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TRC #740: Predicting the Impact of AI + Why Do People Run Counterclockwise?
TRC #739: Is Space Fake? + Book Reviews: The Unthinkable and Moral Economics
TRC #738: Hugging Face Attack and AI Risk + Are Your Moon Photos Fake?
TRC #737: The Odyssey Movie Review
TRC #736: Book Review: Death in a Shallow Pond by David Edmonds + The Decoy Effect
TRC #735: Why Is Superman Dressed Like That? + Europe Heat Deaths vs. US Gun Deaths
TRC #734: AI Privacy Threats + Goodhart's Law and Fast Food Order Status Screens
TRC #733: What Did Dinosaurs Sound Like? + Book Review: Chokepoints by Edward Fishman
TRC #732: Our Windy Solar System + Classroom Windows on the Left Side
TRC #731: Movie Franchise "Use It Or Lose It" Clauses + Anthropic's Mythos
TRC #730: How Old Are Sharks? + Jim Carrey: Clone, Doppleganger or Mask?
TRC #729: Digital Devices in Schools + Books Reviews: Enshittification & Breakneck
TRC #728: Does Moltbook AI Matter? + Family Feud Surveys
TRC #727: Things Your Parents Said Were Illegal + Canada's Apology Laws
TRC #726: Are Orange Cats Weird? + What Kind of Cat is Garfield?
TRC #725: Infant Simulator Programs + Book Reviews: The Thinking Machine, The Philosopher in the Valley & Peak Human
TRC #724: Mistletoe + Christmas Tree Lights
TRC #723: The Introduction to Darren McKee's Uncontrollable: The Threat of Artificial Superintelligence and the Race to Save the World
TRC #722: Effective Giving + The Mona Lisa
TRC #721: Our 2023 Interview with Yoshua Bengio
TRC #720: Diabetes and DKA + Name That: Spot The Fake
TRC #719: The Disney Point and Smoking + Book Reviews: Shadow Cell and Algospeak
TRC #718: Philosophical Zombies + Vampires and Tuberculosis
TRC #717: Air Conditioning in Europe + Book Reviews: Privacy and Surveillance and Quantum Mechanics
TRC #716: Depicting Intelligence in Fiction
TRC #715: Mashup: Trees
TRC #714: Superman Movie Discussion
TRC #713: Testosterone Replacement Therapy + Book Review Roundup: Apple in China, An Immense World, Canada Alone, Pronoun Trouble, Rise Above
TRC #712: AI Make Brain Dumb? + Mentalism
TRC #711: Are Dire Wolves Back? + Book Review Roundup: Nexus, Stoicism, CBT Made Simple, Philosophers in 90 Minutes
TRC #710: Remembering Dr. Stuart Farrimond
TRC #709: 100 Men vs. 1 Gorilla + Evidence of Alien Life on an Exoplanet?
TRC #708: The Telepathy Tapes + AI Cheating At Chess?
TRC #707: Is Tim Hortons Canadian? + Mysterious Structures Under The Great Pyramid
TRC #706: An AI Generated Podcast by NotebookLM
TRC #705: Book Round Up: Family Unfriendly and One Billion Americans + Is The 401 The Busiest Highway In The World?
TRC #704: Remembering Joe Nickell
TRC #703: Jevons' Paradox + American vs. Canadian ingredients in food
TRC #702: Talking Close Relationships with Dr. Cheryl Harasymchuk
TRC #701: How Many Birds Do Cats Kill? + Book Review Roundup
TRC #700: The Rise of Podcasts + Are False Beliefs More Common?
TRC #699: Was Lamarck That Wrong? + What Do Animals See On A TV?
TRC #698: Converting Office Space to Housing + Book Review: The Singularity is Nearer
TRC #697: Did Hedy Lamarr Invent Wi-Fi? + Name That: Spot the Fake
TRC #696: Did Sakana AI Change Its Own Code? + Who is Margaret Hello?
TRC #695: The Science of Sharknado + Book Review: Invisible Rulers by Renée DiResta
TRC #694: Can Meditation Be Harmful? + Did Cavemen Live in Caves?
TRC #693: When Is Soap Not Really Soap? + Book Review: Determined
TRC #692: Cultivating Critical Thinking + Letting Food Cool Before Refrigerating It
TRC #691: Why Can't AI Do Laundry and Dishes?
