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Speaker 1: I've known that all along.

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Speaker 2: It's time for strange science.

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Speaker 1: Strange science. It's like weird science, but strange.

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Speaker 2: Are we going to talk about AI babies or mushroom

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Speaker 2: toilets or the Jurassic reptile that had the jaws of

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Speaker 1: I want to start with the robotic babies.

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Speaker 2: Okay, let's do it.

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Speaker 3: So let's discuss in vitro fertilization. We have both you

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Speaker 3: and I have talked about people that we know who

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Speaker 3: have gone through IVF. It can be very painful, it

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Speaker 3: can be very expensive. Right now, IVF in vitro fertilization

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Speaker 3: is considered sort of a concierge marketplace that's selling very

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Speaker 3: high priced cycles to people who can afford it. And

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Speaker 3: one of the pushes in in vitro fertilization is to

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Speaker 3: make it available to more people. There is a clinic

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Speaker 3: that is working down in Mexico City, started by a

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Speaker 3: Mexican doctor. The company itself is based in New York,

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Speaker 3: but this is technology and ideas that came out of Mexico.

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Speaker 2: Polango, which is the Beverly Hills of Mexico City.

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Speaker 3: In this case, these clinical trials for in vitro fertilization

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Speaker 3: use automation with little to no human intervention.

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Speaker 2: This is terrifying.

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Speaker 1: Well it's I mean some of you don't.

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Speaker 2: Need even the sperm and the egg any you.

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Speaker 1: Need that stuff, You need that stuff.

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Speaker 3: But think of here's one example of the things that

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Speaker 3: AI and the super high technology material machines that they

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Speaker 3: can do and speed up that humans either are bad

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Speaker 1: One example.

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Speaker 3: The algorithmic computer vision software that helps autonomous vehicles spot

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Speaker 3: things on the road and find signs of breast cancer

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Speaker 3: and a mimmography in a memogram. Sorry, they can instantaneously

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Speaker 3: detect the strongest swimmers amongst millions of sperm. Wow, and

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Speaker 3: then help. And then with the nanotechnology that exists, go in,

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Speaker 3: pick up that little guy with something what I don't know,

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Speaker 3: sperm tweezers, look at.

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Speaker 2: You, aren't you a cute little sperm?

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Speaker 3: And then mix the chemicals required for an egg to

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Speaker 3: stay viable. It can delicately and reproducibly fertilize an egg,

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Speaker 3: which initiates that moment of conception. And again it's it's

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Speaker 3: not necessarily there are some of the spaces, just like.

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Speaker 2: An advance in science as opposed to something creepy and

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Speaker 2: twilight zonelike. I mean that sounds like you could a

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Speaker 3: We use robots and surgeries all the time, right, And

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Speaker 3: that part of it is not what's creepy. What's is

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Speaker 3: how Right now, there's an estimate that it's fewer than

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Speaker 3: a million babies are born through IVF worldwide annually. Fewer

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Speaker 3: than a million. One of the doctors that's been working

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Speaker 3: on this estimates at least twenty million more babies would

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Speaker 3: be born each year if the industry could meet the

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Speaker 3: demand from infertile couples. And one of the things that

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Speaker 3: they're saying is it's just a matter of shortening those

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Speaker 3: windows of time for things like finding the best sperm.

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Speaker 2: Well, this is going to be absolutely in demand. We're

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Speaker 2: already seeing we talk about it. People aren't having babies anymore.

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Speaker 2: That's not true. They're not having babies in their twenties.

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Speaker 2: They're waiting, they're getting their careers set, they're getting their

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Speaker 2: and then they're having babies in their forties. A lot

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Speaker 2: of the time, I've got equal number of friends that

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Speaker 2: that then had them in their twenties. It's pretty even

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Speaker 3: There's also a weird theological aspect to this specific story

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Speaker 3: because Mexico tends to be a very Catholic country and Catholictholicism, Sorry,

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Speaker 2: People have a hard time saying that.

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Speaker 3: Words, and Catholicism has a hard time with IVF. They

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Speaker 3: and if not, maybe you're just not meant.

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Speaker 2: To have a hard time with birth control exactly. Everyone's

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Speaker 1: So a lot of people have said.

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Speaker 3: There was a specific young woman, well thirty four, she's

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of taboo around it still, but also

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Speaker 2: dilemmas that go on about that. But anyway. Mushroom toilets,

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Speaker 2: the world's first mushroom powered toilet, could replace porta pottis.

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Speaker 2: Apparently the mushroom toilets smell like roses. Also, scientists are

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Speaker 2: predicting the universe will end in a big crunch. What

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Speaker 2: does that mean? And when is it going to happen?

