Episode 55: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) is a classic film by Stanley Kubrick set in the distant future of 2001, when humankind finally evolves into spacefaring starbabies with no help from the AI they designed to help them. But the first act is set at the dawn of h
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Show Notes
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) is a classic film by Stanley Kubrick set in the distant future of 2001, when humankind finally evolves into spacefaring starbabies with no help from the AI they designed to help them. But the first act is set at the dawn of humanity, which means we get to review it on our prehistoric podcast!
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Watch the 2001: A Space Odyssey dubstep remix: https://vimeo.com/98811524
Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence by Richard Wrangham and Dale Peterson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demonic_Males
Darren Naish on tapir attacks https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/tapir-attacks-past-present-but-hopefully-not-future/
The earliest evidence of stone tool use: https://news.stonybrook.edu/newsroom/press-release/general/150520stonetools/
Chimpanzees hunt with spears: https://phys.org/news/2015-04-chimps-senegal-fashion-spears.html
The Savannah Hypothesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savannah_hypothesis
The earliest bipedal hominins: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02226-5
The Turing Test: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test
Eliza Chatbot: https://web.njit.edu/~ronkowit/eliza.html
ChatGPT: https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt
Lunar regolith: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_soil
Space grip shoes: https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/magnetic-space-grip-shoe/overview/
Walking is really just falling and catching yourself: https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/walking-really-is-just-falling-and-catching-yourself