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Today we’ll talk about the Quantum Internet Alliance, wormholes in the New York Times, a black hole that doesn’t like its meal, energy worries at CERN, what the Living Planet Index means, and the robot which holds the world record for running 100 meters.

Press Release from the Quantum Internet Alliance:
https://quantum-internet.team/2022/10/14/the-quantum-internet-alliance-will-build-an-advanced-european-quantum-internet-ecosystem/

The Soup Tube Boyfriend on Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/hno6j1/my_25f_boyfriend_25m_keeps_asking_me_to_invest_in/

The new black hole paper:
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac88d0

Overbye's piece about wormholes and entanglement in the NYT:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/10/science/black-holes-cosmology-hologram.html

The CERN press release about their energy saving plans:
https://home.cern/news/opinion/cern/taking-measures-save-energy

The CERN press release about them joining the Quantum Initiative:
https://home.cern/news/news/computing/cern-joins-leaders-research-and-industry-propose-open-quantum-institute

The press release from Oxford University about the AstraZeneca nasal vaccine:
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2022-10-11-intranasal-covid-19-vaccine-candidate-s-clinical-data-highlights-need-further

The WWF Living Planet Index:
https://livingplanet.panda.org/en-US/

The 2020 Nature paper criticizing the Living Planet Index:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2920-6

The survey from the Electronic Waste Forum:
https://weee-forum.org/ws_news/of-16-billion-mobile-phones-possessed-worldwide-5-3-billion-will-become-waste-in-2022/

The full video of Cassie the Robot from Oregon State is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhuojVvpIw0

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00:00 Intro
00:28 Quantum Internet Soup Tubes
03:15 Black Holes Don't Puke
04:40 Wormholes in the NYT
08:20 Yet another Bruce Willis joke
08:44 Energy Worries and Quantum Plans at CERN
10:33 Disappointing Nasal Spray Trial Results
11:21 2022 Living Planet Index and Bird Life International
13:15 We Hoard Too Much Electric Waste
14:43 The Fastest Bi-pedal Robot
15:18 Sponsor Message

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