Psychopathic AI, Glowing Civil War Soldiers, and Black Lava

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2018

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes:

The Coldest Volcano in the World Erupts Black Lava
How a Few Lucky Civil War Soldiers Started Glowing and Healed Faster
"Norman" Is MIT's New Psychopathic AI

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0:00.0	Hi, we've got three stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes.
0:05.0	I'm Cody Gough.
0:06.0	And I'm Ashley Hamer.
0:07.0	Today you'll learn about a new psychopathic AI,
0:10.0	why the coldest volcano in the world erupts black lava
0:13.2	and the fascinating story of glowing civil war soldiers.
0:16.6	Let's start us find some curiosity.
0:18.3	Cody, have you ever been to a volcano?
0:20.0	I actually hiked up the side of a volcano. the Kolema volcano near Manzanio, Mexico.
0:26.0	I was there for a short vacation in November 2014.
0:28.9	It's technically two volcanoes.
0:30.6	It erupted January 2015. So just a couple months after I was there.
0:35.0	Wow!
0:36.0	And I was like, oh yeah, I was on that.
0:38.0	Oh my gosh.
0:39.0	It wasn't like a volcano volcano.
0:40.0	It just felt like we were on a really tall hill with lots of fog.
0:44.5	Yeah, it was really cloudy the whole time, there was no visibility and it's not like you were up and there was like
0:48.8	magma or anything. It wasn't active at the time.
0:50.8	Sure. But in retrospect, it was wild. Have you ever been to a volcano? I never have, but I really want to visit this one. It sounds super
0:58.3	interesting. It's the coldest volcano in the world. We're going to explain why this thing erupts black lava.
1:04.0	Black lava?
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