You Did What Now?

This week Michael and Stephanie talking about research into intoxication and the accelerometer in your phone. Can it tell when you are drunk? Should it? You can find the Neuralink conference everywhere. The Twitter thread about hacking Neopets is here. The reddit community about the targeted shirt ads is here. The title image is one of these shirts. I see them all the time, and now thanks to the Baader Meinhof effect, you probably will too. Please rate and review our show! Share us with a...

So there's a video game approved by the FDA for treatment of ADHD, and Michael and Stephanie are here to talk about it. No, it's not Fortnite. Please rate and review our show! Share us with a friend. Reach out by email or Twitter and suggest a topic. We love hearing them. Like us on Facebook athttps://www.facebook.com/youdidwhatnowpodcast Follow Michael on Twitter at @ceetarFollow Stephanie on Twitter at @stephanieYDWN RSS subscription links! AppleGoogleStitcherSpotify Intro Clips: Simpsons,...

Just an FYI, that for the foreseeable future we're moving to an every other week type schedule. So this week Michael and Stephanie are discussing a 'hidden' feature in Tesla cars called bidirectional charging. Could this untether us from our current routines? Can robots become roaming chargers? Can you just drive your car up to your lake house off the grid and power it with your vehicle? Michael laments in this episode that he hasn't been starting his car regularly, and sure enough, the...

New intro music! What do you think? Stephanie and Michael discuss a new way to build in space, no, it's not minecraft, it's urine! Tom Cruise and Elon Musk are indeed talking about making a movie ON the International Space Station. No idea if it'll happen, but man, that must've been an interesting conversation to listen in on. Please rate and review our show! Share us with a friend. Reach out by email or Twitter and suggest a topic. We love hearing them. Like us on Facebook...

Let's talk about R2D2, or cobots if you prefer. Stephanie and Michael discuss an article about robot assistants, specifically to self-driving cars, that may help passengers with needs that typically the driver would do. R2D2, btw, doesn't really have a 'class', he's just a Second Generation Robotic Droid Series-2. This is a link to the Murderbot series that I haven't had a chance to read yet. We apologize for the sporadic schedule of the podcast lately. Things, as you know, are quite hectic...

Today Michael and Stephanie discuss the murder hornet invasion. Also fire ants, and lawns. If you see any bee heads on little stakes, please be wary of the murder hornets. Here's an actual video of how the Japanese honey bees deal with an invading hornet. We apologize for the sporadic schedule of the podcast lately. Things, as you know, are quite hectic these days and sometimes the creative stuff suffers. We do have an episode about R2-D2 prepped for next week though. Please also rate and...

Our, like your, world has been a little topsy turvy lately. We apologize for our unplanned hiatus, but we're back with a story about delivery robots! There are a few different theories about Black Mirror viewing order, I'll leave it to you to Google on your own if you're so inclined. I don't know if I'll stick to episode order or not, but if I don't I'll let you know. Here's the story about the feral scooters in Central Park Michael mentioned. Sourdough update! It's coming along I guess....

In a You Did What Now? first, Stephanie and Michael had a guest on. E. Rosalie Li Rodenborn is a graduate student in the Public Health Biology program at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and is here to talk about COVID-19, our latest coronavirus pandemic. We recorded this about a week ago, so Rosalie quotes some numbers here and there that may have gotten updates in the meantime. You can follow her on Twitter or read her blog at NobelProse, or listen to her podcast for...

Stephanie and Michael discuss a science experiment from the 1930s that explored whether Black Widow spiders are in fact poisonous. The scientific method is sound! How do you get a spider to bite a rat? Harvey Washington Wiley was the American Chemist that created the poison squad. It's an interesting story, one that I heard about on Gastropod. Please rate and review the show. Share us with a friend. Reach out by email or Twitter and suggests a topic. We love hearing them. Like us on Facebook...

Michael and Stephanie discuss 'anti-solar' panels and other new forms of energy generation, but first a quick update on our pal Elon Musk. He's saying the new Neuralink updates are awesome, but maybe he should keep an eye out, because there are competitors like this one called Neurosity that doesn't need to do surgery. Seems like Tesla's Solar Roof will be rolling out this year though, the company is hiring roofers. There's a video at the top of the CNN article that talks about the Japanese...

