Announcing Patreon and how to Support the Show
www.patreon.com/PhysicalAttraction, that's www.patreon.com/PhysicalAttraction . If you go there, and subscribe selecting the $3/episode option, the RSS feed and access to all of the online bonus episo...
3 Nov 20174min
TEOTWAWKI Bonus: Alien Attack (Free Episode)
Things have been very serious and very depressing on our TEOTWAWKI specials; so I thought it was about time to do a little bit of light-hearted debunking, rather than ranting about the genuine dangers...
3 Nov 201724min
TEOTWAWKI 4, Supervirus Part I: Nature
Human beings have been facing apocalyptic circumstances for thousands of years. Our competitors, our nemesis have been pathogens like malaria, Yersinia Pestis, smallpox... every few generations, a cat...
27 Okt 201732min
Rafael Alves-Batista: Cosmic Rays and the Multiverse
Joining me today is Dr Rafael Alves-Batista. Rafael is a post-doctoral research associate at the University of Oxford. He received his Bachelor's Degree and his Masters' at the State University of Cam...
21 Okt 201739min
News: Neutron Star Merger, Yay Science!
LIGO hold a big press conference and announce the merger of Neutron Stars detected via gravitational waves and optical instruments for the first time. We now know about types of gamma ray burst, and w...
16 Okt 201716min
TEOTWAWKI 5: Peak Oil
This episode of the TEOTWAWKI specials, we're focusing on every crazed doom-prepper's favourite scenario for the end of the world - Peak Oil. Our society runs on oil and petroleum products (sadly, st...
14 Okt 201729min
2017 Nobel Prize Special: Gravitational Waves
As you may already know, yesterday, the Nobel Prize in Physics, 2017 was announced: it went to Kip Thorne, Barry Barish, and Rainer Weiss for their contributions towards the LIGO collaboration that de...
4 Okt 201732min
TEOTWAWKI 6: Malthus' Revenge
The human population has been growing exponentially for a long time. It's been continuously growing since the Black Death in the 1300s – and although wars, famines, and plagues cause occasional blips ...
30 Sep 201728min
