Winter Olympics Deep Dive: Ice Physics, Performance Pressure, and Climate Change (EP. 26)
Hosted by Lester Nare and Krishna Choudhary, this episode is a Winter Olympics deep dive from first principles—physics, neuroscience, and climate science in one ride.• Why ice is slippery: the “water ...
18 Feb 1h 50min
Plants, Quantum Sensors, and Predicting Cancer Evolution (EP. 25)
Hosted by Lester Nare and Krishna Choudhary, this episode jumps from plant biochemistry to quantum metrology to cancer evolution. We start with a University of York breakthrough that solves a ~50-year...
10 Feb 1h 49min
Artemis II, Apollo, and the Physics of Going Back to the Moon (EP. 24)
Hosted by Lester Nare and Krishna Choudhary, this episode is a full-spectrum moonshot: why Artemis II matters, how the mission actually works (SLS, Orion, translunar injection, free-return trajectorie...
4 Feb 1h 9min
JWST’s “Little Red Dots,” TimeVaults, and the Dawn of Math (EP. 23)
Hosted by Lester Nare and Krishna Choudhary, this episode runs from JWST’s “Little Red Dots” (and what they imply about early supermassive black holes), to a TimeVault method for recording gene expres...
27 Jan 1h 40min
Cloud9 Dark Matter Halo, Jellyfish Sleep, and String Theory Hidden in Nature (EP. 22)
Hosted by Lester Nare and Krishna Choudhary, this episode runs from the deep math of string theory to the biology of sleep—then out to a starless “ghost cloud” that may be a naked dark-matter halo. We...
20 Jan 1h 39min
Roman Concrete, Brain “Cognitive Legos,” DeepSeek, and Econophysics (EP. 21)
Hosted by Lester Nare and Krishna Choudhary, this episode jumps from ancient engineering to modern AI and markets. We start with the newly uncovered Pompeii worksite that finally shows how Romans mixe...
12 Jan 1h 58min
The Physics Behind Fusion’s Biggest Problem (Season Finale) (EP. 20)
Hosted by Lester Nare and Krishna Choudhary, this Season Finale closes out Season 1 with a deep dive into the physics behind fusion’s biggest bottleneck: fast magnetic reconnection. We unpack why clas...
23 Dec 20251h 17min
The Race to the Double Helix — Watson, Crick, Franklin & the Real Story of DNA (EP. 19)
Hosted by Lester Nare and Krishna Choudhary, this single-story deep dive tells the full story of how humanity uncovered the structure of DNA — and the human tensions that shaped it. From Mendel’s pea-...
4 Dec 20251h 34min
