Strange Attractor

By Strange Attractor

An unscripted conversation between Johnny Noble and Lucy Butcher about sciencey stuff over a wine/s/s/s. And the occasional wasabi pea.

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July 08, 2016Episode 13: What if a dog didn't have ears?
What is sound?
The function of music...very cool clip (Devour)
What is sound? Explains pretty much everything Johnny was talking about (Explain That Stuff!)
A comprehensive sound wave resource, including a cool slow-motion clip on sound waves in wine glasses (University of Salford)
The nature of sound (Physics Hypertextbook)
Sound waves are 'longitudinal', like when you compress a slinky (University of Salford)
Animation of how longitudinal waves travel (i.e. sound waves) (Wikimedia Commons)
An article about synthesisers, but with some relevant sections on sound energy, wave shapes & harmonics (Explain That Stuff!)
In space, no one can hear you scream (Qualitative Reasoning Group, Northwestern University)
No sound in a vacuum, no sound in space (Physics Central)
Human ears evolved from ancient fish gills (livescience)
What evolved first, sight or hearing? This scientist tries to figure it out (Small Accidents of Evolution)
Radar & sonar (Scholastic)
Evelyn Glennie: A deaf virtuoso percussionist (Wikipedia)
Sound & light compared (GCSE, BBC)
Frequency & pitch (School of Physics, UNSW)
What is frequency? (Indiana University)
Scientists capture the sound of an atom for the first time (IFL)
Speed of sound (Wikipedia)
The speed of sound in different media (HyperPhysics, Georgia State University)
How we speak & sing...turns out there's a lot to it (School of Physics, UNSW)
Vocal sound production (Physics Hypertextbook)
Hearing range for humans vs other species (Wikipedia)
How well do dogs & other animals hear? (Louisiana State University)
The evolution of hearing (Evolution of hearing)
What are hertz? (Wikipedia)
Animation: A sine wave with varying frequency (Wikipedia)
The speed of sound appears to be just related to density...Lucy couldn't figure out if different atoms & molecules vibrate differently in this context (Explain That Stuff!)
The speed of sound in other materials (NDT Resource Center)
How do speakers work? (physics.org)
Loudspeakers (Explain That Stuff!)
Angus & Julia Stone (Wikipedia)
AC/DC (Wikipedia)
Animation: FM waves have their frequency modulated & AM waves have their amplitude modulated (Wikipedia)
Middle C has a frequency around 261.6 hertz, when using the A440 pitch standard (Wikipedia)
What is pitch? Our definition of different notes has changed over the centuries! (Encyclopaedia Britannica)
What is tone? (Encyclopaedia Britannica)
Online tone generator...take that tone with me! (Online Tone Generator)
Forced vibration & resonance (the Physics Classroom)
"The brown note is a hypothetical infrasonic frequency that would cause humans to lose control of their bowels due to resonance" (Wikipedia)
Fundamental frequency & harmonics (the Physics Classroom)
Strings, standing waves & harmonics (School of Physics, UNSW)
How does a guitar work? (School of Physics, UNSW)
What guitar strings are really doing up close (Science Alert)
How does a piano work? (Explain That Stuff!)
Clip: This is nuts! Making a real sound wave out of falling water & a speaker (Brusspup, YouTube)
Clip: Cool experiment immersing a speaker in water & making sound waves you can see (Showtime SPL, YouTube)
Clip: Inside a piano (VeryUsefulTools, YouTube)
A band where the piano player puts his arm inside the piano (Dawn of Midi)
Podcast about Dawn of Midi (Radiolab)
'Circle of fifths' podcast that Johnny mentioned (Surprisingly Awesome)
Infographic of guitar anatomy & how they work (Best Infographics)
What is a fret? (Wikipedia)
What is an octave? "The basic miracle of music" (Wikipedia)
What is an octave? (Encyclopaedia Britannica)
Western music scales (Wikipedia)
Non-Western scales (Wikipedia)
There are 12 notes in our music system, the main ones plus the sharps & flats (Zebra Keys)
Pic: Guitar fret dots (My Guitar)
Tacoma Narrows bridge that collapsed, believed to be caused by 'forced resonance' (Wikipedia)
Clip: Breaking a wine glass with sound (MIT Video)
What is audio feedback? (Wikipedia)
Fact or fiction? An opera singer's piercing voice can shatter glass (Scientific American)
Clip: A MythBuster's glass shattering montage (Jaime Vendera, YouTube)
Hearing & hair cells...apparently they don't grow back naturally so be careful kids (University of Wisconsin)
Compound regenerates auditory hair cells, offering a possible treatment for deafness (Scientific American)
Bionic Ear Lane, Melbourne (street-directory.com.au)
Interview: Professor Graeme Clark, developer of the cochlear implant (Australian Academy of Science)
How does a cochlear implant work? (Cochlear)
What is brain plasticity & why is it so important? (The Conversation)
Training the brain to hear better (TIME)
How does a microphone work? Simple conversion of sound energy (Explain That Stuff!)
How do ears work? (Australian Hearing)
The ATR2100 USB - Strange Attractor's microphone of choice (audio-technica)
Neil from The Young Ones (Wikipedia)
Bang & Olufsen are indeed Danish (Wikipedia)
You can now get speakers that are panes of glass (Clear View)
The rude gesture Johnny was making to explain how speakers & mics work (Shutterstock)
Taylor Swift
Sound recording onto analog cylinders & records (Wikipedia)
How record players & phonographs work (Explain That Stuff!)
The golden record on Voyager (JPL, NASA)
What are MP3 files? (Explain That Stuff!)
Gif: Master record cutting (vinyl gif)
Ye olde wax cyclinders for phonographs (The Cylinder Archive)
Phonograph cylinders (Wikipedia)
Clip: How vinyl records are made (Part 1) (forwardbound, YouTube)
Clip: How vinyl records are made (Part 2) (forwardbound, YouTube)
Melbourne Recital Centre
Elbow (Wikipedia)
The Corner Hotel, Melbourne
David Gilmour (Wikipedia)
Jack White (Wikipedia)
This is just cool: What do tree rings sound like when played like a record? (IFL)
Corrections
Higher pitches are detected by ear hair cells with shorter hair bundles, lower pitches by hair cells with taller cell bundles...plus a random aside, apparently chickens can regrow damaged ear hairs! (Science Daily)
Sonar is actually sound waves, not electromagnetic (Wikipedia)
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1h 6min
July 01, 2016Episode 12: Shut your hole
How does photography work?
