This is an I-Heart podcast.

What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi.

Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?

Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.

From prologue projects and Pushkin Industries, this is Fiasco, Benghazi.

What difference at this point does it make?

Listen to Fiasco, Benghazi, on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I love that science has made so much progress in explaining the universe unraveling its inner workings.

It's almost incredible what we've accomplished.

There's almost nothing left in our everyday lives

that remains a true deep mystery. Sure, the early universe and the black holes and lots of extreme

situations still defy explanation, and we dig into those on the podcast all the time, but your

everyday experience is mostly explained and understood.

The motion of the stars, the sun, the planets, those are understood.

We know what an earthquake is and how weather works, even if we can't predict them very

well.

Makes me wonder what it was like to be a human when there were unexplained mysteries

right up in your face every day, when

science hadn't fully conquered magic. Today, we're going to try to get the flavor of that

by talking about the remaining mysteries of one of the most magical forces in physics, magnetism.

Welcome to Daniel and Kelly's extraordinarily magnetic universe.

Hello, I'm Kelly Wiener-Smith. I study parasites and space and magnets, man. How do they work?

What a miracle magnets are.

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