It is Thursday, 2nd of June 2011. You're listening to Skeptics with a K, the podcast for science, reason and critical thinking. Skeptics with a K is a production

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I am your host, my call with me today is Marsh.

Hello.

And Colin. Hello. So I put a message on Twitter recently just having a

winge as I tend to do okay about how I want someone to invent a cold microwave

like a fridge well this is what every smart

arse and white came back and said oh yeah it's called a fridge. No a fridge I

would say is a cold oven. A fridge is a cold oven yeah I get it's like a cold box an oven's a

hot box you put things in and then they get hot because they're in the hot box

and a fridge or a freezer is a cold box that you put things in they get cold

because they're in the cold box with a microwave you put things in the get cold because they're in the cold box. But a microwave, you put it in it goes, bing, and it's hot.

Yes. I want, a bing, cold.

That's what I want.

Someone needs to invent that using like the piezoelectric effect or something

something something cool and interesting would the piece of effect do it I'm told

that it does I'm told there is and I've not looked into this at all but I'm told

there is a device you can get for your computer plugged into a USB port.

There's like a wine chiller and you put it in and it kind of goes, bing!

And your wine is really cold very quickly, but not by being in a cold box kind of cold.

It's by extracting heat from the system kind of cold in

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