Number of the Day - "394" This podcast is produced by Klassic Studios. Check out our other podcasts there! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Number of the Day - "393" This podcast is produced by Klassic Studios. Check out our other podcasts there! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We dive into Google's Quantum Echoes algorithm and its claim of a verifiable quantum speedup on real hardware using the Willow chip. Learn how Out-of-Time-Order Correlators map information scrambling, and how time-reversal echoes create a repeatable, benchmarkable signal. From 28-atom molecular rulers to potential breakthroughs in drug discovery and materials science, we explore what verifiable quantum advantage means for scaling, error suppression, and the path to fault-tolerant quantum comp...

Number of the Day - "392" This podcast is produced by Klassic Studios. Check out our other podcasts there! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Number of the Day - "391" This podcast is produced by Klassic Studios. Check out our other podcasts there! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why does a dropped olive sprint to the far corner? This episode breaks down the physics of everyday food escapes. We'll cover how rotational energy from the drop turns into sideways motion, how shape creates ramps and pivots (the lever and spoon effects), why some items bounce on dry surfaces while slick surfaces make them hydroplane, and how floor texture reshapes energy transfer. With accessible explanations and thought experiments, we reveal the hidden dynamics behind the chaos of a fallen...

Number of the Day - "390" This podcast is produced by Klassic Studios. Check out our other podcasts there! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nalini Joshi, entre équations et équité

Number of the Day - "389" This podcast is produced by Klassic Studios. Check out our other podcasts there! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Number of the Day - "388"This podcast is produced by Klassic Studios. Check out our other podcasts there! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Discover how the humble acetate ion acts as a master builder in metal coordination chemistry—bridging two metals with mu-2 bonds to form lantern-like cages. We trace the bridging motifs that yield the Mo2(O2CCH3)4 dimer and its unprecedented quadruple metal–metal bond, then connect to practical copper(II) and iron acetates used in pigments, mordants, and industry. From a pivotal 1960 discovery to modern materials, learn how a tiny anion shapes big chemistry and bright possibilities. Note: Thi...

Number of the Day - "387" This podcast is produced by Klassic Studios. Check out our other podcasts there! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this Deep Dive episode, we explore the undeciphered Indus script of the Harappan civilization. With thousands of inscribed seals and texts—often just five signs long—and no bilingual Rosetta Stone, the question remains: is it a genuine language or a symbolic system? We dissect the leading theories—from Dravidian-linked linguistics to skeptics who see non-linguistic proto-writing—and weigh the evidence from sign inventories, direction of writing, and recent computational analyses. Join us a...

Number of the Day - "386" This podcast is produced by Klassic Studios. Check out our other podcasts there! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Number of the Day - "385" This podcast is produced by Klassic Studios. Check out our other podcasts there! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Number of the Day - "384" This podcast is produced by Klassic Studios. Check out our other podcasts there! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From Guido of Arezzo’s 11th‑century Ut Queant Laxis hymn to the later shift Ut→Do and the addition of the seventh tone Si, this episode traces how Western solmization took shape. We compare the two main systems in use today—movable do (tonic solfa) and fixed do (do as C)—and explain how each handles sharps and flats, absolute vs. relative pitch, and transposition. Along the way we touch on earlier four‑syllable medieval schemes, cultural echoes in Shakespeare, and how these mnemonic routes he...

Number of the Day - "383" This podcast is produced by Klassic Studios. Check out our other podcasts there! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We explore how the Navier–Stokes equations extend Newton’s laws to viscous fluids, why nonlinear convective terms spawn turbulence, and the stubborn 3D math question at their core: do smooth solutions always exist or can they blow up? From airplanes and weather to blood flow, these equations underpin real-world physics and engineering—yet a million-dollar prize hinges on proving existence and smoothness (or finding a counterexample). A rigorous, accessible dive into one of mathematics’ most e...

In this quick Deep Dive, we explore why the trefoil is the gateway knot in math: what nontrivial means, how tricolorability proves it’s truly knotted, and why its chirality matters. We also peek at where this elegant three-crossing shape appears in art, symbolism, and biology—from Celtic knots to DNA and protein folding. Note: This podcast was AI-generated, and sometimes AI can make mistakes. Please double-check any critical information. Sponsored by Embersilk LLC