Human Factors Weekly News
Our Top News Stories
These consist of news stories that we feel have enough substance to them to justify a 20-30 minute segment on the podcast. Our Patreons decide which topics we discuss on the show from these types of news stories.
- How the brain navigates cities
- How the brain ignores distracting information to coordinate movements
- Remote Work Can Be Better for Innovation Than In-Person Meetings
- NASA Scientists Predict Settlements on Moons of Saturn, Jupiter
Human Factors News
These consist of news stories that have a human factors application, but may just be a brief one-liner (e.g. not a whole lot to talk about but cool enough for us to share).
- Q&A: Ghost Robotics CEO on Armed Robots for the U.S. Military
- Pentagon Wants AI to Predict Events Before They Occur
- Lockheed Martin’s CTO Steven Walker on Future Defense Technologies
- People Who Jump to Conclusions Show Other Kinds of Thinking Errors
- Brain damage from long stays in space
- Sense of smell is our most rapid warning system
- Powered exoskeleton helps amputees walk with less effort
- Our brains have a “fingerprint” too
- Why do we remember stressful experiences better?
- Reimagining our pandemic problems with the mindset of an engineer
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