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After her house lands on a witch somewhere over the rainbow, young Dorothy must walk the yellow brick road in her ruby slippers to the emerald city. Once there, she will turn away her blues by clicking her heels together and chanting "there's no place like home!" But how do these colors come into existence? That's the subject for learning in this episode of Reference Frames!

Topics of Discussion

• Happy birthday?
• Andor AND Rings of Power (shocking)
• Dorothy's trip to Oz
• Colors!
• Will's a big fan of these charts
• Rods and cones!
• The color's Dorothy didn't see...
• Brown.
• Purple Earth?
• We get Mythbustersy and bust a myth!

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Everyone knows the famous horns of Strauss's Also sprach Zarathustra thanks, primarily, to its presence in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. When used, the viewer is witnessing the advancement of technology -- from bone tools to satellites seemingly floating above the big blue ball called Earth. But Kubrick's vision of the future wasn't unfounded. The ships, floating effortlessly and motionless above Earth, are simply in orbit -- a physics principle that kept the astronauts of Apollo 8 from crashing into the moon, keeps the moon from crashing into the Earth,  and keeps Earth from crashing into the Sun. But how? That's what we dive into today!

Topics Include

• It's fall, y'all!
• Third consecutive episode mentioning Rings of Power
• Bone tools, the invention of beat-downs, and imagery of satellites
• Orbits: just falling too fast (or not fast enough, depending on your perspective)
• Cannonballs and thought experiments
• Will's soon-to-be famous geography tirade
• Shutter Shades, LMFAO, and privacy screens for your computer

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When Marta Cabrera accidentally kills esteemed mystery novelist Harlan Thrombey, she must outsmart and outmaneuver private investigator Benoit Blanc. In particularly cunning scene, Marta scrambles the contents of a security tape using nothing but a magnet. How can this be? In this episode, we learn about magnets, magnetic fields, and their usage in modern life.

Topics Include
A follow up on the stew
Ian's poor social media execution
Bobo Fett
Lord of the Rings (nerds)
Daniel Craig's accent
Magnetic domains unified under a leader
Magnetic lava flows
Sharks-in-motion

When Gollum snatches the One Ring from Frodo (along with a finger to boot), he unfortunately plummets to the liquid rock below. Before his ultimate demise, Gollum hoists the One Ring overhead while he bobs briefly in the lava. But what is bobbing? And how do things float? Will explains to us Archimedes' Principle and we discuss where it is found in the real world through the lens of one of the the greatest novel/movie trilogies!

Topics:
Will's Birthday!
Not doxxing our friends
Sad lunches and garbage pail sushi
Nicole's Stew!
Return of the King, baby
Car-balloon physics experiments
Boats and SCUBA
The Electric Boy Launcher

When the last hope for humanity is ejected in an escape pod, it takes the plucky robot Wall-E to rescue it -- and himself -- by propelling himself through space using naught but a fire extinguisher. Come learn about how Wall-E's understanding of the conservation of momentum got him out of a bind!

Topics Include
A significant delay in episode release
Who is the real Santa?
Cute robots
Rocket science
Nozzles!
Marvel's usage of real words, not buzzwords

When Doc Ock threatens the good commuters of New York with a dip into the Hudson, it is up to Spider-Man to stop a speeding train from taking a plummet. Will and Ian discuss Newton's second law (some may recall "Fma" from their high school Physics courses) and how it works in everyday life.

Discussion Topics
Thanos can't snap with metal gloves?
Invisible flames and Talladega Nights
NYC Train conductor snark
Bad jokes
A very heartfelt sign-off

The firebending duel between Princess Azula and her exiled brother Zuko is nothing short of scorching. The cold blue flames of the cruel Princess collide with her brother's passionate red-orange flames. But how do flames get these colors? Let's learn about that.

Discussion Topics Include

• It's a Dune cast!
• Should I laser my retina?
• Green lasers: the complete picture
• Fire!
• Why does wifi go through walls?

Intro/Outro by John Bartman
Narrative music by xelementumign1s

In 1964's Goldfinger, the titular character manages to ensnare agent 007 in a dubious trap. Everyone's favorite secret agent watches as Goldfinger's bright red LASER inches slowly towards him, scorching the gold table he rests upon. But did you know that Goldfinger was really using cutting edge technology? Come learn about the history, principles, and design of LASER beams!

The scene at hand
LASER jock discusses the possibility of Goldfinger's laser
LASER jock part two

Discussion Topics Include
Appropriate circumstances for viewing Over the Garden Wall
How we catapulted to 17th hottest podcast in the Physics subcategory in the USA on Apple podcasts
Our first corrections!
Ian's sad impressions of Goldfinger
Google Fiber
LASIK
LASER tag
Why don't atoms push themselves apart?

Nowadays, much like on Isla Nublar, electricity matters! When the lights go out and the dinos roam free, the only thing that saves young Tim Murphy is the brains, brawns, and electrical understanding of Dr. Alan Grant.

Topics Include
Literary discoveries of a bygone age
Charge, current, and zaps
Electric fence theory and application
The best looking Jurassic Park character
Best practices when confronted with lightning strikes
Homogenous vs homogenous
All those videos of flowing but not flowing water
Our #1 fan: Ian's grandma

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"Black Vortex" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
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Whilst resting from a long day riding, TE Lawrence reclines on the hot sand and gazes across the scorching desert landscape. As if riding from the sky itself, a mysterious figure descends upon the British intelligence agent and his guide. Before the he can grasp the gravity of the situation, the mysterious rider is an arms length away and his guide is slain. Ian and Will talk about mirages; what they are, how they work, and where else we see the underlying principle elsewhere in daily life.

Topics of Discussion:

• Disney's jungle cruise
• Lawrence of Arabia's resting position on hot sand
• The sorceress Morgan le Fey
• Snakes as siege weaponry
• Maine based poets

Helpful Links!
Scene from Lawrence of Arabia

A material with an extreme refractive index gradient

NYT article on 2020 flying snake study

H. W. Longfellow Poem, Fata Morgana