The Joy of Why Podcast

 There is a science/math magazine on the internet called Quanta.  I think I first learned of it from reading a retred of a Quanta article on Arstechnica.com (another science magazine).  Lots of free articles on Quanta which take a deep look into science and math topics.


https://www.quantamagazine.org/

But sometimes it's nice to listen to a podcast while playing some game and recently been getting a little tired of Green Bay Packers podcasts so I started listening to some science podcasts like:

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https://www.quantamagazine.org/tag/the-joy-of-why

The Joy of Why uses a conversation between the host Steven Strogatz and the expert/s on a particular subject.  I haven't listened to all of them yet but the ones on sleep were particularly interesting.  The fact that when fruit flies are prevented from sleeping their lives are shortened dramatically by problems in their gut.  And that the time an organism needs to take to find food (the gut again ;) affects the amount of sleep they get.  And finally the fact that sleep is common in even the humblest organisms drives home the universality of life.  Human beings are supposed to be so complicated and loftly but really aren't we just a colony of single cells on a physical framework living communally ?

Anyway, something to listen to other than music or the Packers while playing solitaire :)

Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
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