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This week Dave (https://twitter.com/davidegts) and Gunnar (http://atechnologyjobisnoexcuse.com/about) talk about: discrimination paranoia, microphone paranoia, more microphone paranoia, and rhetorical paranoia. Finally: vacation message protocol. Lesson learned: do the Safari (http://girafferanch.com/) Lesson learned: 4 years old don’t care about American History Lesson learned: Tracksmith running shorts + swim trunks (https://www.tracksmith.com/products/m-2018-run-cannonball-run-shorts) Props to Debbie, Stow’s Public Service Supervisor, and the Stow Street Department (https://stowohio.org/departments/) Facebook, Amazon, and hundreds of companies post targeted job ads that screen out older workers (https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/5/31/17408884/facebook-amazon-job-ads-age-discrimination-lawsuit) Amazon wants to automate your hotel stay with Alexa for Hospitality (https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3034430/amazon-wants-to-automate-your-hotel-stay-with-alexa-for-hospitality) These Academics Spent The Last Year Testing Whether Your Phone Is Secretly Listening To You (https://gizmodo.com/these-academics-spent-the-last-year-testing-whether-you-1826961188) Your Phone Is Listening and it's Not Paranoia (https://www.vice.com/amp/en_au/article/wjbzzy/your-phone-is-listening-and-its-not-paranoia) IBM’s Newest AI Can Probably Argue Better Than You (https://www.wired.com/story/now-the-computer-can-argue-with-you/amp) The Most Honest Out-of-Office Message (https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/06/out-of-office-message-email/562394/) Cutting Room Floor * Bread can be made from a gangrenous wound's bacteria (https://boingboing.net/2018/06/22/bread-can-be-made-from-a-gangr.html/amp) * The Story of a Voice: HAL in ‘2001’ Wasn’t Always So Eerily Calm (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/30/movies/hal-2001-a-space-odyssey-voice-douglas-rain.html) * 24-Channel Raspberry Pi Fireworks Control System (http://moderntoil.com/?p=913) * ‘Skirmish Time Is Now!’: 6 Mediocre Catchphrases Michael Buffer Dabbled With Before Landing On ‘Let’s Get Ready To Rumble’ (https://www.clickhole.com/skirmish-time-is-now-6-mediocre-catchphrases-michae-1825612838) We Give Thanks * The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!

Poachers make moves in South Africa, Asia and Europe, the “golden wonder” salamander seen for the first time in 40 years, a puzzling horde of Port Jackson sharks spotted in Bass Strait, and a new species of orangutan described by scientists. Get these stories and more in your two-minute recap of wildlife news!

RHINO TRAGEDY
BIRD POACHING
GOLDEN TRIANGLE TRADE
SAFFRON SALAMANDER
NEW APE
LONGNECK FOSSIL
SHARK WIN
PORT JACKSON PARTY
COYOTE DECOYS

Poachers make moves in South Africa, Asia and Europe, the “golden wonder” salamander seen for the first time in 40 years, a puzzling horde of Port Jackson sharks spotted in Bass Strait, and a new species of orangutan described by scientists. Get these stories and more in your two-minute recap of wildlife news!

RHINO TRAGEDY
BIRD POACHING
GOLDEN TRIANGLE TRADE
SAFFRON SALAMANDER
NEW APE
LONGNECK FOSSIL
SHARK WIN
PORT JACKSON PARTY
COYOTE DECOYS

Tim Bedwell joins from his home abroad.

Two pioneers in the field of gene therapy join us to discuss how they're developing modified viruses to deliver healthy copies of genes to save patients afflicted by lethal genetic diseases. We also hear how energy can be harvested from footsteps and heartbeats to power nanodevices, and how a new SWARM of satellites is about to be deployed to study the Earth's magnetic field from space. Plus, in the news, how "ums" and "ahs" can boost a baby's learning power, how mankind talked his way out of Africa and how scientists are recreating schizophrenia in a Petri dish... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

We start out this week by trying to name 5 things that are not translucent. You'll have to listen to see if we could do it! Refer to episode Floppy Sock to hear us successfully name 5 things that are translucent. If you have an idea for us to name 5 things, send us an email at maskedman@limitedappeal.net. And don't worry - it doesn't have to be a good idea. Then we discuss why tall buildings don't have a thirteenth floor. Or why we should have to pay for a ferry boat with giraffes instead of cash. Damn that Hammurabi!