New Scientist 27 Oct_1

By the vagaries of mail, this one arrived after the last podcast-ed. There is a bit of a production story here. I worked on synthetic quizzes and lessons for which a podcast is broken up and re-spliced into the various products. In this one I am experimenting with the summary of what's coming made at the end of the Podcast, and then spliced on the front. I really have to do this any way for cognitive rehab. The coding to prototype this really took 60 seconds so lets hope it works. If it does I will have to spend a little time tagging what is the introduction for a cluster of podcasts. In the real world out here domestic job pop up and all are best tackled with immediate professional attention, rarely mates drop by and it a sign of madness to keep talking. Thus podcasts can be fragmented. Even more rarely, I get attacked by variously brightly coloured parrots or there is some snake or spider moving very quietly, but not quietly enough near by.

In this section there is the predictable amazement at Trump nuking up like a right idiot, but also we are treated to actually quite vulgar pseudo scientific investigation of would you sacrifice a pregnant doctor who had some sort of criminal record or was actually a deranged killer. My observation is they were sampling people stupid enough to answer their survey.

There is an odd article that talks about computing with cytoskeletons. This is down a knowledge rabbit hole, as we pretend in Australian schools at least that cell skeletons don't exist. They do and are also intensely interesting. However, I can't but feel some of the science here is lost in translation. These guys are like support wires and come in a variety of gauges not just one as the article suggests. I think they must transmit information as the article suggests but if they do this is really big scientific news. It is really confusing as we know how cells use the tubulin and robotic walkers that travel along them for precision timing. The idea is that there is another way is fascinating. I understand the point that silicon has hit a power consumption wall but it seems disconnected to pick out how this is going to operate at lower over all power.

Let's hope this experiment with a spliced introduction actually works!
Good news it does, but now I will have to unjam my upload engine which has become clogged with too much to unload. If it isn't found it is re-submitted which is okay for my appalling upload rate, but you can imagine it is not intelligent

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