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Big Picture Science

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🗓️ 4 November 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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A thousand years ago, most people didn’t own a single book. The only way to access knowledge was to consult their memory. But technology – from paper to hard drives – has permitted us to free our brains from remembering countless facts. Alphabetization and the simple filing cabinet have helped to systematize and save information we might need someday. But now that we can Google just about any subject, have we lost the ability to memorize information? Does this make our brains better or worse? Guests: Judith Flanders – Historian and author, most recently of A Place for Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order Craig Robertson – Professor of Media Studies, Northeastern University and author of The Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History of Information David Eagleman – Neuroscientist and author, Stanford University Originally aired October 11, 2021 Featuring music by Dewey Dellay and Jun Miyake Big Picture Science is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. Please contact [email protected] to inquire about advertising on Big Picture Science. You can get early access to ad-free versions of every episode by joining us on Patreon. Thanks for your support! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:22.6	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast. Do we really need another computer? One that's faster, more powerful. Not everyone does. But to reinvent music using a neural processor, work off the grid with all-day battery, or bring your vision to life with AI-powered co-creator, then a co-pilot plus PC can make a difference. A powerful AI computer is not for everyone. But if you're trying to change the world, even if just your own, we built one for you.
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0:45.3	Search for Adobe Express to find out more. I have a couple of interesting facts to share.
1:02.0	But before I do, I'm going to ask you not to remember them.
1:05.0	That's important.
1:06.0	Don't remember them.
1:07.0	Just take them in and then let them go, okay? All right, here they are.
1:11.6	First, Mars is known as the red planet because of the iron oxide, that's rust, that's
1:18.6	in its soil.
1:19.6	Here's another one.
1:20.6	Snails have the most teeth of any animal, between 1,000 and 12,000 of them, actually.
1:26.6	And finally, at any given time, there are roughly 1,800 thunderstorms raging on Earth
1:32.3	with 100 lightning strikes per second.
1:35.3	Pretty interesting facts, but I hope you didn't waste precious brain activity,
1:39.3	committing them to memory because technology will remember for you.
1:50.9	This is Big Picture Science produced at the SETI Institute.
1:52.5	I'm Seth Chastak.
1:53.6	I'm Molly Bentley.
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