Episode 37 of the Mindcast is up!
Download it here.
Show topics:
Being polite on the road helps everyone - let’s have a greenbeard effect for fuel-efficient vehicles, Chimpanzees found to plan ahead, New five-dimensional theory of gravity set to be tested against Einstein’s theory of general relativity.
Interview with graduate student Kevin Eslinger on Hydrogen Fuel Cell Hybrid vehicles. Are we focusing too much on hydrogen?
Special Crackpot segment - ex-air traffic controlled says the end of the world is tonight, and food supplement wackos want BAD evidence included from reports!
Theme = Deep Impact by James Horner.
Brought to you by Cubane.
Toward the end of the interview, I mentioned that Toyota was planning to build a plug-in hybrid car next year, and Kevin wasn’t sure about that. Next year seems too optimistic, given how slow car manufacturers move, but Toyota is indeed working on it. Here’s some news about it.
