Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

Daniel and Kelly exercise their optimism and explore engineering solutions to the Sun's projected overheating and demise.

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Daniel and Kelly talk about the confusing aspects of quantum entanglement, and try to untangle the concepts.

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Daniel and Kelly chat with Dr. John Hawdon about how parasites like hookworm, malaria, and schistosomes hide from our immune system.

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Daniel and Kelly are joined by Cat Bohannan, who answers questions about whether we can shorten gestation, superhuman feats of strength, and whether viruses are ever good for us.

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Daniel and Kelly are joined by Andy Warner, the co-author and illustrator of Daniel's new book, Do Aliens Speak Physics, and talk about how we might chat about science with aliens.

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Daniel and Kelly talk about the development of the polio vaccine.

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Daniel and Kelly answer questions from listeners about aliens, archaea and the speed of light.

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Daniel and Kelly get concrete about whether physics is the map or the territory, the topic of Daniel's new book "Do Aliens Speak Physics?"

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Daniel and Kelly answer listener questions about how pinworms know it's nighttime, how quarks contribute to mass, and why eating too many carrots makes your skin yellow.

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Daniel and Kelly talk to Ethan Siegal about whether we should expect physics to be explained by a single unified theory.

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Daniel and Kelly talk about how aliens might experience the Universe and how it might shape their science, a topic from Daniel's new book "Do Aliens Speak Physics?"

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Daniel and Kelly get answers to listener questions about why we age from Dr. Venki Ramakrishnan, author of "Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality".

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Daniel and Kelly talk about how gravity, magnetism and relativity work together to create one of the most brilliant spectacles in the Universe.

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Daniel and Kelly talk to Phil Metzger about the engineering challenges of building self-replication space probes.

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Daniel and Kelly answer questions about gravtational slingshots, megafauna and microscopic black holes!

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Daniel and Kelly talk to Phil Halper about the many mysteries of the origins of the Universe.

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Daniel and Kelly dig into the mysteries of magnetism, explaining how magnets work and what they reveal about the Universe.

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Daniel and Kelly talk to Sean Carroll about where some of the basic assumptions we make about the Universe come from, and whether we need them.

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Daniel and Kelly talk about the science behind the "zombie ants".

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