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These Vibes are Too Cosmic

Aug 22, 2021 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

With DJ AskTheQuestion

Every Week

there's SCIENCE on WPRB

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The Hydra Brain Regeneration Show

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10:02 AM		Jeff Snyder Happy Swing Jeff Snyder These Vibes Theme Song S/R 2016
10:02 AM		Willie Songe et Les Showmen Moni Ngan N Cameroon Garage Funk Analog Africa 2021
10:08 AM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- Show intro; Watch Out for Tropical Storm Henri!
10:13 AM		Jay Diggs WAP [Instrumental] Jay Diggs WAP (Funk Version) [Funk Version] - Single Jay Diggs Music 2020
10:16 AM		Lucy Dacus Partner in Crime Lucy Dacus N Home Video Matador 2021
10:20 AM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- Laser-confined fusion has produced a "burn wave" of fusion that magnified their yield by 8x! https://www.llnl.gov/news/national-ignition-facili...
10:32 AM		Hailu Mergia & The Walias Band Mestirawi Debdabe N Tezeta Awesome Tapes from Africa 2021
10:37 AM		Taqbir Al-zuki Akbar Taqbir N Taqbir - EP Taqbir 2021
10:39 AM		Nana Adjoa In Lesser Light Pollution Nana Adjoa Big Dreaming Ants Bloomer Records 2020
10:43 AM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- The reason inertial confinement fusion is funded is to study nuclear weapons despite the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty ! This is how our government funds science.
10:54 AM		Rubén González Tumbao Rubén González Introducing Rubén González World Circuit 1997
10:59 AM		Fievel Is Glauque Unfinding N God's Trashmen Sent to Right the Mess 2743591 Records DK 2021
11:00 AM		Mr. and Mrs. I. G. Greer The Three Babes Traditional Anglo-American Ballads, Vol. 2 Rounder 1999
11:04 AM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- Grain boundaries define how many materials operate, but how they shift around is only now being observed https://www.nature.com/articles/s41563-020-00879-z
11:14 AM		Tuzeint Birdz in My Eyez Tuzeint 23 - EP Bludot Recordings 2021
11:17 AM		Stone Giants & Amon Tobin Stinson Beach Stone Giants N West Coast Love Stories Nomark 2021
11:21 AM		Slothrust Horseshoe Crab Slothrust Everyone Else Dangerbird Records 2016
11:26 AM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- An amazingly well preserved ancient horseshoe crab brain - imagine! And so similar to your grandson! https://www.sciencenews.org/article/fossil-ancient...
11:34 AM		Cesária Evora Nho Anton Escaderode Cesária Evora The Essential Cesária Evora Sony 2010
11:38 AM		Leopoldo Federico y Orqesta Sueno de Tango Cafe de los Maestros Sergo 2005
11:42 AM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- The regenerating Hydra was used to study the formation of a brand new brain! https://science.sciencemag.org/content/373/6557/tw... https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34297913/
11:53 AM		Asnakech Worku Mech Alkugn Lela Sew Asnakech Worku Asnakech Awesome Tapes From Africa 2018
11:59 AM		Jayme Stone Shenandoah Jayme Stone Jayme Stone's Lomax Project Borealis Records 2015

Chat is archived.

A cheery and dry morning to all of you out there!

HI Brian- Thanks for the shout-out! I was drawn to your show by the fusion discussion!

Hi Read, nice to see you here! Yes, I wanted to come tell you in your chat but I didn't get home in time.

It's not quite PPPL's flavor of fusion but we are absolutely involved!

Yes, I was thinking neutral beams and High harmonic fast waves (radio frequency) as I listened!

Two posts?!? I rest my case your honor. Now I know what the worst scheduled program on WPRB is. If there’s a best, there must be a worst. Carry on, all 3 of you.

Good morning, Brian! Thanks for the Lawrence Livermore Lab laser-oriented fusion progress report. An old friend was a plasma containment specialist with Princeton Plasma Physics Lab's tokamak experiments, and he often wryly cited the "trying to evenly compress a balloon" challenge of plasma containment.

Livermore Lab tests, develops WMD.

Just saying.

@Readie Righteous Congrats on Brian's shoutout for your superb show yesterday. Totally well deserved!

Hi Richard! I feel "at home at work" with the PPPL discussion! Fusion is exciting!

@Dan You're absolutely right, though it doesn't sound like you're into the science breaks I can spend some time on this next.

Thank you, I love science. NPR’s Science Friday as one example.

