Intro & episode rundown

0:00Frozen for 5,000 years, this ice cave bacterium resists modern antibiotics, which sounds a little bit scary. >> It's very speculative, but even even the fact that the sun could affect earthquakes is is a very interesting >> that is Yann LeCun who has recently left Facebook or Meta in early 2026 and has now raised a billion dollars to build AI that understands the physical world. Hello internet, this is your captain speaking Lester Nare, joined as always by my co-host and our resident PhD Krishna Chaudhary. We are in our first standalone rundown episode. We're going

0:41to cover several stories just at a high level, have a fun conversation. These are stories we didn't get to to do a deep dive this week, but we still want to talk about it and get you guys into your weekend with some fun, exciting talking points with a special segment in the middle, which is going to be a surprise for our resident PhD. Today we're going to cover microbiology on bacteria that was found in frozen caves 5,000 years ago, solar storms and earthquakes