Brains Matter

You are made of space-time (New Scientist)
Why Pluto had to go (Cosmos Magazine)
Chimps cheer for attention (Discovery channel)
Researchers find what may be a new state of matter (Ars Technica)
Waterless planets defy expectations (Discovery channel)
Regular naps make hearts healthy (Discovery channel)
Spice healer (Scientific American)
Pluto’s newest moons named Hydra and Nix (Space.com)
Huge seas spotted on Saturn moon [...]

You are made of space-time (New Scientist)
Why Pluto had to go (Cosmos Magazine)
Chimps cheer for attention (Discovery channel)
Researchers find what may be a new state of matter (Ars Technica)
Waterless planets defy expectations (Discovery channel)
Regular naps make hearts healthy (Discovery channel)
Spice healer (Scientific American)
Pluto’s newest moons named Hydra and Nix (Space.com)
Huge seas spotted on Saturn moon [...]

Short show today including a brief introduction to thermodynamics and the movie Blade Runner. Pin of the episode, and a promo of the CaffiNation podcast.
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Has your head ever felt hot after using a mobile phone?
Mobile phones boiling an egg
Anyone willing to comment on this and talk through the physics?

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I talk with Dr Zachary Moore, from the Department of Biophysics and Molecular Genetics from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, regarding evolution, and to tackle the questions that some nay-sayers have about it.
Dr Moore’s website is
http://www.drzach.net/
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Greenhouse consensus
Article from Dr Karl
Carbon emissions have sped up since 2000
World emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide increased three times faster after 2000 than in the 1990s, putting them at the high end of a range of forecasts by an international climate change panel, scientists report.

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