Johnny's Leica MP that we used as a prop (Steve Huff Photo)
How does a camera work? (Tech, How Stuff Works)
When were cameras invented? It depends...400BC if you count the ancient Chinese 'camera obscura' (Wikipedia)
The camera obscura...who needs TV? (Wikipedia)
The first proper photograph apparently took 8 hours to expose, credited to Joseph Nicephore Niépce, 1820s (University of California, Santa Barbara)
130-year-old plate camera captures pictures of modern Britain (but you must stand still for 15 minutes) (Daily Mail Australia)
How the human eye works: It's a 'camera-type eye' (livescience)
Why do your pupils get bigger in the dark? (Wonderopolis)
What is a lens? (Explain That Stuff!)
Cameras, lenses & how photography works (How-To Geek)
Understanding camera lenses (Cambridge in Colour)
What is exposure? (Cambridge in Colour)
Squinting helps you focus - it narrows the 'aperture' of your eye (Wired)
What is an aperture? (Wikipedia)
A dicussion about wide aperture & unfocused light rays (Photography StackExchange)
Principal focal length (HyperPhysics, Georgia State University)
Understanding focal length (Nikon)
Depth of field: How 'deep' is the amount of stuff that's in focus (Cambridge in Colour)
As this photo of Elon Musk shows, a professional portrait usually focuses on the face & blurs the background (Feedoxy)
"A lens typically has a set of marked 'f-stops' that the f-number can be set to" (Wikipedia)
Pic: As your f-number increases, your aperture gets smaller & less light gets in (Wikipedia)
Free f-stop chart (Tech Radar)
Pic: Example of a Leica camera showing the f-stops on the lens, 2.4, 2.8, 4, 5.6, 8, 11 (Leicaphilia)
Super groovy pinhole glasses that claim to strengthen your eyes (HealthTap)
Diagram of light rays going through a wide & narrow aperture (Photography Life)
Understanding shutter speed: A beginner's guide (Photography Life)
Pic: Example of a shutter speed dial on a film camera (Roger & Frances)
Pic: This is what Johnny's 'curtain shutter' looks like - the bit that reveals the 35 mm film segment (photo.net)
What is a camera shutter? (Wikipedia)
A history of shutter types (Early Photography)
What is 35 mm film? (Wikipedia)
F1.0 lenses are super expensive & rare - this is what the photos look like...kinda nice hey? (Fstoppers)
What is a prime lens? i.e. they don't zoom (B&H)
Why are some lenses so expensive? (Photography Life)
What is infinity focus? (School of Digital Photography)
Who killed infinity focus? (B&H)
The Man Who Knew Infinity (IMDb)
The amazing mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan (Wikipedia)
Sally Gunnell (Wikipedia)
Uluru (Wikipedia)
Photographs of ocean waves captured with a long lens & slow shutter (PetaPixel)
The secret to photographing hummingbirds (B&H)
Slow motion footage of bullets going through stuff (DrDaveBilliards, YouTube)
Femto-photography: Visualising photons in motion at a trillion frames per second (MIT)
Film speed is a measure of its sensitivity to light (Wikipedia)
ISO has been the standard for speed/sensitivity since 1974 (Wikipedia)
How to make & use a pinhole camera (Kodak)
Some thoughts on why people never smiled in old photos (Vox)
How film works: Black & white vs colour (Kodak)
What is slide film? (I Still Shoot Film)
Some lovely slide films shot on Fuji Velvia (I Still Shoot Film)
Some lovely slide films shot on Fuji Provia (I Still Shoot Film)
Some lovely slide films shot on Kodak Ektachrome (I Still Shoot Film)
A handy PDF guide on how to develop black & white film yourself (Ilford)
How does photographic paper work? (Wikipedia)
How do digital cameras work? (Tech, How Stuff Works)
Digital camera sensors: Backs up Johnny's 'buckets of photons' analogy (Cambridge in Colour)
Why more megapixels isn't always better (Gizmodo)
Baaaaaall pit! (Kids'nShape)
The 72 ppi web resolution myth (Photoshop Essentials)
The iPhone 6S has a 12 megapixel camera (Apple)
Introduction to medium format photography (I Still Shoot Film)
Why medium format is so gorgeous (Reframe, Gizmodo)
Phase One medium format digital cameras: May set you back up to $55K (CNET)
Polaroid cameras (Polaroid Australia)
How does a Polaroid camera work? (Tech in our everyday life)
The Impossible Project: "Reinventing instant film from scratch" (IMPOSSIBLE)
Guy Ritchie (bio.)
Pic: Thingy that magnifies negatives so you can see what will be in your photo if you develop it (eBay)
Pic: Nessie (CNN)
Marked up photos show how iconic prints were edited in the darkroom (PetaPixel)
Old timey flash bulbs (Camerapedia)
ISO: How high can you go? Apparently up to 409,600 these days! (DIGITALPhotoPro)
Common slide film seems to be around 50 or 100 ISO, but there's mention of higher numbers (120 Studio)
Old timey photographic plates had very low ISO numbers: This example is 5 (Fstoppers)
Daguerreotype: "The first publicly announced photographic process" (Wikipedia)
Old timey photographic plates (Wikipedia)
Places that still offer film processing in Melbourne (urbanlight)
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1h 17min
June 24, 2016Episode 11: Things move, unless they don't
Newton's laws & how things move
Newton's 3 laws of motion (livescience)
Newton's 3 laws of motion (NASA)
Voyager 1 & 2 are still voyaging - this is how far they've gone in real time! (JPL, NASA)
Outer space has a very low density of particles (Wikipedia)
What is a rocket? (NASA)
Rockets, fuel & Newton's 3 laws (MIT)
The rocket equation (Fourth Millenium Foundation)
Kennedy Space Center in Florida is awesome (Kennedy Space Center)
Why is it so hard to travel to Mars?...Fuel is a big part of that (space.com)
Mars facts (NASA)
Mars has a very thin atmosphere (Cool Cosmos, Caltech)
George Clooney (Wikipedia)
Gravity (IMDb)
The Martian (Andy Weir)
What are gravity wells? (Explain xkcd)
What is gravity assist? (JPL, NASA)
Spacetime can bend: Space as a rubber sheet (University of Winnipeg)
The Voyagers' trajectory was very carefully planned & used gravity assist to minimise fuel (JPL, NASA)
Voyager 1 & 2 were launched in 1977 (JPL, NASA)
There are a lot of forces trying to slow us down on Earth (the Physics Classroom)
Newton's laws have been verified by experiment & observation for more than 200 years (Wikipedia)
Newton's 'Principia' was first published in 1687 (Wikipedia)
Neil deGrasse Tyson: My man, Sir Isaac Newton (Big Think, YouTube)
Newton started inventing calculus when he was 23...wtf (Wikipedia)
Doogie Howser, M.D. (IMDb)
Newton's laws are amazing but don't work at very small scales, very high speeds or very strong gravitational fields (Wikipedia)
Applications & limitations of Newton's laws (How Stuff Works)
What is momentum? (BBC)
What is momentum? (the Physics Classroom)
What is velocity? (BBC)
What is a bogie? (Wikipedia)
Long trains take a long time to stop (Minnesota Operation Lifesaver)
What is inertia? (the Physics Classroom)
What is inertia? (Qualitative Reasoning Group, Northwestern University)
What is the difference between inertia & momentum? (Quora)
What is friction? (livescience)
VO5 instant oomph powder (Priceline)
'LiquiGlide' nonstick coating leaves zero waste behind...super cool (MIT, YouTube)
Brian Cox's amazing experiment dropping a bowling ball & feathers in a vacuum (BBC Two, YouTube)
The acceleration of gravity (the Physics Classroom)
All objects free fall at the same rate of acceleration...even elephants (the Physics Classroom)
Elon Musk (Wikipedia)
Elon Musk (Instagram)
How do planes fly? Using Newton's 3rd law (Explain That Stuff!)
