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Wed. 04/27 - Our Backstabbed Two-Faced Moon

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Society & Culture, News, Tech News, Science

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

The moon has a bit of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde situation going on that astronomers have never been able to definitively explain, but a new study suggests it could be the result of a massive impact four billion years ago. Plus, yoga for your eyes? What is it and does it actually do anything? And the US is officially saying good riddance to incandescent light bulbs. Sponsors: I Am Bio, Subscribe at bio.org/podcast Munk Pack, Use code KRH at Munkpack.com for 20% off your first purchase Links: Did A Whopping Huge Impact At Its South Pole Cause Our Moon To Be Two-Faced? (Syfy Wire)  Differences between the Moon's near and far sides linked to colossal ancient impact (Brown University) Does eye yoga actually improve your vision? (Mic) 10 Minute Yoga Break - Netra Vyayamam - Yogic Eye Exercises - A Tonic for Too Much Screen Time (Amanda Parr SoulScuba Yoga & Diving, YouTube) Eye Exercises | Daily Yoga for Eyes (Yogalates With Rashmi, YouTube) Say Goodbye to Incandescent Light Bulbs (Gizmodo) Dracula Daily (Substack) Someone is serializing Dracula in real time over email (Boing Boing)  Romeo and Juliet get Twitter treatment (The Guardian) The Lizzie Bennet Diaries (The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, YouTube) The Look Back Diaries Episode 1 (Ashley Clements, YouTube) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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It's Wednesday, April 27th, 2022. I'm Jackson Bird today. The moon has a bit of a Dr.

0:43.1

Jackal and Mr. Hyde situation going on that astronomers have never been able to definitively explain.

0:49.8

But a new study suggests it could be the result of a massive impact four billion years ago.

0:56.3

Plus, yoga for your eyes?

0:59.4

What is it and does it actually do anything?

1:02.2

And the U.S. is officially saying good riddance to incandescent light bulbs.

1:08.1

Here's some cool stuff for your ride home.

1:13.1

The Far Side of the moon, or dark side of the moon, was such a mystery for most of human history,

1:20.1

due to the moon's rotation and orbit of Earth lining up just so to prevent us from

1:24.8

ever seeing the far side of the moon from Earth, that the phrase itself

1:29.1

became synonymous with mystery and intrigue, not to mention a legendary album. But a little

1:35.4

over a decade before said album was released, humans got their very first look at the far side

1:41.1

of the moon, thanks to the Soviet Union's Luna 3 spacecraft.

1:45.6

Luna 3 orbited the moon and brought back photographs that shocked the science community.

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