Intro — four science stories and the quiz segment

0:00So, we're going to start today with our first story uh about a man who fixed his dog's cancer with Chat GPT. And no, this is not clickbait. It's fully female. Mhm. And it's incredible that it survived for so long because it uses cloning. Ketamine seems to work on them. Okay. And it's weird for two reasons. One, why does ketamine work when all these other antidepressants don't? And two, ketamine works at a really fast time scale. Life rebounding shockingly fast after the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. Hello internet, this is your captain speaking. Lester Nare joined as always by my co-host and our resident PhD,

0:42Krishna Chaudhary. We are here for another casual rundown episode where we're going to touch on four stories that we did not do a deep dive on this week, but are also interesting and exciting breaking news stories. Categories we will cover today include AI, genetics, neuroscience, and we'll end with a paleontology and ancient life story. And squeezed in the middle there, we will do another lovely exciting round of are you smarter than a scientist where you can test whether your knowledge of the universe is greater than our resident PhD, Krishna.

1:24We are going to learn about the science from the ground up today, as always, because this is from first principles.

1:45So, we're going to start today with our first story uh about a man who fixed his dog's cancer with Chat GPT. And no, this is not clickbait. Uh there was a man's dog who