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I have a large backlog of podcasts from NPR's Science Friday series but an episode came up this week called High Energy Physics and being interested in learning everything I can about physics I skipped about two weeks of old podcasts just to listen to this one. In all honesty, I was a little disappointed by some of the content. It's only 34 minutes long - listen through it and hear if you can spot what I think was the real unfortunate part of this podcast.
Okay, you're either done or too busy to bother listening. If you're too busy, just listen starting at 11:05 for about 30 seconds. They take a call with a legitimate question about the practical applications of high energy physics and one of the experts they bring on totally disrespects the caller (or "shows disrespect to" if you're my high school adviser and can't stand the verbing of respect) by saying that it's unfortunate that that the first call asks about practical applications because they're "about science." WTF?? Are you kidding me? We're still in an age where you have to be just about science and thinking about anything else is "unfortunate?" Seriously guys, this is why physics has been in a slump for 30+ years. You're thinking with your Large Hadron Collider and not with your brain.
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