Episode – 0228 : Space Junk Transcript In 1957, Sputnik was launched into orbit as the world’s first artificial satellite. Today, 64 years later, there are more than 1,000,000 objects […]
Episode – 0218 : The Monty Hall Problem
Episode – 0218 : The Monty Hall Problem Transcript For over 30 years, Monty Hall was the host of the game show Let’s Make A Deal. In the show, they […]
Episode – 0208 : Operation Plumbbob
Episode – 0208 : Operation Plumbbob Transcript In 1957 the United States embarked on its most controversial series of nuclear tests. These tests took place on US soil in the […]
Episode – 0204 : Milankovitch Cycles
Episode – 0204 : Milankovitch Cycles Transcript The Earth takes a year to go around the sun, and a day to turn on its axis. It is tilted 23.5 degrees […]
Episode – 0196 : ALL RATS MUST DIE!!!
Episode – 0196 : ALL RATS MUST DIE!!! Transcript Humans and rats have lived in an uneasy relationship for millennia. Rats have spread diseases like the bubonic plague, destroyed grain […]
Episode – 0192 : The Dunbar Number
Episode – 0192 : The Dunbar Number Transcript There is a number, a very special number, which is inside all of us. It is inside you, inside me, and inside […]
Episode – 0185 : The Golden Record
Episode – 0185 : The Golden Record Transcript In the 1970s NASA embarked on a mission it had never attempted before. Due to a fortunate alignment of planets, they were […]
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Episode – 0165 : The Speech Richard Nixon Never Gave
Episode – 0165 : The Speech Richard Nixon Never Gave Transcript The Apollo 11 mission to land humans on the moon was one of the most complex things ever undertaken […]
Episode – 0166 : What’s the Deal With Dark Matter?
Episode – 0166 : What’s the Deal With Dark Matter? Transcript Over the last several centuries, there have been many unsolved questions that scientists have put their minds to solving.Most […]
Episode – 0163 : Atomic Bombs and Two-Piece Swimsuits
Episode – 0163 : Atomic Bombs and Two-Piece Swimsuits Transcript On the week of July 1, 1946, there were two explosions that shook the world. One was a physical explosion […]
Episode – 0159 : Aluminum
Episode – 0159 : Aluminum Transcript Hundreds of years ago gold and silver were rare and valuable, and today they are rare and valuable. Iron and tin were cheap and […]
Episode – 0158 : Radiometric Dating
Episode – 0158 : Radiometric Dating Transcript Have you ever heard a science story on the news where they mention how old something is then ask yourself “how do they […]
Episode – 0152 : The Voynich Manuscript
Episode – 0152 : The Voynich Manuscript Transcript In 1912, a Polish rare book dealer purchased an extremely old codex that contained an unknown system of writing. Since then, the […]
Episode – 0151 : How Many Nobel Prizes Should Einstein Have Won?
Episode – 0151 : How Many Nobel Prizes Should Einstein Have Won? Transcript In the 120 year history of the Nobel Prize, there have been four people who have been […]
Episode – 0148 : Radiation 101
Episode – 0148 : Radiation 101 Radiation or radioactivity is one of the scariest words in the English language. While radiation can indeed be very dangerous, most people don’t really […]
Episode – 0143 : Get the Lead Out
Episode – 0143 : Get the Lead Out Transcript Clair Patterson was a geochemist who worked at CalTech from the 1940s through the 1990s. His work involved studying the age […]
Episode – 0127 : Really Big Telescopes
Episode – 0127 : Really Big Telescopes Transcript Since the dawn of time, humans have looked up at the night sky to watch the stars. …and then nothing happened for […]
Episode – 0116 : Last Man on the Moon
Episode – 0116 : Last Man on the Moon Most things in life tend to reach their zenith near their conclusion. The Apollo program reached its zenith right at the […]
Episode – 0113 : The World’s Deepest Hole
Episode – 0113 : The World’s Deepest Hole Transcript In 1970, scientists in the Soviet Union set out to drill the deepest hole in the world. They weren’t drilling for […]
Episode – 0098 : The SR-71 Blackbird
Episode – 0098 : The SR-71 Blackbird Translate The Lockheed SR-71, nicknamed the Blackbird, holds the record for the fastest airplane ever. A record which it set in 1976 and […]