195 - The Danger of the Northern Lights

On today’s episode: What happens when mice eat a ketogenic diet mostly consisting of Crisco? What causes the northern lights? And why does everyone keep talking about how much damage they can do? All that and more today on All Around Science...

RESOURCES

• How do you pronounce “hockey”? US players say it with “fake Canadian” accent. | Ars Technica
• https://theconversation.com/solar-storm-knocks-out-farmers-high-tech-tractors-an-electrical-engineer-explains-how-a-larger-storm-could-take-down-the-power-grid-and-the-internet-177982
• https://www.space.com/aurora-colors-explained
• https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/noaa-scales-explanation
• https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/images/NOAAscales.pdf
• https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en/help/the-kp-index.html
• https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/13/us/solar-storm-tractor-break-nebraska.html
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_2024_solar_storms
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miyake_event
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event

CREDITS:

Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong

Booking - September McCrady 

THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen

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