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Science, Spoken

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7:10

Why It’s Impossible to Predict When That Giant...

Science, Spoken ·

2017/01/20

Over the past several months, scientists working in Antarctica have been watching—with a mixture of professional fascination and personal horror—a fissure growing in the continent’s fourth-largest ice shelf. Since last November, the crack has lengthened by some 90 miles. It has 13 miles more before it rends completely, and a chunk of ice the size of Delaware goes bobbing into the Weddell Sea. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:33

Did LeBron James Flop? Here’s What Physics Says

Science, Spoken ·

2017/01/19

This is one of my jobs. When there is something that happens, I have to do an analysis-the internetneeds me. In this case, it's a hit between Draymond Green and LeBron James. Was it a hit, or did LeBron flop? I'm not the judge, I'm just going to present evidence. Collisions When an object interacts with another object (with zero external forces), this is called a collision. Here are some important physics ideas about collisions. When two objects collide, there is a force. Learn more about your ad

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9:13

The Man in the Zebra Suit Knows the Secret of the...

Science, Spoken ·

2017/01/18

At four in the morning, Tim Caro roused his colleagues. Bleary-eyed and grumbling, they followed him to the edge of the village, where the beasts were hiding. He sat them down in chairs, and after letting their eyes adjust for a minute, he asked them if they saw anything. And if so, would they please point where? Not real beasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:59

Think Exercise Is Hard? Try Training Like a Nike...

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2017/01/17

As part of WIRED’s exclusive look at Breaking2, Nike’s revolutionary attempt to break the two-hour marathon mark, our writer is using the same training regime, apparel, and expertise as Nike’s three elite athletes to try to achieve his own personal milestone: a sub-90-minute half-marathon. This is the first in a series of monthly updates on his progress. Running is a simple sport: lace ’em up, and put one foot in front of the other. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:04

Don’t You Dare Try to Teach Science Without Building...

Science, Spoken ·

2017/01/16

It's the start of a new semester, so I think now is a good time to talk about the nature of science. As a physics faculty member, I teach all sorts of classes. Some of those classes are for chemistry and physics majors and some classes are for non-science majors. Whatever class you teach, though, I think it's important to bring up a discussion of the nature of science. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:20

To Understand PTSD, Send Scientists to War

Science, Spoken ·

2017/01/13

It started with a thumb into my eye socket as he tried to gouge out my eye. When he bit into my ear, the adrenaline flooding my veins masked the pain; I would not even realize my ear was gone till after the fight. Twenty years ago, in that dimly lit alley in Kent, Washington, as I walked into a ring of teenage onlookers to face off, my heart was pounding so hard my chest hurt. My vision narrowed—I could only see faces—and I felt sick in my gut. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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9:22

Don’t Turn Earth Into Venus, Warns NASA Ex-Chief...

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2017/01/12

Unlike many of her colleagues at NASA, Ellen Stofan never wanted to be an astronaut. She saw her first rocket launch at age four. It didn’t go well. Stofan,who recently left her position as the space agency’s chief scientist, dimly recollects traveling from Ohio to Cape Canaveral to watch the fifth flight of the uncrewed Atlas-Centaur launch system, a project of her NASA engineer father‘s. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:10

Let’s Learn Some Physics Playing With Compound Pulleys

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2017/01/11

One of the most common topics covered in a high school physics class is simple machines. An I think the compound pulley is the coolest simple machine. Let's start with some basic physics. Work-Energy Principle The compound pulley, like all simple machines, uses the work-energy principle. I will skip theexplanation of energy (it's very abstract) and start with this: Don't worry about the change in energy and just look at the definition of work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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6:17

NASA’s Newest Robots Will Spy on Mysterious Lil...

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2017/01/10

NASA missions come packaged two ways. They’re either deep explorations of the familiar—STEREO’s focus on the sun, the International Space Station’s study of what microgravity does to the human body—or a trip to some crazy place no one has ever seen before. But still, any strange, distant object the agency targets will likely hold some clue about the origins of life. Humans are spacefaring narcissists that way. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:11

The Mystery of Fast Radio Bursts Only Gets More...

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2017/01/09

Billions of years ago, an unknown object sent a seriously bright burst of radio waves into space. They traveled across the universe, past galaxies and clouds of gas and who knows what else. And in 2012, the burst arrived at the Arecibo radio telescope when astronomers happened to be watching. They kept searching that same spot in the sky. In 2015, they found 16 additional flashes. Then, in August and September 2016, nine more appeared. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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6:05

California’s Huge Storm Could Cause Disastrous...

