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Science From the lab to your body: https://www.engadget.com/2020/01/29/lab-grown-heart-muscles-transplant-human-first/ Bandages to help you get better: https://www.engadget.com/2020/01/29/color-changing-bandages-antibiotic-resistance/ Technology Blackberry dies a slow death...again: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/02/blackberry-android-phones-will-cease-sales-in-august-2020/ How to create a r...

Science Next vacation, the ISS: https://www.engadget.com/2020/01/27/nasa-picks-commercial-module-for-iss/ DirecTV satellite is going to blow up: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/01/directv-races-to-decommission-broken-boeing-satellite-before-it-explodes/ Technology Would you vote on your smartphone: https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/22/21077358/seattle-king-county-smartphone-votin...

Science Set your calendar: https://gizmodo.com/if-you-make-it-to-2083-you-could-witness-two-stars-col-1840896340 Boobs for men: https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/12/plant-based-burgers-will-make-men-grow-boobs-livestock-news-reports/ Technology Bluetooth update just might blow your mind - https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/07/tech/bluetooth-le-update/?utm_source=daily-carnage&utm_medium=email Look...

Science Is Betelgeuse going to explode: https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/12/27/is-betelgeuse-one-skys-brightest-stars-brink-supernova/?utm_campaign=first_reads&utm_medium=Email&utm_source=Newsletter&wpisrc=nl_rainbow&wpmm=1 Buildings made of bones: https://www.engadget.com/2019/12/06/bones-inspire-stronger-building-materials/ Technology Sonos is bricking old speakers to...

Science Finally, water: https://www.engadget.com/2019/12/12/nasa-ice-surface-mars/ Coffee to car parts: https://www.engadget.com/2019/12/04/ford-mcdonalds-coffee-bean-husks-car-parts/ Technology Levitating Pixels: https://www.core77.com/posts/91456/Researchers-Create-a-Levitating-3D-Pixel-That-Can-Move-Fast-Enough-to-Draw-Images-With-Light?utm_source=core77&utm_medium=from_tile_image Going old...

Science The cold makes more than your nuts shrink: https://gizmodo.com/antarctic-explorers-brains-shrunk-during-a-14-month-pol-1840316244 Turns out everything gives you cancer: https://gizmodo.com/yet-more-research-links-even-light-drinking-to-a-higher-1840324572 Technology A hotel in space, but not for humans: https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/robot-hotel-launching-to-the-international-space-sta...

Science Walt Disney isn't frozen: https://www.engadget.com/2019/11/20/human-patient-put-in-suspended-animation-for-the-first-time/ Star link satellites block view of the sky: https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-s-starlink-satellites-are-already-causing-a-h-1839926662 Technology Twitter will delete your old account: https://www.engadget.com/2019/11/26/twitter-will-start-removing-inactive-accounts-in-dece...

Science Google has achieved supremacy: https://www.engadget.com/2019/10/23/google-says-its-achieved-quantum-supremacy/ da Vinci bridge actually works: https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/10/testing-leonardo-da-vincis-bridge-his-design-was-stable-study-finds/ Technology Flip phones are back: https://www.androidcentral.com/motorola-razr-first-foldable-phone-i-actually-want-buy Google starts rolling...

Science The end of an era: the EU approves Ebola vaccine: https://www.engadget.com/2019/11/11/eu-approves-ebola-vaccine-ervebo/ Supersonic car is back on track: https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/7/20951850/bloodhound-lsr-supersonic-car-500-mph-land-speed-record Technology Microsoft agrees to honor the California Privacy Policy nationwide: https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/11/20960113/microsoft-ccpa-...

Science Voyage to the edge of space: https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/11/a-bonanza-of-data-from-the-second-voyager-to-reach-the-solar-systems-edge/ Collision creates new planet: https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/10/collision-liquified-the-4th-largest-astroid-turning-it-into-a-dwarf-planet/ Technology Take your next driving test on your phone: https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-made-a-smartphone-...

Science Have more sex, it's the law: https://gizmodo.com/mayor-gives-out-viagra-to-citizens-start-having-sex-or-1835010186 Guy gets drunk without ever drinking: https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/10/man-charged-with-dwi-after-alcohol-fermenting-yeast-in-his-gut-got-him-wasted/ Technology Comcast gives you "free" TV...for a fee: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/10/comcasts-free-streaming-box-...

Science Can you outrun the world's fastest ant? https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/10/the-worlds-fastest-ant-clocks-record-speed-of-108-times-its-own-body-length/ Everybody get's more moons: https://gizmodo.com/whoa-astronomers-just-found-20-new-moons-around-saturn-1838854089 Technology Google Pixel 4 can unlock itself while you sleep: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/10/google-says-a-fix-fo...

