Unexplainable or Not with Wyatt Cenac

Unexplainable

Vox

Science, Natural Sciences, Life Sciences

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Our game show is back! This time, comedian Wyatt Cenac is in the hot seat in front of a live audience. Can he guess which climate mystery has been solved and which ones are still unexplainable? For show transcripts, go to bit.ly/unx-transcripts For more, go to http://vox.com/unexplainable It’s a great place to read about the topics on our show. Also, email us! unexplainable@vox.com We read every email. Support Unexplainable by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Support for this week's episode of Unexplainable comes from UC San Diego.
0:05.0	UC San Diego is working with artificial intelligence to try to get
0:08.6	closer to answering some enormous challenges.
0:11.7	Whether they're using AI to inform the development of complicated
0:15.2	cures or creating predictive models that could help fight wildfires,
0:19.5	researchers at UC San Diego want to help move us forward,
0:23.1	improve our communities and shape our future.
0:25.6	You can learn more about how UC San Diego is advancing AI
0:29.3	at ucsd.edu slash AI.
0:59.3	A couple weeks ago we released our 100th episode and the next day we celebrated by hosting
1:12.3	a live taping of our game show Unexplainable or not.
1:16.8	It was at the green space in New York and we had a very productive rehearsal beforehand.
1:22.4	With all that extremely useful practice out of the way, we started the show and the audience
1:37.0	was pumped.
1:39.2	Okay, that was maybe because I asked them to applaud for a sound check with our engineer
1:46.4	Christian.
1:48.2	Now imagine someone said something kind of interesting.
1:54.0	You've done this before, this is okay.
1:58.1	What about if someone told like a joke that's really bad and something I might do and you
2:03.0	kind of have to groan?
2:04.8	Yeah, okay.
2:07.7	That's also very helpful.
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