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Science, Spoken

Get in-depth coverage of current and future trends in technology, and how they are shaping business, entertainment, communications, science, politics, and society.

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11:04

The Physics of a Spinning Spacecraft in The Expanse

Science, Spoken ·

2018/07/02

The Expanse should just change their post credits for each episode to include a list of homework questions. Seriously—there are so many great things to explore in this hard science fiction show. In a recent episode, one of the large spaceships (the Navoo) rotates in order to create artificial gravity (that's not really a spoiler). How about some questions and answers about this giant spinning spaceship? How do you make artificial gravity? Let me get right to it. Learn more about your ad choices

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8:13

One Sentence With 7 Meanings Unlocks a Mystery of...

Science, Spoken ·

2018/06/29

Ruth Nell is talented talker. Always has been. As a child, her mother taught her to enunciate her words when she spoke, which she did often and at length. So wordy was she that, in grammar school, her friends nicknamed her "Yakky Roo," partly for her ace Yakky Doodle impersonation, but also for her loquaciousness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:56

SpaceX Is About to Launch Its Final Block 4 Falcon

Science, Spoken ·

2018/06/29

SpaceX is swiftly moving toward achieving its ultimate goal of rapid reusability: flying a single booster twice within a 24-hour time period. It’s a goal that Elon Musk says SpaceX will achieve later this year—but in order to make good on that promise, the company must first say goodbye to its hardest-working rocket yet. That would be the full thrust Falcon, known to SpaceX followers as the Block 4. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:34

Delays, Rising Costs Plague NASA's James Webb Space...

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2018/06/28

For the past decade, astronomers have been waiting for a remarkable new instrument to enter the world. The James Webb Space Telescope will be launched to waypoint 1 million miles beyond Earth’s orbit, further than any telescope yet, where it can observe the deepest corners of the universe. From there it will unfurl a sunshield to protect special sensors that can detect images giving off faint glow of far infrared light. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:40

The Rise of DNA Data Storage

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2018/06/28

The 144 words of Robert Frost’s seminal poem “The Road Not Taken” fit neatly onto a single printed page or a 1 kilobyte data file. Or in Hyunjun Park’s hands, a few drops of water in the bottom of a pink Eppendorf tube. Well, really what’s inside the water: invisible floating strands of DNA. Scientists have long touted DNA’s potential as an ideal storage medium; it’s dense, it’s easy to replicate, it’s stable over millennia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:02

These Beating Mini-Hearts Could Save Big Bucks—And...

Science, Spoken ·

2018/06/27

Crack open the door of the incubator at Novoheart’s Hong Kong headquarters and you’ll find about a dozen pea-shaped, pulsating blobs submerged in a warm, salty-sweet broth. They’re 3-D human heart organoids—a simplified, shrunk-down version of the real thing—the first ever to contain a hollow chamber, like one of the four that’s beating inside your chest right now. And they’re the future of drug testing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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3:19

A Microguide to Microdosing Psychedelic Drugs

Science, Spoken ·

2018/06/27

Adderall, shmaderall. Certain biohackers prefer taking teeny-tiny amounts of psychedelic drugs to boost focus. But what exactly is a microdose, anyway? Here’s our semi-scientific guide. Hint: If you feel the trees breathing, you’re doing it wrong. Acid Microdose (5–10 mcg): Users claim that a microhit of LSD clears mental locks and helps with depression. It’s often taken first thing in the morning with distilled water—chlorine can kill key compounds. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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24:47

Big Tech Isn’t the Problem With Homelessness. It’s...

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2018/06/26

The icons of downtown San Francisco are the same whether you’re looking at the buildings or at your phone. In the blocks around the undulating, metal-screened length of the city’s new bus and train terminal, skyscrapers—including the city’s tallest—flash all the familiar logos. There’s Salesforce and its new tower, of course, but also LinkedIn, Google, Twilio, Zipcar, Github, Okta, and Dropbox. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:31

Twitter Users Are Analytical in the Morning, Angsty...

Science, Spoken ·

2018/06/26

Wake up. Grab phone. Unlock. Open Twitter. Absorb tweets. Scroll. Absorb tweets. Scroll. Absorb tweets. What do they say? They say: [#twitter: https://twitter.com/adambvary/status/1006334904655753216 ] Well yes, that. But what else? Look closer. Disregard the topics; pay attention to the words. Soak up not just a few tweets, but a few million. Take them in not merely when you wake up, but every hour, every day, for years. What do you see now? If you're Nello Christianini, you see patterns. Learn

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7:39

The Quest to Make Super Cold Quantum Blobs in Space

Science, Spoken ·

2018/06/25

On a frigid day last January in northern Sweden, a German-led team of physicists loaded a curious machine onto an unmanned rocket. The payload, about as tall as a single-story apartment, was essentially a custom-made freezer—a vacuum chamber, with a small chip and lasers within, that could cool single atoms near absolute zero. They launched the rocket about 90 miles past the boundary of outer space, monitoring a livestream from a heated building nearby. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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7:09

It's Business Time for Rocket Lab, Launcher of Small...