Science The ultimate Halloween costume: https://gizmodo.com/medicine-swap-screwup-gave-babies-werewolf-syndrome-1837703666 In-space refueling: https://www.engadget.com/2019/09/28/starship-refueling-spacex/ Technology Audi concepts a car with drones for headlights: https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/10/20858925/audi-ai-trail-concept-ev-off-roader-drone-headlights-frankfurt-motor-show-2019 Who's drivin...

Science How tall is it? https://earther.gizmodo.com/swedens-tallest-peak-has-lost-its-title-thanks-to-clim-1838006845 Darkness 2.0 https://gizmodo.com/mit-engineers-have-created-the-blackest-black-to-ever-b-1838092883 Technology Arrested for doing their job https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/09/iowa-officials-claim-confusion-over-scope-led-to-arrest-of-pen-testers/ A better roofin...

Science Picky eating leaves one blind: https://gizmodo.com/a-boys-extreme-picky-eating-left-him-with-permanent-bli-1837839609 Who forgot the conversion this time as India loses moon lander: https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/9/20856746/india-isro-vikram-lunar-lander-moon-contact-chandrayaan-2-mission Technology Musk's challenges the Porsche Taycan with a Tesla: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/09/te...

Science Will space mirrors save the planet?: https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/26/20833928/andrew-yang-climate-change-nuclear-carbon-capture-geoengineering-2020-elections Using physics to read: https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/08/physicists-discover-hidden-text-in-what-was-thought-to-be-blank-egyptian-papyri/ Technology The Apple card, easy to get, easy to destroy: https://www.engadget.com/2019/...

  Science Stickers to monitor your body functions: https://www.engadget.com/2019/08/16/stanford-sticker-sensor-for-body/ Flying V to save us from airfare costs: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/06/radical-new-airliner-could-save-fuel-but-ride-like-a-roller-coaster/ Technology Solar road fails: https://www.businessinsider.com/worlds-first-solar-road-turned-out-colossal-failure-2019-8 In Russi...

  Science Landing on a boat is so last year: https://www.engadget.com/2019/08/06/rocket-lab-reusable-rocket-plans/ We can now detect lasers shot by Aliens: https://www.livescience.com/66086-are-aliens-flashing-laser-beams.html Technology You might not be the only one looking in on your ring video doorbell: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/08/police-can-get-your-ring-doorbell-footage-w...

  Science But does it go to the gym: https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/07/watch-this-paper-doll-do-sit-ups-thanks-to-new-kind-of-artificial-muscle/ It'll be warm sailing on these waves: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/success-lightsail-2-means-future-190031652.html Technology No more 4th wireless carrier, or is it? https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/07/its-official-us-government-appro...

  Science Better than made in china - Made in Space: https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/07/nasas-technology-program-funds-ambitious-in-space-manufacturing-mission/ Brain's controlling computers: https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/07/musks-newest-startup-is-venturing-into-a-series-of-hard-problems/ Technology Auto-focus glasses: https://www.engadget.com/2019/07/02/stanford-eye-tracking-aut...

  Science Fantastic Voyage but with robots: https://www.engadget.com/2019/07/16/georgia-tech-tiny-bristle-bots/ SpaceX Starship can't out hop an explosion: https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/17/20697603/spacex-starship-starhopper-raptor-engine-static-fire-test-explosion Technology NASA computer mines bitcoin instead of moon rock: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/07/computer-from-nasas-ap...

  Science Dragonfly drone on the moon Titan: https://www.engadget.com/2019/06/27/nasa-dragonfly-mission-saturn-titan/ Highest weather station on Earth: https://www.engadget.com/2019/06/13/mount-everest-expedition-installs-highest-weather-stations-on-ea/ Technology Nobody needs ebooks anymore: https://gizmodo.com/ebooks-purchased-from-microsoft-will-be-deleted-this-mo-1836005672 Apple loses it...

  Science Proof of Decepticons on the moon https://www.inverse.com/article/56677-metal-anomaly-detected-on-the-moon?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=inverse&utm_campaign=organic World's strongest magnet: https://gizmodo.com/scientists-in-florida-make-the-worlds-strongest-magnet-1835489674 Technology Is it too late for Facebook's Cryptocurrency: https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/18/1868229...

Welcome to CouncilCast, this is episode 84 being recorded on June 18th, 2019. The Council is now in session. As with every week, we will make arbitrary decisions about topics on science, technology, and random shit with little background and next to no expertise. All CouncilCast Decisions are Final and have no bearing on anything. Science Shhhhh!! it's quiet in outer space https://www.theguar...

  Science Saving life’s without cutting people open... what a novel idea! https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/05/190515144020.htm Tourism on the ISS is about to take off: https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/06/nasa-will-allow-private-astronauts-on-the-iss-for-11250-22500-a-day/ Technology Apple has a new monitor, but wait till you see the stand: https://gizmodo.com/how-ridiculous-is-a...