Why Eastbound Flights Are Faster, and Other Strange Things About Wind (Simon Winchester)
Podcast: The Michael Shermer Show (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Why Eastbound Flights Are Faster, and Other Strange Things About Wind (Simon Winchester)Pub date: 2025-11-22Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationHave you ever thought about the science and history of … wind? In this episode, Simon Winchester explains why eastbound flights are usually faster than flying west, and how the discovery of the jet stream was almost missed because the original research was published in Esperanto. He also talks about the debate over the…
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