Solve for X: Innovations to Change the World
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2022
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This past June, we released “Degrees of Freedom,” an episode that explored how human dexterity is the holy grail of roboticists. In that discussion, we spoke to Jason Millar, a professor at the University of Ottawa and…
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Canada has always run on water. In the 19th-century, thousands of communities developed around the textile, grist and saw mills that harnessed water power from rivers. Today, hydro generates about 60 percent of the…
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Recent advances in AI have fundamentally changed how we predict the weather, making forecasting cheaper, faster and better — we can now track even the most unusual weather event with almost pinpoint accuracy. Such…
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Episode summary: The head-spinning ascent of AI is a story of scientific innovation, but it’s also, fundamentally, a story about money. Between 2013 and 2024, AI netted about U.S.$1.6 trillion of global corporate and…
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Thanks largely to advances in AI, robots are now capable of things never before possible: picking delicate vegetables, moving heavy goods deftly around a warehouse, making pizzas. But there are still limitations to even…
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Home remedy: Understanding housing as a medical intervention could transform the homelessness crisis
The housing crisis is fundamentally a health problem. Decades of research show that people experiencing homelessness spend twice as long in the hospital, cost the healthcare system double and have a life expectancy half…
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There are few neurodegenerative diseases as devastating as Huntington’s. It’s sometimes likened to having Parkinson’s, ALS and Alzheimer’s all at the same time, with symptoms that include progressive motor dysfunction,…
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Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) have been allowing humans to control objects with their minds for nearly half a century. But in recent years, thanks partly to advances in AI, the technology has evolved dramatically;…
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The fashion industry has its fair share of dirty secrets, but one of the lesser-known is how much it pollutes our waterways. Every year, garment factories use as much as 2 trillion gallons of water to dye clothes, and…
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There’s no denying that technology plays — and will continue to play — a critical role in addressing the climate crisis. But could super-intelligent AI actually solve the problem for us, as several tech billionaires…
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- Oldest episode in feed
- 06/2022 · over 4 years
- Typical length
- 26 min
- Format
- Episodic Newest first, episodes stand alone
- Keywords
- direct air capture, climate change, how technology can solve climate change, tech innovations to save the planet, climate action, mars discovery district, solving for x, tech billionaires and the environment
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