TheESP – Ep. #346 – Baby hatches

– we’re back in the Dark Ages

We start this week with commenting on the winners of the two first Nobel Prizes this year – Svante Pääbo who won the prize in Medicine or Physiology and the trio of Aspect, Clauser and Zeilinger who shares the Physics prize. We also celebrate the first ever female European commander of the ISS, Samantha Cristoforetti, before we travel back in time with our TWISH-machine and acknowledge this week’s birthday bay, Denis Diderot. Then we dig into the news:

• UK: The dark side of social media? The Molly Russell case
• UK: Children’s digital resilience to be approached as a collective effort to prepare young people for the future
• SWEDEN: MD who assisted man to die loses his license
• GERMANY: Voting now open for the ‘Heroes of Facts Awards‘
• UKRAINE: Four regions of the country annexed by Russia following sham referendum
• POLAND: New-born babies are handed over through a hole in the wall

The Prize for being Really Wrong goes to Jacob Rees-Mogg, British minister of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy who has no clue about the physics of energy.

Enjoy!

Segments: Intro; Greetings; TWISH; News; Really Wrong; Quote And Farewell; Outro; Out-Takes;
 
0:00:27 INTRO

0:00:53 GREETINGS

• Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology to Svante Pääbo for mapping the genes of the Neanderthals
  • Omni: https://omni.se/svenske-svante-paabo-tilldelas-nobelpris-kartlagt-neandertalares-arvsmassa/a/wAOKk5
  • BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-63116304
• Nobel Prize in Physics goes to three researchers for their work on Quantum Entanglement states of sub-atomic particles
  • BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-63121287
• Samantha Cristoforetti is the 1st European woman to take command of the ISS
  • Space.com: https://www.space.com/cristoforetti-first-european-woman-command-space-station

0:15:25 TWISH – THIS WEEK IN SKEPTICAL HISTORY

• 5 October 1713: Denis Diderot was born – French philosopher and writer, author of ‘The Skeptic’s Walk’ and main contributor of the Enyclopedia
  • Stanford: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/diderot/bio.html

0:24:17 NEWS

• UK: The dark side of social media? The Molly Russell case
  • the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/01/molly-russell-was-trapped-by-the-cruel-algorithms-of-pinterest-and-instagram
• UK: Children’s digital resilience to be approached as a collective effort to prepare young people for the future
  • UEA: https://www.uea.ac.uk/news/-/article/collective-effort-needed-to-help-children-thrive-following-exposure-to-online-risks
  • Springer: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10639-022-11240-z
• SWEDEN: MD who assisted man to die loses his license
  • DN: https://www.dn.se/sverige/staffan-bergstrom-blir-av-med-lakarlegitimation-efter-att-ha-hjalpt-man-do/
• GERMANY: Voting now open for the ‘Heroes of Facts Awards’
  • GWUP: https://blog.gwup.net/2022/10/03/jetzt-abstimmen-fuer-den-facts-heroes-award-2022/
  • GWUP: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Kb2TS-isDS8MmJAboEseNLUXDGFTjoE3PKmIB0UtohU/viewform?edit_requested=true
• UKRAINE: Four regions of the country annexed by Russia following sham referendum
  • the Conversation: https://theconversation.com/ukraine-war-putin-announces-annexation-of-four-regions-but-his-hold-on-them-may-be-flimsy-191641
• POLAND: New-born babies are handed over through a hole in the wall
  • Sydsvenskan: https://www.sydsvenskan.se/2022-10-02/i-polen-lamnas-nyfodda-barn-bort-genom-en-lucka-i-vaggen
  • Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_hatch
  • Wikipedia (pl): https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okno_%C5%BCycia

0:53:24 REALLY WRONG

• Really Wrong: Jacob Rees-Mogg, British minister of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy for claiming that hydrogen could be a viable alternative to natural gas for heating
  • BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-63050910

0:57:28 QUOTE AND FAREWELL

“I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.”
/ Johannes Kepler, (27 December 1571 – 15 November 1630), German astronomer, mathematician, astrologer, natural philosopher and writer on music. He is a key figure in the 17th-century Scientific Revolution, best known for his laws of planetary motion. /

0:59:48 OUTRO

1:01:03 OUT-TAKES