Episode 686: Lightning Seen and Lightning Round
Added 2022-01-21 08:01:01 +0000 UTCScientists have never been able to adequately explain where lightning comes from. Now the first detailed observations of its emergence inside a cloud have exposed how electric fields grow strong enough to create bolts. Jeff and Anthony step through how scientists have been able to record the spark of lightning. Then, Anthony starts his own lightning - a lightning round of headlines! Paralyzing rats, happiness from marriage, celebrity worship, sleeping in space, and more!
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Jeff on Twitter: http://twitter.com/jeffcannata
Anthony on Twitter: http://twitter.com/acarboni
New view of lightning: https://www.quantamagazine.org/radio-telescope-reveals-how-lightning-begins-20211220/
Double speed learning: https://digest.bps.org.uk/2021/12/21/watching-a-lecture-twice-at-double-speed-can-benefit-learning-better-than-watching-it-once-at-normal-speed/
Space sleeping bag: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-59591301
Celebrity worship makes you dumb: https://bmcpsychology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40359-021-00679-3
Spinal chord reconstruction in mice: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abh3602
Happiness in the age of Covid: http://scipg.com/index.php/103/article/view/487
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Comments
The Flash TV show shoots in and around Vancouver, including Surrey where I live, which has a Central City. I have a Flash shirt that says Central City Running Club, non-comic book people ask me if that is a real thing often.
Jacob Chimilar
2022-01-22 01:56:06 +0000 UTCWhen Anthony asked Jeff his thoughts on "In Touch" and he froze because he didn't know it existed I thought "he's clearly 'Out of'."
Jacob Chimilar
2022-01-22 01:53:54 +0000 UTCCentral City is Barry Allen, Keystone City is Wally West.
2022-01-21 18:39:42 +0000 UTChow has lightning round not become a back tier yet?
Jonah Hill
2022-01-21 12:52:12 +0000 UTC
