The Daily Bolt

Aug 28, 2020 Episode 131: Laura now a tropical depression causing flooding; plus some exciting news on the COVID-19 front 28.08.2020 10:19 ↓

The last on Laura; exciting developments in COVID-19 testing

Aug 27, 2020 Episode 130: Laura now a tropical storm, headed north and east plus a brief recap of the last 12 hrs on satellite 27.08.2020 10:28 ↓

Laura Continues to weaken as it moves into Arkansas and its satellite presentation over the past 12 hours

Aug 26, 2020 Episode 129: All eyes on category 4 Laura before tonight's landfall 26.08.2020 13:16 ↓

The very latest on Laura as of 3 pm Central time

Aug 25, 2020 Episode 128: Laura on track for SW Louisiana/SE Texas landfall overnight Wed/Thur as a significant Hurricane 26.08.2020 9:19 ↓

Hurricane Laura moves briskly towards the TX/LA border

Aug 24, 2020 Episode 127: Weakened Marco nearly ashore in Louisiana; Laura two days behind 24.08.2020 8:49 ↓

More on Tropical Storms Marco and Laura

Aug 23, 2020 Episode 126: Marco, Laura and The final part of my interview with Dr. Bill Gallus on the Iowa derecho 24.08.2020 16:27 ↓

Marco heads to Louisiana, Laura is 2 days behind and some wisdom on weather warnings in the final part of my interview with Dr Bill Gallus on the Iowa derecho of Aug 10.

Aug 22, 2020 Episode 125: Laura, Marco and part three of my interview with Dr. Bill Gallus on the Iowa derecho event 23.08.2020 15:00 ↓

More on tropical storms Laura and Marco and the Iowa Derecho event

Aug 21, 2020 Episode 124: Genevieve, Laura and TD14, plus part 2 of the interview with Dr. Bill Gallus on the Iowa Derecho 22.08.2020 0:03 ↓

Note that due to a tech glitch, the interview segment here ends earlier than in the video. Please see the Facebook Daily Bolt podcast group for the full video excerpt.

Aug 20, 2020 Episode 123: Tropical Storms Galore! And: Part 1 of my interview with Dr. Bill Gallus on the Iowa derecho 20.08.2020 14:54 ↓

A tropical update, plus the first part of my interview with Dr. Bill Gallus on last week’s Iowa derecho event

Aug 19, 2020 Episode 122: Societal Collapse in 2 Decades?! Well...maybe not. 19.08.2020 13:38 ↓

Thanks to Melanie L. Moseley for suggesting this topic.

Aug 18, 2020 Episode 121: Category 4 hurricane Genevieve slowly approaches Baja California 18.08.2020 8:00 ↓

More on impressive looking Genevieve.

Aug 17, 2020 Episode 120: Furnace Creek lives up to its name; plus: Genevieve to pass ny Baja as a major hurricane 18.08.2020 9:07 ↓

More on the western heat wave; and we have a new hurricane to talk about.

Aug 16, 2020 Episode 119: Heat, Fire and Blow: Exteme heat in the West and extreme fire danger as well 17.08.2020 10:07 ↓

A strong late season heat wave bakes the west and brings high fire danger

Aug 15, 2020 Episode 118: Pheromones for locust control: who knew? Plus a preview of next week 16.08.2020 8:24 ↓

A possible solution to the locust plagues in East Asia.

Aug 14, 2020 Episode 117: The curious Mpemba effect in heat transfer and new experimentation: why your hot coffee cools faster than your cold coffee 14.08.2020 9:00 ↓

A new controlled experiment adds more evidence for the counterintuitive Mpemba effect of heat transfer which actually was postulated originally by Aristotle.

Aug 13, 2020 Episode 116: Beware the coming information catastrophe! In about 200 years 14.08.2020 8:55 ↓

This falls under the “things to think about regarding the nature of the universe”—-in this case the digital universe.

Aug 12, 2020 Episode 115: AeDES: Modeling mosquito-borne illness transmission 13.08.2020 9:09 ↓

New work funded by NOAA aims to apply ensemble methods to provide depiction and prediction of mosquito borne disease outbreaks

Aug 11, 2020 Episode 114: RIPE for better plant productivity 12.08.2020 9:28 ↓

New research gives hope that we will be better able to feed a growing hungry world.

Aug 10, 2020 Episode 113: The return of drought to the West, including California 10.08.2020 9:42 ↓

Today we talk about the fact that a majority of the West is now experiencing some level of drought —-including a substantial area of California.

Aug 9, 2020 Episode 112: SMILE: it's not what you think, it's a new type of material 10.08.2020 7:37 ↓

News about fluorescent materials from the materials science world.

August 8, 2020:Episode 111: Thus far, COVID lockdowns believed to have minimal effects on global climate. 09.08.2020 5:35 ↓

A new study done by a professor at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom plus other researchers (including the professor's daughter, who needed something to do since school was closed) shows only minimal impacts of February -June 2020 COVID 19 shutdowns on long-term projected temperature changes. 

August 7, 2020 Episode 110: Breaking News: Antarctica apparently not safe from COVID-19 Impacts 08.08.2020 10:56 ↓

You may have Antarctica, of all places, might be safe from COVID-19 impacts.  Well, not quite.   Science is going to be impacted in a big way. 

August 6, 2020: Episode 109: Training animals for military purposes 07.08.2020 11:24 ↓

In this episode we look briefly at past and present efforts to use animals for various military and law enforcement purposes.  Truth may be stranger here than science fiction.

August 5, 2020: Episode 108: Shetland Orcas appear: and: the tiniest "dinosaur" isn't really a dinosaur 05.08.2020 7:20 ↓

Two very different stories but which together make a strong case for why science shouldn't be rushed. 

August 4, 2020: The Daily Bolt Episode 107: More on Isaias plus glowing butterflies in space. 05.08.2020 7:16 ↓

Isaias exits the U.S. tonight and moves into Quebec; Plus: Astronomers observe a giant glowing butterly in space.