UI #117 - The Adventure of a Lifetime

Useless Information Podcast

Airwave Media Podcast Network

History, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2018

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In 1957, three Chicago aluminum awning salesmen decided to quit the jobs and sail to Africa to join in on the lucrative illegal diamond trade. They were in for a wild ride along with a very big surprise waiting for them at the end. Also learn about Thomas "Tough Tommy" Holden, Three critical reviews of popular musical acts from the 1970's are featured: Carole King, The Carpenters, and an incredibly brutal review of the rock group Heart. Retrosponsor: Fleischmann's Yeast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an airwave media podcast.
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1:00.0	This is the uselessseless Information Podcast.
1:04.0	I am Steve Silverman.
1:06.0	Useless Information.
1:10.0	A few weeks ago I finished a unit on minerals in the Earth Science class that I teach, and I asked
1:18.9	my students how it's possible that both the minerals, graphite and dime it can be made of pure carbon, basically the same stuff.
1:26.4	Yet graphite is among the softest of all known minerals and diamond among the hardest. The answer lies in how the carbon atoms are bonded together.
1:37.0	You see in graphite, the carbon bonds strongly into flat sheets,
1:41.0	but the bonds between those sheets are incredibly weak, and that allows one
1:45.7	sheet to simply slide on top of the next.
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