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How to Convert Gasoline Energy to Kilowatt-hours (kWh)
This is our interpretation of people thinking about math. (Lisa Zador/Photodisc/Getty) The EPA estimates that one gallon of gasoline is equal to 33.7 kWh. But how did they get that number? At first...
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Kilowatt-hours per 100 Miles (kWh/100m): Why Less is Better
The all-electric Nissan Leaf is displayed during the opening ceremony of the company’s new headquarters in Yokohama, Japan, on Sunday, Aug. 2, 2009. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye) Over the past week, Scott...
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Show Notes: Libya and the Fall of Gaddafi
Muammar Gaddafi, at the 2009 African Union Summit.(United States Navy, 2009.) Muammar Gaddafi ruled Libya for more than 40 years before he was killed by rebel forces in October, 2011. Our recent...
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Show Notes: Guns in America
The AK-47 (via DefenseImagery.mil) In our series on the gun ownership debate in the United States, Matt and I ran into several surprises. First, we learned that there are theories on both sides of the...
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Show Notes: Hugo Chavez, the Mini-coup and Cancer
In our recent series on Hugo Chávez, Matt and I covered the short-lived 2002 coup d’état and Chávez’s untimely passing. Former Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images) Hugo...
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Show Notes: Time Travel
I’ll confess: When we first began this week’s series, I wasn’t particularly keen on the subject of time travel. Will time travel ever become as easy as cruising the interstate? (Spoiler alert: probably...
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Show Notes: Murder by Plane?
This week, Matt and I explored a curious trend in assassination theories: murder by plane. Here’s the gist: [Insert person here] threatens to expose and/or foil the nefarious plans of some secretive...
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Show Notes: Heart-stopping Last Laps of Racing
So, Scott and I have this superstition: Whenever we say something like “oh, this show will be a short one,” we’ll inevitably end up making one of the longest podcasts in our show’s history. NASCAR...
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Show Notes: Lost Cities?
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” -William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun Mayan ruins(InStock Photographic Ltd./Getty Images) Could modern civilization really lose entire cities? Could we do...
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Show Notes: Personhood
Riddle me this: When is a person not a person? Or, more accurately, when is a person not a human being? The next candidate for personhood? (Digital Vision) This week, Matt and I investigated the...
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