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Science Talk

Bonus Bogus Brainteaser

Science Talk

Scientific American

Science

4.2644 Ratings

🗓️ 20 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

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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

0:36.2

of this week's Science talk podcast, namely totally

0:39.8

bogus.

0:41.5

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

0:44.1

See if you know which story is totally bogus.

0:47.2

Story one, famed primatologist Jane Goodall wrote to a judge on Staten Island,

0:53.5

urging him to send a woman to prison.

0:56.2

Story 2, another New York City story.

0:58.6

The Department of Health last week removed bees from the list of animals that New Yorkers are prohibited from having.

1:05.2

In other words, beekeeping is poised to be legal again in New York.

1:09.7

Story 3, another stinging story. Many species of catfish actually produced poised to be legal again in New York. Story three, another stinging story.

1:11.6

Many species of catfish actually produce poisonous venom.

1:16.4

And story four, people with large fingertips have more touch sensitivity.

1:22.1

Times up. Story one is true.

1:23.6

Jane Goodall did write to a judge on Staten Island,

1:26.7

urging him to give prison time to

1:28.8

Mamie Manna, a mother of eight, who had been found guilty of smuggling bushmeat into the U.S.

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