Solving the ‘golfer’s curse’ and using space as a heat sink

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News Commentary, News, Science

4.2 • 791 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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First up on the podcast, Online News Editor David Grimm joins host Sarah Crespi for a rundown of online news stories. They talk about lichen that dine on dino bones, the physics of the lip-out problem in golf, and a brain-computer interface that can decode a tonal language (Chinese) from brain waves. Next on the show, Jeremy Munday, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at University of California, Davis, talks about generating mechanical power using a heat engine aimed at the night sky. Heat engines typically generate power by harnessing a temperature difference between two things—but by using space as the cold part and the ground as the warm part, Munday’s device can generate energy at night. This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy. About the Science Podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:57.1	in Mount Sinai. We find a way. This is a science podcast for November 13th, 2025. I'm Sarah Crespi.
1:07.3	First up on the podcast, we have online news editor David Grimm.
1:11.2	He's here to talk about online news stories, from Lichen that dine on dino bones to the physics of the lip-out problem in Gulf, to a brain computer interface that can decode a tonal language from brain waves.
1:24.0	Next on the show, researcher Jeremy Monday talks about generating mechanical power using a heat engine aimed at the night sky.
1:31.3	Heat engines typically generate power by harnessing a temperature difference between two things.
1:37.3	But by using space as the cold part and the ground as the warm part, this device is designed to generate energy passively at night.
1:50.0	Now we have online news editor, David Grimm.
1:52.3	He's got an array of stories to share from Dino Bones to Golfers' Curses.
1:57.0	Hi, Dave.
1:57.6	Welcome back.
1:58.2	Hey, Sarah.
1:58.9	Thank you.
1:59.6	We're going to talk about golf and we did recruit a little help here.
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