{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"SoT 354: They Smacked It With A Shovel","description":"Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall, Dr. Helen Maynard-Casely  00:03:36 NASA's Mars InSight probe has finally managed to drill into the Martian rock and soil - thanks to a traditional repair technique! 00:13:04 The idea that glass is a liquid that flows is largely a myth.... sort of. It's an amorphous solid, so it does flow but very very slowly.  Now an analysis of amber has shed some light on the disordered molecules that make glass a &quot;liquid in suspended animation&quot;. 00:26:36 When our fishy ancestors slithered onto land nearly 400 million years ago, they had hands and feet. But fingers and toes took a little longer to develop. The discovery of  a complete skeleton of a fish from around that time gives some clues about the evolution of fingers.  Dr. Helen Maynard-Casely is a planetary scientist working at ANSTO, Australia\u2019s Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation. She is the co-author of the children's book  I Love Pluto.  This episode contains traces of the panel on Have I Got News For You discussing an astrophysicists attempts to make a device to stop you touching your face. ","author_name":"Science On Top","author_url":"http:\/\/scienceontop.com","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/14048222\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/009fb8\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/70400708"}