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62: To Terraform or Not to Terraform ... Pt. 1

Dr. Rob Carter and Joseph Darnell — Fri, 16 Jul 2021 17:03:23 +0000

For the first time since before quarantines began in 2020, Rob and Joseph are back in the studio for today’s episode! They discuss un-recycled plastic waste in the Pacific Ocean, Soylent ‘complete nutritious meal replacement’(!), and in their main topic, what it would take to terraform the moon and Mars!

Soylent (beverage)

“Soylent Green is People!”

Terraforming

1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created

‘Artemis: A Novel’ by Andy Weir

Could we really terraform Mars? Don’t hold your breath

‘The Martian’ film’s dust storm emergency launch scene

The Definitive Guide To Terraforming

How Do We Terraform Venus?

Could we terraform the moon?

Articles on starlight and time on Creation.com

34: Smooth, Solid Slab of a Surface

Joseph Darnell and TJ Draper — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 13:00:00 +0000

Eyeglasses, iPad Keyboards, Note taking apps, iOS and iPadOS 15 beta, Disney+ and Black Widow, problems with the Apple Watch and AirPods Pro: it's another riveting and quite nerdy episode of HiFi!

Post Show:

61: Submarine Tech

Dr. Rob Carter and Joseph Darnell — Sat, 10 Jul 2021 18:21:06 +0000

Dr. Rob Carter and Joseph Darnell discuss summer life, the great book ‘1493’ that Rob’s reading, and for their main topic, all-things submarines! Their history, innovation, influence, and stories are fascinating!

CSS Hunley
1493 book by by Charles C Mann
U-505 at the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago
Steel Boats, Iron Hearts: A U-Boat crewman's life aboard U-505
K-129. Collision with USS Swordfish? Unauthorized attempt to launch an ICBM?
Glomar Explorer and Project Azorian
Blind Man’s Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage
Top-10 list of best submarine movies
Become an Equinox Plus member on Patreon!
Follow @PodcastEquinox on Twitter
Write us an email: podcastequinox-at-gmail-dot-com
Watch Biblical Genetics on YouTube
Listen to Joseph’s HiFi podcast

60: Dr. C’s Guide to Distant Starlight and Deep Time

Dr. Rob Carter and Joseph Darnell — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 01:49:30 +0000

On today’s episode of Equinox, Rob is excited that Joseph got DNA tests (on sale for Prime Day). In the main discussion, Dr. C. explores the issue of deep time and distant starlight travel—how it works, what we know, what astronomers speculate … It’s fascinating, as Rob likes to say!

23andme.com test

Ancestry.com

Revolutionizing camera lenses

33: Synergy-iation

Joseph Darnell and TJ Draper — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 13:00:00 +0000

Day One be synergizin' with Automattic, Joe is interested in ergonomic computer pointing devices and blue light blocking glasses, TJ is interested in Windows 11 — and the design of this iteration of Windows has also caught Joe's eye, and TJ thinks modern digital key fobs are… problematic.

59: The Black Death

Dr. Rob Carter and Joseph Darnell — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 19:48:50 +0000

Rob and Joseph discuss a ‘revolutionary’ camera lens, South African worker bee clones, a giant arc stretching 3.3 billions lightyears across the cosmos, and for the main discussion, Black Death. 💀

South African worker honeybees reproduce by making near-perfect clones of themselves

Joseph’s recent related Creation.com Article Podcast episode: What! No Potatoes?

'Giant arc' stretching 3.3 billion light-years across the cosmos shouldn't exist

Largest structures in the universe show clear light-shifted signal of rotation

Black Death on History.com

Black death timeline on History.com

Black Death on Wikipedia

Meet the Appalachian Apple Hunter Who Rescued 1,000 ‘Lost’ Varieties

58: Lazers & Lightsabers (Pew Pew!)

Dr. Rob Carter and Joseph Darnell — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 20:14:20 +0000

Joe and Rob discuss one the most important, yet most enigmatic, inventions of all time, the laser! Many mysteries, and many laughs, later, they figure it out. Tune in for the discussion.

Major Scientific Leap: Quantum Microscope Created That Can See the Impossible

Turks Enraged as Ancestry.com Reveals the Truth: Most of Them Are Greeks

Lasers

Park Sabers

More sabers

Largest clock faces in the world

57: It’s About Time!

Dr. Rob Carter and Joseph Darnell — Wed, 09 Jun 2021 20:03:01 +0000

Joe and Rob spend time talking about time, what it is, how we measure it, how the ways we measure it have changed over the centuries, and some of the amazing things we have invented to tell time more accurately.

