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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0:28.3	Listen wherever you get your podcast.
0:35.4	From WBEZ Chicago, this is Nerdette.
0:42.1	I'm Greta Johnson, and Nerdette is a show where we talk to people who dare to ask big questions and explore the unknown.
0:51.2	And these days, with a global pandemic going on, it can kind of feel like entering the unknown, just walking outside your front door.
0:56.2	So today, because field trips definitely feel like a thing of the past,
1:03.0	we're going to revisit one of our favorite field trips ever from way back in 2018. That's when Nurtet co-host Tricia Bobita and I got in my little red 2010 Toyota Corolla and drove into the
1:09.4	magical beyond to go visit the extremely smart humans who work at Argon National Laboratory.
1:16.9	Oh, I'm really speeding.
1:18.9	This is a place that Trisha and I have wanted to go to ever since we started this podcast.
1:23.9	It's happening. Welcome to Argonne.
1:26.2	Wow.
1:28.2	Argonne is a massive research facility outside of Chicago, run by the U.S. Department of Energy.
1:33.0	Look at it.
1:33.9	Holy shit.
1:35.3	Whoa!
1:36.1	Science is in there.
1:36.9	What are the weird shapes on top?
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