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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. Produced by iHeart. http://www.danielandkelly.org/
Why don't species like frogs and geckos that hang upside down get dizzy? I believe dizziness is a combo of blood rushing to head & disturbance of vestibular system. I'm seeing websites saying that, e.g., bats have valves in their arteries and veins that help them sleep upside down at night - but ½
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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 and Minds.
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Announcing the Becoming Martian Book Tour!
More details at solomon.rice.edu/writing/
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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 city on the Moon.
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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% of their DNA, why black holes don't have color charges, and whether or not you could treat a fever or let it ride.
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A new episode is up! 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!
A nice summary of the state of the art in indirect detection of cosmic background neutrinos by @startswithabang.bsky.social (bigthink.com/starts-with-...), a useful supplement to a recent discussion on @dandkuniverse.bsky.social
In my SF story “Didicosm” the protagonist used indirect neutrino …
Daniel and Kelly talk about the evolution of cooperation, and why humans struggle so much with isolation. Plus, a bonus appearance by @nathanlents.bsky.social !
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Listener Questions #30 is up! Daniel and Kelly answer questions about sentience, chicken eggs, and the early Universe.
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No way! Very cool. Do you have a link where I can learn more?
@zachweinersmith.bsky.social & I are super excited that A City on Mars has been nominated for the Smart Book of the Year 2025 Award, a competition for the best popular science book in Poland! Organized by the Smart Books website & the Jagiellonian University & part of the Copernicus Festival.
Daniel and Kelly dive into one of the most important but mysterious principles of physics: least action.
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That's a good thing to have going for you!
Daniel and Kelly talk about rabies, which results in very few deaths in the United States but is a neglected tropical disease - taking approximately 60,000 lives globally each year.
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Daniel and Kelly answer questions about bark beetles, ambipolar fields, and gray hairs!
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If you've ever wondered what it's like to be married to a research biologist, here's what popped up when I was looking out our family schedule/chore list
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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Thanks to Kelly Weinersmith @weinersmith.bsky.social for this very generous endorsement of my new book!
🚀 on 2.17.26 and available now for pre-order! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205151...
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Ha! Very cute.
Lots more great cuckoo & host egg images on Google Image, but some of them are behind paywalls or are copyrighted - and I'm never sure what's OK to share on the podcast page. ::sigh::
Also - here is a great video about the cuckoo catfish: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnvb...
Image shows a much larger cuckoo finch chick next to a smaller tawny-flanked prinia chick on the left. The photo was taken by Claire Spottiswood, and the image is a screenshot from the Smithsonian Magazine website - which has more cuckoo-related images.
Daniel & Kelly talk about interspecific brood parasites - species that sneak their eggs into the nests of other, unsuspecting species.
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This Smithsonian Magazine article has great photos (including egg photos Kelly mentioned): www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...
Listener Questions #28 is up!
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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Thank you for engaging with us and helping us understand this topic!
Thanks for the nice "shout-outs" in the second half! And even more thanks for working up to a wonderfully clear account of how entanglement might be explained by a retrocausal hidden variable model, Bell's theorem notwithstanding.
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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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Thanks, Victoria!! :)