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Quantum sperm | Asteroid box | Spiderworm

Nov 03, 202340 minSeason 1Ep. 135
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Episode description

Debutant Pierre Novellie and Tom Neenan join host Alice Fraser for episode 135 of The Gargle - the glossy magazine to The Bugle's audio newspaper for a visual world.


All of the news, none of the politics!


💦 Quantum sperm

☄️ Asteroid container

💣 Billionaire Zeppelin 

🕸 Spiderworm silk

🛌 Reviews


Story 1: https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-caught-sperm-defying-one-of-the-major-laws-of-physics


Story 2: https://gizmodo.com/nasa-struggling-open-asteroid-sample-container-1850951047


Story 3: https://spectrum.ieee.org/lta-airship-faa-clearance


Story 4: https://www.freethink.com/hard-tech/spider-dna-silkworms-kevlar


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CONTENTS


0:00 Start

02:16 Front cover

04:45 Satirical cartoon

08:20 Story 1: Scientists caught sperm defying one of the major laws of physics

13:36 Ads

15:20 Story 2: NASA is struggling to open its asteroid sample container

21:43 Reviews

24:25 Story 3: Google founder's airship gets FAA clearance

32:32 Story 4: Adding spider DNA to silkworms creates silk stronger than Kevlar

37:54 Bye / Anything to plug?

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