Acid rain

Killer bees

Interesting clocks

Prague astronomical clock

Salisbury Cathedral clock

The verge escapement

Harrison’s clocks and cracking the longitude problem

Atomic clocks

Quantum entanglement

The Quantum Internet

The Milky Way Wobbles, a lot

32: Absorbing SharePlay

Joseph Darnell and TJ Draper — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 14:00:00 +0000

WWDC 2021 is in the books, and Joseph and TJ have thoughts, opinions, hopes, dreams, deep dish pizza is just bad lasagna, etc. Join in to hear all about Apple's announced and upcoming offerings!

56: The Jet Engine

Dr. Rob Carter and Joseph Darnell — Sat, 05 Jun 2021 16:14:08 +0000

Joseph is switching to ‘vacation mode’ and Dr. Carter shares stories about his fun adventures in Florida. In an interesting story of science news this week, researchers think they can accurately say that the Milky Way galaxy wobbles! In listener questions: what is acid rain? For the main topic, Rob tells us all about the jet engine! In the after show, Beequinox is back! Wow!

Ramjets and the SR-71 Blackbird

Newton’s Second Law: F = ma

Newton’s Third Law: For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction

The ideal gas law: PV=nRT

Charles’ Law: V=kT

Types of jet engines

Rob’s bees are washboarding

Nuclear reactions at Chernobyl are spiking in an inaccessible chamber

31: A Sticky Note the Size of Florida

Joseph Darnell and TJ Draper — Wed, 02 Jun 2021 14:00:00 +0000

TJ switches to Verizon, Joseph tries and fails to break his phone, the new Apple TV Siri remote is fantastic, and both have many wishes and opinions for the upcoming WWDC keynote.

55: Taking Flight

Dr. Rob Carter and Joseph Darnell — Thu, 27 May 2021 19:30:30 +0000

Dr. C and Joseph D are thrilled to explore the origins of engine-powered flight! They catch up on work, Rob’s recent air travel, and jet lag. Then for the main topic, they start way back at the beginning of human flight using gliders and hot air balloons and talk all the way up to jet engine planes and boomerangs. In the after show, Joseph and Rob discuss other things that can or cannot fly and Joseph tells us what flying discs have to do with coffee.

First parachute fall

History of flight

NASA’s kid version of the history of flight

Aerobie.com

The time that Joseph reviewed the AeroPress on his Top Brew podcast (2015)

Long-term radiation-related health effects of Hiroshima and Nagasaki a-bombs

54: What is Radiation?

Dr. Rob Carter and Joseph Darnell — Wed, 19 May 2021 16:00:00 +0000

Back this with awesome discussion about beekeeping (what else?!), the most-insanely valuable rare earth elements, and for the main topic: radiation. Picking up where Rob left us wondering about ‘what is radiation’ last time while exploring the periodic table, he explains what it is, isn’t, and how deadly it can be or not be. 🤔 In the after show, the guys catch up on ‘Beequinox’: naming the queen, mayhem, et cetera.

Californium short half-life, $25 million per gram, 1 µg = 139 million neutrons per minute

Cherenkov Radiation

Most expensive elements

Radiation?

Cloud chambers

The Demon core

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SpaceX's Starship Prototype Takes To The Skies And Returns Safely

30: Splashes of Color Are Welcome Here

Joseph Darnell and TJ Draper — Wed, 19 May 2021 14:00:00 +0000

What is life without a few banking woes. Join Joseph in commiserating with TJ about the hot garbage fire that is the modern American banking system. Then join in Joe's office and computer transitionary journey. And don't miss the exciting eGPU discussions! And much more.

53: The Periodic Table

Dr. Rob Carter and Joseph Darnell — Fri, 07 May 2021 21:07:25 +0000

This week, Rob tells us all about transparent wood, gets excited about SpaceX rocket landing, Joseph announces Equinox Plus(!), and for the main topic, the guys explore the periodic table. Rob does a wonderful job of making sense of some of the most frustrating parts of chemistry class for us.

Transparent wood

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Discovery of the atom

Elements in order of discovery

This black hole is closest to Earth, among the smallest ever discovered

29: Basically a New iPad Pro

Joseph Darnell and TJ Draper — Tue, 04 May 2021 14:00:00 +0000

This week, Joe and TJ discuss everything they ever wanted you to know about the MacBook Air — which may or may not be different from everything you ever wanted to know about the MacBook Air. You may also want to know most about Apple failure modes, AirPods Max stands, and John Siracusa's apps Front and Center and SwitchGlass. And last but not least, what does the future hold for the iPad?

Apple Fitness+
The Max Stand
Front and Center
SwitchGlass
Terminal command to set preference for cmd + tab to show on all displays: defaults write com.apple.Dock appswitcher-all-displays -bool true
Terminal command to set dock auto-hide delay to 0: defaults write com.apple.Dock autohide-delay -float 0 && killall Dock
TJ's MacBook Air setup
USB C to DisplayPort Cable 10ft (4K@60Hz, 2K@165Hz)
USB C Docking Station
DisplayLink macOS Software
TJ's eGPU — will be a paperweight soon apparently for the Apple Silicon Future
Hicober USB C to SD Card Reader
The Graphics Card in TJ's Hackintosh

52: Black Holes

Dr. Rob Carter and Joseph Darnell — Fri, 30 Apr 2021 15:39:29 +0000

In this great episode, Dr. Carter explains how black holes really work—a far cry from how they’ve been portrayed in science fiction films that are the basis for everything Joseph thought he knew about them. Also the guys discuss the latest experiments in beekeeping.

