On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, windows on Mars made from beer, lab-grown brain bits, cloning your dog, ion thrusters, fuel from the air… and much, much more weird science.

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Hot Topics

• Some Geniuses Developed a Way to Filter Lead Out of Water With Fruit Peels
• Can a new type of transparent gel, made from readily-available beer waste, help engineers build greenhouses on Mars?
• Lab-grown brain bits open windows to the mind “” and a maze of ethical dilemmas
• The Real Reasons You Shouldn’t Clone Your Dog

Audible Book of the Week

• Prediction Machines by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, Avi Goldfarb
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Music Break: Weird Science by Oingo Boingo

Hot Topics

• Same-sex mice have babies
• Scientists Have Created A Star Trek-Like Plane That Flies Using ‘Ion Thrusters’ And No Fuel
• How One Company Pulls Carbon From The Air, Aiming To Avert A Climate Catastrophe

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Geeks Of Doom’s The Drill Down is a roundtable-style audio podcast where we discuss the most important issues of the week, in tech and on the web and how they affect us all.

Hosts are Geeks of Doom contributor Andrew Sorcini (Mr. BabyMan), marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Vudu product manager Tosin Onafowokan.