Science, Spoken ·

2018/06/25

“Dear everyone,” wrote Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck during a reddit AMA in April, “I'm not building a bigger rocket any time soon.” Beck seems to get asked about expansion a lot. He and his Kiwi-US space company don’t build craft whose names end in “heavy.” Their rockets don’t land after launch. They’re only about as tall as a five-story building and as wide as a bookshelf, and they heft just 500 pounds max into orbit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:07

Pain Is Weird. Making Bionic Arms Feel Pain Is Even...

Science, Spoken ·

2018/06/22

Pain is an indispensable tool for survival. The prick of a nail underfoot is a warning that protects you from a deep, dirty wound—and maybe tetanus. The sizzle of a steel skillet is a deterrent against a third-degree burn. As much as it sucks, pain, oddly enough, keeps us from hurting ourselves. It's a luxury that prosthetic users don’t have. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:47

NASA’s New Plan: Do More Science With Small Satellites

Science, Spoken ·

2018/06/22

Small satellite makers have promised to do a lot of things: change the way we communicate, change the way we see our planet, change the way we predict the weather. They’re cheaper, faster to develop, and easier to update than their bigger and more sophisticated counterparts. But for all the revolution and disruption, they tend to keep their focus close, and largely cast their eyes down. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:12

The Amphiphilic Liquid Coating That Keeps Your...

Science, Spoken ·

2018/06/21

Consider the rotten strawberry. Sitting there in your fridge, it suffers a cascading trifecta of maladies: For one, it dehydrates. Two, oxygen seeps in. And three, with the berry thus weakened, mold invades. Eventually, the strawberry turns to goop, a messy reminder of our own mortality. Rotting produce is an inevitability—I for one wouldn’t trust fruit that lasts forever—but that doesn’t mean we have to give in to the forces of decay so quickly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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6:40

China Won’t Solve the World’s Plastics Problem Any More

Science, Spoken ·

2018/06/21

For a long time, China has been a dumping ground for the world’s problematic plastics. In the 1990s, Chinese markets saw that discarded plastic could be profitably recreated into exportable bits and bobs—and it was less expensive for international cities to send their waste to China than to deal with it themselves. China got cheap plastic and the exporting countries go rid of their trash. But in November 2017, China said enough. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:02

Trump Hasn't Signed a Space Force Into Being—Yet

Science, Spoken ·

2018/06/20

After months of teasing a new military arm devoted to extra-stratospheric security, President Donald Trump publicly ordered the Department of Defense and the Pentagon to immediately begin establishing a Space Force as the sixth branch of the armed forces on Monday. Well, maybe. The president’s statement was not accompanied by any written directive or executive order calling for the creation of a new, space-based branch of the armed forces, as some outlets initially reported. Learn more about your ad

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14:38

The Collapse of a $40 Million Nutrition Science Crusade

Science, Spoken ·

2018/06/20

On Monday night Gary Taubes will board his second transatlantic flight in a week—from Zurich to Aspen—then eventually back to Oakland, where he calls home. The crusading science journalist best known for his beef with Big Sugar is beat after four days of nutrition conference glad-handing. But there’s no rest for the down and out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:39

Space Really Does Need Traffic Cops

Science, Spoken ·

2018/06/19

In the early Space Age, the people who sent up satellites could operate under what's known as "big sky" theory. Space is so vast, so spacious, that we could never possibly use it all up. History, however, has repeatedly shown that whenever we think something is too abundant for humans to deplete, we're wrong. And so it is in space, where more and more satellites and space junk threaten to crash into each other and crowd out the future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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6:19

Robots Won't Take Your Job—But They Might Make It Boring

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2018/06/19

Whether they believe robots are going to create or destroy jobs, most experts say that robots are particularly useful for handling “dirty, dangerous and dull” work. They point to jobs likeshutting down a leaky nuclear reactor,cleaning sewers ,orinspecting electronic componentsto really drive the point home. Robots don’t get offended, they are cheap to repair when they get “hurt,” and they don’t get bored. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:18

Protect My Head? Soccer Pros Shrug and Carry On

Science, Spoken ·

2018/06/18

Today, during a World Cup game between Morocco and Iran, Moroccan winger Nordin Amrabat suffered a wicked head injury when he collided with an opponent. After he went down, a team trainer tried to revive him by slapping his face—a move decried by athletes and followers online. But despite the frequency of those kinds of injuries in soccer, you won’t see many international pros wearing gear that might prevent a concussion—reinforced headbands. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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