032: Canceling Out Lava Waves

In this episode we host <a href="http://twitter.com/amrush" target="_blank">Omair Taibah</a> to talk about the latest breakthrough in astrophysics and the detection of gravitational waves resulting from two black holes colliding billions of light years away. <span id="more-252"></span> <h2>Show Links</h2> <ul> <li><a href="http://lootcrate.com" target="_blank">Loot Crate</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interferometry" target= "_blank">Interferometry </a></li> <li><a href= "http://phys.org/news/2015-06-terrestrial-noise-sources-ligo-gravity.html" target="_blank">Eliminating terrestrial noise sources to improve the LIGO gravity wave detectors </a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWqhUANNFXw" target= "_blank">LIGO Gravitational Wave Chirp</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.mstdfr.com/shows/thelpq/lpq-23/" target= "_blank">The Perfect Theory</a></li> <li><a href= "http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/076790818X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=076790818X&linkCode=am2&tag=m0d7d-20&linkId=MYK664AKJ2FPWHKQ" target="_blank">A Short History of Nearly Everything</a></li> <li><a href= "http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062328476/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0062328476&linkCode=as2&tag=m0d7d-20&linkId=BYTHBWNVI7EAK6P2" target="_blank">Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs</a></li> <li><a href= "http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400033535/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1400033535&linkCode=as2&tag=m0d7d-20&linkId=HKKZESODLK4H2VWF" target="_blank">Musicophilia</a></li> <li><a href="http://amzn.to/1T0PxPV" target="_blank">The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood</a></li> <li>“<a href= "http://www.openculture.com/2014/07/tsundoku-should-enter-the-english-language.html" target="_blank">Tsundoku</a>,” the Japanese Word for the New Books That Pile Up on Our Shelves</li> </ul> <div class="l-about-left"></div> <div class="l-about-right"> <div class="listenDetails"> <div class="listenDetails__partialInfo"> <div class="truncatedAudioInfo m-collapsed m-overflow"> <div class="truncatedAudioInfo__wrapper"> <div class="truncatedAudioInfo__content"> <div class="sc-type-small"> <div> <p style="text-align: left;"><em>20% Arabic – 80% English</em> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>