Parsing Science - Bending the Laws of Physics LeighDoug WatkinsRyan SchillingAndreas 2019 "Nothing in life is certain," <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/430971a" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">writes</a> MIT mechanical engineer <a href="http://meche.mit.edu/people/faculty/SLLOYD@MIT.EDU" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Seth Lloyd</a>, "except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics." But is this necessarily so? In episode 52, we're joined by <a href="https://www.physik.uzh.ch/groups/schilling/research.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Andreas Schilling</a> with the <a href="https://www.physik.uzh.ch/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">University of Zurich</a>, who discusses his development of an amazingly simple device that allows heat to flow from a cold object to a warm one without an external power supply; a process that initially appears to contradict this fundamental law of physics. His open-access article "<a href="https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/4/eaat9953.full" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Heat flowing from cold to hot without external intervention by using a 'thermal inductor'</a>" was published with Xiaofu Zhang and Olaf Bossen on April 19, 2019 in the journal <a href="https://advances.sciencemag.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Science Advances</em></a>.<div><br></div><div>https://www.parsingscience.org/2019/06/25/schilling/<br></div>