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Chips designing chips, a self-determining excavator, team building soccer simulations and injectable spinal implants. Science is slick. Hosts: Matt Armitage & Richard Bradbury  Produced: Richard Bradbury for BFM89.9 Follow us: www.kulturpop.com https://www.instagram.com/kulturpop/   https://twitter.com/kulturmatt

After only 100 years of failed efforts, dubious attempts and breezeblocks with wings, it look as though the age of the flying car may finally be with us.  Hosts: Matt Armitage & Richard Bradbury  Produced: Richard Bradbury for BFM89.9 Follow us: www.kulturpop.com https://www.instagram.com/kulturpop/   https://twitter.com/kulturmatt

The Quantum Internet. No, don’t go away. The launch of mesh networks like Amazon’s Sidewalk are highlighting a need for ever greater levels of encryption and security in our communications. The Quantum Internet may hold the key.   Hosts: Matt Armitage & Richard Bradbury  Produced: Richard Bradbury for BFM89.9 Follow us: www.kulturpop.com https://www.instagram.com/kulturpop/   h...

We take a look at the science of motivation and the latest thinking around mindfulness as we ask why some people are better at getting on with things. Hosts: Matt Armitage & Richard Bradbury  Produced: Richard Bradbury for BFM89.9 Follow us: www.kulturpop.com https://www.instagram.com/kulturpop/   https://twitter.com/kulturmatt

Free has long been the model of the Open Internet. Trading data for services. What if you could build an enterprise on the same model, where your staff and other companies effectively cover your fixed costs? Welcome to the world of the new free radicals. Hosts: Matt Armitage & Richard Bradbury  Produced: Richard Bradbury for BFM89.9 Follow us: www.kulturpop.com https://www.instagram.com/k...

We may soon be watching hyper-realistic dubbed movies, scrolling apps with a toe run thumb while we thinking DMs into existence. Yes. Science is Slick.  Hosts: Matt Armitage & Richard Bradbury  Produced: Richard Bradbury for BFM89.9 Follow us: www.kulturpop.com https://www.instagram.com/kulturpop/   https://twitter.com/kulturmatt

You could call this the I told you so episode. Apple’s App Tracking Transparency feature has thrown into question the freemium model much of the digital world is built on.  Hosts: Matt Armitage & Richard Bradbury  Produced: Richard Bradbury for BFM89.9  Follow us: www.kulturpop.com https://www.instagram.com/kulturpop/   https://twitter.com/kulturmatt

A new era of hybrid work is approaching as work from home becomes work from anywhere. As the line between home and office blurs, and companies integrate flexible working into their long-term planning, Mattsplained asks if employees should have a right to disconnect. Hosts: Matt Armitage & Richard Bradbury Produced: Richard Bradbury for BFM89.9 Episode Sources: https://www.theguardian.com/socie...

Forget Game of Thrones, the musical. This week we have musical spiderwebs, a cheap brain tissue culturing device, vampire bats leaving a bitter taste and perception shifting chocolate.  Hosts: Matt Armitage & Richard Bradbury Produced: Richard Bradbury for BFM89.9 Episode Sources: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2270282-should-we-all-wear-sensors-to-avoid-being-run-over-by-driverless-cars...

$70m JPEGS. $3m tweets. The rise of NFTs is turning the worlds of digital art and virtual collectibles into an investor gold rush. But what are they and are they really worth the money? Hosts: Matt Armitage & Richard Bradbury Produced: Richard Bradbury for BFM89.9 Episode Sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13U573keZ3A https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/19/opinion/NFTs-beeple-crypto.html htt...

Utility versus futility. Is there a roadmap to world domination or is Big Tech be as clueless about the future as the rest of us? Hosts: Matt Armitage & Richard Bradbury Produced: Richard Bradbury for BFM89.9 Follow us: www.kulturpop.com https://www.instagram.com/kulturpop/ https://twitter.com/kulturmatt

How do you disrupt change? Rather than trying to improve reality, is Big Tech focused on helping us escape from it and avoid the troubling issue of social change? Hosts: Matt Armitage & Richard Bradbury Produced: Richard Bradbury for BFM89.9 Episode Sources: https://www.wired.com/story/billionaires-use-vr-avoid-social-change/ https://www.polygon.com/2021/1/14/22228885/fortnite-music-concerts-t...

Robots that get stronger as they work out, drones with honeybee brains, art-loving AI and vein recognition systems. We examine the freaky business of machine intelligence. Hosts: Matt Armitage & Richard Bradbury Produced: Richard Bradbury for BFM89.9 Episode Sources: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2268652-soft-gel-could-power-robot-muscles-that-grow-stronger-with-a-workout/ https://www.n...

