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Invention

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Invention

iHeartPodcasts

Science, Natural Sciences, History

4.6634 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

A fungal accident in the early 20th century opened the door for the medical wonders of the antibiotic age. In this episode of Invention, Robert and Joe explore what came before and how Alexander Fleming’s discovery changed the world. 

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0:00.0

from iHeart podcast before social media before cable news there was alan berg he was the first

0:06.8

and the original shock shock that scratchy irreverent kind of way talking to people and telling

0:13.2

them that you're an idiot and i'm going to hang up on you this is live wire the loud life and

0:17.9

shocking murder of alan berg and he pointed to the denver book and said, well, there are probably two million suspects.

0:24.9

Listen on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:30.1

Are there any pictures of you online?

0:31.8

Then you could already be in a massive police database without even knowing it.

0:35.8

Clearview scrapes together images from Facebook, from LinkedIn, from Venmo accounts.

0:41.4

I'm Dexter Thomas, host a Kill Switch, a podcast about how living in the future is affecting

0:46.1

us right now.

0:47.1

Police, they are trusting the software with this magical ability to lead them to the right

0:52.2

suspect.

0:52.8

In this episode, we dive into how cops are using AI and facial recognition and sometimes getting it wrong and putting innocent people behind bars.

1:00.8

So if your accuser is this algorithm, but you're not even being told that it was used, let alone given any of the details about how it works.

1:09.3

Listen to Kill Switch on the iHeart radio app

1:12.1

apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts welcome to invention a production of iHeart radio

1:24.8

hey welcome to invention my name My name is Robert Lamb.

1:27.6

And I'm Joe McCormick. And Robert, I know you want to talk about D&D before we get to the real subject today.

1:34.0

Well, I don't know. I was thinking about doing it last, but we can go ahead and talk about it up front.

1:40.4

Yeah, well, in Dungeons and Dragons, you have all these various demon lords, and they

1:46.7

rule over various sort of portions of the fiend population in the game.

1:53.1

And there are two demon lords in particular that I was thinking about in regards to today's

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