48 min listen
Things You Thought You Knew – Magnetic Cores & Flipping Poles
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Length:
45 minutes
Released:
May 30, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Is your compass actually wrong? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice explore magnetic fields, why clocks go clockwise, and how phone numbers got their area codes.NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can listen to this entire episode commercial-free.Thanks to our Patrons Ed B, Thomas Skov, Kelly Castro, tasos, Doug Dee, and Antonio Gutiérrez Pérez for supporting us this week.Photo Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center from Greenbelt, MD, USA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Released:
May 30, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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