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After her house lands on a witch somewhere over the rainbow, young Dorothy must walk the yellow brick road in her ruby slippers to the emerald city. Once there, she will turn away her blues by clicking her heels together and chanting "there's no place like home!" But how do these colors come into existence? That's the subject for learning in this episode of Reference Frames!

Topics of Discussion

• Happy birthday?
• Andor AND Rings of Power (shocking)
• Dorothy's trip to Oz
• Colors!
• Will's a big fan of these charts
• Rods and cones!
• The color's Dorothy didn't see...
• Brown.
• Purple Earth?
• We get Mythbustersy and bust a myth!

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Everyone knows the famous horns of Strauss's Also sprach Zarathustra thanks, primarily, to its presence in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. When used, the viewer is witnessing the advancement of technology -- from bone tools to satellites seemingly floating above the big blue ball called Earth. But Kubrick's vision of the future wasn't unfounded. The ships, floating effortlessly and motionless above Earth, are simply in orbit -- a physics principle that kept the astronauts of Apollo 8 from crashing into the moon, keeps the moon from crashing into the Earth,  and keeps Earth from crashing into the Sun. But how? That's what we dive into today!

Topics Include

• It's fall, y'all!
• Third consecutive episode mentioning Rings of Power
• Bone tools, the invention of beat-downs, and imagery of satellites
• Orbits: just falling too fast (or not fast enough, depending on your perspective)
• Cannonballs and thought experiments
• Will's soon-to-be famous geography tirade
• Shutter Shades, LMFAO, and privacy screens for your computer

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After being caught in Ithilien, Sam and Frodo are blindfolded and taken to the hidden refuge of Henneth Annûn to be questioned by Captain Faramir. Upon removing the blindfolds, Sam and Frodo are dazzled by a plethora of chromatics cascading from the The Window of Sunset. Will and Ian dive deep into the wondrous world of scattering sunlight and the beautiful colors contained within.

Video on why light slows down in water
Video on why light changes its direction of travel in water

Topics Include

• Will's excitement for the new Lord of the Rings show
• Ian's excitement to annoy his coworkers
• A vocal fold correction!
• A hidden refuge and a rainbow of light
• The Pink Floyd Effect
• Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• Rainbows
• Twinkle twinkle little star
• String Theory and those silly physics types

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When Flick is triple dog dared to touch his tongue to the frozen flagpole in his school's courtyard, it's his honor on the line. With his friends watching, he cautiously places his tongue on the pole, before realizing (a moment too late) that the warmth of his body is not enough to keep his saliva unfrozen and separate from the pole. In this episode we learn about temperature, in particular the phenomenon of conduction!

Topics of Discussion:

• Apologies to Matt
• Discussions of Disclaimers
• An update on some movies we've seen
• Ralphie's Frozen Friends (and why Flick can't Let It Go)
• A Boy Named Flick
• Conduction!
• Wetsuits!
• The return of the Ant Man (and the physics of Pym particles)

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Following a truck hijack in New York, five criminals are arrested and brought together for questioning. The men stare into bright lights and a bright mirror. Behind the mirror, officers stand in a dark room, judging the way they read the provided lines. but why can't the criminals see the police? And why can the police see the criminals? Today on Reference Frames, we talk about one-way mirrors!

Discussion Topics

• The midsummer Reference Frames break
• Sword in the Stone vs Excalibur?
• The Usual Suspects
• Car paint!
• Mirrors!
• Windows at night
• Water on phones
• Share your knowledge with your friends (and this podcast too)

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It takes a man like Paul Rudd to pull of Ant-Man. And it takes a team of quantum powered heroes to save the day via building shrinking and Pez-dispenser-growing powers. But there's a trick about changing the scale of an object -- and that's exactly what Will and Ian explore in this episode!

Topics Include

• How great LOST is
• The lore of Toy Story
• A Star Wars fight
• Ant-Man and the Wasp and the Square-Cube Law
• Ian's failure to come up with real life examples
• Airships!
• Where do days, hours, and minutes come from?

Interesting article going into detail on Square-Cube Law with respect to movies & TV

Scientific American article on time

When Patches O'Houlihan shows up to train a raggedy group of gym rats, the first thing he does is tell them "If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball." Most people laugh at this line, but upon deeper reflection, it becomes obvious that Patches is, himself, a physics enthusiast, and is exactly right. Today we talk projectile motion and how our brains are able to rapidly process things flying through the air!

Topics Include

• Kenobi and Ian's woes watching Star Wars
• Dr. Strange and Ian's woes seeing movies
• Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
• There are no other quotes from Dodgeball
• Sports ball and projectile motion
• The terminal velocity of a cow

Subway Sandwich Airstrike:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0saOV9HJP_U?&ab_channel=Wian

Scene from the film:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peUyLXrgYZ0&ab_channel=Movieclips

Work on cow terminal velocity:

http://www.obsidianfields.com/lj/fallingcow.pdf

When Bruce Wayne dons the mask and cape to become the Batman, he not only needs to master many forensic and martial arts. His understanding of the natural world and its phenomena must be top tier! When the League of Shadows threatens Gotham, Batman knows that the microwave emitter is turning water into steam and aerosolizing a fear-toxin! Thanks to his scientific knowledge, Gotham is saved by its masked knight. Today on Reference Frames, we use the caped crusader's escapades to learn about state transitions and how they appear in the world!

Topics:
Questionably appropriate etymology
The Dweebs of Maine
Batman!
Spaghetti water
Ice cubes
Towels
Ian is a sweaty dude
Clouds
Freeser burned peas!

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Before Marty McFly is flung into the past, he is first flung into a bookshelf after blowing out a stack of guitar amplifiers. Will and Ian learn about sound and whether or not young Marty could have been launched as a result of a sick power chord.

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Topics Include

• The new lord of the rings show
• Spiders in movies = bad
• Doc's house
• Sound, of course
• Cars with sick sound systems
• Ultrasound for creation and destruction
• Acoustic Levitation
• How are instruments different?
• Opera singers!

The Nature of Music by melodysheep used under Creative Commons 3.0 -- find the whole album here

How is it that Ellen Ripley is able to glass an Alien by simply opening the airlock in a spaceship? That's what Will and Ian talk about on this episode, along with a plethora of other conversation topics.

Topics Include:

• Will's conference
• Different Network Analysis for different industries
• Ellen Ripley and the defeat of a Xenomorph
• Dolphin hands!
• Ships filled with water
• Time Turners
• Fun measurement types