Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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Scientists Daniel and Kelly cannot stop talking about our amazing, wonderful, weird Universe! Each episode is a fun, easy-to-understand, and in-depth explanation of topics in science, from particles to black holes to moon colonies to ecosystems to parasites and everything else in the Universe!
Episodes
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Oct 18, 2022 • 52min
What's up with Iapetus?
Daniel and Jorge dissect the history of this mysterious solar system object. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Oct 13, 2022 • 59min
Can you communicate with neutrinos?
Daniel and Katie talk about how to detect information carried by the ghostly neutrino, and how to send neutr-emails.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Oct 11, 2022 • 58min
The Science of "The Spare Man"
Daniel and Kelly talk with Mary Robinette Kowal about the science of murder in space in her new book "The Spare Man" See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Oct 6, 2022 • 57min
What's it like to be an alien?
Daniel talks to Dr. Arik Kershenbaum about what alien animals might be like, how they might sense and communicate. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Oct 4, 2022 • 1h 1min
Listener Questions 32: Particles, particles, particles!
Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you, all about the particles around us.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sep 29, 2022 • 55min
Why does physics even work?
Daniel talks to Prof. Tim O'Connor about why the craziness of the world around us seems to resolve into things we can understand.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sep 27, 2022 • 51min
What is negative temperature?
Daniel and Jorge talk about hot and cold coffee, weather and desserts and wrestle with whether things can be colder than zero!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sep 22, 2022 • 60min
Is math the language of the Universe?
Daniel talks to Prof. Mark Colyvan, philosopher of mathematics, about whether math is something we invented or discovered. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sep 20, 2022 • 52min
What are quantum glasses?
Daniel and Jorge talk about finding order among the messiness of the Universe, and the strange frustration of quantum spin glasses. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sep 15, 2022 • 51min
What will the Lucy mission teach us?
Daniel and Kelly walk through the trajectory of the Lucy mission and talk about what it might teach us about our origins. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
