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Episode 534: The Manhattan Project Part II - A Numbers Game

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The Miracle of Neil's Bohr

Bohr's brain was for thinking, not for doing stuff. He just had too big of a head and not to be found. The Swedes knew that if Bohr stayed in Stockholm, he'd either be captured or killed by Nazis before the week was out. So they arranged for Bohr to be sent to England via a stripped down fighter plane called a mosquito. But because Bohr didn't listen, he didn't know that when the mosquito reached altitude, he was supposed to use an oxygen mask. Therefore in mid-babble while they were going up in the air, Bohr very suddenly passed out. And the British crew thought they'd accidentally killed one of the

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