Rebuilding Bodies, Alien Flyby, and the Dawn of the Age of Imagination

Phil and Stephen conclude their special Thanksgiving week series. Good-news-a-palooza wraps up with a Black Friday show presenting still more tremendously encouraging news that is breaking all around us. Once again, aliens are mentioned right in the title of the show! And once again, it's a no Buzzkill Zone.

Heart failure could be treated using umbilical cord stem cells
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Using stem cells derived from the umbilical cord, researchers have improved the heart muscle and function of heart failure patients, paving the way for noninvasive therapies.

Last of the Iron Lungs
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Hours, days, and years sealed within a machine forcing breath into your lungs. This is life for people born before the polio vaccine.

Deep Learning is Eating Software
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The pattern is that there’s an existing software project doing data processing using explicit programming logic, and the team charged with maintaining it find they can replace it with a deep-learning-based solution.

How Technology Is Leading Us Into the Imagination Age
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Initially coined by Rita J. King, the imagination age is a theoretical period beyond the information age where creativity and imagination will become the primary creators of economic value.

An Organism That Regenerates Could Allow Us to Heal Humans
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The gecko’s remarkable ability to regenerate its tail in the space of a month could help scientists figure out how to heal spine injuries in humans, and it’s all down to the regenerative ability of stem cells.

GEEKOUT

Oumuamua = Alien Spacecraft?
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Time for Stephen to adopt the Giorgio A. Tsoukalos haircut?
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