SciShow Tangents’ exploration of the electromagnetic spectrum continues with good old, dependable light! What is it? Where does it come from? Only Ceri knows (sort of)!
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[Truth or Fail]
E. coli
https://arxiv.org/abs/1104.3113
https://phys.org/news/2014-04-bacterial-fm-radio.html
Cactus Radio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1shcxHWQas
Frequency Comb
https://www.pnas.org/content/116/19/9181
[Fact Off]
Battle of the Beams
https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/63/a3714563.shtml
https://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/19/us/r-v-jones-science-trickster-who-foiled-nazis-dies-at-86.html
http://vc.airvectors.net/ttwiz_07.html
W5LFL
https://amsat-uk.org/2013/01/19/amateur-radio-on-bbc-between-the-ears-space-ham/#more-12135
https://www.amsat.org/owen-k-garriott-w5lfl/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Analog radio
https://public.wsu.edu/~bryan.mclaughlin/Radio/Who_Invented_Radio.html
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/radio/radiorelayer.html
Digital/HD radio
https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/digital-radio
https://electronics.howstuffworks.com/hd-radio.htm
https://hdradio.com/trademark/
https://www.cnet.com/news/digital-radio-all-you-need-to-know/
[Butt One More Thing]
Pigeon poop / cosmic microwave background