Ideas Worth Exploring
Science is the best way we have for understanding how the world works. And you know what makes science better? Puns! This podcast is meant to introduce a variety of scientific topics in a way that is approachable for people without a scientific background and entertaining even for the nerds who think they know everything.
Podcasting since 2022 • 32 episodes
Ideas Worth Exploring
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Optimization algorithms and the life lessons they taught me
Optimization is about maximizing or minimizing something. The math behind how you do that has taught me some important life lessons, including: (Gradient descent) Incremental progress with regular course corrections will eventually get y...
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Season 1
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Episode 32
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31:03
The secret to getting rich is to be boring
I’ve been interested in investing recently, the idea that if you have money then you can use it to make more money. This is a really important topic that I wish my past self had understood better, and so I’m going to break the usual rule...
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Season 1
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Episode 31
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23:39
Climate Change Part 3: The solutions to global warming and what they have to do with cows
If we want the globe to stop warming, then we need to get to net zero greenhouse gas emissions. Methods to reduce emissions include: renewable energy, electric vehicles, feeding seaweed to cows to stop them from burping so much, turning ...
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Season 1
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Episode 30
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36:17
Climate Change Part 2: Blind octopuses and lonely turtles
Climate change will cause droughts, floods, heat waves, and might even make our vegetables less nutritious. In this episode we will talk about some of the consequences global warming will have on animals and humans, and how much of an im...
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Season 1
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Episode 29
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34:15
Climate change part 1: Your car is a greenhouse
Cow burps and car emissions are making the atmosphere heat up. This is the greenhouse effect, and it’s the same thing that turns your car into an inferno in the summer, with some nuance added. In this episode, we will discuss the physica...
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Episode 28
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