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2017/01/06

California is having a notably wet winter. Since October, a succession of weather systems has greened the Golden State’s valleys, whitened its mountains, and washed its rivers and reservoirs in rippling blue-green. The state is currently between storms. The one that just ended was cold. It dropped snow as low as 2,500 feet in California’s highlands. The successor storm, expected to hit on Saturday, will be warmer—forecasters are calling for snow levels to rise up to 9,000 feet. Learn more about your

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9:22

WIRED’s Required Science Reading From 2016

Science, Spoken ·

2017/01/05

If your resolution for the coming year is to spend less time on your commute scrolling through Twitter or playing “Puzzler on the Roof,” there’s no shortage of fantastic and fantastical new books you can use to take a break from mindless screen time. Curating this year’s new arrivals was tough, but we managed to narrow the list down to our top-ten favorites. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:24

How Long Would It Take to Scale a Mountain in a...

Science, Spoken ·

2017/01/04

It's been a long timesince I've skied. Of course, the fun is in going down the mountain, not going up. But you have to go up to get down, so what's the best way of doing that in terms of energy and power? Let's examinea few options inan excellent example of physics in action. I can't believe I just said that-it sounds like it's straight out of a middle school textbook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:10

Inside the Lab that Grows Human Skin to Test Your...

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2017/01/03

Monday is shipping day at MatTek. A truck pulls up to its red brick lab outside of Boston to load box after box, all kept at a cool 39 degrees. The precious, perishable cargo is human skin—thousands of dime-sized pieces in plastic dishes that add up, altogether, to about two whole adult humans’ worth. Every week. It’s not harvested from people, though. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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2:40

Vote for the 2016 Pliny for Volcanic Event of the Year

Science, Spoken ·

2017/01/02

2016 is coming to a close so know it's time to look back on the volcanic action of the year. Take a moment and vote for your top 3 volcanoes that you think deserve the honor of Volcanic Event of the Year - the coveted Pliny Award. If you need some refreshers, check of the Atlantic's review of some cool eruptions, browse through the Global Volcanism Program's Weekly Volcanic Activity Reports or flip back through the posts here on Eruptions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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6:27

SpaceX’s Year of Fiery Triumphs and Explosive Failure

Science, Spoken ·

2016/12/29

Maybe 2016 wasn’t your year. Buck up, at least your $60 million dollar rocket bearing a $200 million dollar payload didn’t explode on the launchpad. Or, perhaps your year was great. Again, some perspective: Did you land four rockets on ocean barges after inserting satellites into orbit around the Earth? No? Neither? Then lay off the superlatives, because SpaceX probably had both a better, and worse, 2016 than you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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17:59

The Mysterious Virus That Could Cause Obesity

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2016/12/28

Randy is 62 years old and stands tall at six foot one. He grew up on a farm in Glasford, Illinois, in the 1950s. Randy was raised with the strong discipline of a farming family. From the time he was five, he would get out of bed at dawn, and before breakfast he’d put on his boots and jeans to milk cows, lift hay, and clean the chicken coops. Day in and out, no matter the weather or how he felt, Randy did his physically demanding chores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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8:15

WIRED’s Guide to Turning Your Kids Into Masterful Makers

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2016/12/27

This should be an officially labeled time of the year. I suggest we call it Maker Time-it's that time after kids get out of school, but before all of the holiday festivities begin. This is the perfect time for kids (and adults) to make something. This is what I tell my own children (I probably heard it from someone else). Don't just be a consumer, be a creator (or the rhyming version-be a maker, not a taker). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:06

How Science Uncovered $80 Million of Fine Art Forgeries

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2016/12/26

Something was wrong with the Jackson Pollock. For one thing, 3-D images from a stereomicroscope revealed that the signature was traced with a needle—forged. And, working with a hyper-precise Raman microscope, a tool capable of analyzing sample areas as small as a thousandth of a millimeter across, Jamie Martin identified the presence of Red 170, a pigment that wasn’t widely available until decades after Pollock’s death. Yep. The painting was a fake. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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8:02

Let’s-a-Go: The Physics of Jumping in Super Mario Run

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2016/12/23

Of course I'm not the first to look at the physics in Super Mario Bros-there was this interesting paper looking at the optimal jump to get to the highest point on the flag at the end of the level. There is also a nice page looking at the acceleration of jumping Mario in the different games. Good stuff. But there's a new game out-Super Mario Run on iOS and Android. This is a great chance to take another look at the physics of Mario. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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