Just in time for the start of Northern hemisphere winter, join the Hyperthesis team as we delve into the science of the season. We start our episode by talking about if the Christmas (or any other holiday) spirit exists and how it was possibly measured using fMRI. Falling into our main topic, Liam takes us through the work of Dr. Ken Libbrecht and the (magical) formation of snowflakes. Finally, Pheely provides a solution for Santa to make sure only the good kids can read the books he gives, leaving the bad kids in a quantum conundrum.

Finding Christmas Spirit scientifically: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4681765/

Veritasium's video with Dr. Libbrecht on snowflakes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao2Jfm35XeE

Christmas quantum teleportation: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2312.01891.pdf

Listen to our last seasonal episode, Episode 27! https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hyperthesis/episodes/The-Stellar-Story-of-our-Solar-System-e1skrcq

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