#403 – Lisa Randall: Dark Matter, Theoretical Physics, and Extinction Events
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The following is a conversation with Lisa Rendell, a theoretical physicist and cosmologist at Harvard. Her work involves improving our understanding of particle physics, supersymmetry, baryogenesis, cosmological inflation, and dark matter. And now a quick few second mention of each sponsor. Check them out in the description. It's the best way to support this podcast. We got Babbel for learning new languages, Notion for note-taking and team collaboration, SimpliSafe for keeping your home safe, Element for keeping your body feeling good with deliciousness, and InsideTracker for getting biological data and giving you life advice. Choose wisely, my friends. Also, if you want to work with our team, we're always hiring.
Go to lexfriedman.com slash hiring or get in touch with me by going to lexfriedman.com slash contact. And now onto the full ad reads. As always, no ads in the middle. I try to make these interesting, but if you must skip them, friends, please do check out our sponsors. I enjoy their stuff. Maybe you will too. This show is brought to you by Babbel, an app and website I use to learn new languages, and you can too. They have all the languages you need. Spanish, for example. I've been learning a bit of Spanish for several reasons, one of which, in case you're curious, this very podcast is getting translated and overdubbed regularly into Spanish on Spotify by the brilliant Spotify AI team. You can actually find it. There's a few episodes now that are fully overdubbed in Spanish. It's really quite incredible. You can also learn a bunch of different other languages. Turkish, German, Italian, French, Portuguese. I definitely need that because I'd like to travel to Brazil soon.
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Услышишь гром и вспомнишь обо мне, Подумаешь, она грозы желала. Полоска неба будет твердо алой, А сердце будет, как тогда, в огне
Translation is, you will hear thunder and remember me and think she wanted storms. The rim of the sky with the color of hard crimson and your heart, as it was then, will be on fire. She's one of the great Soviet poets in history. And I, of course, have trouble finding the right words to translate. I'm long overdue, by the way, on a podcast conversation with the Dostoevsky and Tolstoy translators. That was planned a long time ago, but it requires quite a bit of travel and quite a bit of preparation on my side to read several of the Dostoevsky novels in both Russian and English and come up with great questions that... address some of the intricate complexities involved in the translation. That really, really requires a lot of preparation, but it also reveals the power of language.
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