Derek Abbott is a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Adelaide in Australia who, along with genetic researcher Colleen Fitzpatrick, finally solved the mystery of the Somerton Man, an unidentified man found dead on a beach in Australia in 1948. He joins me to talk...
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In today’s Lightning Round video, I answer questions about replacing the SLS with Starship, splashless urinals, holiday traditions and, yes, how scientists used Google’s Sycamore quantum computer to create a wormhole and prove a controversial theory about black holes that...
Our climate is constantly changing. And right now, we’re what’s changing it. What if we could find a way to stabilize it to ensure our survival long-term? What if we could create a thermostat for planet Earth? Here’s what that might look like. TRANSCRIPT: Throughout the...
I posted a meme that was received with… more passion than I expected. So here’s my hot take on why Americans use Fahrenheit. It’s really nothing personal.
The Nobel Prize for Physics in 2022 made for some pretty big headlines because it acknowledged that the universe is not “locally real.” But that phrase doesn’t necessarily mean what a lot of people think it does. Here’s what it actually means, and why it is worthy of the biggest prize in...