Month: August 2020
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Episode 313: Digital Public Square
This episode contains: We start out the episode talking about the California Wildfires and how they are effecting our lives. Then, a bet is settled. You Have Got to be Kidding Me: An anti-vaccine group sues Facebook, claims fact-checking is “censorship.” We dig into this issue, from a legal standpoint and from a logical standpoint.…
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Episode 312: Thematically On-Brand
This episode contains: We start off by talking about the weather and how it’s melting us. We then transition to distance learning and what we’re doing with our kids. News: Steven does a small article about fungus from Chernobyl which eats nuclear radiation via radiosynthesis. https://www.technologynetworks.com/applied-sciences/videos/chernobyl-fungus-eats-nuclear-radiation-via-radiosynthesis-338464 This Week in Space: Mystery solved: Bright areas on…
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Episode 311: Non-Chaotic SMILES
This episode contains: We get this episode rolling with some talk about our sick pets. Don’t worry all is well, except our carpets. The Future is so Bright, You have to Wear SPF 300: Chemists have created the brightest-ever fluorescent materials. Chemists formulated positively charged fluorescent dyes into a new class of materials called small-molecule…
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Episode 310: 7 Minutes of Terror
This episode contains: Devon is back for this episode, we try to talk about what we’ve been up to but it’s all too depressing. On to the science! This Week In Space: Mars Perseverance Rover Mission to Red Planet successfully launched. We talk about the recent Mars 2020 mission, what it is bringing to the…