TRC #690: Early Mammals + Would You Rather Encounter a Man or a Bear in the Woods?
TRC #689: The Science of Dune's Sandworms + AI Personal Assistants
TRC #688: Interview with Spencer Greenberg
TRC #687: Remembering Daniel Dennett
TRC #686: The Stanford Prison Experiment + Is AI Taking Over Creative Jobs?
TRC #685: AI More Creative Than Humans? + Safe Solar Eclipse Viewing
TRC #684: Aliens in Mexican Congress? + Book Review: Outlive by Peter Attia
TRC #683: AI News: Sora, Gemini 1.5 and Implications + Jailbreaks by Hiding Files in Cakes
TRC #682: Oppenheimer Movie Discussion
TRC #681: Are Poinsettias Poisonous? + Mickey Mouse and the Public Domain
TRC #680: Annual Predictions: 2024 Edition + Down Syndrome Strength + A Special Message From Pat and Cristina
TRC #679: A Chat With Author Darren McKee: Uncontrollable
TRC #678: Darren's AI Book is Out!
TRC #677: Interview with Yoshua Bengio
TRC #676: Phenylephrine Ineffective? + Bees Are Doing Fine
TRC #675: Mashup: The Centrifuge Brain Project + Avril Double + V-Steaming
TRC #674: How Does AI Image Generation Work? + Why Is A Bug Called A Bug?
TRC #673: UFO Whistleblower? + Will We Make Great Pets For An Artificial Super Intelligence?
TRC #672: Are Fingerprints Really Unique? + What's A Buttload? + Why AI Researchers Don't Quit
TRC #671: Uncertainty And AI Risk + Spot The Fake
TRC #670: Mashup: Fire and Smoke
TRC #669: Coronal Mass Ejection + The Technology Trap
TRC #668: Dark Chocolate Has Heavy Metals? + What Happened To The Dinosaurs?
TRC #667: Special Intro + A Chat With Karl Mamer
TRC #666: The Number Of The Beast Origins + Name That: Spot The Fake
TRC #665: Is It Safe To Stand In Front of Microwave Ovens? Interview with Dr. Roman Yampolskiy About The Simulation Hypothesis
TRC #664: Thundersnow + Customer Always Right? + A Look At "The Metaverse"
TRC #663: Interview with Dr. Roman Yampolskiy About The Threat Of Advanced AI
TRC #662: Annual Prediction Show - 2023 Edition
TRC #661: Isaac Asimov's Laws Of Robotics + The Apple Logo = The Fall Of Man?
TRC #660: Did Coca-Cola Conceive Modern Santa? + Eight Billion People?
TRC #659: Chatting ChatGPT + LED Masks Worth The Hype? + Play Along With Spot The Fake
TRC #658: Iran Protest Misinfo + Medieval Peasants Worked Less + What Is A Slug?
TRC #657: Greenwashing + Is Social Media Bad For Us?
TRC #656: Origins Of Halloween + Halloween Myths + Less Kids Trick Or Treating?
TRC #655: Is Nuclear Power Racist? Sexist? Ageist? + Lenses With Stuart Robbins
TRC #654: What Is Inflation? + John von Neumann: The Man From The Future
TRC #653: Ethics In Scientific Research with Dr. Robbins and Dr. Robbins
TRC #652: JWST With Dr. Stu Robbins + Rogers Outage
TRC #651: LaMDA Sentient? + Is Chlorine Smell From Pee? + 'Reality+' Overview
TRC #650: Dishwasher Vs Hand Washing + Dog Breed & Behavior + 'The Road To Unfreedom'
TRC #649: Is Russia Committing Genocide In Ukraine? + No Ugly Old Buildings?
TRC #648: Slapgate Conspiracy + The Science Of Moonfall
TRC #647: Coalitions Are Democratic?
TRC #646: Donating During Disasters + Domestication Syndrome + 'Intellectuals and Society' By Thomas Sowell
TRC #645: The Panther of Kharkiv
TRC #644: Ottawa Convoy Confusion
TRC #643: Catalytic Converters + Masked People More Attractive? + New Year's Resolutions
TRC #642: Annual Prediction Show: 2022 Edition
TRC #641: Dangers Of High Density Crowds + Memes: Conspiracies Or Clickbait? + 'Rationality' By Steven Pinker