The Plaice to Know

Episode

184: No Such Thing As Dinosaur Diaries

2017-09-29 · 4 places on the map · episode transcript

  1. University of ReadingOne-offUnited Kingdom

    There's a guy called Dr. Mark Gasson from the University of Reading and he had a chip in his hand, which he used to go through security doors and unlock his phone and stuff like that. The BBC described it quite sniffily…

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  2. Brown UniversityOne-offUnited States

    In the late 1960s, there was this Cookie Monster virus, which was malware that froze your computer until you typed the word cookie at it and then it kept freezing your computer until you typed the word cookie and you…

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  3. OreoOne-offUnited States

    In the late 1960s, there was this Cookie Monster virus, which was malware that froze your computer until you typed the word cookie at it and then it kept freezing your computer until you typed the word cookie and you…

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  4. To study this, the scientists from the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ontario studied armadillos, because that was, I guess, a close equivalent in the real world. They had a proper hardened shell-like thing on their back.

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