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ITB#10: Why do we go to space?

ITB#9: Why do we dream?

ITB#8: How to stay safe online?

ITB#7: What are we afraid of?

ITB#6: Where is your digital self?

ITB#5: What are the physical limits of the human body?

ITB#4: How does internet work?

ITB#3: What happens in a womb?

ITB#2: What is the recipe of you?

ITB#1: Why shouldn’t you eat brain?

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👨‍🚀 Episode 10: Why do we go to space? 🚀 Have you ever stared at the night sky and thought what is going on in the black canvas of the space and the stars? Have you ever considered the possibility of floating in the outer-space? Have you ever wondered how it is to drive or play golf on the moon? Can you imagine how an astronaut’s day looks like in the international space station? Join us to wonder to the wast space and enjoy the space race! You can listen on our website (link in bio), Spotify, Google podcasts and iTunes! #intheblackbox #podcast #sciencepodcast #space #spaceexploration #deepsace #spaceprobe #iss
Episode 9 dives deep into theories of dreaming! Wh Episode 9 dives deep into theories of dreaming! Which one is your favorite theory?👀 Swipe and play dream bingo. We have collected 12 of the most common dreams people have, see which ones you have dreamed of. Comment if you got a bingo! 🎉 #podcast #intheblackbox #sciencepodcast #bingo #dreambingo #psychology #evolution #survivaltheory #dreaming #dream #theory #theoryofdreams
🦄 Episode 9: Why do we dream? 🦄 What do you 🦄 Episode 9: Why do we dream? 🦄 What do you dream about? And how often do you have dreams? Do your dreams feature vivid colors and happy endings or horrific creatures in grey scale? Everyday events or survival scenarios? What is even the point of having dreams on the first place? Join us when we discover the land of dreams and play dream bingo! You can listen on our website (link in bio), Spotify, Google Podcasts and iTunes! #intheblackbox #podcast #sciencepodcast #dreams #whydowedream #science #psychology #evolution #freud #neurology #nightmare
1. Confidentiality, Integrity and Accessibility (C 1. Confidentiality, Integrity and Accessibility (CIA) are the elements of data security. Expert consider these elements when tending to data security. 2. There are many threats in the chaotic digital world. Bad actors for different reasons like to access, steal or sabotage your information 3. The process of unauthorised access of data is called hacking. Hacking process happens in 5 phases. 4. Not all hackers are bad hackers. Black, grey and white hat hackers are the the three different kinds of hackers. Black hat hackers always attack the victim without authorization. In contrast, white hat hackers always attack with authorization to find security holes. Grey hat hackers are somewhere in the middle: a white hat hacker gone bad can be an example of grey hat hacker. #data #security #hacking #viruses #malwares #podcast
ITB#8: Who would you share your Facebook or Instag ITB#8: Who would you share your Facebook or Instagram account credentials with? Would you be comfortable giving your credit card information to your loved ones? How would you feel if a stranger had free access to browse all of the pictures on your phone? These are decisions that we make on daily basis. But what if a stranger gains access to this information without your consent? How would that make you feel? And what would you do? #podcast #cybersecurity #hacking #hacktivism #malware #anonymous
💀 Have you listened to the episode 7 yet? 💀 💀 Have you listened to the episode 7 yet? 💀 In this episode, we talk about fears and phobias. Phobias are the most common type of mental illness. They are classified as anxiety disorders, and divided into complex and simple phobias. 1. Two most common complex phobias are social anxiety disorder (SAD) and agoraphobia. The first one is characterized by anxiety and fear in social situations, the later one is defined as a fear of being in situations where escaping/saving oneself might be difficult. 2. Simple phobias can be linked into spesific identifiable cause that usually can be avoided in everyday life and are often easier to treat than complex phobias. Commonly simple phobias are related to animals, natural environment, medical issues, or very specific situations (such as flying). Image source: verywellmind.com/list-of-phobias 3. Remember that all kind of phobias can be treated by therapy and medications! #podcast #phobias #mentalhealth
😱 ITB#7: What are we afraid of? 😱 Why are p 😱 ITB#7: What are we afraid of? 😱 Why are people afraid of seemingly harmless things, such as open places, holes, and belly buttons? What is the difference between a fear and a phobia? And how can you overcome your own phobias? Join us to learn about scientific background of phobias and to self-reflect if you can relate to any of our fears. Episode 7 now in Spotify, iTunes, Google podcasts and our own website (link in bio)! #podcast #intheblackbox #phobias #mentalhealth
