Topic: Nuance

A prediction from the archives suggests that following its success on Jeopardy, the IBM Watson supercomputer would move into medical research and eventually secure climate research contracts. The forecast posits that Watson will be used as an authoritative voice to declare climate change as settled science. This follows an actual five-year agreement between IBM, Nuance, and Columbia University Medical Center.

The hosts discuss listeners who consume the podcast at 1.39x speed or higher to save time. They argue that speeding up the audio causes the listener to miss important nuances and vocal inflections. They jokingly ban the practice, suggesting that anyone who needs to speed up the show has deeper problems.

MSNBC and other media outlets criticized Donald Trump for referring to the New York City explosion as a "bomb" before official confirmation was released. The hosts discuss the lack of nuance in Twitter communications and the media's negative reaction to Trump's immediate assessment of the situation.