The Nizhny Novgorod Radio Laboratory (NNRL).

Imagine it is June 1918. The young Soviet Republic, surrounded by enemies on all sides and struggling to find food for its cities, establishes a radio laboratory at the Tver radio station. The development of technology was necessary from both an economic and a political point of view.

But a small workshop with outdated equipment did not allow them to work at the required level. Therefore, it was decided to move the laboratory to Nizhny Novgorod.

The scientists at the radio laboratory worked on establishing vacuum tube production and developing radiotelephony.

Today, a museum dedicated to the history of the NNRL operates here. The museum’s exhibition contains many original devices and samples of radio equipment.

For me, this museum is a place where I feel inspired by human genius. I look at these tube assemblies, at the microchips, and remember the saying: “If aviation had developed at the same pace, today an airplane would be the size of a matchbox and could fly around the globe in one hour.”
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What do we risk when we undervalue the weather forecast? The dismantling of NCAR brought to mind this old #Radiolab piece on the Weather Report

Radiolab: The Weather Report

http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/weather-report/

Radiolab podcast has a great episode on the sex lives of snails.

https://overcast.fm/+ABGanQpxe7Y

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I leaned a lot about the sex lives of snails

https://radiolab.org/podcast/snail-sex-tape

#Animals #Science #Radiolab #Snails