Technoptimist Show

Join Teresa Carey as she breaks down the latest news on the technology that is solving the world’s biggest problems. In today’s show, Teresa covers a new drug for dementia, mechanical trees, and EV battery innovations.

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Drug that cleans up cholesterol may reduce post stroke dementia

Scientists propose mechanical trees to soak up CO2

New EV battery material promises to quintuple electric car range

About the host:
Teresa Carey is a senior staff writer at Freethink.com, where she covers genetics and the environment. She is also a US Coast Guard licensed captain and a NatGeo Explorer. In addition to Freethink her work can be found in BuzzFeed, Scientific American, PBS NewsHour, NPR Weekend Edition, Smithsonian and more. Find her on twitter @teresa_carey

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Join Teresa Carey as she breaks down the latest news on the technology that is solving the world’s biggest problems. In today’s show, Teresa covers how your brain decodes language and uses brain-computer interfaces.

To learn more about the topics in this episode:

Brain implant translates thought to text
Here is how your brain understands one voice in a crowd

About the host:
Teresa Carey is a senior staff writer at Freethink.com, where she covers genetics and the environment. She is also a US Coast Guard licensed captain and a NatGeo Explorer. In addition to Freethink her work can be found in BuzzFeed, Scientific American, PBS NewsHour, NPR Weekend Edition, Smithsonian and more. Find her on twitter @teresa_carey

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Join Teresa Carey as she breaks down the latest news on the technology that is solving the world’s biggest problems. In today’s show, Teresa covers space commerce, smart food packaging, and the future of batteries.

To learn more about the topics in this episode:

Smart food packaging keeps food fresh and reduces waste
Batteries of the future could be made from trees
Startup will send prized artifacts to the International Space Station

About the host:
Teresa Carey is a senior staff writer at Freethink.com, where she covers genetics and the environment. She is also a US Coast Guard licensed captain and a NatGeo Explorer. In addition to Freethink her work can be found in BuzzFeed, Scientific American, PBS NewsHour, NPR Weekend Edition, Smithsonian and more. Find her on twitter @teresa_carey

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Join Teresa Carey as she breaks down the latest news on the technology that is solving the world’s biggest problems. In today’s show, Teresa covers how supergrids are uniting the world’s clean energy supplies and how the Paris Olympics will ignite the future of electric flying taxies.

To learn more about the topics in this episode:

These supergrids are uniting the world’s clean energy supplies
Paris Olympics will ignite the future of electric flying taxis

About the host:
Teresa Carey is a senior staff writer at Freethink.com, where she covers genetics and the environment. She is also a US Coast Guard licensed captain and a NatGeo Explorer. In addition to Freethink her work can be found in BuzzFeed, Scientific American, PBS NewsHour, NPR Weekend Edition, Smithsonian and more. Find her on twitter @teresa_carey

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Join Teresa Carey as she breaks down the latest news on the technology that is solving the world’s biggest problems. In today’s show, Teresa covers how scientists are generating electricity on the moon, autonomous sailing drones, and gene editing.

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The plans to generate electricity on the moon
Floating drones mine carbon data in the Gulf Stream
This drone footage from inside a hurricane is wild
Gene editing could spare countless animals by creating single-sex litters
CRISPR could save billions of baby chicks before they hatch
Why this scientist wants to grow fish on the moon

About the host:
Teresa Carey is a senior staff writer at Freethink.com, where she covers genetics and the environment. She is also a US Coast Guard licensed captain and a NatGeo Explorer. In addition to Freethink her work can be found in BuzzFeed, Scientific American, PBS NewsHour, NPR Weekend Edition, Smithsonian and more. Find her on twitter @teresa_carey

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Join Teresa Carey as she breaks down the latest news on the technology that is solving the world’s biggest problems. In today’s show, Teresa covers luminescent cities, rock dust that can absorb greenhouse gasses, and digital music therapy.

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Luminescent materials could cool our cities and light the streets
Rock dust can turn farmland into a sponge for greenhouse gases
How music can rewire the brain after an injury
Green sand beaches could erase carbon emissions

About the host:
Teresa Carey is a senior staff writer at Freethink.com, where she covers genetics and the environment. She is also a US Coast Guard licensed captain and a NatGeo Explorer. In addition to Freethink her work can be found in BuzzFeed, Scientific American, PBS NewsHour, NPR Weekend Edition, Smithsonian and more. Find her on twitter @teresa_carey

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Join Teresa Carey as she breaks down the latest news on the technology that is solving the world’s biggest problems. In today’s show, Teresa covers a deep earth mineral discovery, metal-eating bacteria, and what will happen to the batteries in electric vehicles.

To learn more about the topics in this episode:

Metal-eating bacteria could clean up dirty mining sites
Will battery recycling be ready when all these new EV batteries die?
Scientists discover a new mineral from the depths of the Earth

About the host:
Teresa Carey is a senior staff writer at Freethink.com, where she covers genetics and the environment. She is also a US Coast Guard licensed captain and a NatGeo Explorer. In addition to Freethink her work can be found in BuzzFeed, Scientific American, PBS NewsHour, NPR Weekend Edition, Smithsonian and more. Find her on twitter @teresa_carey

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Join Teresa Carey as she breaks down the latest news on the technology that is solving the world’s biggest problems. In today’s show, Teresa covers how biotech is cleaning up blue jeans, and rehoming endangered species.

To learn more about the topics in this episode:

Denim is a dirty business, but biotech bacteria are cleaning it up

Moving endangered species could save them — or turn them into invasive species

About the host:
Teresa Carey is a senior staff writer at Freethink.com, where she covers genetics and the environment. She is also a US Coast Guard licensed captain and a NatGeo Explorer. In addition to Freethink her work can be found in BuzzFeed, Scientific American, PBS NewsHour, NPR Weekend Edition, Smithsonian and more. Find her on twitter @teresa_carey

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