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Every month, the US economy becomes more automated. Robots can cut manufacturing costs, but the problem is that they can’t SPEND any money (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show), so the items they create may go unsold. It’s just another example of how income inequality causes recessions.

German and Japanese factories are largely staffed by industrial robots, and China is catching up: A restaurant in northern China has become the first to have only robot waiters.
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Researchers have discovered the presence of significant numbers of living microorganisms–mostly bacteria–in the middle and upper troposphere, the part of the atmosphere four to six miles above the Earth’s surface. In other words, the clouds are filled with germs! Do they fall to Earth when it rains? (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this incredible show).

They haven’t yet figured out whether these microorganisms routinely inhabit this portion of the atmosphere or whether they were simply lofted there from the Earth’s surface.
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