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We couldn’t just let Reem go after one hour, so Ammar & Rami held her hostage for two more hours!

We delve deeper into particle physics for almost two hours. Then Reem tells us more about her fascination with kung fu.

In this episode we kick off trying to answer the question ‘what is an Arab’ and Arab identity. The discussion automagically veers to the “genie” on Twitter. Ammar then quizzes our local theoretical physicist Reem on the science behind the flux capacitor from Back To The Future. Reem then tells us about her work at CERN and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC.) Which leads to particle physics, positrons, anti-matter and a lot of other mind-numbing physical concepts that Reem did a marvelous job explaining and graciously dealt with our stupid questions and Ammar’s lame jokes.  

30% Arabic – 70% English

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In this episode we kick off trying to answer the question ‘what is an Arab’ and Arab identity. The discussion automagically veers to the “genie” on Twitter.

Ammar then quizzes our local theoretical physicist Reem on the science behind the flux capacitor from Back To The Future. Reem then tells us about her work at CERN and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC.) Which leads to particle physics, positrons, anti-matter and a lot of other mind-numbing physical concepts that Reem did a marvelous job explaining and graciously dealt with our stupid questions and Ammar’s lame jokes.

 

30% Arabic – 70% English

In this episode we kick off trying to answer the question ‘what is an Arab’ and Arab identity. The discussion automagically veers to the “genie” on Twitter.

Ammar then quizzes our local theoretical physicist Reem on the science behind the flux capacitor from Back To The Future. Reem then tells us about her work at CERN and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC.) Which leads to particle physics, positrons, anti-matter and a lot of other mind-numbing physical concepts that Reem did a marvelous job explaining and graciously dealt with our stupid questions and Ammar’s lame jokes.

 

30% Arabic – 70% English

Today’s topic generally is not viewed as a geeky topic, our challenge was to geek out on it. We talk sports. We get into a heated debate on the ‘national choice’ issue that many North African soccer players face during their careers. What makes Zidane, Benzema, Nasri et al choose France over Algeria or vice versa to represent on the international football stage? We then discuss the Arab/Saudi sports and why it is extremely difficult for athletes from the region to make it on the international stage. Show Links

1. Leicester City’s Riyad Mahrez is fast fulfilling his late father’s dreams
2. Hachim Mastour Proud To Be Moroccan
3. Saad Shadad Al-Asmari
4. Hadi Soua’an

Errata In 1994 World Cup qualifiers the Egypt-Zimbabwe match was annulled and replayed in France because of Egyptian fans violence. Had the result stood, Egypt would’ve qualified to the final rounds of the African qualifiers. The game in France ended 0-0, allowing Zimbabwe to advance. Rami mistakenly claimed that Egypt qualified to the World Cup only for the match to be awarded to Zimbabwe due to violence.  

90% Arabic – 10% English

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Today’s topic generally is not viewed as a geeky topic, our challenge was to geek out on it. We talk sports.

We get into a heated debate on the ‘national choice’ issue that many North African soccer players face during their careers. What makes Zidane, Benzema, Nasri et al choose France over Algeria or vice versa to represent on the international football stage?

We then discuss the Arab/Saudi sports and why it is extremely difficult for athletes from the region to make it on the international stage.

Show Links

* Leicester City’s Riyad Mahrez is fast fulfilling his late father’s dreams

* Hachim Mastour Proud To Be Moroccan

* Saad Shadad Al-Asmari

* Hadi Soua’an

Errata

In 1994 World Cup qualifiers the Egypt-Zimbabwe match was annulled and replayed in France because of Egyptian fans violence. Had the result stood, Egypt would’ve qualified to the final rounds of the African qualifiers. The game in France ended 0-0, allowing Zimbabwe to advance. Rami mistakenly claimed that Egypt qualified to the World Cup only for the match to be awarded to Zimbabwe due to violence.

 

90% Arabic – 10% English

Today’s topic generally is not viewed as a geeky topic, our challenge was to geek out on it. We talk sports.

We get into a heated debate on the ‘national choice’ issue that many North African soccer players face during their careers. What makes Zidane, Benzema, Nasri et al choose France over Algeria or vice versa to represent on the international football stage?

We then discuss the Arab/Saudi sports and why it is extremely difficult for athletes from the region to make it on the international stage.

Show Links

* Leicester City’s Riyad Mahrez is fast fulfilling his late father’s dreams

* Hachim Mastour Proud To Be Moroccan

* Saad Shadad Al-Asmari

* Hadi Soua’an

Errata

In 1994 World Cup qualifiers the Egypt-Zimbabwe match was annulled and replayed in France because of Egyptian fans violence. Had the result stood, Egypt would’ve qualified to the final rounds of the African qualifiers. The game in France ended 0-0, allowing Zimbabwe to advance. Rami mistakenly claimed that Egypt qualified to the World Cup only for the match to be awarded to Zimbabwe due to violence.

 

90% Arabic – 10% English

The guys start off the day by discussing dumb questions that don’t deserve answers. However, seeing dumb questions in retrospect makes Omair and Faisal think differently. Science gets explained in lay men’s terms. Even better, super hero science, human tetrachromats (see show notes), outer space, and existentialism has its 15 minutes of fame. We shed light on different techniques to watch all 6 (or 5)of the Star Wars Saga. Just in time for the release of Episode VII in December! Back to the Future’s prophetic nature is appreciated and illusions are explored as tricks your mind creates. Play-along section includes. An experiment is presented, get in touch with us about your findings! Rami wants to clarify that Omair made the joke at the end. Show Links

1. A person with extra receptors is called a tetrachromat and can see 100x the colors the average person can see. Check out the art of Concetta Antico, a discovered tetrachfomat.
2. Illusion GIF that we discussed during the show

 

20% Arabic – 80% English

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The guys start off the day by discussing dumb questions that don’t deserve answers. However, seeing dumb questions in retrospect makes Omair and Faisal think differently.

Science gets explained in lay men’s terms. Even better, super hero science, human tetrachromats (see show notes), outer space, and existentialism has its 15 minutes of fame.

We shed light on different techniques to watch all 6 (or 5)of the Star Wars Saga. Just in time for the release of Episode VII in December! Back to the Future’s prophetic nature is appreciated and illusions are explored as tricks your mind creates. Play-along section includes. An experiment is presented, get in touch with us about your findings!

Rami wants to clarify that Omair made the joke at the end.

Show Links

* A person with extra receptors is called a tetrachromat and can see 100x the colors the average person can see. Check out the art of Concetta Antico, a discovered tetrachfomat.

* Illusion GIF that we discussed during the show

 

20% Arabic – 80% English

The guys start off the day by discussing dumb questions that don’t deserve answers. However, seeing dumb questions in retrospect makes Omair and Faisal think differently.

Science gets explained in lay men’s terms. Even better, super hero science, human tetrachromats (see show notes), outer space, and existentialism has its 15 minutes of fame.

We shed light on different techniques to watch all 6 (or 5)of the Star Wars Saga. Just in time for the release of Episode VII in December! Back to the Future’s prophetic nature is appreciated and illusions are explored as tricks your mind creates. Play-along section includes. An experiment is presented, get in touch with us about your findings!

Rami wants to clarify that Omair made the joke at the end.

Show Links

* A person with extra receptors is called a tetrachromat and can see 100x the colors the average person can see. Check out the art of Concetta Antico, a discovered tetrachfomat.

* Illusion GIF that we discussed during the show

 

20% Arabic – 80% English