Back to episode — Episode 2567 CWSA 08/15/24
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the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip and it happens now. Well, let's start with some fun science. Then we'll get to all the political intrigue. Over in China they've got a restaurant that pretends to be a train. So it's like you're inside a train car but the windows look like they have video screens instead of windows and they're coordinated so it looks like y…
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Anyway, here's a cool thing. There's now an implantable device that can automatically detect if you have an overdose of opioids and then if you do it administers a dose of naloxone, which is that drug that they give if you overdose on fentanyl and other opioids. And apparently it's been tested in a pig so I don't know how long it would take before it's in humans. I also don't know if it's a great idea because if you said to a drug addict, hey if you put this little implantable chip under your skin and you accidentally get some fentanyl you'll probably survive, does the addict say, oh that's good news, I'll cancel my plan to get off drugs, I'll cancel my plan for rehab because now I don't have a risk of dying? So it could be one of those things where it sounds great on paper but if you introduce it into the real world, drug addicts don't act like other people so you could end up increasing the number of drug addicts or at least increasing the number who survived. And I'm not sure that's exactly what they're shooting for but more life is better than less life I suppose.
Meanwhile Columbia University president Minouche Shafik resigned after months of mounting pressure, says Fox News. So this is Minouche Shafik has resigned after all the repeated calls for her leaving following her response to the anti-Israel protests and violence on campus. So I feel like there is a power imbalance with these protests, the anti-Israel that seemed anti-Semitic to many, and that there's really just a timing lag. And that in the short term nobody was expecting all these massive protests, kind of popped up quickly. In the long term I would expect that the pro-Jewish American, pro-Jewish, pro-Israel group would collect, you know they would organize, they would figure out how to respond and that eventually there's going to be a pretty strong pushback to the protests that seem to be anti-American in many ways. So look for that power imbalance to balance
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itself out over time. All right, here's a question. Is this real science or fake science? So there's a study according to Sky News that people who feel their life has purpose are less likely to get memory loss. So if you're an older person, let's say you are retirement age, your kids are out of the house if you had any, and if you can find some other purpose your memory loss will be less. Does th…
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