Liquid oxygen & liquid hydrogen are common rocket fuels, but there are others (Wikipedia)
What is jet fuel? (Wikipedia)
The first animals in space (Space.com)
Yuri Gagarin: The first man in space (NASA)
Google headquarters live search screens (YouTube)
How do jet engines work? (NASA)
How do jet engines work? (Explain That Stuff!)
How does an ion thruster on a rocket ship work? (NASA)
I'm sure Ian Ziering from Beverly Hills 90210 used to spell his name Ion (Wikipedia)
What is a solar sail? 'New NASA spacecraft will be propelled by light' (National Geographic)
First law of thermodynamics: Energy in a closed system cannot be gained or lost, just transferred (livescience)
Potential & kinetic energy (BBC)
Measuring friction on an atomic level (physics central)
Brian Cox & Jeffrey Forshaw's book 'The quantum universe: Everything that can happen, does happen' (goodreads)
How geckos stick on der Waals...get it, get it? (Science)
Levitating pot plants: Not from our conversation...just super cool...I'm sure Newton's laws are involved here somehow (Domain)
Corrections
Sorry Johnny, some experts don't agree that momentum can be thought of as the amount of energy required to stop something moving (Quora)
Sorry Lucy, the first dog in space isn't stuffed, Laika died in orbit (Time)
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1h 1min
June 17, 2016Episode 10: When do we retract our flaps?
How do planes fly?
How do planes fly? Backs up what Johnny was saying about how wings work (Explain That Stuff!)
The physics of sailing (UNSW)
You can sail into the wind, but not exactly upwind - The physics of sailing (Physics Buzz blog, Physics Central)
The hipster PDA: Merlin Mann's index card system (43 Folders)
What is turbulence? From a fluid dynamics perspective (Wikipedia)
Turbulence - everything you need to know (Patrick Smith's Ask the Pilot)
Air turbulence - how dangerous is it? (livescience)
What is tacking in sailing? (Wikipedia)
What is tacking in sailing? (School of Sailing)
The spice routes were the 'maritime silk road' (UNESCO)
The search for new sea routes for the spice trade really kicked off in the 1500s (Encyclopaedia Britannica)
Trade routes followed the 'trade winds' (Wikipedia)
Prevailing winds blow from a certain direction over a point on the Earth's surface (Wikipedia)
How do planes fly upside down? (Physics StackExchange)
Flying upside down (Air & Space, Smithsonian)
Wing flaps & slats (NASA)
More flaps: Wing flaps for lift augmentation in aircraft (Decoded Science)
What is drag? (NASA)
Aerodynamics, an introduction - including a description of drag (Explain That Stuff!)
Four forces affect things that fly: weight, lift, thrust, drag (Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum)
Powered aircraft (Wikipedia)
Unpowered aircraft (Wikipedia)
Unpowered flight (Wikipedia)
Flight (Wikipedia)
What is autorotation? (Wikipedia)
The Gimli glider: Air Canada plane that glided to land on a race track after running out of fuel in 1983 (Wikipedia)
The Gimli glider was recently sold...after a further 25 years of service! (Financial Post)
Video of an aborted landing just a few feet off the ground - also shows how much wings flex (YouTube)
Pilots have detailed checklists (Patrick Smith's Ask the Pilot)
How a glider works...Remember the space shuttle? It was a glider! (NASA)
Birds, thermals & soaring flight (Aerospaceweb.org)
Birds of prey riding thermals (YouTube)
Plane wings are pretty flexible (Wired)
Turbulence & why you should buckle up (Civil Aviation Safety Authority)
Headwinds & tailwinds (Wikipedia)
Headwinds allow take off & landing on shorter amounts of runway (United Hub)
Airport design & naming runways (NASA)
Runway numbers explained (Atlas Obscura, YouTube)
Airspeed versus ground speed (Aerospaceweb.org)
Planes can levitate on the ground if it's windy enough (YouTube)
How does a wind sock work? A pilot explains (YouTube)
What is a jumbo jet? A Boeing 747 (Wikipedia)
Flaps during takeoff & landing (Wikipedia)
Thrust reversal (Wikipedia)
Thrust reversal (Purdue University)
Stopping the A380 (Air & Space Smithsonian)
Rolls Royce jet engines (Rolls Royce)
Picture: A Boeing 717 with 'petal' thrust reversal on engines (CQ Plane Spotting)
A database of paper aeroplanes with folding instructions (Fold'NFly)
What do winglets do? i.e. The flipped up bits on the end of plane wings (NASA)
Winglets or 'wing tip devices' (Wikipedia)
Why do golf balls have dimples? (livescience)
Shark scales create tiny whirlpools for speedy swimming (livescience)
Proper scientific paper: Shark-skin surfaces for fluid-drag reduction in turbulent flow (The Royal Society)
Bros had flipped up fringes like winglets (Old School Pannini)
What is a jet stream? (livescience)
What is drift diving? (PADI)
Flight times between New York & London slashed by jet stream's power (ABC Australia)
The Flat Earth Society
What is a 'great circle' & how are they used for flight routes? (AeroSavvy)
Air distance & flight time calculator (Great Circle Mapper)
There are flight routes over the North Pole, but probably not Antarctica (Wikipedia)
Fonzie cool (YouTube)
Chesley Sullenberger: the super cool pilot that landed the plane on the Hudson River (Wikipedia)
US Airways flight 1549 that landed on the Hudson River (Wikipedia)
British Airways flight 9 whose engines stalled in an ash cloud in 1982: Lucy was exaggerating slightly, it wasn't a 2-hour emergency...but still pretty serious (Wikipedia)
Flying or driving: Which Is safer? (Science 2.0)
Flying, driving or trains: Which Is safer? (AirlineReporter)
Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum
The Wright Brothers 'invented' aviation in 1903 (The Wright Bros)
The Apollo Lunar Module landed on the moon in 1969 (Wikipedia)
Sydney to London in 4 hours just got another step closer (News.com.au)
Australian scientists just successfully launched a jet which could fly from Sydney to London in 2 hours (Business Insider Australia)
The Concorde supersonic jet (Wikipedia)
Concorde: 40 fascinating facts (The Telegraph)
Corrections
Sorry Lucy, you mixed up Newton's 3rd & 1st laws: The 3rd law is relevant to plane wings...'equal & opposite reaction' (NASA)
Sorry Johnny, helicopters CAN fly without power via 'autorotation' (copters.com)
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1h 2min
June 10, 2016Episode 9: An eternal Thermos
What is energy and how does it move around?
