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#ICYMI: Hockey: Fan Questions and More

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🗓️ 29 June 2017

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Gary O’Reilly and Chuck Nice are back for Season 2 of Playing with Science! First up: answers to our fan’s questions about the physics of hockey. Feat. Prof. Alain Haché, Neil Tyson, and NHL Nashville Predators Left Wing Colin Wilson. (Warning: Adult Language.) Don’t miss an episode of Playing with Science. Subscribe to our channels on: Apple Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/playing-with-science/id1198280360?mt=2 GooglePlay Music: https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Iimke5bwpoh2nb25swchmw6kzjq SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/startalk_playing-with-science Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/startalk/playing-with-science TuneIn: http://www.tunein.com/playingwithscience NOTE: StarTalk All-Access subscribers can watch or listen to this entire episode commercial-free. Find out more at https://www.startalkradio.net/startalk-all-access/

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0:00.0

I'm Gary Arraile.

0:07.0

And I'm Chuck Knife.

0:14.0

And this is playing with science.

0:16.0

Because our hockey shows were so where received by you the listeners and because you had so

0:21.3

many questions about physics on ice and its technology we decided to make another show

0:26.8

just for you and do our best to answer as many questions as we can.

0:31.6

And to help us achieve this we have the multi-talented Alan Hasey author of Slapshot Science

0:37.8

and the physics of hockey and professor of physics at a Monkon University in Canada, a man

0:45.1

who knows what it means to be in the thick of the action because he is also a hockey

0:50.6

goalie.

0:51.6

That's what we learned when we talked to him.

0:52.8

We did and we're very impressed by that fact but we won't stop there.

0:55.8

We have a little treat for all you hard core hockey fans because there will be talking

1:01.3

to a third generation professional hockey player Colin Wilson.

1:05.2

Yes, that Colin Wilson of the Nashville Predators and someone who like yourselves has an

1:10.8

inquiring mind when it comes to science and not to leave out our geeks.

1:15.4

We're going to bring in Dr Tyson and he will talk to Colin.

1:18.4

So stick around for that.

1:19.4

It promises to be a lot of fun.

1:21.4

Yes.

1:22.4

And so to answer all the questions about hockey or as you so eloquently put it Gary physics

1:28.2

on ice.

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