Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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!
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Listener Questions #37
Daniel and Kelly explain how cells in a fetus or in an adult know what they're supposed to do, and discuss whether opposable thumbs are necessary for...
Story of Birds (featuring Dr. Steve Brusatte)
Daniel and Kelly talk to Dr. Steve Brusatte about his new book "The Story of Birds". We discuss if chickens are really dinosaurs, if we know what colo...
Will AI solve physics?
Daniel and Kelly explain the role of AI in physics and speculate about its future impact on discoveries and curiosity.
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Listener Questions #36
Daniel and Kelly answer questions about Odderon particles, Langerhans cells, and black holes within black holes.
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Biofilms (featuring Dr. Katrine Whiteson)
Daniel, Kelly, and Katrine talk about biofilms, and how they can be delicious, adorable, and bad. For the bad ones, we discuss current tactics for ove...
Does science fiction inspire real tech?
Daniel and Kelly discuss whether ideas from science fiction have inspired real scientific or technological progress.
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Listener Questions #35: Genetics (featuring Dr. Benjamin de Bivort)
Daniel and Kelly answer questions about innate behaviors and what it means to "decode" a genome with help from Dr. Benjamin de Bivort.
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Snakes vs Octopi (featuring Dr. Matt Giorgianni)
If a rattlesake bit an octopus, would its venom have any effect? Daniel and Kelly bring venom expert Dr. Matt Giorgianni on to the show to answer this...
Does consciousness come from quantum processes in the brain?
Daniel and Kelly explore Penrose's Orchestrated Objective Reduction Theory that aims to explain consciousness, quantum measurements, quantum gravity a...
Listener Questions #34
Daniel and Kelly answer listener questions about what creates the morning fog, why bats don't get dizzy, and the cauchy horizon.
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Introducing: Mostly Human with Laurie Segall
Mostly Human is a weekly podcast that explores technology through the most important lens: the human one. Hosted by award-winning tech journalist Laur...
How cholera kills you and how we kill it
Daniel and Kelly talk about what Vibrio cholerae does to your body, and the methods we have to combat it. They also talk about some of the really bad...
To swill or to smell: How John Snow determined the cause of cholera
Daniel and Kelly dive into the history of medicine, and discuss the data John Snow collected to argue that cholera is transmitted through contaminated...
Listener Questions #33
Daniel and Kelly answer questions about tongue worms, units, and Kelly's nightmares.
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Do we live in a super bubble?
Daniel and Kelly explore the structure of the space between solar systems and reveal our cosmic context.
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Is Cold Fusion impossible?
Daniel and Kelly talk about the challenges of hot fusion and the frustrated potential of cold fusion. And Keanu Reeves.
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Listener Questions #32
Daniel and Kelly answer questions about the expanding universe, how sleep aids impact sleep quality, and what characteristics might make aliens better...
Becoming Martian (featuring Dr. Scott Solomon)
Daniel and Kelly welcome Dr. Scott Solomon back on the show to talk about his new book Becoming Martian: How Living in Space Will Change our Bodies an...
Musk on the Moon
Daniel and Kelly discuss Elon Musk's recent announcement that SpaceX has shifted focus from a self-sustaining settlement on Mars to a self-growing cit...
Listener Questions #31
Daniel and Kelly answer questions about how it can both be true that humans share 98.7% of their DNA with bonobos and that fraternal twins share 50% o...
Which planet has the most moons?
Daniel and Kelly revel in the amazing multiplicity of moons in our solar system and what they reveal about our cosmic history.
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Why do animals cooperate?
Daniel and Kelly talk about the evolution of cooperation, and why humans struggle so much with isolation.
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Listener Questions #30
Daniel and Kelly answer questions about sentience, chicken eggs, and the early Universe!
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Why does the Universe minimize action?
Daniel and Kelly dive into one of the most important but mysterious principles of physics: least action.
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Rabies
Daniel and Kelly talk about rabies, which results in very few deaths in the United States but is a neglected tropical disease - taking approximately 6...
Bonus Episode: History Daily - The First Reported Case of the Spanish Flu
Here’s an episode of a show we think you’ll love. It’s History Daily which tells the fascinating stories of what happened “on this day” in history. Ne...
Listener Questions #29
Daniel and Kelly answer questions about bark beetles, ambipolar fields, and gray hairs!
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Can cosmic rays corrupt computers?
Daniel and Kelly talk about how computers store information, and how cosmic rays might flip some vital bits.
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What is interspecific brood parasitism?
Daniel and Kelly talk about interspecific brood parasites - which are species that sneak their eggs into the nests of other, unsuspecting species. How...
Listener Questions #28
Daniel and Kelly answer questions about black holes, duplicate organs and bubble Universes!
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How fast are we moving?
Daniel and Kelly slow down to understand what velocity really means, and how much we have of it.
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Can quantum measurements change the past?
Daniel and Kelly talk about the problem of time in quantum mechanics and how the past might depend on the future.
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Listener Questions #27
Daniel and Kelly answer questions about birthing multiple species, mental imagery, and face mites!
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What can we learn by smashing muons together?
Daniel and Kelly talk about why particle physicists are excited about a muon collider.
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Zombie fish
Daniel and Kelly talk about a brain-infecting parasite of California Killifish, and discuss how the parasite might be altering the fish's behavior to...
The several styles of singularities
Daniel and Kelly take a tour through the various singularities that are predicted by general relativity.
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Listener Questions #26
Daniel and Kelly answer questions about tornadoes, water purification, and massive moons in the sky.
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Perimenopause
Daniel, Kelly, and Katrine discuss what happens during menopause, why evolutionary biologists think menopause occurs, and our current knowledge of the...
What's the densest thing in the Universe that's not a black hole?
Daniel and Kelly dive into the hearts of blue giants, massive planets, and neutron stars to reveal a surprising limit on cosmic density.
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Listener Questions #25
Daniel and Kelly answer questions about kissing bugs, magnetic fields in the Sun, and microbiomes in space.
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