The Week Unwrapped: Carbon apps, super shoes and VR art
Can phones measure our carbon footprint? Is tech more important than sporting talent? And could we turn our homes into virtual art galleries?
by The Week team
26 Feb 2021
Olly Mann and The Week delve behind the headlines and debate what really matters from the past seven days.
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In this week’s episode, we discuss:
Carbon apps
A raft of new smartphone apps claim to be able to calculate your carbon footprint, with the aim of encouraging you to reduce it. But are they accurate - and will they effectively lead people towards environmentally sound decisions? Or are they a distraction from the bigger policy action needed to address climate change?
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The Week Unwrapped: Snake robots, farm protests and pet food
What can we learn from the skin of sidewinders? Why are farmers descending on Delhi? And would your cat eat lab-grown mouse protein?
by The Week team
5 Feb 2021
Olly Mann and The Week delve behind the headlines and debate what really matters from the past seven days.
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In this week’s episode, we discuss:
Snake robots
Research published this week by Emory University in Atlanta has suggested that the reason sidewinding snakes are able to move so quickly over sand is that their scales are covered in microscopic dimples that help to reduce friction between their skin and the sand. This discovery, scientists suggest, could lead to a new approach to robotics - for example in machines designed to cross loose ground after mudslides or earthquakes.
Olly Mann and The Week Unwrapped’s Joe Evans are joined by IT Pro’s features editor Jane McCallion. This week: the online age has given rise to new kinds of assets – digital possessions, but do they have any real-world value and what will happen to them when we die?
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