Podcast: The economics of the Uber era, mysterious Neandertal structures, and an octopus boom

Science Magazine Podcast

Science Podcast

News, News Commentary, Science

4.3 • 842 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2016

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Online News Editor David Grimm shares stories on underground rings built by Neandertals, worldwide increases in cephalopods and a controversial hypothesis for Alzheimer’s disease. Glen Weyl joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss academics’ role in rising markets that depend on data and networks of people. We’re lucky to live in the age of the match—need a ride, a song, a husband? There’s an app that can match your needs to the object of your desire, with some margin of error. But much of this innovation is happening in the private sector—what is academia doing to contribute? [Music: Jeffrey Cook; Image: Etienne Fabre / SSAC] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:47.0	I'm Sarah Cresby.
0:48.4	In this week's show, Glenn Weil discusses academia's role in online services that match us to our desires. And David Grimm is here
0:56.9	with a roundup of stories from our daily news site. Support for the science podcast is provided
1:05.7	by AAAS, the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
1:16.6	Now we have David Grimm, editor for our daily news site.
1:19.1	He's here to talk about some recent online stories.
1:23.3	First up, we have the story on some unusual cave formations.
1:28.8	This is a very exciting find, and I'm not going to give it away right away.
1:37.8	Decapitated stalagmites arranged in circles in a French cave. Dave, what are we looking at?
1:40.1	And when was this first discovered?
1:46.9	Well, this was discovered deep within a French cave in the early 1990s.
2:02.6	And basically what we're looking at here, and you can see a picture of this, actually a couple pictures of it on the site, are essentially a scattering of small, deliberately arranged heaps of stone along with two large rings, one that's about 2.2 meters across, and the other that's nearly three times that size. There's about 400 stalagmites in these piles.
2:12.0	They're all about similar size, and the total weight is more than two tons.
2:17.6	So this is a lot of stone.
2:19.9	The stalagmites have been decapitated and cut off from the cave.
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