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Science Magazine Podcast

Breeding better bees, and training artificial intelligence on emotional imagery

Science Magazine Podcast

Science Podcast

Science, News, News Commentary

4.3842 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Imagine having a rat clinging to your back, sucking out your fat stores. That’s similar to what infested bees endure when the Varroa destructor mite comes calling. Some bees fight back, wiggling, scratching, and biting until the mites depart for friendlier backs. Now, researchers, professional beekeepers, and hobbyists are working on ways to breed into bees these mite-defeating behaviors to rid them of these damaging pests. Host Sarah Crespi and Staff Writer Erik Stokstad discuss the tactics of, and the hurdles to, pesticide-free mite control. Also this week, Sarah talks to Philip Kragel of the Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of Colorado in Boulder about training an artificial intelligence on emotionally charged images. The ultimate aim of this research: to understand how the human visual system is involved in processing emotion. And in books, Kate Eichorn, author of The End of Forgetting: Growing Up with Social Media, joins books host Kiki Sanford to talk about how the monetization of digital information has led to the ease of social media sharing and posting for kids and adults. This week’s episode was edited by Podigy. Download a transcript (PDF)  Listen to previous podcasts. About the Science Podcast [Image: Steve Baker/Flickr; Music: Jeffrey Cook] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This podcast is supported by the Icon School of Medicine at Mount Sinai,

0:04.0

the academic arm of the Mount Sinai health system in New York City,

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and one of America's leading research medical schools.

0:10.7

What are scientists and clinicians working on to improve medical care and health for women?

0:15.5

Find out in a special supplement to Science magazine prepared by the Icon School of Medicine

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and Mount Sinai in partnership

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with science. Visit our website at www.combe at www.combe-science.org and search for Frontiers

0:27.0

of Medical Research-Dash-Womeness Health. The Icon School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, we find a way.

0:33.3

Morgan State University, a Baltimore, Maryland-Karnege R2 doctoral research institution,

0:39.2

offers more than 100 academic programs and awards degrees at the baccalaureate,

0:44.0

master's, and doctoral levels, is furthering their mission of growing the future, leading

0:48.7

the world. Morgan continues to address the needs and challenges of the modern urban environment.

0:54.4

With a four-year quadrupling of research, more than a dozen new doctoral programs,

0:59.4

and eight new National Centers of Excellence, Morgan is positioned to achieve Carnegie R1 designation in the next five years.

1:07.4

To learn more about Morgan and their ascension to R1, visit morgan.edu slash research.

1:17.6

Welcome to the science podcast for July 26, 2019. I'm Sarah Crespi. This week's show, we start with

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staff writer Eric Stockstead. He's here to talk to us

1:30.7

about breeding better bees in order to beat the varroa mite, a pest that's decimated bee colonies

1:38.2

around the world. And I talked with Philip Craigle about training and AI to decode the emotional content of images

1:46.6

with the ultimate aim of better understanding how the human visual system takes part in our emotions.

1:54.6

And for this month's book segment, Kiki Sanford talks with author Kate Eichorn about her book,

2:00.4

The End of Forgetting, Growing Up with Social Media.

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