I'm awfully conscious of sounding like Deepak Chopra
Episode 2
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Audio file
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April 22nd, 2016
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1 hr 45 mins
How does light work?
- Easy Cheese (Wikipedia)
- The Golden Plains festival (GPX March 12-14, 2016)
- What does X mean? - Roman Numerals Chart (Roman-Numerals.org)
- The Golden Plains X-shaped lights - Aunty Meredith (flickr)
- The Pink Flamingo Bar at Golden Plains (GPX March 12-14, 2016)
- D batteries - Actually you can still buy them (Wikipedia)
- 1980s bicyle lights (eBay)
- Old school light bulbs - Incandescent lighting (Edison Tech Center)
- What’s inside a torch? (Energizer)
- Light bulb V1 - Gas lamp lighting (Wikipedia)
- Sodium lamps (Edison Tech Center)
- Copper wires and heat (Wikipedia)
- Superconductivity (Wikipedia)
- Thomas Edison and the electric light (Wikipedia)
- How Edison Invented the Light Bulb - And Lots of Myths About Himself (Time)
- Who invented electricity? - War of currents (Wikipedia)
- Old light bulbs wasted a lot of heat - Incandescent light bulb (Wikipedia)
- Old light bulbs had different shapes, some had reflective coatings - Physical characteristics, Incandescent light bulb (Wikipedia)
- Incandescent light bulb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Tungsten and Tungsten Wire History (MidWest Tungsten Service)
- Why do light bulbs burn out just as they’re turned on? (io9)
- How long can a computer continuously run for? - Epic uptime achievement unlocked (ars technica)
- Old people should keep moving - Benefits of exercise (NIH Senior Health)
- Is there any point in turning light bulbs off? - When to turn off your lights (energy.gov)
- Is there any point turning your engine off? - Does turning my engine off in traffic really save fuel? (This is MONEY)
- Power brakes (Wikipedia)
- Fly-by-wire (Wikipedia)
- The skeptics’ guide to the universe
- Hipsters now use vintage light bulbs (Edison light globes)
- Neon lights work by a current ionising gas in the tube - Neon lighting (Wikipedia)
- Fluorescent lights work by a current doing some stuff that causes a phosphor coating on the inside of the tube to glow - Fluorescent lamp (Wikipedia)
- The noble gases (Wikipedia)
- How do neon lights work? (Scientific American)
- Curly fries (Recipe 4 Living)
- The first halogen bulbs looked like curly fries - Phase-out of incandescent light bulbs (Wikipedia)
- duh…what’s a halogen? - Halogen elements (Encyclopaedia Britannica)
- Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) (Wikipedia)
- Solid-state electronics (Wikipedia)
- What is a diode? (Wikipedia)
- And then came halogen lights (Wikipedia)
- Halogen pop-in bulbs got hot and tended to explode - Disadvantages, Multifaceted reflector (Wikipedia)
- How energy-efficient light bulbs compare with traditional incandescents (energy.gov)
- The newest bulbs are LEDs (energy.gov)
- Top 8 Things You Didn’t Know About LEDs (energy.gov)
- Red LEDs came first, in 1962 - LEDs and OLEDs (Edison Tech Centre)
- Photodiodes are involved in CDs, DVDs, and Blu Rays - Laser and optics (Wikipedia)
- Blue LEDs didn’t come until 1992-93 - Blue LEDs (Wikipedia)
- Blue LEDs didn’t come until 1992-93 - LEDs and OLEDs (Edison Tech Centre)
- Blue LEDs Light The Way To Top Nobel Physics Prize (The skeptics’ guide to the universe)
- Blu-Ray discs use ‘blue’ laser diodes - Laser and optics (Wikipedia)
- You can make a white LED from red, green and blue - White LEDs and the Illumination breakthrough (Wikipedia)
- LEDs and lasers are different (Opposing Views)
- Newer iPhone flashes are a combination of white and amber LEDs (LEDinside)
- New LED torches are very powerful - This Wickedly Bright Flashlight Can Cook an Egg (Wired)