What is E = mc^2 in simple terms (American Museum of Natural History)
What is E = mc^2 in simple terms (Universe Today)
What is E = mc^2 in simple terms (YouTube)
Werner Heisenberg (Nobelprize.org)
Robert Openheimer (Atomic Archive)
"Doc" Brown (Wikipedia)
Back to the Future (Wikipedia)
The speed of light: 3x10^8 metres per second (Wikipedia)
The size of Wales (Wikipedia)
The size of Belgium (Wikipedia)
Basic principles of energy (University of Illinois)
What is energy? (Wikipedia)
Potential & kinetic energy (BBC)
Different types of energy (BBC)
What is sound energy? (Explain That Stuff!)
What is heat energy (Science Learning)
All the matter & energy in the universe was created in the Big Bang (Exploratorium, CERN)
All the matter & energy in the universe was created in the Big Bang (The Physics of the Universe)
Best guess...the universe is between 13-14 billion years old (HubbleSite)
First law of thermodynamics: Energy in a closed system cannot be gained or lost, just transferred (livescience)
First law of thermodynamics - more techy explanation (NASA)
Could loads of wind turbines affect local systems? Who knows...here's some potential answers (Earth Science Stack Exchange)
Solar energy that reaches the Earth's surface is called 'insolation' (Wikipedia)
The amount of solar energy reaching Earth is huge (The Electronic Universe, University of Oregon)
Solar irradiation map of the world (Wikipedia)
US town rejects solar farm amid worries it would "suck up all the energy from the sun" (Science Alert)
Where does the sun's energy come from? (NASA)
The sun's energy will run out in about 5 billion years (Phys.org)
Simple photosynthesis (Photosynthesis Education)
Chemical energy is stored in the bonds of atoms & molecules, plus a big list of types of energy (Quizlet)
Muscles & liver store carbohydrate as glycogen until needed for energy (Discovery Learning)
How does a microphone work? Simple conversion of sound energy (Explain That Stuff!)
How long would you have to yell to heat a cup of coffee? (Physics Central)
Old lights bulbs used to give off ~90% of their energy as heat, not light (Energy.gov)
What happens when you clap your hands...in space? (Reddit)
The motion of atoms & molecules creates heat or thermal energy (EDinformatics)
What is a quantum? (Wikipedia)
A photon is a quantum of light (Wikipedia)
When did we figure out what energy is? (Wikipedia)
Light is energy...& photons of light can have different amounts of energy (Johns Hopkins University)
A photon's energy determines where it sits on the electromagnetic spectrum (NASA)
How do we transfer energy into speech? The acoustic theory of speech production (Yale University)
How do we hear? (Dangerous Decibels)
No sound in a vacuum, no sound in space (Physics Central)
The speed of sound in different media (HyperPhysics, Georgia State University)
What is an echo? (Wikipedia)
The old 'tree falling in the woods' conundrum...from a quantum theory perspective (Oxford University Press Blog)
Sound is a wave (Physics Hypertextbook)
How candles burn (National Candle Association)
Richard Feynman's wonderful words: What is fire? Plants come from air not dirt. Wood is stored sunlight (YouTube)
Burning fossil fuels releases ancient atoms (Wikipedia)
Photosynthesis: Plants grab the carbon from carbon dioxide & we get some oxygen (Wikipedia)
Humans exhale ~4% to 5.3% carbon dioxide (Wikipedia)
Humans breathe out a fair bit of carbon dioxide - maybe we should stop (Small-M)
Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas (Wikipedia)
Carbon capture & sequestering technologies (MIT)
All the jiggling: How heat energy is transferred (xaktly)
Temperature is essentially a measure of movement (New York University)
Temperature is essentially a measure of movement (HyperPhysics, Georgia State University)
What is absolute zero? (Encyclopaedia Britannica)
Why can't we get down to absolute zero? (io9)
The Large Hadron Collider & absolute zero (Encyclopaedia Britannica)
The Large Hadron Collider is colder than deep space (BBC)
The temperature in outer space is about 2.7 Kelvin (NASA)
How does a vacuum flask work? With a vacuum of course (Explain That Stuff!)
How does heat move? A simple description of radiation, conduction & convection (Qualitative Reasoning Group, Northwestern University)
Conduction & convection in the home (BBC)
Calories are a unit of energy or heat (Encyclopaedia Britannica)
Tartan Thermos (Etsy)
Curried egg sandwiches recipe (Keen's, McCormick)
Apparently crusts won't make your beard curly...but they may have more nutrients than the fluffy bit (How Stuff Works)
Insulated glazing (Wikipedia)
Vacuum-insulated glass (Windows for high-performance commercial buildings)
The vacuum flask or Thermos: Invented by a Scot - uses include storing coffee, rocket fuel & liquid nitrogen (Wikipedia)
Thermos® appears to be a registered trademark...thought we'd mention that for legal purposes (Thermos.com)
Sir James Dyson (James Dyson Foundation)
Elon Musk (Forbes)
Outer space isn't very dense - sometimes 1 atom per cubic metre (hypertextbook)
Empty space: the birthplace of stars (NASA)
Hypothermia: How long can someone survive in frigid water? (Scientific American)
Water conducts heat ~25 times more efficiently than air (Wikipedia)
Speed of sound in water is ~1,484 metres per second (Wikipedia)
Cold people & hot people: Why do some people feel the cold more than others (IFL Science!)
