Episode 075 - Live from Convergence Con
Probably Science
Andy Wood, Matt Kirshen
4.8 • 707 Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2013
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Matt Kirshen takes Probably Science on the road this week for a live taping at Convergence Con (convergence-con.org) featuring The Physics of Superheroes' own Dr. James Kakalios, Minneapolis comedian Tommy Ryman (@tommyryman) and Dan Schlissel from Stand Up Records (@StandUpRecords). Dr. Jim is a professor of experimental physics at the University of Minnesota, and was both a scientific consultant, and a DVD extra feature on the Watchmen movie. This week's episode gets into superconductors, solid state physics, things with "nano" in the title, telescopic eyes, quantum computing, and how to transport science on a boat.
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| 0:00.0 | Probably Science |
| 0:02.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the live recording of the Probably Science podcast. |
| 0:22.6 | Please welcome Matt Kirshin. |
| 0:27.6 | Thank you, thank you. |
| 0:28.6 | Welcome. Welcome to Probably Science. |
| 0:30.7 | Let's bring our panel straight out. We might as well. |
| 0:33.0 | Let's have a round of applause for the people who are going to be guesting on the show today. |
| 0:37.8 | Yeah, why not? |
| 0:39.5 | As everyone sit on in. |
| 0:42.6 | Welcome, thank you so much for coming here. |
| 0:45.5 | This is so cool. |
| 0:47.0 | This is my first time at this, at Convergence. |
| 0:50.0 | For our listeners at home, we are at ConvergenceCon in Minneapolis, well, kind of just south of Minneapolis, in the Double Tree Hotel in Bloomington, for any stalkers who want to time travel and then see us. |
| 1:04.0 | This is also kind of my first, like, proper nerd conference thing. I think it's fair to say this is a full-on nerd conference. |
| 1:11.6 | I just attended, I did, I did yoga this afternoon, led by Hello Kitty and a witch. |
| 1:20.6 | Which is kind of wonderful. Like, it was great. The witch didn't do much bending. She was more on the instructional side of things. |
| 1:32.6 | Hello Kitty was the physical bit and the witch told the story that accompanied it because why could, how could you have yoga without an accompanying story? So that's what we had. It's a lot of fun. |
| 1:39.3 | For those of you who don't know the show, which I'm guessing pretty much all of you. |
| 1:44.2 | Here's what the show is normally myself |
| 1:46.3 | and a couple of other comedians, but they're back in L.A. |
| 1:49.8 | We all have vague science backgrounds, |
| 1:52.1 | but comedy isn't now what we do, |
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