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Dec 31, 2024 7:00 AM – 10:00 AM
Music
With DJ AskTheQuestion
| 7:01 AM |
| Yo-Yo Ma, Pro Musica Nipponia, Michio Mamiya & Patricia Zander Nara-Yama Japanese Melodies Sony Classical 1984
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| 7:07 AM |
| Spokane Proud Graduates The Proud Graduates Jagjaguwar 2007
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| 7:12 AM |
| Tasha Winter Song IV Tasha Alone at Last Father/Daughter Records 2018
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| 7:16 AM |
| Tanukichan Lazy Love Sundays Company 2018
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| 7:20 AM |
Set Break:
Drag forces in sands - how to move faster as you dig
You can draft in the slipstream of another traveling in sand, just as geese do in the sky and cyclists do on roads
Research article: https://journals.aps.org/prfluids/abstract/10.1103... Popular article: https://phys.org/news/2024-12-cooperation-intruder... | |
| 7:30 AM |
| Telepathique Vida Inteira Last Time On Earth The Control Group 2008
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| 7:34 AM |
| Superchunk 1,000 Pounds (Acoustic Mebane Style) 1,000 Pounds - EP Merge Records 2000
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| 7:38 AM |
| The Swimmers Miles from Our Fears Fighting Trees MAD Dragon 2008
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| 7:42 AM |
Set Break:
Quicksand
What is quicksand? A shear-thinning non-Newtonian fluid = gets thinner / waterier when you step on it
https://www.science.org.au/curious/space-time/can-... Quicksand as cultural analogy for quagmire: See this episode of Radiolab https://radiolab.org/podcast/quicksand | |
| 7:51 AM |
| Tanya Tagaq Cold Tanya Tagaq Retribution Six Shooter Records Inc. 2016
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| 7:58 AM |
| Lamprey River Band Fireman's Reel / Rising of the Lamprey / Silver Spear / High Reel / Fireman's Reel (medley) Choose Your Partners: Contra Dance and Square Dance Music of New Hampshire V/A Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 1999
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| 8:04 AM |
| Nobukazu Takemura Mumble Nobukazu Takemura 10th Thrill Jockey 2002
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| 8:09 AM |
| The Tahitian Choir Ua Putuputu Tatou E The Tahitian Choir Tahitian Choir, Vol. II: Rapa Iti Shanachie 2005
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| 8:14 AM |
Set Break:
Physics of knit fabrics
Knit fabrics stretch due to elasticity and shifting of the contact points between different loops at tension Scientists experimented with tugging the yarn in different directions and found many states the knit could rest in; knitted fabrics have no unique shape, set by friction between strands
Research article: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/Phys... Popular articles: https://phys.org/news/2024-12-science-christmas-sw..., https://physics.aps.org/articles/v17/s153 | |
| 8:25 AM |
| Tartufi Fear of Tall Giraffes, Fear of Some Birds Tartufi Nests of Waves and Wire Southern 2009
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| 8:32 AM |
| Jeff Snyder The Plasmic Crystal N Loom Carrier Records 2024
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| 8:37 AM |
| Marnie Stern Clone Cycle This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That and He Is It and She Is It and It Is It and That Is That Kill Rock Stars 2008
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| 8:40 AM |
| SZA Omega Z - EP Top Dawg Entertainment 2014
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| 8:45 AM |
Set Break:
Trips to space in 2025: a preview
To the Moon; SPHEREx; Space Rider; M2/Resilience; Tianwen-2; flybys ![]() Spaceflights planned for next year: https://theconversation.com/from-new-commercial-mo... | |
| 8:57 AM |
| The Klezmorim Sonya / Anushke Streets of Gold Arhoolie 1978
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| 9:01 AM |
| Ganda Sari Sanghyang Dedari Kecak and Sanghyang of Bali King 1991
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| 9:09 AM |
| Sinn Sisamouth The Kickboxer Cambodian Rocks Vol. 3 V/A Khmer Rocks 2005
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| 9:13 AM |
Set Break:
How to feed vegetables to picky toddlers? Maybe, don't force them or fool them
A relevant survey: most kids get enough dietary diversity, even if they famously avoid vegetables https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/... Article: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2024/05... | |
| 9:23 AM |
| Spires That In the Sunset Rise The May Ham Four Winds the Walker Secret Eye 2005
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| 9:27 AM |
| These United States West Won Crimes United Interests 2008
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| 9:34 AM |
Set Break:
Controversial plant: unwashed lettuce? Or washed lettuce?
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| 9:41 AM |
| The Soviettes Blue Stars The Soviettes The Soviettes LP Rad Girlfriend Records 2003
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| 9:44 AM |
| Spider Bags Chem Trails Frozen Letter Merge Records 2014
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| 9:46 AM |
| Maria Taylor Leap Year 11:11 Saddle Creek 2005
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| 9:50 AM |
Set Break:
"Carbon Footprint" as a means to offload responsibility for climate change onto individuals
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| 9:58 AM |
| Marvin Gaye You're The Man Black and Proud Vol. 1 V/A Trikont 2003
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