What a Slinky Knows

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Society & Culture, History, Documentary, Natural Sciences, Science

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🗓️ 10 September 2012

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

"Hey kids," said physicist Tadashi Tokieda, "Wanna see a magic trick?" He pulled out a Slinky and did something that amazed the kids, & their dad Steve Strogatz. Steve, along with Neil deGrasse Tyson, explains what the gravity-defying Slinky trick reveals about the nature of all things great and small (including us).

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0:00.0	Wait, you're listening.
0:01.1	Okay.
0:02.4	All right.
0:03.6	Okay.
0:05.0	All right.
0:06.4	You're listening to Radio Lab.
0:09.4	Radio Lab.
0:10.1	Shorts.
0:11.5	From.
0:12.8	W. N. Y.
0:13.8	C.
0:14.7	C.
0:15.0	Yes.
0:16.3	And NPR.
0:18.8	Hey, I'm Jed Abumrod.
0:20.4	I'm Robert Crulwich. This is Radio Lab. The podcast. Okay, so a little while ago, we were talking to our friend and regular guest, Steve Strogatz. Yeah, try that. He's a math professor at Cornell. Talk out of the side of my mouth, see. He does have some mic positioning issues, but he came to our studio because he wanted to tell us about something he'd seen.
0:40.3	They kind of made him go.
0:42.5	Whoa, man.
0:44.9	And I just had all these funny, deep thoughts.
0:48.8	And it had to do, oddly enough, with a slinky.
0:53.8	Yeah.
0:54.1	It's slinky. It's sneaky.
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