Mosquitoes are learning how to ignore your repellents, cows can recognise human faces on TV, and Wi Fi can identify you through a wall with the help of AI. This week, Will and Rod flick between animal intelligence, ocean weirdness, and technology that is getting a little too confident. We start with mosquitoes and conditioning, because apparently even the most annoying creature on Earth can learn, grow and develop. Then we move to cows, who can tell familiar from unfamiliar human faces even when those faces are shown on a screen, and seem especially curious about strangers. Finally, we head underwater for remoras and their bizarre cloacal diving behaviour with manta rays, before finishing with the creepiest story of the week: Wi Fi signals paired with AI that can identify people through walls. That isn't worrying at all... CHAPTER MARKERS 00:00 Animals That Learn 00:35 Mosquito Study Teaser 01:00 Show Intro And Segments 01:44 Arctic Trip And Flower News 02:41 Why Mosquitoes Bite 04:12 DEET Basics And Mysteries 05:13 Mosquitoes Adapt To DEET 06:06 Training Mosquitoes To Like DEET 09:12 Remoras And Host Hitchhiking 11:29 Cloacal Diving Explained 14:41 Can Cows Recognize People 15:07 Do Cows Recognize Us 15:59 Cows Watching Human Faces 16:50 What The Study Found 17:38 Mutant Super Pigs Explained 20:22 Where Is Your Self 21:34 Head Versus Heart Research 23:56 Touch To Shift Thinking 25:19 Wi Fi Privacy Shock 27:43 AI Identifies People Via Wi Fi 29:34 No Privacy Future Wrap Up 30:35 Final Recap And Sign Off SOURCES: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2526370-where-do-you-think-your-self-is-your-answer-is-revealing/ https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00224499.2022.2044446 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/onanism Speedy’s Big O video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tSfLKTTxtc https://theconversation.com/mosquitoes-learn-to-link-the-smell-of-deet-with-a-blood-meal-new-study-283695 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.73548 https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/fukushima-nuclear-disaster-tsunami-radioactive-37180117?_bhlid=82764a8d956c8f1927ebd802c09640e569aeaaf9 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0329529&ref=404media.co https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3719027.3765062See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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