Why do some people never feel cold while others never get warm? (Medical News Today)
Michelle Bridges
Kentucky Fried Chicken
Deepak Chopra
July 16 1945: The first atomic test (History.com)
Original defence memo from a General who was at the first atomic test (PBS)
What happens in an atomic bomb is the same as what happens in the sun (NorthWest Research Associates)
The sun is ~93 million miles from Earth (Space.com)
Little old Pluto gets about 1/900th the sunlight that we do (Project Pluto)
The Kardashev scale: Type I, II & III civilisations (Wikipedia)
The physics of extraterrestrial civilisations (Michio Kaku)
What is a Dyson Sphere? A theoretical way to capture all the energy from a star (EarthSky)
The Star Trek proto-post scarcity economy (Medium)
Thankfully, modern nuclear bombs are more efficient than the olden days (GlobalResearch)
The fission of 1kg of plutonium-239 can explode with the power equivalent to 20,000 tonnes of TNT (Materials World)
E = mc^2 for 1kg of wood is HUGE (E = mc2 Explained)
What is cold fusion? (Wikipedia)
5 reasons why cold fusion is bunk (Seeker)
What is perpetual motion? More bunk (Wikipedia)
The "never die" Orbo Power Cube battery that was on display in a Dublin pub...hmmm (E-Cat World)
Animation: How a wind turbine works (Energy.gov)
Newton's Cradle (balls) (YouTube)
The Flat Earth Society
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1h 11min
June 03, 2016Episode 8: Notes of cinnamon, pencil sharpenings & vindaloo
What is spacetime? (Hold on tight!)
What is a spacetime continuum? (Testing Einstein's Universe, Stanford University)
What is spacetime? (Wikipedia)
What is spacetime, really? (Stephen Wolfram)
CERN scientists simplify spacetime in 3 short videos (Ted-Ed)
Golden syrup (CSR)
What is at the edge of the universe? (Futurism)
Scientists glimpse 'dark flow' lurking beyond the edge of the universe (The Telegraph)
What lies beyond the edge of the observable universe (The Daily Galaxy)
How far can we travel in space?...turns out we'll only ever see 0.00000000001% of the universe (Devour)
Warning: take with a grain of salt - the balloon analogy of the expanding universe (Physics Forums)
Brian Cox (Wikipedia)
The Big Bang theory (ESA kids)
The Big Bang theory (BBC)
The universe's photo album: Chronology of the universe (Wikipedia)
Everything in the universe came out of the Big Bang (Why-Sci)
The initial singularity is proposed to have contained all the mass & spacetime of the universe...then BOOM! (Wikipedia)
So what was there before the Big Bang?...There's no such thing as nothing (Jon Kaufman)
What is nothing? Physics debate (livescience)
Why is there something rather than nothing? (BBC)
The beginning of time (Stephen Hawking)
The illusion of time: What's real? (Space.com)
At the third stroke: George the talking clock now on atomic time (SMH)
What is redshift? (BBC)
Red shift & the expanding universe (Exploratorium, Hubble)
Cosmological red shift (Cosmos, Swinburne University)
The Doppler Effect - animations (UNSW, School of Physics)
Redshift occurs when an object goes further away; blueshift when it's coming closer (Space.com)
What is gravity, really? (NASA Space Place)
Space as a rubber sheet (University of Winnipeg)
Gravity visualised - the rubber sheet in action (YouTube)
Objects with mass bend spacetime - even you! (American Museum of Natural History)
Gravity is still a mystery (livescience)
Brian Cox explains gravity & all things General Relativity (The Infinite Monkey Cage, podcast)
What is a gravitational well? (Qualitative Reasoning Group, Northwestern University)
What is a Higgs Boson? Explained by a Fermilab scientist (YouTube)
The Higgs Boson & mass: Universe doomsday? (livescience)
Newton & his apple (New Scientist)
As the earth rotates, we're moving at about 1,000 miles/hr or 1,600 km/hr (Scientific American)
How fast are you moving when you're sitting still? (Astronomical Society of the Pacific)
Circumference of a circle: 2πr, where r = radius (BBC)
We're travelling at ~1.6 million miles/day around the sun (Physics & Astronomy Online)
Boy Meets Girl wines
Naked Wines
How do we know this is all true? Putting relativity to the test (National Center for Supercomputing Applications)
The Mercury transit of the sun test (Wikipedia)
The Mercury transit of the sun test (National Center for Supercomputing Applications)
The bending of star light around the sun test (Wikipedia)
The bending of star light around the sun test (National Center for Supercomputing Applications)
Original newspaper clipping from Arthur Eddington's 1919 light bending experiment (Testing Einstein's Universe, Stanford University)
An original photo from 1919 of light bending around the sun (Wikipedia)
May 29, 1919: A major eclipse, relatively speaking (Wired)
Space & time warps (Stephen Hawking)
Picture: bending of spacetime around Earth (The Conversation)
Picture: bending of spacetime around the sun (Wikipedia)
The 3D-spacetime episode of the Simpsons - audio a bit crackly, but whatever (YouTube)
Special relativity came first in 1905 - then general relativity was developed in 1907-1915 (Wikipedia)
Time isn't constant throughout the universe - it's aaall relative (Physics for Idiots)
Newsflash: Time may not exist (Discover)
Einstein reckons 'time travel' is possible (NASA)
How the Star Trek transporter works (Wikia)
The Star Trek warp drive lets them travel faster than light speed (Wikipedia)
Warp drives & transporters: How Star Trek technology works (Space.com)
Gravitational waves are 'ripples' in the fabric of spacetime (LIGO)
LIGO can detect gravitational waves (LIGO)
Why should we care about gravitational waves? (LIGO)
Gravitational waves are proof that space & time are getting stretched (ABC, Australia)
Light behaves as both a particle & a wave - here's the first ever photo of that (Phys.org)
The real reason nothing can ever go faster than light (BBC)
Gary Lineker (Wikipedia)
There's something called 'spacetime foam' ... mad! (Wikipedia)
Corrections
Johnny may have got the Mercury transit & light bending tests mixed up: The light bending was the 'great exciting newspaper front page' (Testing Einstein's Universe, Stanford University)
Can't find support for Johnny's 'light travels on a crisp' theory, but here's some smart people debating 'What stops photons from traveling faster than the speed of light' (Quora)
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May 27, 2016Episode 7: I've got a free electron, wanna party?
We tour the periodic table - the 'map' of the atoms
If you're looking for the show notes for episode 6, click here. Sorry about the mistake!
