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Science Talk

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Science Talk

Scientific American

Science

4.2644 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2009

⏱️ 4 minutes

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The Totally Bogus Quiz for this week Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Here's the truth about AI. AI is only as powerful as the platform it's built into.

0:05.7

ServiceNow puts AI to work for people across your business, removing friction and frustration

0:11.2

for your employees, supercharging productivity for your developers, providing intelligent

0:16.5

tools for your service agents to make customers happier, all built into a single platform you can

0:21.9

use right now. That's why the world works with ServiceNow. Visit ServiceNow.com

0:27.8

slash UK slash AI for people. Hi, Steve Murski here with the previously promised part two of this

0:34.6

week's podcast, namely totally bogus.

0:38.1

Here are four science stories, but only three are true.

0:41.3

See if you know which story is totally bogus.

0:44.1

Story 1, a study of the views of men who were regular consumers of pornography

0:48.7

found that they did indeed have poorer eyesight on average than non-consumers.

0:55.3

Story two, photos from the Tiger Woods crash scene revealed a physics book in the backseat

1:00.7

of the vehicle.

1:02.1

Story three, a specific type of anxiety has been linked to the likelihood of becoming

1:07.3

depressed, and that anxiety is anxiety about having anxiety. And story four,

1:15.0

the genome of corn has been sequenced and published. Time is up. Story four is true. The sequence

1:23.6

of the genome of corn was published in the November 20th issue of the journal Science.

1:29.0

It's the biggest and most complex plant genome sequenced so far.

1:33.5

Corn was a $47 billion crop in the U.S. in 2008.

1:38.4

Sequencing will reveal connections between genes and traits,

1:41.9

lead to new varieties with desirable characteristics as both food

1:45.7

and biofuel. And the new info may also solve the long-standing puzzle of why corn grows vertically,

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