A Little Bit Of Science
Ice Cream Prevents Diabetes, CIA Sex Parties, and Microplastic Madness
03 Jul 2025
What if we told you that ice cream might prevent diabetes, the CIA used to throw LSD-fuelled sex parties (in the name of science of course), AI systems are now refusing to shut down, and your "eco-friendly" glass bottles? They’re packed with more microplastics than cheap plastic ones. You'd probably think we've been reading too much science fiction, but welcome to reality - where Harvard researchers are validating your dessert choices, government agencies confused scientific research with Woodstock, robots are apparently having teenage rebellion phases, and even our attempts to go green are backfiring spectacularly. CHAPTERS: 00:00 Peculiar Forms of Divination 01:37 Diet News: Ice Cream for Diabetes 07:51 Unethical CIA Experiments 17:58 AI's Rebellion Against Shutdown 22:40 Codex Mini: The Worst Offender 25:52 The PR Genius of OpenAI 27:59 More Microplastics in Glass than Plastic 31:39 Predicting the Future 36:22 James Webb Space Telescope: Direct Views of Exoplanets SOURCES: Advanced OpenAI Model Caught Sabotaging Code Intended to Shut It Down Methods of divination The CIA Turned a San Francisco Brothel Into a Lab. What Happened Inside Is the Stuff of Nightmares.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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