Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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How do we defeat the dirt worms? Jan 30, 2025

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Daniel and Kelly talk about what we're doing to combat soil-transmitted nematodes, which are parasite that infects up to 25% of the world's population.

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How did we tackle Trichinella? Jan 28, 2025

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Daniel and Kelly talk about how public health officials turned "the most serious parasitic disease in New England" into a disease that only afflicts about 15 people per year in the whole of the United States.

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Can tardigrades survive on the Moon? Jan 23, 2025

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Daniel and Kelly talk about the extraordinary ability to tardigrades to survive extreme conditions, and ponder whether those abilities have kept them alive after a space craft carrying them crashed into the surface of the Moon.

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Listener Questions #4 Jan 21, 2025

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Daniel and Kelly answer questions about binary star seasons, meat wasps and freefall.

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What is post-quantum gravity? Jan 16, 2025

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Daniel and Kelly talk to Jonathan Oppenheim about his unusual theory of unpredictable gravity

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What is so beautiful about string theory? Jan 14, 2025

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Daniel and Kelly talk to Thomas Van Riet about how string theory unravels the puzzle of quantum gravity and whether math can be beautiful.

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DKEU Listener Questions Volume #3 Jan 09, 2025

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Daniel and Kelly answer listener questions about soil on Mars, the double slit experiment, and adaptations for surviving on the Red Planet.

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Familes in space Jan 07, 2025

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Can humans safely have babies in space? Daniel and Kelly talk about what we know about human health in space, and our prospects for starting families there.

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Time travel fiction Jan 02, 2025

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Daniel and Kelly talk to authors about the science and storytelling of time-travel.

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Space Debris (featuring Dr. Jonathan McDowell) Dec 31, 2024

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Daniel and Kelly talk to Dr. Jonathan McDowell about the kinds of junk you find in space, the problems it causes, and what we can do about it.

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