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Speaker 2: We'll tell you next.

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Speaker 3: And when is the first tortilla chip company going to

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Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, yea, the crunch. It doesn't have to be

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Speaker 2: a tortilla chip. It could be any chip, right, really,

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Speaker 2: it could be a seaweed chip. Yes, Gary, No, no, absolutely,

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Speaker 2: let's talk about the toilet, shall we.

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Speaker 1: Yes.

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Speaker 3: Researchers from the University of British Columbia and Canada have

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Speaker 3: a solution to the portable toyies and we all know

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Speaker 3: are just awful places to be.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you ever been at Candlestick Park and you've got

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Speaker 2: course you haven't, it was torn down twelve years ago.

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Speaker 2: But you know what I mean, Like, imagine there's some

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Speaker 2: portable toilets or some spots that have portable toilets. Not bad,

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Speaker 2: it's not a bad scene. There are some places where

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Speaker 2: they are a bad scene and you don't have to go.

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Speaker 1: That badly, do you?

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Speaker 2: But yes, hopefully the Canadians have come up with a

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Speaker 2: in your mind. It is the world's first mushroom powered

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Speaker 2: waterless toilet. The toilet you is my cell yeah, which

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Speaker 2: is the fung guy's root network to convert human waste

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Speaker 2: into compost. This is wheelchair accessible, it's got a ramp,

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Speaker 2: and it requires just four maintenance visits a year.

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Speaker 1: I feel like I should push back on that.

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Speaker 2: It four because the mushrooms convert the waste into compost,

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Speaker 2: so they're turning the poop into dirt in real time.

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Speaker 3: They said that the fungi also absorbed the bad smells. Now, yeah,

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Speaker 2: Wow, how about that? Mushrooms are fantastically magical, aren't they?

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Speaker 2: And I'm not trying to be cute when I say that.

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Speaker 2: When you eat them, they protect you against all sorts

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Speaker 3: The Mico toilet was launched at the UBC Botanical Garden

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Speaker 3: pilot program. What do you get when you cross a

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Speaker 3: the Jurassic period. Paleontologists explained that the false snake of

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Speaker 2: Are you familiar with Alexander Friedman? Not no relation to

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Speaker 2: who Andy Friedman?

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Speaker 1: Okay.

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Speaker 2: Alexander Friedman was an astronomer and in nineteen twenty two

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Speaker 2: he posed a theory about the universe, and the theory

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Speaker 2: a big crunch. And if that hypothesis is true, like

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Speaker 2: current researchers believe it is, we are nearly halfway there.

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Speaker 2: That's all. That's all. You got a ways to go

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Speaker 2: long ways. The universe began about thirteen point eight billion

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Speaker 2: the data is murcier when it comes to the fate

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Speaker 2: of the cosmos. Now. Many researchers for decades have agreed

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Speaker 1: That was an Einstein thing, I think.

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Speaker 2: But some experts recently say that they have much more

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Speaker 3: A big rep Oh, but this idea that at some

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Speaker 1: It no longer operates the same way. They said.

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Speaker 3: The consonant has since shifted into a negative. So maybe

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Speaker 3: we saw that expansion the universe reaching its maximum size

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Speaker 3: thirty three billion years of existence, the universe simply squashes

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Speaker 3: itself into existence like a bug.

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Speaker 2: Squashes us like a bug, like we're in a trash compactor, squash.

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Speaker 3: Like a submarine that was going to see the Titanic. Well,

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Speaker 1: Cosmetological, cosmolic?

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Speaker 1: Don't think it was a real thing.

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Speaker 3: And then at some point the planet had a bunch

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Speaker 1: Those first things might have.

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Speaker 2: Been mister bumberpusses, sea sponges, se spongeme.

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Speaker 1: That'd be even more advanced. Anemonies.

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Speaker 2: What is an anemmy again?

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Speaker 1: Anemone?

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Speaker 2: Anemone?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: What is an anemy?

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Speaker 1: Anemone?

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Speaker 2: Anemone? What is it? One of those purple spiky things? Oh,

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Speaker 2: so they're not always purple, but I'm just is it

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Speaker 2: said it's a spiky thing. Okay, well, yes, it has

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Speaker 2: spikes like a cactus, but it is not a plant.

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Speaker 2: Oh it's a creature.

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Speaker 1: Yes, it's got a little mouth and everything.

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Speaker 3: Oh okay, what is it? Ingest alge bugs and bugs?

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Speaker 3: Anemone food?

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Speaker 2: Anemones