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Winter Olympics Deep Dive: Ice Physics, Performance Pressure, and Climate Change (EP. 26)

1 tim 50 min•18 februari 2026

Hosted by Lester Nare and Krishna Choudhary, this episode is a Winter Olympics deep dive from first principles—physics, neuroscience, and climate science in one ride.

• Why ice is slippery: the “water layer” story is incomplete—new nanoscale measurements suggest a far more viscous, thicker interfacial film than textbook intuition.
• Choking under pressure: how high stakes can disrupt neural control—reward signals can push brain states out of the “optimal zone.”
• Climate change vs winter sports: why artificial snow has limits, why some legacy venues may become unreliable, and what “snow farming” is trying to solve.
• Rundown: AI doing physics proofs, cat vocalizations, immune epigenetics, origin-of-life genetics, and an “impossible” exoplanet system.

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00:00 Intro
00:32 Episode setup
02:15 Why is ice slippery?
33:23 Rundown + housekeeping + donate
01:09:11 Choking under pressure (neuroscience)
01:32:32 Climate change & the Winter Olympics + potpourri
01:43:47 Wrap-up + closing

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