cern
European particle physics laboratory
Episodes
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#3222: How Petabytes Move at Light SpeedFrom 40 gig to 3.2 terabit—the hidden infrastructure moving science data at unimaginable speeds. -
#2830: What CERN Actually Does: Beyond the Big RingCERN is a treaty organization, not a lab. How 24 countries pool resources to run the LHC and beyond. -
#2741: What Theoretical Physicists Actually Do All DayChalkboards, arXiv firehoses, and 2 hours of real work. What the daily life of a theoretical physicist actually looks like. -
#2522: How Science Bridges Hostile BordersIreland, Slovenia, and Spain push to exclude Israel from Horizon Europe—while history shows science cooperation works across enemy lines. -
#1910: Our Podcast Is Now a Permanent Research ArtifactWhy we're uploading every episode to CERN's Zenodo archive, giving our AI experiments a permanent DOI and a life beyond streaming platforms. -
#1797: Why the Cloud Runs on Cassette TapesThe cloud isn't just hard drives—it's millions of robotic cassette tapes holding petabytes of data for Google and NASA. -
#628: GPT-5.2: 12 Hours of Reason and the Future of AGIGPT-5.2 spent 12 hours reasoning to solve a novel quantum physics proof. Is this the dawn of AGI or just a very sophisticated calculator?