1. Probably when opening a website for the first t 1. Probably when opening a website for the first time you have encountered a message about the privacy and cookies. Cookies are small text files that are saved on the visitors of a website. Through this file, data collection companies (such as Google) record your behaviour online. This data collection from the mass of users is used to create models that can predict behaviour of users. When the user is sad, mad, insecure, happy or confident. These data and models is sold to the highest bidder to anyone who pays for it ( such as third-party advertisers or governments ). This is how you pay for using Facebook and Google services: by your digital behavioural data. 2. Cookies are not the only way to collect behavioural data. Canvas fingerprinting is another way that data collection companies can closely follow your behaviour. This method uses the Canvas API. Acar et al. describe the Canvas fingerprinting as follows: When a user visits a page, the fingerprinting script first draws text with the font and size of its choice and adds background colors (1). Next, the script calls Canvas API’s ToDataURL method to get the canvas pixel data in dataURL format (2), which is basically a Base64 encoded representation of the binary pixel data. Finally, the script takes the hash of the text-encoded pixel data (3), which serves as the fingerprint ... 3. Social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and TikTok can control users behaviour through subliminal cues while bypassing their awareness. They can affect you buy a jacket or a pair of shoes as well as affecting you to cast a vote for or against a certain candidate in presidential election. To what extent are you comfortable to be manipulated like that?
📳 Episode 6 is out! 📳 In the digital era ev 📳 Episode 6 is out! 📳 In the digital era everyone has a digital self: a mathematical and statistical reflection of who you are. Most of the time, this reflection knows you better than you do, but sometimes it makes blunt assumptions about you. It knows where you are, what you are doing and in what mood you are. But who makes this digital self for you and where does it live? Listen to this episode of In The Black Box to find out. #intheblackbox #podcast #digitalself #cookies #cybersecurity #privacy
Episode 5. What are the physical limits of the hum Episode 5. What are the physical limits of the human body? 1. Differences between hyperthermia, hypothermia and fever. In hyperthermia, the body temperature rises over the thermoregulatory setpoint (37C) due to external impact. In hypothermia, the core temperature of the body decreases below the thermoregulatory setpoint. In fever, the thermoregulatory setpoint has risen due to disturbance in hypothalamic body temperature regulation, which signals the body to elevate the temperature to the new setpoint. (image source: Hyperthermia -Wikipedia) 2. The longest fast ever lasted for 382 days and resulted in 125kg weight loss. You can read Angus Barbieri's story on this original article: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2495396/ 3. The sustainable alimentary energy supply limit in humans settles to ~2.5× basal metabolic rate (the energy amount your body needs in resting state). Link to the study: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/6/eaaw0341 You can estimate your own basal metabolic rate here: https://www.omnicalculator.com/health/bmr Multiply the answer with 2,5 and you will find out the maximum maintainable daily calorie consumption (and expenditure) of your body in a long timespan.
🏃‍♀️Episode 5: What are the physical limi 🏃‍♀️Episode 5: What are the physical limits of the human body? 🏃‍♀️ What happens if you stay awake for several days in a row? What is the difference between fever and overheating? How long can you survive without food or water? Is there a limit on human endurance in general? In this episode, we will answer these questions when we discover the physical limits of the human body!
