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Podcast: Curiosity Weekly
Episode: How Life Expectancy Doubled in Just 150 Years (w/ Author Steven Johnson)
Description: Learn how we doubled life expectancy in the last 150 years. Plus: “impossible” quasicrystals formed from nuclear bombs.
Additional resources from Steven Johnson:
Pick up "Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer": https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/594501/extra-life-by-steven-johnson/
Website: https://stevenberlinjohnson.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/stevenbjohnson
The first nuclear detonation created "impossible" quasicrystals shaped like 20-sided dice by Briana Brownell
Castelvecchi, D. (2021). First nuclear detonation created “impossible” quasicrystals. Nature, 593(7860), 487–487. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01332-0
Bindi, L., Kolb, W., Eby, G. N., Asimow, P. D., Wallace, T. C., & Steinhardt, P. J. (2021). Accidental synthesis of a previously unknown quasicrystal in the first ato...