Joseph came across this excellent black hole explainer video after we recorded this episode

Precession of the equinoxes (25,772 years)

51: Worldwide Weather Patterns

Dr. Rob Carter and Joseph Darnell — Fri, 23 Apr 2021 17:44:21 +0000

This week, Rob and Joseph shoot the breeze! Rob explains Hadley cells to us, contrasts land and water weather patterns, answers the questions ‘what will the weather be like tomorrow and in six months’, and explains so much more. And at the end of this episode the guys geek out about their new bee colonies and beekeeping challenges.

Wind!

Eccentricity of orbit 3.3% difference in distance today, 24% difference in total sunlight at max vs min eccentricity

Kite photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash

28: Wonka Himself

Joseph Darnell and TJ Draper — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 13:00:00 +0000

Get ready to nerd out about all the Apple product announcements from the April 20 event. TJ and Joe have the scoop, the opinions, the good, the bad, the ranting, the raving. It's all here. Tune in!

50: Flat Earth (April Fools!)

Dr. Rob Carter and Joseph Darnell — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 16:55:17 +0000

Rob and Joseph talk about 3D printing beehive accessories, beekeeping (as we are prone to do!), Georgia’s Savage Race, and for the main topic, the flat earth conspiracy. Ooooh boy!

Ga’s Savage Race

Is this Home Depot’s ‘flat earth’ paint? Maybe.

Why CMI rejects ‘conspiracy’ theorizing

How to think (not what to think)

Refuting flat earth theory

A direct test of the flat earth model: flight times

Scientists successfully teach a gorilla it will die someday

27: I Agree With My Subconscious

Joseph Darnell and TJ Draper — Tue, 06 Apr 2021 14:00:00 +0000

Did NightOwl crash? TJ explains and talks about backup strategies and more. Then there's Safari, WWDC 2021, Apple Watch Cellular woes, Apple being bad at design, iCloud making Joe sad, and 20 years of Mac OS X / OS X / macOS.

49: Things in Sci-Fi That Bug Us

Dr. Rob Carter and Joseph Darnell — Sat, 27 Mar 2021 16:00:00 +0000

Rob and Joe dive deep into the little things that bug them the most in the Sci-fi genre, and, of course, they also talk about bees. A story or two about whales learning how to avoid whaling ships and gorillas being taught to fear death make for a well-rounded episode, if they do say so themselves.

Joe was thinking about the Savage Race that his kids enjoy

The evolutionary paradox of the Roraima pollen of South America is still not solved

26: The Road to Ignominy

Joseph Darnell and TJ Draper — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 14:00:00 +0000

In this episode, Joseph and TJ discuss things impacting their hi fidelity life style: they dive into more Apple Watch Cellular woes, AirPods Pro quality issues and Apple's service program for them, I'm a… Justin? Thunderbolt potentially coming to iPad, and the Twelve South HoverBar Duo for iPad. And don't miss the post show if you have any interest in Superman and Lois on the CW or The Falcon and the Winter Soldier on Disney Plus.

48: Pollen, the Yellowing

Dr. Rob Carter and Joseph Darnell — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 16:00:00 +0000

Pollen, that scourge of Spring and Fall! What is it, exactly? What does it do? Why do they cause allergies and how do scientists identify plants based on their pollen?

Pollen pics

Pollen, Encyclopedia Britannica

Pollen, Wikipedia

List of pollen sources

Efficient pollen identification

Pollen counts

How do you count pollen?

The internal anatomy of the honey bee

25: Whirlygigs and Doodads

Joseph Darnell and TJ Draper — Tue, 16 Mar 2021 14:00:00 +0000

Join TJ and Joe this week to find out everything you ever wanted to know about the LG UltraFine 4K display. Also, can you run Age of Empires on a Mac? You sure can!

47: Bee Biology

Dr. Rob Carter and Joseph Darnell — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 17:00:00 +0000

Joe and Rob wax eloquent about our little wax making friends, the honeybee. Rob talks about his tricked-out hive in which he has installed some electronics. They then go on an excursion into the world of Arduino before getting to the meat of the discussion: the biology inside the hive. From bee guts to bee parasites, get ready to bee amazed.

The Arduino

How bees make honey

How bees make wax

Biology of Individual Honey Bees

Inside and Out of the Beehive

A Quick Reference Guide to Honey Bee Parasites, Pests, Predators, and Diseases