How to Count to Infinity: Tell Me Something I Don’t Know Episode 30


Maurizio Porfiri, NYU Tandon professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, at  20:46. His research is voted the winner of this science game show.

Mary Roach (author of Stiff, Spook, Bonk, Gulp, and Grunt) is our special guest co-host, with AJ Jacobs (author of It’s All Relative) as real-time fact-checker. If the promise of tractor beams doesn’t pull you in, our guests also explore robotic fish, counting to infinity, and more.

 

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