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Life in a Barrel

Radiolab

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The Computers Picking Bloops at Random

A computer programme can create a whole new species at random. From bloop get ep, bleep,. bleep, beep, bleep, blep, bleep - and then it's e and they cold. Or the third thing that can happen is by by blop, dead, extinct, dead forever. One, two, three, live, die, die. See, rok, paper scissors shoot. Ye, exactly. And the computers picking em at random.

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