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Science, Spoken

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6:23

Here’s How Much That Lego Brick You Stepped on Is Worth

Science, Spoken ·

2016/12/22

This post is Chad Orzel's fault. It started with this tweet: Hey, @rjallain , is this consistent with your regression analysis of the Lego brick cost a while back? pic.twitter.com/RaTcP07xI1 — Chad Orzel (@orzelc) December 13, 2016 Yes, it's true that I have pondered the price of Lego bricks before, by looking up the cost and number of pieces in various sets. Here is the data, and a link to my original analysis. I arrived at a price of about 10.4 cents per piece. Learn more about your ad choices

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7:32

Why Do Dogs Love Yoga Mats So Much?

Science, Spoken ·

2016/12/21

You unfurl your yoga mat at home, ready to stretch out into downward dog and take some deep breaths. Just for a second, you look away to grab your water bottle and block. But when you turn around, you find that your pup has already staked her territory on your mat, doing some stretches of her own. If you’re an asana-ing dog person, you’ve probably already figured out a way to tap into your canine’s weird yoga mat affinity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:41

Civil War Turns Syria’s Doctors Into Masters of...

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2016/12/20

Basil Al-Reabi was riding home from school in southern Syria, in the fall of 2014, when a roadside bomb struck. The eight-year-old watched as shrapnel shredded his classmates and reduced them to a collection of body parts. As the remnants of the minibus bounced, rolled, and finally came to rest at the foot of a low embankment, three of his limbs were scythed off, his cheeks peppered with shards of blue vehicle paint. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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11:57

Thousands of Invisible Oil Spills Are Destroying The...

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2016/12/19

Hurricane Ivan would not die. After traveling across the Atlantic Ocean, it stewed for more than a week in the Caribbean, fluctuating between a Category 3 and 5 storm while battering Jamaica, Cuba, and other vulnerable islands. And as it approached the US Gulf Coast, it stirred up a massive mud slide on the sea floor. The mudslide created leaks in 25 undersea oil wells, snarled the pipelines leading from the wells to a nearby oil platform, and brought the platform down on top of all of it. Learn

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3:43

A Swarm of Earthquakes Shakes Mount St. Helens

Science, Spoken ·

2016/12/15

Let's look at some volcanic rumblings and eruptions from the last week: Washington Mount St. Helens is keeping up its unsettled 2016, this time with another small earthquake swarm. The USGS detected over 120 earthquakes over the last few days, all occurring 2-4 kilometers (1-2 miles) beneath the volcano and all very small (less than M1). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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14:48

Inside the Hunt for a Ghost Particle

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2016/12/14

Even for a particle physicist, Janet Conrad thinks small. Early in her career, when her peers were fanning out in search of the top quark, now known to be the heaviest elementary particle, she broke ranks to seek out the neutrino, the lightest. In part, she did this to avoid working as part of a large collaboration, demonstrating an independent streak shared by the particles she studies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:00

John Glenn, First US Astronaut to Orbit Earth, Has...

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2016/12/13

John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth and, later, the oldest human to leave the planet, died on December 8, 2016. He was 95 years old. In 1962, Glenn became the face of American technological triumph. NASA rocketed him upward in a vessel that looked more like a spotlight bulb than a space capsule, not sure that he would make it back. But they knew they had to try, and that this was the time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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4:49

SpaceX Says It’s Ready for Liftoff Again. The FAA...

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2016/12/12

Today, SpaceX announced it expects to begin launching again in early January—just four months after one of its Falcon 9 rockets burst into flames on a Florida launchpad. But the private space company helmed by Elon Musk is still missing one important thing before it leaves Earth: a license from the Federal Aviation Administration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:54

NASA’s Power Supply Mistake on the ISS Was Totally...

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2016/12/09

The International Space Station is currently home to six intrepid astronauts, one Robonaut, and four 14,000-pound payload-holders called ExPRESS Logistics Carriers. Experiments from Earth like the laser-communicator OPALS fly up to Station and Lego-attach to these carriers, which provide them with a place to stay and, just as importantly, the electrical power and data links they need to do their jobs. But since 2013, scientists sending up payloads have had trouble with the on-orbit utility

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10:28

Trump’s Chief Strategist Steve Bannon Ran a Massive...

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2016/12/08

Before Steve Bannon was Donald Trump’s campaign advisor, a right-wing media mogul, or a conservative Hollywood documentarian, he helped a group of climate scientists steer a controversial experiment in the Arizona desert back from financial chaos. Twenty-five years ago, a New Agey-experiment called Biosphere 2 set out to recreate life on another planet with eight people locked in a giant glass habitat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:19

Magnets Aren’t Miracles, But Solar Flares Burst With...