- New LED torches are very powerful - Scrambled Eggs (YouTube)
- Size of Belgium (Wikipedia)
- Mag-Lite
- Edison invented the screw in (Wikipedia)
- Then came the bayonet mount (Wikipedia)
- Definition of light (Wikipedia)
- What is a ray of light made of (BBC earth)
- The life of a photon (Central Arkansas Astronomical Society Observer)
- To see light, it must interact with your retina (Wikipedia)
- Stuff in our atmosphere does stuff to light - Atmospheric refraction (Wikipedia)
- Stuff in our atmosphere does stuff to light - Optical atmospheric diffraction (Wikipedia)
- Snooker table analogy (Wikipedia)
- The moon has pretty much no atmosphere (NASA)
- What is Earth's atmosphere made of? - Composition, Atmosphere of Earth (Wikipedia)
- What happens when light hits our atmosphere? - Optical properties, Atmosphere of Earth (Wikipedia)
- What is fire? (Science Learning Hub)
- What is smoke? (Science Learning Hub)
- Soot (Wikipedia)
- Earth's atmospheric layers: The densest part extends 8-14.5 km above the surface (NASA )
- Would light ever stop traveling if there were no objects to absorb the light? (UCSB ScienceLine)
- Does light travel forever? (The Naked Scientists)
- Visible and non-visible ‘light’ - Electromagnetic spectrum (Wikipedia)
- Infrared (Wikipedia)
- You are producing light right now - Humans glow in the dark (The Guardian)
- Predator (Wikipedia)
- Thermographic cameras (Wikipedia)
- Ze goggles - Night vision (Wikipedia)
- Can you catch fire in the electric chair? (NY Daily News)
- Cooler fires burn redder, hotter fires burn bluer - Flame color (Wikipedia)
- Why can we see fire? Hard to say really…Primates, Evolution of color vision (Wikipedia)
- Telescopes are like big eyes (Wikipedia)
- How long can light travel for? - “Oldest Light in the Universe" (The Daily Galaxy)
- Hubble Space Telescope (Wikipedia)
- Hubble Space Telescope (hubblesite)
- James Webb Space Telescope: Will monitor long-wavelength visible light, through near-infrared to the mid-infrared (Wikipedia)
- We put telescopes on mountains so it’s easier to see light from space - Mauna Kea Observatories (University of Hawaii)
- Driest Place: Atacama Desert, Chile (Extreme Science)
- Why do stars twinkle? (Cornell University)
- Adaptive optics lets us see stars by de-twinkling them (CSIRO)
- Deepak Chopra
- Ionising radiation (World Health Organization)
- Stopping alpha, beta and gamma nuclear radiation (BBC)
- What makes the aurora borealis? (Wikipedia)
- Radiation in space (NASA)
- Lead is really dense (Wikipedia)
- Scott Kelly was 2 inches taller when he arrived back on Earth - Twins study (NASA)
- Mark Kelly (Wikipedia)
- Light reflecting off things during the moon landing (Nerdist)
- Why we only see one side of the moon - Tidal locking (Wikipedia)
- The other side of the moon (Wikipedia)
- The moon gets ‘Earthlight’ in the same way we get moonlight - (Wikipedia)
- The moon and Earth rotate around their ‘barycentre’ (Wikipedia)
- Sunrise & sunset on the moon (YouTube)
- Earthrise from the moon - NASA (YouTube)
- No one’s been to the moon since 1972 (BBC)
- The space station sits at the edge of our atmosphere (Wikipedia)
- Will we go back to the moon again? - Russia just announced it's going back to the moon (Techinsider)
- The moon has pretty much no atmosphere, hence crazy temperature fluctuations - What is the Temperature on the Moon? (space.com)
- Mars has a thin atmosphere, hence crazy temperature fluctuations - What is the Temperature on Mars? (space.com)
- The atmosphere and oceans are linked - The Ocean-Atmosphere System (Tulane University)
- Astronauts come back taller (NASA)
- Astronauts lose muscle mass (NASA)
- Could we mine the moon? - Billionaire teams up with NASA to mine the moon (CNBC)
- Maltesers
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