If you’ve got a raw milk enthusiast friend, they might be conveniently forgetting that grandma used to boil her "fresh" milk to avoid dying from bacteria poisoning.
Mind you, it wasn’t all safe in the good old days. In 1978, a Soviet scientist stuck his head in a particle accelerator and got blasted with a proton beam 600 times the lethal dose (and somehow survived). He might be a good candidate for the upcoming Enhanced Games, a sporting competition that openly encourages athletes to take performance-enhancing drugs.
Have you ever wondered what your dog is thinking? Well, AI might finally let us chat with animals, but do we really want to hear what they have to say?
CHAPTERS:
00:00 Who is Sponsoring the Enhanced Games
02:06 Raw Milk Myths Debunked
05:03 Historical Practices of Milk Boiling
08:10 The Proton Beam Incident
14:20 Interspecies Communication Challenge
24:42 Anthropomorphism and Animal Emotions
25:08 The Ethics of Translating Animal Communication
27:55 Enhanced Games Events and Controversies
30:51 Debate on Performance Enhancing Drugs
38:54 Risks and Consequences of Steroid Use
42:19 The Future of Enhanced Games and Athlete Compensation
42:57 Science Says Pay Me More
SOURCES:
$10m prize launched for team that can truly talk to the animals
Dolphin whistle decoders win $100,000 interspecies communication prize
Steroids? Sure! Doping? Bring it on! 'Enhanced Games' push to be the Olympics* — with drugs
The Definitive, Insane, Swimsuit-Bursting Story of the Steroid Olympics
Learn about the risks of performance-enhancing drugs
A Soviet Physicist Once Survived A Proton Beam Through The Head – This Is How
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