They can stand next to the people with sandwich boards claiming the end is nigh.
Video Throughput: Astronomy in Tolkien’s Universe
In this video, I use a scene from the Hobbit as a jumping off point to talk about astronomical calendars, eclipse and how old civilizations knew way more about the universe than we give them credit for.
Throughput: Gas Stoves, Water Drops, And Various Kinds of Hot Air
In the end, I think a case can be made for notifying the public of the potential risk and encouraging better ventilation and/or the use of oils that produce less chemical emissions.
