An announcement explaining why I'm cancelling the podcast. If you want more information about it, I wrote a public blog post over on the Patreon page. Check it out.

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Penguins with dagger-like beaks, a collapsing Atlantic current, a brain map of 600,000 cells, and a bear skull that proves gladiators fought wild animals.

SOURCES

• Early penguins may have used dagger-like beaks to skewer prey | New Scientist
• Key Atlantic current could start collapsing as early as 2055, new study finds | Live Science
• Map of 600,000 brain cells rewrites the textbook on how the brain makes decisions | Live Science
• Skull of bear held captive to fight Roman gladiators discovered near ancient amphitheater in Serbia | Live Science

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Why scrolling on the toilet could be bad for your health, why we may have way less carbon storage underground than we thought, whether plant-based dog food really works, and how humans and AIs fall for the same persuasion tricks.

SOURCES

• Smartphone scrolling on the toilet could increase risk of haemorrhoids | New Scientist
• We may have 10 times less carbon storage capacity than we thought | New Scientist
• Plant-based dog foods provide almost all the nutrients pets need | New Scientist
• These psychological tricks can get LLMs to respond to “forbidden” prompts | Ars Technica

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