Quirks and Quarks54:02AI research prize and risks, football and lifespan, smart glasses see with sound, most powerful solar storm and killer whale contamination
On this episode of Quirks & Quarks with Bob McDonald:
Canadian AI researcher wins Herzberg medal, cautions world about his work
Quirks and Quarks18:43Canadian AI researcher wins Herzberg medal, cautions world about his work
This week in the UK world leaders met to try to decide how to regulate the potential dangers of AI. Also this week Canada's most prestigious science prize, the Gerhard Herzberg Canada gold medal for science and engineering, went to a scientist who helped make the AI revolution possible. Yoshua Bengio, the scientific director of the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms and professor at Université de Montréal, is both excited and cautious about the future of the technology he helped create.
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Pro football player lifespan depends on the position they play
Quirks and Quarks8:19Pro football player lifespan depends on the position they play
A study of the longevity of male football players by sociologist Rob Warren from the University of Minnesota, finds that most live to around the same age or longer as other men, with the exception of linemen, who die relatively young. The reason may be a combination of neurological problems from head injuries, as well as cardiovascular issues that develop post-career as a result of their hyper-caloric diet and large size. His research was published in PNAS.
Killer whale blubber is telling a sad story about pollution
Quirks and Quarks8:41Killer whale blubber is telling a sad story about pollution
Scientists using samples of fat from killer whales throughout the north Atlantic have discovered they contain a disturbing amount of potentially dangerous pollution. The pollutants range from PCBs to DDT to flame retardants that were banned years ago but still persist in the environment. Anaïs Remili, a postdoctoral whale biologist at McGill University, said the Atlantic killer whales closest to Canada are the most polluted due to their contaminated diet of marine mammals. The research is in the journal Environmental Science & Technology.
Smart glasses help blind people see with sound
Quirks and Quarks8:07Smart glasses help blind people see with sound
Smart glasses with capabilities inspired by echolocation may help blind people hear their way in the world. The augmented-reality glasses with cameras and speakers were developed by Howe Zhu from the Human-Centric A-I Lab and the Computing and Audio Research Lab at the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia. The glasses 'sonify' objects with a specific related sound as they come into the field of range. His research was published in PLOS One.
WATCH: Video from the University of Sydney
The most powerful solar storm ever struck before it could do much damage
Scientists have found evidence in ancient trees of radiation from a solar storm 14,300 years ago that was likely at least ten times as powerful as anything in recorded history. Edouard Bard from The College of France in Paris and the European Centre for Research and Teaching in Environmental Geosciences in Aix en Provence, found radiation evidence of the event in fossilized tree rings in the southern French Alps. It matched similar records found in ice cores in Greenland and Antarctica. Such a storm today would result in a complete collapse of all communication and energy networks everywhere in the world. His research was published by The Royal Society.
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