🚨📽️🚨📽️ My new Scientific American / Tangled Bank Studios doc is out! "ANIMAL ROBOT" is the inside story of how "the world's first living robots" were made using AI + the bio/tech/philosophical implications of their creation. Give it watch and share if you liked it! youtu.be/8WyWFAS96ac

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The water level of the Great Salt Lake is at a record low, but is it too late to save it? Kevin Perry of U of U Atmospheric Sciences is optimistic. Our producers Emma Gometz and Dee Peterschmidt listen to the crunch of lake beds, and solutions. Read the article here: sciencefriday.com/segments/savin…

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New podcast, who dis? 🌌 #UniverseOfArt launches next week. Subscribe wherever you already subscribe to Science Friday!

The new video game Terra Nil (Terra Nil 🌲 AVAILABLE NOW) was designed as a “reverse city-builder"—you start with a barren wasteland, and restore it to a thriving, diverse ecosystem 🌳 Sam Alfred joins Dee Peterschmidt next to talk the design and inspiration for this new game sciencefriday.com/segments/video…

#UniverseOfArt’s first episode is out! Meet performers Pattie Gonia and Kyne who use drag to bring nature and math to their audiences in a super fun way. Plus, Kathleen J Davis and KyleMarian 🇵🇭🌏 break down how they brought this story to Science Friday. wnycstudios.org/podcasts/unive…

This was a really special segment I helped produce in 2022. The joy Pattie Gonia & Kyne bring to STEM education is 💯. The fact I received DMs from grandparents and parents about how to follow, learn, and share more from Kyne and Pattie tells you everything.

A new play called "Smart" tells the story of a woman, her aging mother with dementia, an AI programmer, and a smartspeaker named Jenny. Ira talks with play-write Mary Elizabeth Hamilton about privacy, AI, and hallucinations on stage at EST sciencefriday.com/segments/smart…

New #UniverseOfArt episode! Meet the creators of #InverteButtWeek, a celebration featuring comics about the weird and wonderful behinds of invertebrates, led by Rosemary Mosco (Bird And Moon Comics), Dr Maureen Berg, franz (not here), and @americanbeetles. wnycstudios.org/podcasts/unive…

Happy "it's been over a year since #InverteButtWeek to all those who celebrate"

So a thousand crows show up to your neighborhood to caw and poop on your car. What do you do? Dee Peterschmidt interviews a resident of the Baltimore neighborhood in question, and calls in the expert: Kaeli Swift, Ph.D. sciencefriday.com/segments/large…

For today’s #UniverseOfArt episode, I talked to Lauren J. Young about her super fun Science Friday article on 「VεεLoΧΧγ・BITΞƧ」’s quest to improve the reputation of parasites through his art, and then did an audiobook-style reading of it. Take a listen 🎧 🪱 wnycstudios.org/podcasts/unive…