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Podcast: Curiosity Weekly
Episode: Basketball Positions, Self-Healing Plastic, IQ Decline
Description: Today youâll learn about how fruit flies are inspiring new forms of gameplay in basketball, how IQ levels are falling around the country, and a potential solution to difficult-to-recycle plastics! Basketball Positions âPhysics model could optimize basketball player positioningâ by Kathy Hovishttps://phys.org/news/2023-03-physics-optimize-basketball-player-positioning.htmlâFruit flies and electrons: Researchers use physics to predict crowd behaviorâ by Linda B. Glaserhttps://phys.org/news/2018-08-fruit-flies-electrons-physics-crowd.htmlâDensity-functional fluctuation theory of crowdsâ by J. Felipe MĂ©ndez-Valderrama et al.https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-05750-z#Abs1Self-Healing Plastic âResearchers build ha...