Escape Pod: #4 Mass: from lightest creates on earth, to the heaviest things in the cosmos
The World, the Universe and Us
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Show Notes
This is a re-airing of a podcast originally released in February 2021.
From some of the lightest creatures on earth, to the heaviest things in the cosmos, this episode is all about mass.
It’s a magical opening to the show as the team discusses a group of insects called fairy wasps which are so light it’s near impossible to weigh them.
They then turn to matters of massive proportions, discussing a little thing called dark matter.
Finally the team wraps up by looking at the surprising, and slightly hilarious ways that a kilogram is measured.
On the podcast are Rowan Hooper, Anna Demming and Timothy Revell.
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