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.

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• Loot Crate
• Interferometry 
• Eliminating terrestrial noise sources to improve the LIGO gravity wave detectors 
• LIGO Gravitational Wave Chirp
• The Perfect Theory
• A Short History of Nearly Everything
• Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs
• Musicophilia
• The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood
• “Tsundoku,” the Japanese Word for the New Books That Pile Up on Our Shelves