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Science at the Movies - A podcast by Abigail James and Freda Werdiger - Thursdays

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We're kicking off new year with an all-time favourite! Robert Zemeckis' Contact from 1997.There's so much going on in the movie, where do we start? Freda is rude enough to mention Fourier transforms, Abby tries to hear what the Universe (or maybe Pulsars) is trying to say and we play tribute to Arecibo.I like it's bigness!__________Extra stuff 4 the extra listeners:Carl Sagan supercuthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZmafy_v8g8&t=73sArecibo Collapse from Now Thishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h-f9PNe_wwCan space slow down cancer?https://newatlas.com/medical/low-gravity-kill-cancer-cells-space/Eugene Hecht's Optics, buy used:Australia:https://www.worldofbooks.com/en-au/books/eugene-hecht/optics/9780201838879UK:https://www.worldofbooks.com/en-gb/books/eugene-hecht/optics/9780201838879US:https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/Optics--4-e-9788131718070 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.