Things You Thought You Knew – Magnetic Cores & Flipping Poles
StarTalk with Neil deGrasse TysonPlay episode
Show notes
Is your compass actually wrong? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice explore magnetic fields, why clocks go clockwise, and how phone numbers got their area codes.
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Photo Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center from Greenbelt, MD, USA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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