This is your brain on podcasts...podcasts are good! (The New York Times)
Our Strange Attractor website
The Overcast podcast player is great & free...get it! (Overcast)
Boris Becker (Bio)
The periodic table - how atoms are organised (ptable.com)
Dimitri Mendeleev & the periodic table (Royal Society of Chemistry)
The magnetic periodic table of swear words (Amazon)
True nerds name their devices/servers according to a theme (Naming Schemes)
Mendeleev's predicted elements (Wikipedia)
Arrangement of the elements (BBC)
What is atomic mass? (Encyclopaedia Britannica)
What is atomic weight? (Encyclopaedia Britannica)
The atomic masses of tellurium & iodine are anomalies (BBC)
B&Q
Bunnings
Home Depot
Turning lead into gold is too much effort (Scientific American)
Turning lead into gold is too much effort (Chemistry Explained)
But...medieval alchemy paved the way to chemistry (Wikipedia)
What is an electron? (Chem4Kids)
Number of electrons = number of protons in the nucleus (Jefferson Lab)
The 'solar system' atom diagram & electron shells (CIR Rm.6)
Atoms like to have full outer shells...apparently it makes them 'happy' (The Science Forum)
Bonding diagrams of simple things like water (BBC)
Simple animation of H2 and H2O electron sharing (BBC)
Electrons in the shells of the first 20 elements (BBC)
An atom can have more or less electrons than protons - then it's 'charged' (Physics Classroom)
Electron shells are divided up into orbitals (Wikibooks)
Electron configurations listed on the periodic table (Chemical Elements)
Row 1 of the periodic table is called 'period 1': 1 shell with 0-2 electrons (Wikipedia)
Row 2 of the periodic table is called 'period 2': 2 shells, outer shell 0-8 electrons (Wikipedia)
Lithium: first shell full, 1 electron in 2nd outer shell (BBC)
Number of electrons in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc. outer shells (Wikipedia)
What is a chemical reaction? (Encyclopaedia Britannica)
What is chemistry (& physics)? (About Education)
What is physics? (Physics.org)
Lithium, sodium & potassium react with water (YouTube)
What happens when you throw a lump of sodium in a river? (Digg)
Making table salt: sodium + chlorine reaction (Digg)
Neon has 8 electrons in its outer shell so it's full (BBC)
Elements in the vertical columns of the periodic table have similar properties because they have the same number of electrons in their outer shell (Boundless)
When you go down a row ('period'), you add an electron shell (Chem4Kids)
Sodium: 1st & 2nd shells full, 1 electron in 3rd outer shell (BBC)
Chlorine has 7 electrons in its 3rd (outer shell) - it wants 1 more to feel complete (BBC)
Table salt & its ionic bonding (NaCl) (GCSE Science)
Johnny's @ate_a_boiledegg account hasn't really taken off yet (Twitter)
Sodium's symbol (Na) comes from the Latin word for sodium carbonate, 'natrium' (Jefferson Lab)
Lead's symbol (Pb) comes from the Latin word for liquid silver, 'plumbum' (WebElements)
What is a salt? (Wikipedia)
Potassium: 1st, 2nd, 3rd shells full, 1 electron in 4th outer shell (BBC)
Potassium bromide (KBr) is also a salt - formerly used as an anticonvulsant (Wikipedia)
What is methane? (Science is fun)
Why do we need salt? (The Naked Scientists)
What is solubility? (Wikipedia)
When things dissolve in water it's called an 'aqueous solution' (Wikipedia)
Physicists often wonder "What would happen if the laws of physics changed?" (The Nature of Reality)
Are there other universes with other laws? (The Daily Galaxy)
"In search for alien life - follow the water" (Space.com)
"Could alien life exist in the methane habitable zone?" (Space.com)
Saturn's moon, Titan, has lakes of liquid methane and ethane (Wikipedia)
So far, the periodic table seems to work across the universe (Hayden Planetarium)
The 'nucleosynthesis periodic table' shows what kind of stars made each element (Wikipedia)
Once you're in the 80s & 90s in the periodic table, things get a bit unstable (Wikipedia)
What is radioactive decay? (NDT Resource Center)
What is uranium? (Jefferson Lab)
Uranium the movie (GenePool Productions)
What is plutonium? (Jefferson Lab)
Uranium eventually turns into lead after spitting out enough protons & energy (Wikipedia)
The 3 types of radiation - alpha, beta & gamma (BBC)
After 92 (uranium), the elements are all manmade (Jefferson Lab)
The 'transfermium elements' (past 100) only exist for seconds (Chemistry Explained)
"Superheavy element 117 points to fabled 'island of stability' on periodic table" (Scientific American)
Systematic element name: the temporary name given to a newly-made or not-yet-made element (Wikipedia)
The periodic table's 4 new elements - ununtrium, ununpentium, ununseptium and ununoctium - are just placeholder names (Compound Interest)
When Mendeleev published the first periodic table in 1869, he had to leave predictions/gaps for the future (Wikipedia)
Marie Curie wasn't born until 1867, just when the periodic table was invented (Nobelprize.org)
Mendeleev died in 1907, so he enjoyed his periodic table for 38 years (Wikipedia)
Is that Mendeleev on the cover of Jethro Tull's Aqualung?? (Wikipedia)
How are elements grouped? aww the 'poor metals' (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Mendeleev apparently dreamt the periodic table! (Wikipedia)
"How one scientist dreamt up the periodic table" (Curiosity)
What's in a periodic table dream? (Dreaminterpretation Dictionary)
The ye olde 1871 periodic table (Wikipedia)
The periodic table was invented before we knew about electrons (Encyclopaedia Britannica)
Other scientists contributed, or got close, to inventing the periodic table (Royal Society of Chemistry)
Lanthanides & actanides (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Let's draw Feynman diagrams! (Quantum Diaries)
Quantum calculations are haaaard - here's a paper called "Accurate Atomic Transition Probabilities for Hydrogen, Helium, and Lithium" (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
Fancy a radon bath? (PubMed: Dose Response. 2006; 4(2): 106–118)
Marie Curie died of the radiation (BBC)
Marie Curie's notebooks are still radioactive (Open Culture)
Radox
Corrections
The most common form of hydrogen has 1 proton, 1 electron & NO neutrons (Chemical Elements)
HOWEVER...deuterium, another form of hydrogen, has 1 neutron (Wikipedia)
In 'covalent' bonds, electrons are shared by atoms (e.g. H2O) (Virtual Chembook)
In 'ionic' bonds, electrons are transferred between atoms (e.g. NaCl) (Virtual Chembook)
NASA thinks the moon MAY have water - 6 billion tonnes of water ice (NASA)
Unobtanium isn't real yet Johnny (Daily Galaxy)
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May 20, 2016Episode 6: You stay way over there you human idiot
What is artificial intelligence?
