Do Go On • 22 May 2025

500 (Part 2) - The Dolphin Experiments with Kirsty Webeck and Suren Jayemanne

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In 1961, a group of ten scientists conducted a somewhat clandestine meeting in Green Bank, West Virginia. They were there to talk about extra terrestrial life, but the real star of the show was more interested in dolphins - tune in for this wild story.

CONTENT WARNING some of the experiments go a bit beastility

This is a comedy/history podcast, the report begins at approximately 05:19 (though as always, we go off on tangents throughout the report).

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REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:

The Theory of Everything Else by Dan Schreiber

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/08/the-dolphin-who-loved-me

https://allthatsinteresting.com/margaret-Lovatt-lovatt

https://www.astronomy.com/science/the-order-of-the-dolphin-setis-secret-origin-story/

The Girl Who Talked To Dolphins BBC

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/google-is-training-a-new-ai-model-to-decode-dolphin-chatter-and-potentially-talk-back-180986434/

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