Science Friction

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Science Friction's latest series is: Brain Rot. We're looking at what being chronically online is doing to our brains. What's really going on with our attention spans and tech addiction? Is data-dumping your entire life into ChatGPT helpful? Can going internet free help you escape the doomscroll? And what's it like to be in love ... with an AI?National technology reporter Ange Lavoipierre tackles the wildest ways people are using tech and the big questions about our own use. That's Brain Rot — our latest series from Science Friction.Science Friction's previous series was: Cooked. We dig into food science pickles. Why are studies showing that ice cream could be good for you? Do we really need as many electrolytes as the internet says? And why are people feeling good on the carnivore diet?

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  • 03 | Brain Rot: Is tech making your memory better or worse?
    Jun 18, 2025 – 0:27:40
  • 02 | Brain Rot: Is AI turning us off human relationships?
    Jun 11, 2025 – 0:25:33
  • 01 | Brain Rot: Is there any proof your phone is destroying your attention span?
    Jun 4, 2025 – 0:29:19
  • INTRODUCING — Brain Rot
    May 28, 2025 – 0:03:00
  • 06 | Cooked: Vitamin B3 ... and the media
    Mar 5, 2025 – 0:25:44
  • 05 | Cooked: Electrolytes — who needs them?
    Feb 26, 2025 – 0:25:45
  • 04 | Cooked: A peculiar potato experiment
    Feb 19, 2025 – 0:25:45
  • 03 | Cooked: Mystery in the Mediterranean
    Feb 12, 2025 –
  • 02 | Cooked: All-meat eaters say they feel great - but why?
    Feb 5, 2025 –
  • 01 | Cooked: Could ice cream actually be good for you?
    Jan 29, 2025 – 0:25:30
  • 00 | INTRODUCING — Cooked
    Jan 28, 2025 –
  • 06 | Is super-intelligent AI around the corner?
    Nov 29, 2023 – 0:25:44
  • 05 | The year the world woke up to AI with a bang
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  • 04 | If you control AI, you control the world
    Nov 15, 2023 – 0:25:43
  • 03 | The bumpy history of driverless cars and their AI brains
    Nov 8, 2023 – 0:25:45
  • 02 | Locked up by AI for a crime he didn't commit
    Nov 1, 2023 – 0:25:39
  • 01 | The day modern AI toppled humanity's champion
    Oct 25, 2023 – 0:25:45
  • I for one welcome... Hello AI Overlords!
    Oct 23, 2023 – 0:03:37
  • REAL WILD CHILD (Part 4) — The Lost Boys
    May 19, 2023 – 0:25:46
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    May 12, 2023 – 0:27:05
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  • REAL WILD CHILD (Part 3) — The superstar of Tai Asks Why
    Apr 28, 2023 – 0:25:37
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    Apr 23, 2023 – 0:25:45
  • REAL WILD CHILD (Part 1) — The nuclear boy scouts
    Apr 14, 2023 – 0:25:46
  • Thanks for the fun! Science Friction's Natasha Mitchell has some news
    Apr 10, 2023 – 0:03:00
  • The fantastical world of fusion – The Expanse's Ty Franck and futurist Karl Schroeder (Part 2)
    Apr 6, 2023 – 0:25:31
  • Nuclear disruption — will starry-eyed startups win the nuclear fusion race? (Part 1)
    Mar 31, 2023 – 0:25:32
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    Mar 25, 2023 – 0:30:00
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    Mar 17, 2023 – 0:30:00
  • Science is political — Australia's science minister Ed Husic
    Mar 10, 2023 – 0:30:00
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    Mar 3, 2023 – 0:30:00
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    Feb 24, 2023 – 0:30:00
  • World Pride 2023 - Love Your Nature
    Feb 17, 2023 – 0:30:00
  • Rock celebrity! The big bucks and wild geopolitics of meteorites - Part 2
    Feb 10, 2023 – 0:30:00
  • Rock celebrity! The Black Beauty saga - Part 1
    Feb 3, 2023 – 0:30:00
  • Gene edited foods back on the menu - what are they and what's changed? (REPEAT)
    Jan 27, 2023 – 0:30:00
  • Twinning! (REPEAT)
    Jan 22, 2023 – 0:30:00
  • Escaping Russia's new Iron Curtain — superstar science podcaster Ilya Kolmanovsky (REPEAT)
    Jan 15, 2023 – 0:30:00
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    Jan 8, 2023 – 0:30:00
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    Jan 1, 2023 – 0:30:00
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    Dec 25, 2022 – 0:30:00
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    Dec 16, 2022 – 0:30:00
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    Dec 9, 2022 – 0:30:00
  • The soul in the machine — anthropologist, technologist, futurist Genevieve Bell
    Dec 2, 2022 – 0:30:00
  • The End of the Universe with poet Alicia Sometimes (Part 2 of 2)
    Nov 25, 2022 – 0:30:00
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    Nov 17, 2022 – 0:30:00
  • Presents: WHO'S GONNA SAVE US? Better Call Saul
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    Nov 4, 2022 – 0:30:00
  • Love and Exile: An everlasting mystery (Part 1 of 2)
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    Oct 20, 2022 – 0:30:00
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