The Skeptic Zone Podcast
Everything in the Universe
Description: The San Francisco Bay Area's skeptical organization since 1982
Hello Mothers and the sons and daughters of Mothers, I hope everyone is having an excellent Mother’s day. Did you get up early and make a fine cup of Kopi Luwak for the mom of the house? Let’s be honest here. None of us would be here without mothers or science. I like to think we celebrate scie admin's Blog Add new comment Read More SciSchmoozing to Infinity Submitted by admin Mon, 08-05-2023 : 03:02 Solar panel production in Dalton, Georgia [Photo: Elijah Nouvelage/Bloomberg] Dear science aficionado,
Join us in another romp through recent (and not so recent) science revelations. But first, “Infinity.” Somehow i missed the Netflix movie, “ A Trip to Infinity ,” when it came out last year. Carve out 80 minutes this week to watch it. You won’t be sorry. The movie reminded me of a book i ‘absorbed’ during my senior year in high school: “One Two Three ... Infinity” by George Gamow. In 1956 Gamow was awarded the UNESCO Kalinga Prize for popularizing science. Neil deGrasse Tyson, Sean Carroll, and Steven Pink
Learned geophysicists years ago concluded that Mars has a hot liquid inner core, unlike Earth with its hot solid inner core. They calculated that Mars’ gravitational pressure is insufficient to make molten iron solid, as is the case with our home planet. But there’s nothing like good data: the seismometers on NASA’s Insight mission clinched that theory using
The Skeptic Zone Podcast
Everything in the Universe