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Things You Thought You Knew – Magnetic Cores & Flipping Poles
Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:45:18
Publish Date: 2023-05-30 07:00:00
Description:

Is your compass actually wrong? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice explore magnetic fields, why clocks go clockwise, and how phone numbers got their area codes.

NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can listen to this entire episode commercial-free.

Thanks to our Patrons Ed B, Thomas Skov, Kelly Castro, tasos, Doug Dee, and Antonio Gutiérrez Pérez for supporting us this week.

Photo Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center from Greenbelt, MD, USA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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