On this week’s show: Restoring land after dam removal, and phonons as a basis for quantum computing
First up on this week’s show, planting in the silty soil left behind after a dam is removed and reservoirs recede. Contributing Correspondent Warren Cornwall joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about theusing the phonon—a quantum of sound energy—as the basis of quantum computers.0:00:05.9 Sarah Crespi.: This is the Science Podcast for October 13th, 2023. I'm Sarah Crespi.
One of the things that I was really struck by when I was down talking with the people who were doing the real hard work, really on the front lines of this, almost all the people that I talked to were members of tribes who have been on this land thousands of years, and they were doing some of the sort of hardest, most grueling work, but they really seem to be motivated by a genuine sense of purpose.
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