#032: Canceling Out Lava Waves

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20% Arabic - 80% English In this episode we host Omair Taibah to talk about the latest breakthrough in astrophysics and the detection of gravitational waves resulting from two black holes colliding billions of light years away. ## Guest - Omair Taibah http://twitter.com/amrush ## Show links - Loot Crate http://lootcrate.com - Interferometry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interferometry - Eliminating terrestrial noise sources to improve the LIGO gravity wave detectors http://phys.org/news/2015-06-terrestrial-noise-sources-ligo-gravity.html - LIGO Gravitational Wave Chirp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWqhUANNFXw - The Perfect Theory http://www.amazon.com/The-Perfect-Theory-Geniuses-Relativity-ebook/dp/B00B0SCF7M - A Short History of Nearly Everything http://www.amazon.com/Short-History-Nearly-Everything/dp/076790818X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1459033706&sr=1-1&keywords=a+short+history+of+nearly+everything - Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Matter-Dinosaurs-Astounding-Interconnectedness/dp/0062328476/ref=sr_1_sc_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1459033749&sr=1-1-spell&keywords=blackholes+and+the+dinosaurs - Musicophilia http://www.amazon.com/Musicophilia-Tales-Music-Revised-Expanded/dp/1400033535/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1459033825&sr=1-1&keywords=musicphilia - The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood http://www.amazon.com/Information-History-Theory-Flood/dp/1400096235/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1459033795&sr=1-5&keywords=information+theory - “Tsundoku,” the Japanese Word for the New Books That Pile Up on Our Shelves http://www.openculture.com/2014/07/tsundoku-should-enter-the-english-language.html

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