69: What’s a Computer? Part I

09/29/21 • 50 min

Joseph and Rob discuss what insects they’ve seen over the seasons of 2021, give a little update about their bees’ behavior, and in their fascinating main topic, they discuss the origins of the modern computer! Rob takes us back a few centuries to start with the fundamental innovations that allude to the seemingly miraculous technologies we take for granted.

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68: Pants on Fire

French inventor made a trap to catch hornets to save his bees! Someone discovered that dogs have a heat sense detector! Social scientists inadvertently lied in a study about honesty! For the main discussion, Dr. Carter tells us about Ernst Haeckel’s diabolical fraud.

[The Israelites: Forging of a Nation[(https://creation.com/israelites-forging-of-a-nation)
Breaching the Weismann Barrier
‘Owls’ Creation.com Article Podcast (Ep. #171)
French beekeeper tackling Asian hornet invasion with home-made trap
[New sense in dog noses: the ability to detect heat] (https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/new-sense-discovered-dog-noses-ability-detect-heat)
[Landmark and highly cited study about honesty is retracted due to fraud] (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9914493/Landmark-study-honesty-cheating-relied-faked-data.html)
[RetractionWatch.com’s top-10 list of retracted papers] (https://retractionwatch.com/the-retraction-watch-leaderboard/top-10-most-highly-cited-retracted-papers/) (papers are retracted for errors, fraud, questions about data provenance, public outcry)
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70: What’s a Computer? Part 2

Rob continues to review the origins of modern computers and together Joseph and Rob are just astonished how far technology has come in the last 50 years. Dr. Carter admits it’s really hard to understand computer sciences and think like an engineer.