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2016/12/07

Magnets aren’t miracles, but neither are they a phenomenon that physicists completely understand. Particularly big magnets, like the sun. Until recently, the annals of research failed to completely explain how massive currents blooming on the sun’s surface burst into solar flares, releasing incredible volumes of energy in short time frames. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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4:15

Dozens of Earthquakes Rattle a Chilean Volcano,...

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2016/12/06

Last night, the ONEMI (Oficina Nacional de Emergencias) and SERNGEOMIN (Chilean Geological Survey) in Chile raised the alert status for the area around Cerro Hudson in the southern Andes. Normally, raising the alert status like this is due to an acute change, when the behavior of the volcano shifts suddenly. However, this time, the elevation to Yellow alert status at Cerro Hudson is due to accumulated events over the past month. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:16

New Zealand, the Kardashians, and the Battle to...

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2016/12/05

Kourtney Kardashian hawks its health benefits. Counterfeiters and chemists labor to unlock its molecular secrets. And now it's at the center of an international branding war. It's honey, but not just any honey. It's ManÅ«ka honey, a sweet extravagance from New Zealand that sells for a sticky $2.50 an ounce—six times the cost of conventional honey—and has attracted a slew of famous fans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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15:57

How Humans Can Force the Machines to Play Fair

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2016/12/02

Theoretical computer science can be as remote and abstract as pure mathematics, but new research often begins in response to concrete, real-world problems. Such is the case with the work of Cynthia Dwork. Over the course of a distinguished career, Dwork has crafted rigorous solutions to dilemmas that crop up at the messy interface between computing power and human activity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:48

No, Gotham, That’s Not How Tightropes Work

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2016/12/01

I'll be honest. I don't really watchGotham, but it looks interesting. It chroniclesthe events in Batman's city before he became Batman. That's about all I know. However, when I saw a recent commercial for an upcoming episode, I had to do something. I'm not sure what's going on here, but from my research this appears to be Selina Kyle and Bruce Wayne doingsomething with a tightrope. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:03

Blood Diseases Could Show Crispr’s Potential as Therapy

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2016/11/30

You know you’ve struck marketing gold when a brand becomes a so-called “proprietary eponym.” Need to blow your nose? Grab a Kleenex. Track some sand from the beach onto your floor? Hoover it up. In biology, Crispr is the proprietary eponym of the moment. The gene-editing technique is so inexpensive and easy to use that, in just four years, it’s become a ubiquitous tool in labs across the world. And soon, it could jump from bench-top workhorse to human therapeutic. Learn more about your ad choices

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4:14

Why Japan’s 6.9 Quake Wasn’t 2011 All Over Again

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2016/11/29

Sequels rarely live up to the original. And thank goodness for that. Yesterday, a 6.9 earthquake shook the coast of Japan almost exactly where a 9.1 quake hit nearly 6 years ago. Japan is fortified against quakes and tsunamis. But the 2011 quake was so powerful it generated 30 to 60-foot tsunamis, overtopping the island nation's extensive sea walls and shore protections, killing over 15,000, leaving 228,000 homeless, and causing a meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Learn more about

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4:36

Nobody Knows Where This Big Raft of Pumice Came From

Science, Spoken ·

2016/11/28

Last week, a Royal New Zealand Air Force flight spotted a new pumice raft in the middle of the Pacific ocean to the west of Tonga. Pumice rafts are floating islands of pumice created during a submarine volcanic eruption and they can persist for months or longer. This raft was seen by aircraft and satellite in an area with no known volcanoes. However, from the looks of the raft, it might be a long way from home. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:34

Record Temperatures Are Robbing the Arctic Of Its Winter

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2016/11/25

November started out pretty normal for the Arctic. The sun had set for the season, temperatures were dropping, ice was growing rapidly. Winter was coming, right on schedule. And then, a few days ago, everything came screeching to a halt. Ice stopped forming. And then it actually started to melt, thanks to a sudden heat wave that blistered the region with temperatures 20 to 30 degrees Fahrenheit above average. For now, the mass of warm air doesn't appear to be going anywhere. Learn more about your ad

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9:12

The Physics of Throwing a Starship Off a Cliff to...

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2016/11/24

I want to analyze a scene from Star Trek Beyondbut don't want to spoil the movie. Let me set things upin the most generic way possible. If you are very allergic to spoilers, maybe you should just move along tothis nice post about radioactive bananas. You have been warned. Here is the scene: Some people have found an old starship at the top of a cliff. They want toget itflying andleave the planet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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