audio https://garethstack.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/45_technolotics.mp3 Listen: Episode 45 Watch: Youtube Notes A cure for depression? If you’re a mutant mouse that is Scientists breed mice without gene related to serotonin transmission. Serotonin important on mood, sleep and sexuality. Mice found to act if they had been treated with antidepressants. First time genetic ‘cure’ for depression found. Links Science Blog … Continue reading Technolotics #45 – Girly Men →

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Technolotics #45 – Girly Men

Listen: Episode 44 Watch: Youtube Notes News from the world of Yaaar Owner-Free File System takes aim at copyright What was the name of the previous effort at this? – we covered this in an early technolotics show System creates situation (using encryption) whereby copyrighted data can be claimed by two copyright owners. Since two … Continue reading Technolotics #44 – Flying Naked →

Technolotics #44 – Flying Naked

Listen: Episode 43 Watch: Youtube Notes Scanning Your Email Update Update to the email scanning story from #41 One of our viewers was so concearned by the encroachment on privacy represented by website blocking at the ISP / email scanning MP responds stating that there is no reason to change this policy Nothing wrong with the Internet … Continue reading Technolotics #43 – Villains of Video →

Technolotics #43 – Villains of Video

Listen: Episode 42 Watch: Youtube Notes Is Blue sky R&D dead? Scientific capital is not being replenished via Blue Sky research. Start-ups are being locked out of the market by patent and trade secrets litigation. Cold War era brought us the transistor and Arpanet, seeds of todays information economy at great private and public expense – Kansian … Continue reading Technolotics #42 – Palm Jam →

Technolotics #42 – Palm Jam

Listen: Episode 41 Watch: Youtube Notes Guilty by conception UK goverment unveils scheme to identify future criminals at birth. Aim is to identify those at risk of failure, violent behaviour or criminality and then take action to prevent that happening. Midwives, doctors and nurses asked to identify ‘chaotic’ families whose babies are in danger of growing … Continue reading Technolotics #41 – Too Quick to Taze →

Technolotics #41 – Too Quick to Taze

http://garethstack.com/content/audio/technolotics/40_technolotics.mp3 Listen: Episode 40 Watch: Youtube Notes Police State UK – The abuse of antisocial behaviour orders A physics graduate is fined £80 for describing a metal detector as “piece of shit that wouldn’t stop anyone” in public. Kurt Walker fined £80 for using the word “fuck” in a public park in Kent. He’s refusing to pay. … Continue reading Technolotics #40 – Boggeraguans →

Technolotics #40 – Boggeraguans

[audio https://garethstack.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/39_technolotics.mp3] Listen: Episode 39 Watch: Youtube Notes   Fear and loathing in single sex schools Review of data from across the world showed no evidence that single-sex schools were consistently better. Ability and social background of the pupils reason for their performance in school league tables. Success of single sex schools could be attributed to them creaming … Continue reading Technolotics #39 – Lollystop →

Technolotics #39 – Lollystop

Listen: Episode 38 Watch: Youtube Notes Bush to set up domestic spy service George Bush has announced a new Intelligence agency to be set up within the FBI – the National Security Service The agency will be empowered to sieze the property of those suspected of spreading WMD This story ironically comes shortly after GB intervened to … Continue reading Technolotics #38 – Queenie →

Technolotics #38 – Queenie

[audio https://garethstack.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/37_technolotics.mp3] Listen: Episode 37 Watch: Youtube Notes LA Police to watch from the air Police in LA have announced plans to launch UAV’s ‘The SkySeer’ Am I the only one who thinks Farenheit 451 has come to pass? The drones – autonomously controlled via GPS – will observe the ground for signs of dissent, bright colours or … Continue reading Technolotics #37 – Frogboy Grandkids →

Technolotics #37 – Frogboy Grandkids

[audio https://garethstack.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/36_technolotics.mp3] Listen: Episode 36 Watch: Youtube Notes A Dose Of Genius Dramatic increases in the numbers of students using “smart pills” to increase concentration, focus, wakefulness and short-term memory.   Adderall, used to treat attention-deficit disorder. Sales up 3,135 per cent in the last 4 years. Provigil used to treat narcoleptics, who fall asleep uncontrollably. Sales up … Continue reading Technolotics #36 – A Dose of Genius →

Technolotics #36 – A Dose of Genius

[audio https://garethstack.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/35_technolotics.mp3] Listen: Episode 35 Watch: Youtube Notes The Stolen Election Rolling Stone on how Bush stole the 2004 election Robert Kennedy Jr, son of Robert Kennedy, leading US environmental campaigner writes It’s never been clear the exact (actual) outcome of the 2000 election – first election since the 1876 election in which the Supreme Court affected … Continue reading Technolotics #35 – Tag the Poolboy →

Technolotics #35 – Tag the Poolboy

[audio https://garethstack.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/34_technolotics.mp3] Listen: Episode 34 Watch: Youtube Notes Evil Broadcast Treaty stopped Podcasters saved from new broadcast copyright – for now WIPO – Broadcast treaty Seeks to give copyright rights to the first person to transmit something – even if they have no role in creating it Creators would have to seek permission from the first body to … Continue reading Technolotics #34 – Chindogu →

Technolotics #34 – Chindogu

[audio https://garethstack.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/33_technolotics.mp3] Listen: Episode 33 Watch: Youtube Feed: RSS Notes The Death of Net Neutrality Article by Daniel Berninger on GigaOM website. Argues that net neutrality refers to “the uses of the Internet not the quality of access”. Already a large number of classes of service available from the telcos, you pay for the performance and capacity of your … Continue reading Technolotics #33 – Mouth Words →

Technolotics #33 – Mouth Words

[audio https://garethstack.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/32_technolotics.mp3] Listen: Episode 32 Watch: Youtube Feed: RSS Notes Digg hits a gas main Social bookmarking phenomena Digg is in trouble this week, after being accused of the blogosphere’s greatest sin – censorship Slashdot have posted a story – in Taco’s mangled grammer ‘submitted so numerous that I had little choice but to post’ – accusing dig of … Continue reading Technolotics #32 – Pathological Scrupulosity →

Technolotics #32 – Pathological Scrupulosity

[audio https://garethstack.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/31_technolotics_dialup.mp3] Listen: Episode 31 Watch: Youtube Feed: RSS Notes Mac BootCamp Intel macs now officially run Windows http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/ Macs get mainstream – All silicon valley geeks must have PowerBooks (except me) How will OSX cope with the competition – Who will reboot? The hardcore will stay for the unix backend But Mac enthusiasts already talking about a no-windows-booting … Continue reading Technolotics #31 – Ringing Up Osama →

Technolotics #31 – Ringing Up Osama

Technolotics was an irreverent look at technology, politics and the media; from a ragtag bunch of Irish students. The show was the first regularly updated Irish vidcast, and ran from August 2005 – August 2006.

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