What price boredom? A new economic indicator, the Boredom Index, could quantify and commoditise our downtime. And decide that we’re more valuable the less engaged we are. Hosts: Matt Armitage & Richard Bradbury Produced: Richard Bradbury for BFM89.9 Episode Sources: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/20/business/gamestop-investing-economy.html   Follow us: www.kulturpop.com https://www.instagram....

Have you lost track of the number of logins and accounts you have scattered across your digital footprint? Do you reuse passwords? Could biometric technologies liberate us from the tyrannical grip of password management? Hosts: Matt Armitage & Richard Bradbury Produced: Richard Bradbury for BFM89.9 Episode Sources: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jan/31/the-tyranny-of-passwords-is-...

Could commercial graphics cards be the key to unlocking the cure for Alzheimer’s Disease? Do chilis hold the secret to solar energy conversion? And have X-Ray Spex finally been invented? Hosts: Matt Armitage & Richard Bradbury Produced: Richard Bradbury for BFM89.9 Episode Sources: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/27/seen-all-this-before-tourism-nz-says-ditch-influencer-shots-for-som...

I want my MTV. That was about as good as it got when Mattsplained was in its infancy. Now, as consumers are simultaneously deluged with viewing choices and experience limited mobility as a result of the pandemic, is it time that movies and cinema, pop culture mainstays for more than a century, moved into a new realm. Hosts: Matt Armitage & Richard Bradbury  Produced: Richard Bradbury for BFM89...

2020. So bad they named it twice. As retail, AI and AR start to merge, and open world games start to take over from social media, science and technology have got our back in 2021.  Hosts: Matt Armitage & Richard Bradbury  Produced: Richard Bradbury for BFM89.9 Episode Sources: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-54507044 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/technology/personaltech/tech-2021-augmen...

2020 showed us how resilient our digital world could be. This week we look at some of the tech and start-ups that failed, and what can be improved for 2021.  Hosts: Matt Armitage & Richard Bradbury  Produced: Richard Bradbury for BFM89.9 More about Mattsplained: www.kulturpop.com https://www.instagram.com/kulturpop/   https://twitter.com/kulturmatt

Science doesn’t sleep or take a holiday. Our slick science stories include lab-cultured breast meats, scent projecting pendants and web-slinging medical guns.  Hosts: Matt Armitage & Richard Bradbury  Produced: Richard Bradbury for BFM89.9 Episode Sources: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/04/spider-man-style-medical-gun-spins-out-skin-substitute-for-burns   https://www.newscientist.c...

2020. Will the pop stars of tomorrow be virtual? Are we heading for a future where machines make all the music? The Mattbot Infinity and the Bradpple Pro explore the eerie sounds of this brave new world.  Hosts: Matt Armitage & Richard Bradbury  Produced: Richard Bradbury for BFM89.9 Episode Sources: https://app.inferkit.com/demo https://soundcloud.com/openai_audio https://www.theguardian.com/...

2020. The year computers got interesting. There were as many podcasts as people. We spent more time in space. SETI wrapped up and a Bond icon disintegrated.  Hosts: Matt Armitage & Richard Bradbury  Produced: Richard Bradbury for BFM89.9 Episode Sources: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/12/technology/2020s-hot-gadget-is-the-computer.html https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/11/ri...

What a year 2020 has been. Or hasn't been, depending on your perspective. In this episode, and for the next few weeks, Mattsplained will look back at 2020 and try to make a little bit of sense of some of the things that have happened in this most unusual year. Hosts: Matt Armitage & Richard Bradbury  Produced: Richard Bradbury for BFM89.9 Episode Sources: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/1...

We all hate it when someone tells us how we should feel. It’s going to be a heck of a lot worse when it’s a machine doing the telling.  Hosts: Matt Armitage & Richard Bradbury  Produced: Richard Bradbury for BFM89.9 Episode Sources: Episode Sources:  https://www.newscientist.com/article/2256925-earphone-cameras-watch-your-facial-expressions-and-read-your-lips/ https://www.newscientist.com/arti...

As SpaceX delivers its first payload of astronauts to the ISS, we look at low gravity toilets, using bacteria to mine metals on Mars and the expansion of plant-based food options here on earth.  Hosts: Matt Armitage & Richard Bradbury  Produced: Richard Bradbury for BFM89.9 Episode Sources: https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/11/10/1011935/microbes-extract-metals-minerals-space-rocks-mining/...