episode 61 - 3/09/16: All About Animals! (and pot)

Six Degrees debates the value in programming wheelchairs to read monkeys' thoughts--is the expensive technology and simian frustration worth the grapes?  SeaWorld monitors the health of one of their prize killer whales (who was previously implicated in two homicides) and Paris might soon use bioluminescent material to light its city streets at night.

http://www.kurzweilai.net/monkeys-learn-to-drive-wheelchairs-with-their-thoughts

 

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/03/08/469667306/seaworld-says-health-of-tilikum-the-killer-whale-is-declining?sc=17&f=1001

 

http://www.sciencealert.com/these-sea-nomad-children-can-see-underwater-like-dolphins

 

http://www.iflscience.com/environment/bioluminescent-bacteria-could-light-streets-paris

 

https://www.weedhorn.com/police-burn-33-tons-of-weed-and-get-an-entire-1635715332.html

 

http://healthcurecenter.com/federal-study-will-pay-you-3000-per-week-to-consume-cannabis/

 

http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-immunotherapy-discovery-could-give-rise-new-cancer-treatments

 

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/02/26/468298576/economists-on-candidates-proposals-mostly-bad?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20160227

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3466422/When-females-develop-penis-Experts-reveal-unique-ways-hyenas-birds-insects-evolving.html?ITO=applenews