69 Katie Mack - Dark Matter: Invisible, and Probably Flying through You Right Now

Inquiring Minds

Science, Society & Culture, Neuroscience, Female Host, Interview, Social Sciences, Critical Thinking

4.4 • 848 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2015

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Dark matter: it makes up 80 to 85 percent of the matter in the universe, it’s invisible, you can’t touch it, and according to this week’s guest astrophysicist Katie Mack, it’s probably passing through you right now.Dark matter is weird.On the show this week Indre talks to Mack about dark matter, dark energy, and the big bang.This episode also features guest host Rebecca Watson of Skepchick.org, who you can follow at patreon.com/rebecca.iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/inquiring-minds/id711675943RSS: feeds.feedburner.com/inquiring-mindsStitcher: stitcher.com/podcast/inquiring-mindsSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/inquiringminds

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0:00.0	It's Friday, January 16th, 2015, and you're listening to Inquiring Minds.
0:06.5	I'm Indravis Gantus.
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0:58.5	Joining me today as guest host is skeptic Rebecca Watson.
1:02.1	She's just announced that she has ended her stint as co-host on the wildly popular
1:06.2	podcast Skeptics Guide to the Universe in order to pursue her own projects.
1:10.7	And I wanted to find out what those are.
1:12.6	So Rebecca, welcome to inquiring minds. Thank you so much, Andrea. Good to talk to you again.
1:17.7	It's been a while. Yeah, thanks so much for joining us on this episode. So what have you got in store for us?
1:23.8	Yeah, I have a lot of projects going on. I am still running Skechick, my website that tackles science and skepticism and feminism and anything else we want to talk about at Skepchick.org. And additionally, I'm still doing YouTube videos about those same topics, science, skepticism, feminism,
1:46.9	sometimes video games.
1:48.9	And I am also working on a new podcast that I'm going to be announcing sometime soon.
1:57.2	And in addition to all of that, I'm doing my show Quizotron, which is a science comedy panel live event thing that pits comedians against scientists and science geeks on stage.
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