episode 61 - 3/09/16: All About Animals! (and pot)

Six Degrees debates the value in programming wheelchairs to read monkeys' thoughts--is the expensive technology and simian frustration worth the grapes?  SeaWorld monitors the health of one of their prize killer whales (who was previously implicated in two homicides) and Paris might soon use bioluminescent material to light its city streets at night. http://www.kurzweilai.net/monkeys-learn-to-drive-wheelchairs-with-their-thoughts   http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/03/08/469667306/seaworld-says-health-of-tilikum-the-killer-whale-is-declining?sc=17&f=1001   http://www.sciencealert.com/these-sea-nomad-children-can-see-underwater-like-dolphins   http://www.iflscience.com/environment/bioluminescent-bacteria-could-light-streets-paris   https://www.weedhorn.com/police-burn-33-tons-of-weed-and-get-an-entire-1635715332.html   http://healthcurecenter.com/federal-study-will-pay-you-3000-per-week-to-consume-cannabis/   http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-immunotherapy-discovery-could-give-rise-new-cancer-treatments   http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/02/26/468298576/economists-on-candidates-proposals-mostly-bad?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20160227   http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3466422/When-females-develop-penis-Experts-reveal-unique-ways-hyenas-birds-insects-evolving.html?ITO=applenews