Episode 185: In Your Brain, Nobody Can Hear You Scream

David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 06:00:00 -0600

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about reviving pig brains from the dead, making human-monkey chimeras, and whether we should be doing either

Dave wears makeup
- See Dave w/makeup on the IBM Government Cloud Virtual Summit Agenda - Special Hybrid Cloud Edition
Concepts
This War of Mine
The Great Courses at Gunnar's library!
Viewer mail: John Scott writes on LinkedIn “The Chinese tried to do the same thing via Red Flag Linux (https://lnkd.in/ev_aKQd) - it didn't work. I would bet this won't either, just way too much embedded IP in Android. + the Chinese way will be to blatantly rip off parts of the Android code base, meaning that down stream companies could be sued for IP violation by Google and others. Gunnar Hellekson David Egts might have some thoughts…”
Follow up from D&G 165… BrainEx: Scientists Are Giving Dead Brains New Life. What Could Go Wrong?
- See also: Part-revived pig brains raise slew of ethical quandaries
'It just really ethically scares me': Caution urged as scientists look to create human-monkey chimeras
Palate cleanser: This Robot Fish Powers Itself With Fake Blood

Cutting Room Floor

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