1. Do you remember, back in the day when you were 1. Do you remember, back in the day when you were kids, you connected paper cups or cans with a strings and talked to each other? Wasn't that fun? We always have an innate desire to stay connected to each other. 2. This desire has evolved and given birth to internet: an ultimately connected being (yes I said it, a being) that we connect our smart phones, our smart watches, our laptops, our gaming console, our TVs, our lamps and ourselves through it. Soon we are going to connect our brains to it (Elon🤘) 3. In the city that you are living in, there are many technologies helping us to stay connected to our things and our people: Wireless: Wifi, cellular networks (e.g. 4G and 5G), satellite and ... Wired: Ethernet, optical cable, DSL and ... 4. The "strings" that are connecting the "cups" of internet together are made of the following materials: copper (e.g in ethernet cables), glass/plastic (fibre cables) and cheaper of them all air (wifi, cellular and satellite). 5. The "strings" that are connecting countries far away from each other are optical fibres. They are layed under the ocean and the sea. 6 and 7 show the underwater cables that keep Europe and Asia connected to internet. Sometimes they also get harassed by sharks. Sources: https://www.ciscopress.com/ https://www.submarinecablemap.com
👩‍💻 Episode 4 is out! 👨‍💻 Have yo 👩‍💻 Episode 4 is out! 👨‍💻 Have you ever wondered how the selfie you take on your phone ends up on your Instagram story? How does the angry email about the crappy yoga mat you bought end up at Amazon customer services? How does the wishes for gramma’s 80th birthday appear magically on her Whatsapp messenger? Listen to our episode on “How does internet work?” to get an idea.
In the episode 3 we go through pregnancy week by w In the episode 3 we go through pregnancy week by week 👶 Listen the episode now and check the baby sizes from these charts! 🍓🍋🍍 1. Developmental stages of the embryo and fetus (this is how the baby really looks like). 2. Comparative chart of the baby size vs. fruit (understandable for Sonja or anyone else who knows what size fruits are). 3. Comparative chart of the baby size vs. car parts (for Sohrab or anyone else who doesn't want to compare the baby to food). Image sources: 1. urbanmamaz.com 2. etsy.com 3. sweetmemoriesdoula.com
💥 Back to school and work: In the Black Box pod 💥 Back to school and work: In the Black Box podcast is here again to lighten up your Monday morning 💥 ITB#3: What happens in a womb? When does a baby get eye color, taste buds and teeth? What is the best time for the baby to commit crime? And what do babies and sushi rolls have in common? Listen now in Spotify, iTunes, Google Podcasts, and intheblackbox.fun!
Let's quickly go through the language that instruc Let's quickly go through the language that instruction for building (arguably) all living thing is written in: DNA, the instruction of building proteins, the building block of life as we know it, lives in the nucleus of the cell. Tightly packed. (1) A protein complex copies the instruction of making the needed protein. The copy is called messenger Ribonucleic Acid or mRNA. (2) The mRNA is translated to protein by another protein complex. Each three letter combination of mRNA is a code for an amino acid. A sequence of amino acids form a protein. (3) In order to study DNA, sequencing technologies are employed. In this animation, Florence tagging is used to figure out the sequence of nucleotides. This method is called sequencing by synthesis. (4) To increase the confidence of the accuracy of the sequences, DNA material is amplified, and many images are taken. Original animations can be found from gfycat.com
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Episode 2: What is the recipe of you? 🧬 What c Episode 2: What is the recipe of you? 🧬 What can you write with just four letters: A, T, G, and C ? Can you copy a 3 billion letter long list of these, without a single typo? And what if you cannot? Listen now in Spotify, iTunes, and Google Podcasts! 🎉 #intheblackbox #podcast #genome #dna #genomics #
In the first episode we are discussing about prion In the first episode we are discussing about prion diseases. Sohrab gets overwhelmed with imaging eating sponge-like brain and Sonja dreams about getting to name diseases like Gerstmann–Sträussler–Scheinker syndrome. 1. Comparison of normal brain to brains infected by prion diseases. In order: normal structure of brain tissue, Kuru affected brain, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease affected brain, and Scrapie affected sheep brain. 2. Dr. D. Carleton Gajdusek in Papua New Guinea. 3. A group of Kuru victims in the tribe of Fore people. Sources: 1. learn.genetics.utah.edu, 2-3. D. Carleton Gajdusek, Kuru, the First Human Prion Disease.
Episode 1 now in Spotify! In this episode we shed Episode 1 now in Spotify! In this episode we shed light into the black box of prion diseases that as rare as they are fatal. What actually was the “Mad cow disease” that shook UK in 80’s and 90’s? How did the bizarre act of ritualistic cannibalism lead to a winning of the Nobel prize? And most importantly, why shouldn’t you eat brain, though? #brain #prions #tse #intheblackbox
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