The Information Entropy Podcast

Natural Disasters

Tom starts off with the Nobel Prize announcement before the boys explore natural disasters! How do we describe what natural disasters are? How are they categorised? Mitch looks at hurricanes, tornadoes, and storms and explains everything there is to know about them! Tom looks at volcanoes and how they impact communities around them. Music: EVA - 失望した

What is Time?

Join the boys this week as they explore time!! What is time in the first place and is it an abstract construct of the human mind or do animals perceive the passage of time as well? Mitch looks at spacetime and informs us how objects with a large mass will warp time depending on your relation to that mass. Tom takes a look at time zones, where did they come from and do all territories share time equally? Music: EVA - 失望した

Viruses

Join the boys this week as they explore the tiny world of viruses! What are viruses? Are they alive? How do they enter and exploit the machinery of cells? Tom investigates the goings on of the wart viruses caused by the human papillomaviruses (HPV). Mitch takes us into the world of malware, adware, and other technological viruses and how you can protect yourself! Music: EVA - 失望した

Pollution

Join the boys this week as they dive into pollution! What are pollutants? When does that become pollution? The boys explore the different types of pollution and the substances that make them up. The boys talk about sources of pollution as well as ways to mitigate against it including looking at carbon offset screens and whether they are effective or not! Music: EVA - 失望した

Colour

Join the boys this week as they dive into colour and colour theory! Why is it our eyes detect colour? How do they do it? What properties give colour in the first place? Mitch breaks down how photoreceptors in the eye work and lead to colour blindness. Tom takes a look at the colour Magenta and how some people claim it doesn’t exist except in the mind! The boys then discuss colour in the animal kingdom! Music: EVA - 失望した

Entropy

Join the boys this week as they decrease the entropy of information in your lives around the subject of entropy itself! The boys explore what entropy is in both the classical macroscopic view and the statistical microscopic view. How does a system move from order to disorder and what are the theories surrounding this law of the universe? Music: EVA - 失望した

Coral

Join the boys this week as the dive into the world of Coral! It has been a wild week a science news so Tom starts off the show trying to summarise this for you all. Once on topic the boys break down what coral and the zooxanthellae are! Mitch takes us through the formation of coral reefs, how they signal each other and their possible medical benefits. Tom explains some competitive interactions between croals, the different types, and how they know how to grow into that shape! Music: EVA - 失望した

Music

Join the boys this week as the dive into the world of music! Mitch and Tom start off the show by using Obscurify to analyse their taste in music, so follow along at home if you can! Once the science kicks off Tom looks at music and song formation in the animal kingdom and musical cadences while Mitch takes us through a tour of musical therapy and how it has widespread health benefits! Music: EVA - 失望した

The Microbiome

This week Mitch and Tom dive into the microbiome to find out exactly what it is and the various ways in which if affects us! Tom explains The Human Microbiome Project and how it led to the level of understanding we have today while Mitch looks at FMT and the immune effects of the microbiome. Music: EVA - 失望した

Nuclear Fusion

This week the boys smash their heads together in an attempt to understand nuclear fusion! Tom takes us through the properties of nuclear fuel and the concept of fusion while Mitch takes us through the history and current state of nuclear fusion experiments and energy collection. Also, wet paper towels! Check all this out and more! Music: EVA - 失望した