
About this episode
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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