#17 | Neuroscience & AI With Selim, Aged 9

02/22/20 • 34 min

Selim, aged 9, came in to ask the nerds about how nerves work, but his natural curiosity led us into a discussion of artificial intelligence, the brain, consciousness and neuroscience.
How do nerves work? What are reflexes? How can someone program a computer to beat a chess grandmaster? How did Alphago beat the world's best Go player? What is machine learning? What is the central nervous system? How does the brain work? How do we know what all the different parts of the brain do? What is consciousness? Are animals conscious?
Thanks to Selim, this turned out to be a great chat about intelligence in general!
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#16 | Earth's Mass, Dark Matter & Dark Energy With Tia, Aged 13

Tia, aged 13, asks the nerds how much the Earth weighs and the conversation quickly leads to far more mysterious topics in astrophysics, like dark matter and dark energy.
How much does the Earth weigh? What the difference between mass and weight? How can Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation help us find out the mass of distant celestial objects? How can it help us discover objects that are invisible to our eyes? What is dark matter? What is dark energy?
This chat helps to illuminate the importance of math and its power in leading scientific discoveries!
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#18 | Subscriber Questions

In this episode, the nerds answer some of our subscribers' most pressing questions in the arena of science, with the help of Indiana, aged 9, who lent his voice and spoke for all our subscribers.
What are our thoughts about the Flat Earth "theory"? Do we think aliens exist? Thoughts about the Fermi Paradox? How are auroras formed? How does anaesthesia work? Can entropy be reversed? Why do we get black when we mix red, blue and green paint but white when we do the same with light? What is music made up of and why do we enjoy it? How did mitochondria help us trace the movement of humans through history?
These questions were sent to us through our YouTube channel, so if you would us to answer some of your most pressing science questions, please click the link below, hit subscribe and join the conversation. This will be the first of many such "Ask Us Anything" episodes!
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