In this episode Michael and Stephanie discuss the weird radio bursts from FRB 180916.J0158+65 that are repeating every 16 days. Is it aliens? Specifically, there are one or two bursts every hour for four days before going silent for 12 days. It then repeats. It's originating from a the spiral galaxy known as SDSS J015800.28+654253.0, nearly 500 million years away, meaning this signal originated more than 500 million years ago. This is actually the closest FRB ever detected. Please rate and...

Stephanie and Michael talk about a new study that's looking into possible negative effect of of marijuana on HPV. The "World's Coldest Martini" that Michael was talking about is here. Please rate and review the show. Share us with a friend. Reach out by email or Twitter and suggests a topic. We love hearing them. Like us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/youdidwhatnowpodcast Follow Michael on Twitter at @ceetarFollow Stephanie on Twitter at @stephanieYDWN RSS subscription links!...

Michael and Stephanie discuss something called Quantum Stealth from the HyperStealth company that acts as an invisibility shield using basic physics. Lenticular Lenses for the win! The Adventures Of Leonardo and the Drone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZMyWEWHCTM Please rate and review the show. Share us with a friend. Reach out by email or Twitter and suggests a topic. We love hearing them. Like us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/youdidwhatnowpodcast Follow Michael on Twitter at...

Michael and Stephanie discuss a potential dating app from George Church that would screen out potential matches whose pairing might let to children with serious genetic disorders. There's plenty to think about here, but as the app doesn't exist yet, we'll have to fall back on old-fashioned dating habits. Or look into Church's other work, where he's trying to make us immune to viruses and reverse aging. So there's that. Please reach out on Twitter or by email at youdidwhatnowpodcast@gmail.com...

Michael and Stephanie discuss a Ted Talk by Janelle Shane that talks about the weird ways AI and algorithms try to solve problems, especially when given vague controls. Janelle actually wrote a book about this, and has a website. Michael just purchased the book, and will update in the future. The programming language for kids Stephanie mentioned is called Scratch, and it looks pretty interesting. Please reach out on Twitter or by email with your favorite AI generated Ice Cream flavor name,...

Stephanie and Michael discuss an experiment that seeks to find altruist birds. That's right, good birds. Or are we just projecting? Should we build giant good bird robots? The computer algorithm Michael was talking about is literally called Bees algorithm. It's a population-based search algorithm, basically it's a way to efficiently find and focus on an important section of your data set and it mimics how bees search for food. The Panda porn comment is pretty searchable on your own, but it...

Michael and Stephanie discuss the idea that new 5g technology might threaten the weather technology we rely on for storm prediction. 5G is being rolled out faster in China and Korea, spearheaded by Chinese tech giant Huawei, which comfortingly has been rumored to be using it's networks to sell China foreign data. Terrific. You CAN actually follow the podcast on Tiktok. We're simply YDWN there. I wouldn't expect much use though, but you can follow us at all the usual places, like Twitter at...

Stephanie and Michael discuss the accuracy of DNA analysis to figure out your algorithms, health risks, and ancestry. Is this just 21st century astrology? 2019 is winding down. Help us out in 2020 by subscribing and rating the show on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen. Share us with a friend. Email us story ideas at youdidwhatnowpodcast@gmail.com. Read anything about crazy scientists or out of control tech robots? Let us know! Like us on Facebook at...

Michael and Stephanie catch up on some old episode notes, and then talk about a company called Notpla that's worked with Glenlivet to make cocktails in a biodegradable pod. The holidays are coming! We probably won't publish an episode the week of Chanukkah and Christmas, but will put one up right after New Years and then back to the weekly schedule. Please don't hesitate to mention the podcast to friends and family, share the show, get other people to subscribe, we really appreciate it. I...

Michael and Stephanie discuss a discovered gene mutation that may allow us to need less sleep, and all the ramifications that may come with it. Maybe we'll finally catch up with our Netflix queues. We skipped publishing an episode going into Thanksgiving, but we do have every intention of putting out episodes during the winter holidays. We're going to try to get those edited and posted the Monday before Christmas and New Years. If there's anything specific you'd like to hear us talk about,...