Those Amazing Electronic Thinking Machines by Isaac Asimov

We have some really fantastic work going on here by our emergency service agencies, and they’re doing a great job of getting people to get their bushfire plans ready, providing information about where is safe to be.

To date we haven’t lost any houses in Canberra. So, I flew out to Hobart to spend some time with family there and my partner stayed in Canberra to ready our house for the catastrophic fire weather that was being forecast for the days after New Year’s. I was really scared and so was my partner, and we made a pretty rapid decision that one of us, at least, was going to get our young daughter out of the situation. There was nothing here.įor many people in Australia, this has been a troubling time. Usually, in my suburb, we have kangaroos hopping around happily, we have birdlife, and it was desolate. There was very little going on in terms of people, animals. So, on New Year’s Eve, really, really thick smoke started pouring into Canberra and settling over the city, so on New Year’s Day, it felt apocalyptic.

For weeks at the back end of last year, the city was being choked by smoke from nearby fires, but over the holiday period, things escalated.

Sophie lives in a Canberra, Australia’s capital city, located in the southeast of the country. One of these researchers is Sophie Lewis from the University of New South Wales, Canberra. These fires have been, for the want of a better word, devastating, and researchers are trying to work out what contribution climate change has played in them. Large parts of Australia have been ravaged by bushfires that have been raging across the country for months. This week, establishing climate change’s role in the ongoing Australian bushfires…Īnd Isaac Asimov’s impact on robot ethics. Head here for the Nature Podcast RSS feed. Never miss an episode: Subscribe to the Nature Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or your favourite podcast app. News: Coronavirus: latest news on spreading infection News: Social scientists battle bots to glean insights from online chatter The latest on a new virus from Wuhan in China, and social scientists' battle with bots. Essay: Isaac Asimov: centenary of the great explainer 21:00 News Chat We reflect on the impact of his writing on the field of robotics. This year marks the centenary of Isaac Asimov’s birth. Research Highlight: Vitrified brains and baked bones tell the story of Vesuvius deaths Research Article: Howard et al. The debate around how Vesuvius claimed its victims, and an ancient mummy speaks. News Feature: The race to decipher how climate change influenced Australia’s record fires Editorial: Australia: show the world what climate action looks like 10:02 Research Highlights Researchers are working to establish the role that climate change is playing in the bushfires that are raging across Australia. In this episode: 00:46 Behind the bushfires

Those Amazing Electronic Thinking Machines by Isaac Asimov