Science Friction

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Science Friction's latest series is: Brain Rot. We're looking at what being chronically online is doing to our brains. What's really going on with our attention spans and tech addiction? Is data-dumping your entire life into ChatGPT helpful? Can going internet free help you escape the doomscroll? And what's it like to be in love ... with an AI? National technology reporter Ange Lavoipierre tackles the wildest ways people are using tech and the big questions about our own use. That's Brain Rot ...

Episode List

The biggest butterfly of all

Jan 27th, 2019 6:05 AM

A search for a beguiling beauty. And a saga about people power.

Extreme art adventures: will this be first artist-in-residence in space?

Feb 3rd, 2019 6:05 AM

Meet a water baby turned aquanaut turned astronaut candidate. Sarah Jane Pell is an astronomical performance artist. Will artists make life in space more humane?

Faith challenged - finding science in Trumplandia

Feb 10th, 2019 5:05 PM

One Amish childhood + one strict Christian upbringing = two 21 year olds questioning everything they were ever taught. On the afterlife, evolution, and making your own way.

The drug trial that went wrong...very, very wrong

Feb 17th, 2019 6:05 AM

Who protects the human guinea pigs? (Repeat)

Could this designer baby pouch allow men to have babies too? Future Uterus Part 1

Feb 24th, 2019 6:05 AM

Who needs to get pregnant anymore when you can use a baby pouch? FullLife has the product for you. The sci fi imaginings of Helen Sedgewick. Utopia or the ultimate dystopia? A Science Friction mini-series that takes a womb's eye view of the future of reproduction.

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