#Bestof2022: 1/2: #Lithium: It comes from binary systems going nova. Ken Croswell, Sky & Telescope (Post 3/28/22)
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| 0:00.0 | Spark your creativity with the Sims. Sometimes you might feel like you're not creative |
| 0:07.0 | and you have to go in search of your creative spark again. |
| 0:10.0 | Maybe this is catching up with creative friends, experimenting with a new look or trying out a new recipe. |
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| 0:21.3 | Ready to spark something. Download the Sims 4 and play for free. This is CBS I on the World. Here's John Bachelor. |
| 0:38.0 | I'm John Bachelor. Where does lithium come from? Comes from the heavens. |
| 0:44.0 | That's right. |
| 0:45.0 | Comes from stars. |
| 0:47.0 | Special kinds of stars. |
| 0:49.0 | And to help me understand this, |
| 0:51.0 | I welcome Ken Kroswell, I welcome Ken Kraswell, |
| 0:53.6 | Dr. Ken Kraswell, author of The Lives of Stars |
| 0:56.4 | and other distinguished publications, |
| 0:58.2 | he's an astronomer, writing at Sky and Telescope, |
| 1:01.6 | which is a wonderful magazine for obsessive people watching the sky. |
| 1:06.3 | In an article of The Little Stars that Ken, we need to do some history, some discovery here. |
| 1:12.1 | Ken, there are Supernova, they get all the attention in |
| 1:15.7 | Hollywood movies. Boom! Destroying everything and our heroes race away just in time, at the speed of lighter faster. But simple NOVA or no V. What is the difference |
| 1:29.0 | between a supernova and NOVEE? Good evening to you. Good evening John. Well Novi are a lot more common |
| 1:36.8 | than supernovi, but you're right the supernovae get all the press because |
| 1:40.9 | they actually make the lion's share of many of the most important |
| 1:46.0 | elements here on earth. |
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