@Readie Righteous It surely is - and we're only 20 years away from the crucial breakeven energy used = energy produced point !!! Indeed, we've been only 20 years away for the last 60 years !!! (Sorry, I am a booster of fusion energy research, but I just couldn't resist ...)

Thanks @Richard! I am privileged to be part of the fusion family hard at work at PPPL. My favorite job so far, and I've had a lot of jobs throughout my working life.

@Dan I welcome any and all feedback, this is no Science Friday by a longshot but I'd always like to be more entertaining and educational. Getting ideas to stick with audio alone is difficult.

Here’s some science. I substituted first day of school, special Ed. on Tues. HS. Only one returning student could fit in their desk seat. So, they blew up big rubber ball rolling chairs, that roll up to the opposite side of the desk. Up front, the teach has piles of candy, other treats for assignment rewards. Reminded me of the passengers on the mega ship in Wall-E. To be truthful, I’m obese also, but I’m inspired to do much, much better.

Thanks again, I’ll check out that book. Also, the late Peter Bacon Hales, “Outside The Gates of Eden- The Dream Of America from Hiroshima to Now”, University of Chicago Press, 2014.

The obvious theme: Music that includes an explosion sound affect. Moody Blues alone probably has a dozen tracks.

@Brian thanks for your candor. I concur on the Hiroshima book!

Back at ya!

Thanks Dan and Readie! WPRB is freeform radio and using it to communicate rarely heard facts is why I am on the air. Thanks for suggesting this important direction today

The Flaming Lips album "The Soft Bulletin is a concept album that has been attributed by some as relating the the development of the fission bomb (Manhattan Project) - have you heard it?

I'm a big fan! But I had no idea it was inspired that way. I'll have to listen to it with that in mind

@ Brian Well said, fair, balanced and candid, with support of scientific research but also awareness of the frequent military overlays, and with compassion for humanity.

I highly recommend it! I played a track on my Aug. 6 "Blossoms among the Ruins" program.

@Richard, I'm glad it came off that way. The first intention normally in communicating science news is to make things seem exciting and important - which they often are! But that perspective makes it hard to talk through nuance. I guess if it's going to happen anywhere on FM radio, it will probably be here.

Yes, indeed. :-))

Fascinating! A very long time ago Scientific American devoted an issue to concrete, and one idea that knocked me out: That concrete bends also.

That is absolutely true! No material is really that stable if you zoom in enough. Everything is flowing, reassembling over time. (Especially if it's placed somewhere on this flowing, dynamic Earth!)

cool stuff, Brian! Also, the Tuzeint track is perfect vibe for a rainy Sunday

That's right.. something to get you in the mood for relaxing inside. Read, did your bird ever come back?

Hey, not yet- the Birdie has not made an appearance Saturday or as of yet today... I am keeping vigilant!!!

Determined to get a photo!

The patient worm gets the bird!

Indeed @Brian!

Cool pic of the h. crab brain. We're fortunate in New Jersey to be lose enough to the shore to be able to see the current version of these amazing creatures!

*Close enough*

That's right! Once Deidre Dionysiac told me about going to count how many horseshoe crabs were mating during a certain full moon.

Apparently it was a lot!

Well today is the full moon (Blue Moon) and they have blue blood, apparently!

Horseshoe crabs are much more interesting than most of us probably consider!

There is a medical connection I saw on Google just now

I'm curious what you found Read!

Yeah, the amebocytes in their blue blood is harvested to keep our blood safe from pathogens, something like that! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_crab

And after harvesting a little of their the blood, they are released unharmed back into the sea! How cool is that!

It's like a vampire factory! Get on the conveyor belt, Horseshoe Crab!

I went one year to observe the horseshoe crab egg-laying orgy (well, it is ...) at Cape May. Wondrous, astonishing! Not the least of which being, these creatures are not crabs but arthropods more closely related to scorpions and spiders, and virtually unchanged for 400 million years. Maybe we Homo sapiens should have their brains, and we'll survive nearly as long! ;-))

That is amazing Richard! I would love to see it. It sounds like one of NJ's natural wonders

Between the hydra and horsehoe crab, we could find the fountain of youth!

Trust me, the billionaires are on it! I bet it's no trouble getting funding for Hydra research

Awesome, @Brian!

It is indeed! And, if I recall correctly, scientists were not really aware of it until the 20th century. Although of course the locals knew. As did many bird watchers because migratory birds gather to feed on the horseshoe crab eggs (don't worry, plenty survive!)

We are slow to catch on but there are more and more of us, so eventually scientists will probably get to investigating everything.

It's been great hanging out with you all this morning - see you next Sunday!

Thanks Brian, and bye to Richard and Dan!

Have a great week!

You too Read!