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The Math And Science Powering 'Everything Everywhere All At Once'
Episode 833
Film directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (collectively: Daniels) reimagined the multiverse movie in their breakout film Everything Everywhere …
3 years, 3 months ago
Our Perception Of Time Shapes The Way We Think About Climate Change
Episode 832
Most people are focused on the present: today, tomorrow, maybe next year. Fixing your flat tire is more pressing than figuring out if you should buy …
3 years, 3 months ago
Fossil CSI: Cracking The Case Of An Ancient Reptile Graveyard
Episode 831
This mystery begins in 1952, in the Nevada desert, when a self-taught geologist came across the skeleton of a massive creature that looked like a cro…
3 years, 3 months ago
New Tech Targets Epilepsy With Lasers, Robots
Episode 830
About three million people in the United States have epilepsy, including about a million who can't rely on medication to control their seizures. For …
3 years, 3 months ago
What Cities Should Learn From California's Flooding
Episode 829
Winter storms have flooded parts of California, broken levees and forced thousands to evacuate. Climate change is altering the historic weather patte…
3 years, 3 months ago
Time Is So Much Weirder Than It Seems
Episode 828
Time is a concept so central to our daily lives. Yet, the closer scientists look at it, the more it seems to fall apart. Time ticks by differently at…
3 years, 3 months ago
A Course Correction In Managing Drying Rivers
Episode 827
Historic drought in the west and water diversion for human use are causing stretches of the Colorado and Mississippi rivers to run dry. "The American…
3 years, 3 months ago
How You Can Support Scientific Research
Episode 826
We're off today in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. In the meantime, we want to share this episode from our friends at NPR's Life Kit podca…
3 years, 3 months ago
Things Could Be Better
Episode 825
Are humans ever satisfied? Two social psychologists, Ethan Ludwin-Peery and Adam Mastroianni, fell down a research rabbit hole accidentally answering…
3 years, 3 months ago
Behold! The Mysterious Ice Worm
Episode 824
Inside the mountaintop glaciers of the Pacific Northwest lives a mysterious, and often, overlooked creature. They're small, black, thread-like worms …
3 years, 3 months ago