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- Science
Have you ever wondered how we got our oxygen rich atmosphere, or how an x-ray machine was made. This podcast looks at these exact questions and lays out a continuous story to show how we got to this point in a jargon-free setting.
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Making Art with Machine Learning
Someone recently won an art competition by submitting an imagine generated by an AI. This caused some mild controversy, but here we look at how this AI works at the most basic level.
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Tidal Forces
The tides come in and out, but the physics of tidal forces are so much more fascinating that just that. We explore what tidal forces can really do this week going from the earth-moon system to forming planetary rings and finally stars being ripped apart by black holes.
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Making a Processor
Have you wondered how to make a processor? Or why there are really only two cpu brands when it's such a lucrative business? That's what we talk about this week.
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The mystery of the 100,000 year problem
Ice ages are a very common thing on geological timescales, but the behavior of these ice ages changed 1 million years ago. That's a bit of a mystery and we discuss the background behind this unsolved riddle this week.
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Carbon Credits
There are many methods to reducing our carbon emissions to mitigate climate change. One of these is using carbon credits to offset emissions from companies, but this week we talk about how the best intentions can go wrong with poor implementation.
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Weather Modification
Is it actually possible to control the weather to some degree? That's what they claimed was possible at the Beijing Olympics and we talk about the science behind how this is possible.
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