Why Bugs Are Basically Robots (w/ Alie Ward)

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

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4.6 • 964 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Learn about how AI could help predict which drugs won’t agree with women, and why Point Nemo is considered planet Earth’s spacecraft graveyard. But first, Ologies podcast host Alie Ward is back to tell us about her favorite ologie.

Resources from Ologies host Alie Ward:

Ologies Podcast: https://www.alieward.com/ologies
Alie Ward's website: https://www.alieward.com/
Alie Ward on Twitter: https://twitter.com/alieward
Alie Ward on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alieward/

AI could help predict which drugs won't agree with women (since studies haven't) by Cameron Duke

Chandak, P., & Tatonetti, N. P. (2020). Using Machine Learning to Identify Adverse Drug Effects Posing Increased Risk to Women. Patterns, 1(7). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2020.100108
Drugs aren’t typically tested on women. AI could correct that bias. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-09/cp-dat093020.php
Llamas, M. (2015, September 24). How the FDA Let Women Down. Drugwatch.Com; DrugWatch. https://www.drugwatch.com/featured/fda-let-women-down/
Whitley, H. P., & Lindsey, W. (2009). Sex-Based Differences in Drug Activity. American Family Physician, 80(11), 1254–1258. https://www.aafp.org/afp/2009/1201/p1254.html

Point Nemo is Planet Earth's Spacecraft Graveyard by Reuben Westmaas

Dr. David Whitehouse. (2017, October 20). The place spacecraft go to die. BBC News; BBC News. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-41683839
NASA wrestles with what to do with International Space Station after 2024 – Spaceflight Now. (2020). Spaceflightnow.Com. https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/05/20/nasa-wrestles-with-what-to-do-with-international-space-station-after-2024/

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0:00.0	Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Curiosity.com.
0:06.8	I'm Ashley Hamer.
0:08.0	And I'm Natalia Reagan.
0:09.2	Today you learn about how AI could help predict which drugs won't agree with women and why Point Nemo is
0:14.6	considered planet Earth spacecraft graveyard. But first, Ology's podcast host, Ali Ward, is back to tell us
0:21.2	about her favorite ology.
0:23.3	Let's satisfy some curiosity-ology.
0:26.6	Curiology.
0:28.2	Let's satisfy some curiosity.
0:31.3	On her hit comedy science podcast ologies, Ali Ward interviews ologists, basically people who study a particular subject.
0:39.0	That could be anything from chiropterology, the study of bats, to agnetology, the study of ignorance, to
0:46.4	quantum ontology, the study of reality.
0:50.2	So we had to ask, what's Ali Ward's favorite ology?
0:54.7	Warning, there is one curse word in her answer, but it's bleeped.
0:58.7	Here's Ali.
1:00.0	I would have to say entomology because there are so many
1:03.0	subologies. I'm a real bug nerd. I love bugs so much.
1:08.0	What is it about bugs? They're just like these little robots and it just I feel like if you love the look of robots these hard shells and these really really high achieving specialties of a robot.
1:24.0	They're just like tiny living robots and everything from like how beautiful
1:30.3	the blue and a mason bee can look to how specialized a dung beetle or a paper wasp might be at what they do.
1:39.0	I mean an Orb Weaver can build this whole beautiful architecture out of several different silks in 45 minutes and then when they're done with it eat it
1:52.0	This thing that came out of a gland near their butt gobble it up recycle and
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