What is artifical intelligence? And great answers to most of what we talked about, by a proper computer guy from Stanford University (Formal Reasoning Group)
What is Skynet? (Wikia)
What is computer chess? (Wikipedia)
Google computer wins final game against South Korean Go master (Physics.org)
Google has gotten very good at predicting traffic (Tech Insider)
When will AI be created? (Machine Intelligence Research Institute)
What is intelligence? (Machine Intelligence Research Institute)
What is consciousness? (big think)
What it will take for computers to be conscious (MIT Technology Review)
Learning how little we know about the brain (The New York Times)
Google traffic (Google)
What is artifical consciousness? (Wikipedia)
Kegan's 'orders of mind' (NZCR)
Kegan's theory of the evolution of consciousness (Stanford University)
Consciousness may be an 'emergent property' of the brain (Quora)
A good discussion between Sam Harris and Neil deGrasse Tyson (Sam Harris' podcast)
There are billions of connections in your brain (The Astronomist)
The 'Go' game (Wikipedia)
The number of possible Go games is reeeeally large...potentially more than the number of atoms in the universe (Sensei's Library)
A comparison of chess & Go (British Go Association)
Go & maths...the number of positions is scary (Wikipedia)
There are also a lot of chess moves (Chess.com)
What is a brute force attack? (Technopedia)
How many moves ahead can hard core chess players see? (Quora)
Deep learning in a nutshell – what it is, how it works, why care? (KDnuggets)
Deep learning with massive amounts of computational power, machines can now recognize objects & translate speech in real time (MIT Technology Review)
Google's 'DeepMind' deep learning start up (techworld)
The Google Brain project (Wired)
The Go computer was trained with 160,000 real-life games (Scientific American)
Evolutionary computation & AI (Wikipedia)
Genetic programming & AI (Wikipedia)
So what's a robot then? (Galileo Educational Network)
Professor reveals to students that his assistant was an AI all along (SMH)
Hate Siri? Meet Viv - the future of chatbots and artificial intelligence (SMH)
What is the connection between AI & robotics (wiseGEEK)
Robotic limbs that plug into the brain (MIT Technology review)
The Roomba vacuum robot (iRobot)
The 'Robot or Not' podcast (The Incomparable)
Expert predictions on when we'll see conscious machines: When will the machines wake up? (TechCrunch)
Google AI: What if Google became self-aware? (wattpad)
Will Google create the first conscious computer? (Daily Mail Australia)
Google Consciousness...not affiliated with Google (Google Consciousness)
Elon Musk does indeed have an AI company: Open AI (Wired)
Evil genius with a fluffy cat (Regmedia)
The Maltesers gift box (Mars)
Will machines eventually take on every job? (BBC)
When robots take all the work, what'll be left for us to do? (Wired)
The travelling salesman maths problem (Wikipedia)
A bunch of stuff about the travelling salesman maths problem (University of Waterloo)
GPS became fully operational in 1995, but was proposed in 1973 (Wikipedia)
How does GPS work? (Wikipedia)
Digital diagnosis: intelligent machines do a better job than humans (The Conversation)
What is Lyme disease? (Lyme Disease Association of Australia)
Stuttgart (Wikipedia)
Robot B-9: the robot from Lost in Space (Lost in Space Wiki)
Robot B-9 in action (YouTube)
Surgical robots (All About Robotic Surgery)
Commercial planes are basically just big drones (Esquire)
The AI in Google's self-driving cars qualifies as legal driver (Fortune)
All the self-driving cars are learning from each other (The Oatmeal)
Your future self-driving car will be way more hackable (MIT Technology Review)
Google self-driving cars have driven more than 2 million km & have ony had 14 minor collisions (Wikipedia)
Crazy animation of self-driving cars at an intersection (Co.Design)
Self-driving cars could get their own lanes (wtop)
Self-driving cars could lower insurance premiums (The Telegraph)
Self-driving cars could lower insurance premiums (Wired)
Australia's new National Broadband Network (nbnco)
Tesla's cars now drive themselves, kinda (Wired)
Australia's first autonomous vehicle test (Motoring)
How AI is driving the next industrial revolution (InformationAge)
Why bots are the next industrial revolution (Huffington Post)
Humans need not apply: short video (C.G.P. Grey)
Self-driving trucks are on the way (Basic Income)
In the 2015 census there were 94,975 articulated trucks registered in Australia (Australian Bureau of Statistics)
Driverless trucks move all iron ore at Rio Tinto's Pilbara mines, in world first (ABC Australia)
Rio Tinto pushes ahead with driverless trains in Pilbara (SMH)
Can Star Trek's world with no money work? (CNN Money)
The economics of Star Trek (Medium)
Jeff Bezos from Amazon (Wikipedia)
Yes, the robots will steal our jobs. And that’s fine (The Washington Post)
I fear 'low-cost country sourcing' more than robots taking my job (Wikipedia)
Flight prices are calculated by robots doing maths (Mathematical Association of America)
Are airline passengers getting ripped off by robots? (Fortune)
Is it true that once you search for a flight the algorithm will remember & put the price up? (Quora)
Mac users may see pricier options (ABC America)
Naked Wines
Sir James Dyson (Encyclopaedia Britannica)
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May 13, 2016Episode 5: Hang on, Doctor Octopus
What makes a molecule, and why do things explode?
