#ICYMI - The Science of Curling, with Olympians Brad Gushue and Nina Roth

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🗓️ 15 February 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Slide down the ice with Gary O’Reilly and Chuck Nice as they investigate the surprising science of curling. Featuring author and curler Dean Gemmell, physicist John Eric Goff, 2018 Olympic curler Nina Roth, and 2006 gold medalist Brad Gushue. (Warning: Adult Language.) NOTE: StarTalk All-Access subscribers can watch or listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://www.startalkradio.net/all-access/science-curling-olympians-brad-gushue-nina-roth/

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0:00.0	I'm Gary O'Reilly.
0:10.9	And I'm Chuck Nice.
0:11.9	This is playing with science.
0:14.0	Today we are exploring the old yet fun sport of curling.
0:18.2	Or as we have decided to call it here, science friction.
0:21.7	Ah, yes.
0:22.9	Just in to call.
0:24.0	I like it.
0:25.0	Cool, cool, sport.
0:26.1	And joining us to break down the physics of curling
0:28.3	is our very own professor of physics at Lynchburg's college
0:34.8	Virginia and author of Gold Medal Physics, Professor Eric Gough.
0:40.3	Yay.
0:41.1	Professor.
0:42.9	Hey, Chuck, and Gary, how are you all doing?
0:44.5	Good.
0:45.5	Yeah, you're good.
0:46.4	Happy.
0:47.4	So let's just recap your fields of expertise, because we've
0:50.1	got an hour.
0:50.8	Yeah.
0:52.2	My god.
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