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Earth’s 1-ms Day, Baby Solar Systems, Record Black Hole Crash, CRISPR Cancer Hack & AI Indiana Jones (EP. 1)

Earth’s 1-ms Day, Baby Solar Systems, Record Black Hole Crash, CRISPR Cancer Hack & AI Indiana Jones (EP. 1)

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Last week the Earth finished a full rotation one millisecond early
– but that’s just the opener. In this week’s From First Principles
we dive into six mind-bending headlines with our trademark mix of
hard science and light-hearted banter: Earth’s fastest spin ever
recorded – what shaved a millisecond off the day and why your
chakras are still safe. ALMA spots a “baby Earth” forming 1,300
light years away – the first direct look at rocky planets in the
making. Biggest black-hole merger on record – 15 of mass
vaporized into pure gravitational waves, detected by
LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA. CRISPR reveals a vitamin-D “kill switch” for
tumors – how silencing one gene in pancreatic & colon cancers
triggers 4,000 downstream changes. A star that died… then died
again – the first confirmed “double-detonation” white-dwarf
supernova. DeepMind’s Aeneas AI deciphers broken Latin tablets –
giving historians new text, provenance and dating in seconds. Hosts
• Lester Nare – storyteller & professional curiosity machine •
Dr. Krishna Choudhary – Princeton-trained physicist & cosmic
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