Episode – 0516 : The Internal Combustion Engine Podcast Transcript One of the technologies which helped make the modern world is the internal combustion engine. Without it, the world would […]
Episode – 0512 : Planet 9
Episode – 0512 : Planet 9 Podcast Transcript The planet Neptune was discovered in 1846. Ever since then, astronomers have felt there had to be another planet beyond the orbit […]
Episode – 0510 : The Mechanical Turk
Episode – 0510 : The Mechanical Turk Podcast Transcript You’ve probably heard of artificial intelligence systems which have gotten so good that they can beat the best humans at Go, […]
Episode – 0504 : Everything You Wanted to Know About Seawater
Episode – 0504 : Everything You Wanted to Know About Seawater Podcast Transcript It covers 70% of the Earth’s surface, is one of the most common substances on Earth, and […]
Episode – 0500 : Episode 500!
Episode – 0500 : Episode 500! Podcast Transcript Back in July of 2020, a man in the middle of a pandemic decided to launch a new podcast. It would be […]
Episode – 0498 : Operation Paperclip
Episode – 0498 : Operation Paperclip Podcast Transcript After World War II, the American forces in Germany implemented a program of de-Nazification in the parts of the country which they […]
Episode – 0497 : Gold! Gold! Gold!
Episode – 0497 : Gold! Gold! Gold! Podcast Transcript Believe it or not, one of the most valuable elements on the Periodic Table was also the first one that was […]
Episode – 0495 : Superconductivity
Episode – 0495 : Superconductivity Podcast Transcript In 1911, a Dutch physicist named Heike Kamerlingh Onnes was experimenting with ultra low-temperature metals. He was measuring the electrical resistance of mercury […]
Episode – 0489 : Paradoxes
Episode – 0489 : Paradoxes Podcast Transcript 2,500 years ago, the Greek philosopher Zeno posited a quandary. If you want wanted to travel from one place to another, you first […]
Episode – 0488 : Skunkworks
Episode – 0488 : Skunkworks Podcast Transcript 62 miles north of Los Angeles in the city of Palmdale, California, lies one of the most secretive aircraft design and production centers […]
Episode – 0479 : Ambergris: The World’s Most Valuable Smelly Substance
Episode – 0479 : Ambergris: The World’s Most Valuable Smelly Substance Podcast Transcript One of the rarest and most expensive substances in the world is actually pretty disgusting. The way […]
Episode – 0470 : How LIGO Works
Episode – 0470 : How LIGO Works Podcast Transcript To explore the heavens humans have made many types of telescopes. These telescopes can observe visible light, infrared light, radio waves, […]
Episode – 0450 : The Nazi Bomb
Episode – 0450 : The Nazi Bomb Podcast Transcript During the second world war, one of the biggest efforts of the war was the Manhattan Project: the secret American program […]
Episode – 0448 : Survivor Bias
Episode – 0448 : Survivor Bias Podcast Transcript During World War II, the US Army assigned statistician Abraham Wald the task of statistically figuring out where extra armor should be […]
Episode – 0443 : The War of the Currents
Episode – 0443 : The War of the Currents Podcast Transcript In the late 19th century, several of the world’s foremost investors engaged in a public battle for the future […]
Episode – 0441 : Alfred Wegener and Continental Drift
Episode – 0441 : Alfred Wegener and Continental Drift Podcast Transcript In 1910, a German Earth scientist noticed something about the map of the world. South America seemed to fit […]
Episode – 0437 : Cosmic Rays
Episode – 0437 : Cosmic Rays Podcast Transcript Who matter where you are right now, no matter what time you are listening to this, there is one thing that I […]
Episode – 0434 : Fusion Power
Episode – 0434 : Fusion Power Podcast Transcript Ever since humans have understood the workings of the atom, the potential has existed for humanity to exploit the energy source which […]
Episode – 0431 : The Unlikely Survival of Phineas Gage
Episode – 0431 : The Unlikely Survival of Phineas Gage Podcast Transcript On September 13, 1848, a 25-year-old man named Phineas Gage received a horrific brain injury while working on […]
Episode – 0429 : The Geologic Timeline
Episode – 0429 : The Geologic Timeline Podcast Transcript The Earth is pretty old. Our current, best estimate is that it is 4.54 billion years old, plus or minus 50 […]