Hello Internet + episode lineup

0:00Hello internet. This is your captain speaking Lester Nar joined as always by my co-host and our resident PhD Krishna Chowdery. We have an action-packed full episode this week with three main stories. We're going to start off with the neuroscience of dreams. We're going to follow that up with the physics of protons and then we're going to wrap up with some of the latest advancements in the fight against ALS. We are going to learn about science from the ground up today because as you know this is from first principles [music] [music]

0:46for our first story. We are going to get a little bit into what feels like science fiction here with interactive dream engineering as the subject. Apparently, we now have the ability to hack into people's dreams, influence and interact with them, and help them solve problems later. This is from Northwestern University in the neuroscience of consciousness. And this story is fascinating to me. Yeah, this one's like pretty pretty crazy. Okay. I mean, we've all heard of the idea that, you know, if you're trying to solve a problem and you get stuck, sleep on it, right? That's the advice that we get a