Podcast Transcript In July of every year, over the course of three weeks, the world’s best road cyclists assemble in France to compete in the world’s premier bicycling race: the Tour de France. The competition is one of the most grueling in all sports and cyclists often have to endure levels of pain and exhaustion …
Podcast Transcript Ever since astronomers figured out that the stars in the sky are just like our sun, they began wondering if those stars had planets just like our sun. For centuries this remained an unanswerable question. Telescopes and techniques weren’t advanced enough to get an answer one way or another. Eventually, however, astronomers developed …
Podcast Transcript On July 1, 2020, I published the very first episode of this podcast. Since then, it has been quite a journey. Some of you have been along for the entire ride, some of you found me along the way, and some of you are brand new. I’ve done some special episodes in the …
Podcast Transcript It has been said that they are a girl’s best friend, they are forever, and that they are the hardest substance in the world. In nature, they are created deep beneath the Earth at extreme temperatures and pressures, yet in the laboratory, they can be created in a near vacuum. For all practical …
Podcast Transcript Located approximately 560 miles or 900 kilometers off the coast of Ecuador lies a chain of islands that are like no other in the world. These islands have been instrumental to our understanding of both biology and geology, and remain a place of intense scientific study today. In addition to scientists, it draws …
Podcast Transcript In the year 330, the Roman Emperor Constantine decided that the capital of the entire Roman empire should be moved. The location he selected was a small Greek town by the name of Byzantium located in the middle of the Bhosperous Straits approximately 500 miles or 800 kilometers from Rome. From there it …
Podcast Transcript At the end of the second world war, the allies indited 24 top, surviving Nazi leaders, and put them on trial in Nuremberg, Germany. With these high-ranking Nazi officials incarcerated, psychologists saw a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to study the men responsible for some of the most heinous crimes in human history. What made them …
Podcast Transcript Wherever you happen to be listening to this show, at some level beneath your feet the rocks in the Earth reach a temperature hot enough to boil water and create steam. With steam, you can turn a turbine and create electricity. If everywhere on Earth is just a few kilometers away from tapping …
Podcast Transcript Located on the far right side of the periodic table are the Noble Gases. These elements, six of which can be found in nature, are unlike any other elements. They don’t play well with the other elements and are pretty content to be by themselves. Nonetheless, they have found a unique place in …