This episode of Neural Newscast examines the escalating trade rhetoric between the United States and Canada following a strategic partnership between Ottawa and Beijing. We also look back at the Gilded Age to see how a modern miracle material might have been hiding in the first light bulbs.
- 🏛️ President Trump threatens 100 percent tariffs on all Canadian goods in response to Prime Minister Mark Carney's trade deal with China.
- 📊 Trade experts warn of disruptions to the 2.7 billion dollars in goods and services that cross the northern border every single day.
- 💼 Prime Minister Carney defends Canada's sovereignty at Davos, positioning the nation as a leader for middle powers in a shifting global order.
- 🔬 A new study in ACS Nano suggests Thomas Edison produced graphene in 1879 during his pursuit of a long-lasting light bulb filament.
- 💡 Modern researchers at Rice University use advanced imaging to find nanotechnology secrets buried in 19th-century carbonized materials.
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- (00:00) - Northern Border Trade Tensions
- (05:58) - Edison's Accidental Nanotechnology
