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🗓️ 24 December 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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This week, Will is joined by Kishore Hari, who takes us on scientific journey through some of the biggest science stories of the year. Topics include advancements in cancer research, a cure for sickle cell anemia, the Nine Boundaries graph, advances in brain science, the cheapest way to land on the Moon, long-standing math problems solve by amateurs, and the year in science woo. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod

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0:00.0	Hey, Kishore.
0:02.1	What's up, Will?
0:03.6	I learned a technical term this morning.
0:07.2	How technical?
0:08.7	Yeah, it's fairly self-explanatory, but I'd never heard it before.
0:12.1	It's called an electrocution rescue pole.
0:16.1	Rescue pole?
0:17.4	Pole.
0:18.0	Do you know what it's, do you, like, what would you, what is this, what is this put in your head when you think about it?
0:23.2	Weirdly,
0:23.7	it puts into my head,
0:24.8	one of those PSAs after the end of G.I.
0:27.6	Joe where one of them comes up and is like,
0:30.1	don't touch the downed electrical power line.
0:33.6	I have this magic pole that will actually move it to the side of the road.
0:38.3	I just think about the stop all the downloading one.
0:40.7	But yeah, it's, you know, when you go to chemistry lab in college, you like learn about the
0:43.8	eyewash station, you learn about the emergency shower, you learn about the fire bucket,
0:48.0	all of the, you know, the sand, the place where the broken glass goes, all of that stuff.
0:52.5	We didn't have an electrocution rescue pole.
0:55.0	It's apparently a pole that you used to knock somebody who's gotten, like,
0:59.9	grab themselves onto a high voltage source so you can knock them off of it.
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