Life, the Universe & Everything Else - Episode 199: Definitely Not a Yeti

Feb 19 2024 92 mins 15

On this episode of Life, the Universe & Everything Else, Lauren, Ashlyn, Laura, and Gem discuss paranormal events and other mysteries that have recently been explained by science, including the Dyatlov Pass Incident, the Blood Rain of Kerala, the Bermuda Triangle, and how the Romans managed to make such excellent concrete.

Life, the Universe & Everything Else is a podcast that explores the intersection of science and society.

News: Alberta Medical Association pediatrics head condemns province’s proposed trans policy (Global News)

The Dyatlov Pass Incident: Has an Old Soviet Mystery at Last Been Solved? (The New Yorker) | Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident (Everand) | Dyatlov Pass incident (Wikipedia) | Kármán vortex street (Wikipedia) | Infrasound (Wikipedia) | Grade (Wikipedia)

Roman Concrete: The History of Concrete (InterNACHI) | Lime Clasts and Heat: The Romans’ Secret Sauce (Specify Concrete) | The Differences Between Modern Concrete and Roman Concrete (Forth Valley Concrete) | Riddle solved: Why was Roman concrete so durable? (MIT News) | Was Roman Concrete Better? (Practical Engineering) | Why Roman concrete is stronger than it ever was, while modern concrete decays (ZME Science) | Was Roman Concrete Especially Durable or Is Modern Concrete Exceptionally Crappy? (Treehugger) | 13 Reasons We Know Why Roman Concrete is Stronger than Its Modern Equivalent (Interesting Engineering) | Understanding Roman Concrete (Engineering Rome)

The Bermuda Triangle: What Is the Bermuda Triangle? A Scientist Has Solved the Mystery (Popular Mechanics) | What Is Known (and Not Known) About the Bermuda Triangle (Britannica) | Bermuda Triangle (Wikipedia) | Scientist ‘solves’ mystery of the Bermuda Triangle – by claiming there was no mystery in the first place (The Independent)

The Blood Rain of Kerala: Blood Rain, Blood Snow: Curse or Science? (International Microorganism Day) | Six Old English Chronicles (Wikisource) | Cometary panspermia explains the red rain of Kerala (arXiv) | Red rain in Kerala (Wikipedia) | Blood rain (Wikipedia)

The Kentucky Meat Shower: The Great Kentucky Meat Shower mystery unwound by projectile vulture vomit (Scientific American Blog Network) | Kentucky meat shower (Wikipedia) | Nostoc (Wikipedia)