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Mar 2022
25m 13s

Time - A comedy science quiz

ABC Radio
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How can you stop time? What machine can’t move and only works half the time? Where on earth does time travel the slowest? Find out the answers in the 25 so-called ‘minutes’ of this mind-bending episode of the best science comedy podcast of all time  Featuring Shaun Micallef, Claire Hooper and Astrophysics lecture ... Show More
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