The Oldest Material On Earth




The Pod Delusion show

Summary: <p>This week we talk to the scientist who discovered the oldest known material on Earth which, at between 5 and 7 BILLION years old, is even older than the Earth itself. Plus! CLASSIC VLAD: We dig into what Putin's latest no-doubt nefarious scheme, and discover how the European Court of Justice might get one last laugh before Brexit, by giving us a telling off over bulk internet surveillance.</p> <p><a href="https://patreon.com/poddelusion">***Join our Patreon and support a voice of sanity in a world that has gone mad.***</a></p> <p>Follow The Pod Delusion on <a href="https://twitter.com/poddelusion/">Twitter</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/PodDelusion/">Facebook.</a></p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/psythor/">Follow your host, James O'Malley, on Twitter.</a> You can email him on psythor(at)gmail.com with any comments or queries! You can follow Dr <a href="https://twitter.com/sillypunk/">Liz</a> too.</p> <p><a href="https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/dr-samuel-greene">Dr Samuel Greene</a> was our Russia expert. His book is <a href="https://amzn.to/372QZNX">Putin vs The People</a>.</p> <p><a href="https://geosci.uchicago.edu/people/philipp-heck/">Prof Philipp Heck</a> is the cosmochemist who found the oldest material on Earth. <a href="https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/01/07/1904573117">Here's the paper on it</a>.</p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/jimkillock?lang=en">Jim Killock</a> is the executive director of the <a href="https://www.openrightsgroup.org/">Open Rights Group</a>. You should support it and join as it is doing excellent work.</p> <p><a href="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/3d/c4/6c/3dc46c57c20b5b4a593c045a349eaa98.jpg">Here</a> is a picture of a guinea pig using a tiny laptop.</p>