Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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Is dark energy a fudge factor?
Listener Questions #49
Rewilding
Can we simulate the Universe?
Listener Questions #48
Origins of life (featuring Dr. Katrine Whiteson)
Should the government be hiding aliens?
Listener Questions #47 - Plant Questions (featuring Dr. Manuel Lerdau)
How far can we go with chemical rockets?
Cyclospora (and other diarrhea-inducing parasites)
Listener Questions #46
Sound (featuring audio wizard Mat Keselman)
What is a space-time interval?
Listener Questions #45
Rat lungworm (featuring Dr. Chelsea Wood)
Is dark matter a fudge factor?
Listener Questions #44 - How fast can animals go, and how fast can animals grow? (featuring Dr. John Hutchinson)
Of lice and men
Did aliens put satellites into Earth's orbit pre-Sputnik?
Listener Questions #43
The science of bathing (featuring Dr. Katrine Whiteson)
What broke the grand unified force in the early universe?
Listener Questions #42
The curious lives of social amoeba
What are JWST's little red dots?
Listener Questions #41
What is a species? (featuring Dr. Scott Egan)
Could the Earth be at the center of the solar system?
Listener Questions #40
Are rural raccoons becoming domesticated?
What is quantum contextuality?
Listener Questions #39
The Deep Seabed (featuring Dr. Andrew Thaler)
How do signals get jammed?
Listener Questions #38
The discovery of parasite life cycles
Can we use zero point energy?
Listener Questions #37
Story of Birds (featuring Dr. Steve Brusatte)
Will AI solve physics?
Listener Questions #36
Biofilms (featuring Dr. Katrine Whiteson)
Does science fiction inspire real tech?
Listener Questions #35: Genetics (featuring Dr. Benjamin de Bivort)
Snakes vs Octopi (featuring Dr. Matt Giorgianni)
Does consciousness come from quantum processes in the brain?
Daniel and Kelly explore Penrose's Orchestrated Objective Reduction Theory that aims to explain consciousness, quantum measurements, quantum gravity and anaesthesia!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Listener Questions #34
Daniel and Kelly answer listener questions about what creates the morning fog, why bats don't get dizzy, and the cauchy horizon.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
How cholera kills you and how we kill it
Daniel and Kelly talk about what Vibrio cholerae does to your body, and the methods we have to combat it. They also talk about some of the really bad methods we tried using in the past. Like, real bad.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
To swill or to smell: How John Snow determined the cause of cholera
Daniel and Kelly dive into the history of medicine, and discuss the data John Snow collected to argue that cholera is transmitted through contaminated water and not foul-smelling air. These data bolstered the emerging germ theory of disease.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Listener Questions #33
Daniel and Kelly answer questions about tongue worms, units, and Kelly's nightmares. Link: Standard reference peanut butterSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.