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Episode 222 - Modifying the Weather
Squaring the Strange
English - March 09, 2024 04:08 - 1 hour - 68.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsSociety & Culture Science Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Episode 221 - What Giant Penguins Can Teach Us, with Daniel Loxton
Next Episode: Episode 223 - Deception Studies with Curt Anderson
First, Pascual and Celestia hit recent science news -- a sideways lunar landing, some male-on-male humpback whale action, and recent cell outages. Then Ben and Celestia look at weather modification, from prayer and superstition to very real cloud-seeding efforts. Though in practice almost everywhere for generations, this technology still surprises and confuses people, who lump it in with conspiracies about precise weather control by some all-powerful cabal . . . using a decommissioned array of antennas in Alaska?