A fun-filled discussion of the big, mind-blowing, unanswered questions about the Universe. In each episode, Daniel Whiteson (a Physicist who works at CERN) and Jorge Cham (a popular online cartoonist) discuss some of the simple but profound questions that people have been wondering about for thousands of years, explaining the science in a fun, shorts-wearing and jargon-free way.
Daniel talks to Prof. Aomawa Shields, auther of "Life on Other Planets" about the the climate of exoplanets and her unusual path to astronomy.
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Daniel and Jorge talk about how tidal forces shape the Earth itself and the life on it.
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Daniel and Jorge talk about creative ways to explain the accelerating expansion of the Universe.
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Daniel and Jorge get the chills when they discover how little we know about water.
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Daniel and Jorge answer questions about reviving old theories, building tall mountains, and passing time.
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Daniel and Jorge talk about whether the moon is positive, negative or neutral!
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Daniel and Jorge talk about whether two planets could share an orbit around a star, or whether there would be too much gravitational squabbling.
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Daniel and Jorge talk about the weird, wacky shapes of galaxies and the cosmic story they tell.
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Daniel and Jorge talk about whether there are two or one kind of mass and the massive consequences.
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Daniel and Jorge talk about how instabilities in the early solar system may have ejected an ancient ice giant.
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Daniel and Jorge discuss how dark matter shapes our Universe and whether it would be possible to have a galaxy without it.
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Daniel and Jorge explore whether basic rules of our Universe are broken at the quantum scale.
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Daniel and Jorge venture to the edge of human knowledge about black holes, gravity and magnetic fields.
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Daniel and Jorge talk about alien arrival, as depicted on the show "Invasion" and Daniel talks to two of the writers, Tatiana Suarez Pico and Aditi Brennan Kapil about writing science fiction.
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Daniel talkes to Prof. James Poskett about how the history of science has much more nuance and global participation than the standard mythology.
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Daniel and Kelly chat with Ned Beauman, author of "Venemous Lumpsucker" a cautionary tale about applying free market strategies to preventing extinction.
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Daniel and Jorge wrestle with one of the fuzziest concepts in quantum mechanics
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Daniel and Jorge take you back to the early Universe and the sound bubbles that seeded everything.
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Daniel talks to Kelly and Zach Weinersmith about whether humanity is ready to move into the stars.
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Daniel and Jorge dig into the history of matter, dark matter and dark energy, explaining how they used to have very different ratios.
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