Unexplainable

The future of quantum computing depends on getting way colder than ice cold — down to some of the coldest temperatures in the universe. The quest to build these super refrigerators takes us to nuclear bomb stockpiles, the moon, and … Party City?

Guest: Zack Savitsky, science journalist, author of Cold Rush

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Music can give us goosebumps. It can make us cry. It can make us move. How?

Guests: Amelia Meath, songwriter and singer in Sylvan Esso; Elizabeth Margulis,  director of the Music Cognition Lab at Princeton University and author of On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind

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Is it yellow? Is it green? Or what if, as one scientist argues, “there’s no such thing as a color?”

Guest: Bevil Conway, visual artist and neuroscientist at the National Eye Institute

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When things fall into bogs, they sometimes wind up being beautifully preserved. This includes bodies, sometimes dating back thousands of years. We’re still trying to understand who was buried in the bogs and why.

Guest: Anna North, journalist and author of Bog Queen

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Once upon a time (around 300 million years ago), Earth was home to massive dragonfly-like insects and two meter long millipede-like creatures. Why did they die off?

Guests: Ned Snelling, professor of experimental physiology at the University of Pretoria; Jon Harrison, professor of environmental physiology at Arizona State University

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