The periodic table - how atoms are organised (ptable.com)
Reactivity trends within the periodic table (BBC)
Hydrogen is highly flammable (Wikipedia)
Cool slo-mo hydrogen balloon explosions (YouTube)
The Hindenburg disaster news reel: 1937 (YouTube)
The Hindenburg disaster (Wikipedia)
The Lindbergh baby kidnapping (FBI)
Helium isn't reactive (Jefferson Lab)
Lithium is very reactive (Jefferson Lab)
How lithium ion batteries work (HowStuffWorks)
Carbon is pretty stable (Jefferson Lab)
Carbon-12 is the most common form of carbon (Wikipedia)
Neon isn't reactive (Jefferson Lab)
The Noble gases are snobs (Slate)
You don't hear much about berrylium (Jefferson Lab)
Sodium is very reactive (Jefferson Lab)
Potassium is very reactive (Jefferson Lab)
Lithium, sodium & potassium react with water (YouTube)
Magnesium is a bit less reactive becasue it's in column 2 (Jefferson Lab)
Magnesium still reacts with water (YouTube)
Magnesium ribbon burns bright white (YouTube)
Dimitri Mendeleev & the periodic table (Royal Society of Chemistry)
When hydrogen explodes it bonds with oxygen & forms water (Rutgers)
Water is held together by covalent bonds (GCSE Science)
The Water in Your Glass Might Be Older Than the Sun (The New York Times)
Table salt (NaCl) is held together by ionic bonds (GCSE Science)
Fiji Water
What is heavy water? (About Education)
Oxygen in the atmosphere is a molecule: O2 (Wikipedia)
A diagram of the O2 molecule (BBC)
Atom model with electron shells (Wikipedia)
Oxygen in its natural state has 6 electrons in outer shell (About Education)
Atoms share electrons in a covalent bond, they don't exchange them (BBC)
Electrons are shared in a covalent bond & transferred in an ionic bond (UC Davis ChemWiki)
The H2Octopus drawn scientifically (BBC)
A simple animation of how atoms join together (BBC)
Doctor Octopus (Marvel)
Hydrogen without its electron is an ion: H+ (basically it's a proton) (Encyclopaedia Brittanica)
A proper study about the Hindenburg fire (University of Colorado)
What is a catalyst? (GCSE Science)
The strong nuclear force (Smoot Group)
Major differences between nuclear & chemical reactions (Georgetown University)
The combustion of wood produces CO2 + H2O (What is Chemistry)
Common types of chemical reactions (About Education)
Reaction of water + sodium (Web Elements)
Picture of benzene's structure (ChemTech)
Steam is still water but as a gas (TLV)
Hydrogen fuel cell fact sheet (US Department of Energy Hydrogen Program)
Hydrogen fuel cells release water as a by product (Renewable Energy World)
Fuel cell basics (Smithsonian)
Water Powered Car
Water-fuelled car (Wikipedia)
There are many water-fuelled car conspiracy theories (Henry Makow)
You lose a lot of electricity in the transmission of electricity: global stats (World Bank)
Pros & cons of hydrogen as a fuel (BBC)
Why is water clear? A tricky question it seems (Physics StackExchange)
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May 06, 2016Episode 4: Let's pretend we're Greek and we have wardrobes
We talk about atoms. Turns out, they're everything.
Who is Eminem? (Eminem.com)
Flavor Flav's clock necklace (Yahoo)
Who is Flo Rida? (officialflo.com)
What is an atom? (Wikipedia)
Atomic structure timeline (Lee Buescher)
The Greeks and the 'atomos' (ChemTeam)
How the atom got its name (PhysLink)
Atoms are building blocks...like Lego (Science Defined)
What is a metal? (Science Daily)
What is a nonmetal? (Simple Wikipedia)
Metals, nonmetals & the in-betweeny ones (Wikipedia)
Old school labs where they figured atoms out (Rutherford's Nuclear World)
Atomic structure from the Greeks to Dalton (ChemTeam)
Thomson's plum pudding model (Encyclopaedia Brittanica)
Rutherford's planetary orbit model (Encyclopaedia Brittanica)
Atoms are basically empty space (Jefferson Lab)
Cool scale model of solar system (Josh Worth)
The Earth as a peppercorn (National Optical Astronomy Observatory)
We can't know where an electron is (Wikibooks)
Protons, neutrons & electrons (Wikipedia)
Number of protons in a nucleus defines the element (Wikipedia)
What is helium? (Jefferson Lab)
Helium structure (Wikipedia)
How the Star Trek transporter works (Wikia)
What is a worm hole? (Space.com)
The periodic table - how atoms are organised (ptable.com)
Hydrogen is the simplest atom (Jefferson lab)
The 4 forces that hold atoms together (etacude)
Protons have a positive charge (About Education)
Neutrons have no charge (About Education)
Electrons have a negative charge (About Education)
What is alchemy? (Live Science)
Turning lead into gold (About Education)
Elon Musk (Wikipedia)
Where do atoms come from? (UCSB)
The universe is about 14 billion years old (Wikipedia)
First there was hydrogen & helium (Wikipedia)
Hydrogen & helium in the early universe (ScienceBlogs)
When stars started to form (NASA)
What are stars? (NASA)
Making elements inside stars (BBC)
What happens inside our sun? (NASA)
It takes thousands to millions of years for photons to escape the sun (NASA)
Stellar nucleosynthesis - how stars make stuff (Wikipedia)
How long do stars live? (Scientific American)
Carbon-nitrogen-oxygen cycle in the sun (Encyclopaedia Brittanica)
All elements on Earth were made in a star (Physics.org)
Our sun will die in about 5 billion years (Space.com)
What happens when a star dies? (ESA)
Earth's carbon cycle (NASA)
Water gulping out of a bottle (Physics Stack Exchange)
H2O (Wikipedia)
Increasing atomic number (generally) means increasing atomic weight (Ptable)
What is a vaccuum? (Wikipedia)
Space is not a perfect vaccuum (Wikipedia)
Neil deGrasse Tyson explains the vaccuum of space (Raw Stories)
Density in outer space (Hypertextbook)
Osmosis (BBC)
The universe likes equilibrium (Encyclopaedia Brittanica)
Timeline of atomic models in 20th century (Wikipedia)
John Dalton: 1766-1844 (Wikipedia)
J J Thomson: 1856-1940 (Wikipedia)
Cathode ray tubes in old TVs (How Stuff Works - Tech)
Thomson's cathode ray experiments (Wikipedia)
Smashing an old TV with a brick (YouTube)
What is an explosion? (Chemistry Explained)
Jason Donovan (JasonDonovan.com)
Earnest Rutherford: 1871-1937 (Rutherford's Nuclear World)
Rutherford's famous gold foil experiment (Wikipedia)
Neils Bohr: 1885-1962 (Wikipedia)
The Bohr model with shells (Wikipedia)
Electron shells (Wikipedia)
Electrons move between shells via quantum jumps (Physics World)
Quantum Leap TV show (Wikipedia)
Inner Space movie (IMDb)
Dennis Quaid (Biography.com)
What is a photon? (Ducksters)
Spectral lines help us see the universe & identify substances (Cosmos - Swinburne)
Sodium emits a yellowy light when heated (Wikipedia)
Click on the element to see its spectral lines (PennState Behrend)
What is a molecule? (About Education)
Silent disco (Silent Storm Sound System)
What is carbon dating? (NOSAMS)
Nothing heavier than iron is (usually) made in a "normal" star (Astronomy Notes)
Atom work was disrupted during WW1 (Rutherford's Nuclear World)
How WW1 started according to Baldrick (JohnDClare)
William Kay - Rutherford's faithful lab assistant (The Royal Society)
Nagaoka's Saturnian model (Wikipedia)
Corrections
Carbon has 6 protons (Wikipedia)
John was wrong - the atoms stopped being made after 20 minutes, not 380,000 years (Wikipedia)
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