A Good Old-Fashioned Field Trip: Nerdette Visits Argonne National Lab

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🗓️ 25 August 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Argonne National Laboratory is a massive research facility outside of Chicago that’s run by the U.S. Department of Energy. And this week, Nerdette hosts Tricia Bobeda and Greta Johnsen take you behind the curtain to learn about some of the innovative stuff happening there. Stuff like superbatteries, supercomputers, and questions that may never get answers

This episode originally aired on August 10, 2018.

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0:00.0	This fall, W bez invites you to our upcoming live events.
0:05.0	Join us in person for smart discussions, heartfelt storytelling, and more.
0:09.0	Check out the full calendar now at W be easy.org
0:12.6	slash events.
0:13.6	From W be easy Chicago.
0:19.1	This is Nurdette.
0:20.0	I'm Greta Johnson and Nurdette is a show where we talk to people who dare to ask big questions and explore the unknown.
0:27.0	And these days, with a global pandemic going on,
0:31.0	it can kind of feel like entering the unknown just walking outside your front door.
0:36.6	So today, because field trips definitely feel like a thing of the past, we're going to
0:41.2	revisit one of our favorite field trips ever from way back in 2018.
0:46.7	That's when Nurdette, co-host Tricia Bobita, and I got in my little red 2010 Toyota Corolla and drove into the magical beyond to go visit the
0:56.2	extremely smart humans who work at Argonne National Laboratory.
1:01.1	Oh I'm really speeding.
1:03.0	This is a place that Tricia and I have wanted to go to ever since we started this podcast.
1:08.0	It's happening.
1:10.0	Welcome to Argon.
1:11.0	Wow.
1:12.0	Argon is a massive research facility outside of Chicago, run by the U.S. Department of Energy.
1:17.0	Look at it!
1:18.0	Holy shit.
1:20.0	Whoa!
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