Does digital data weigh anything?

What do the bits and bytes we're storing weigh, and how does relativity relate to the real world?
06 August 2021
Presented by Chris Smith with Lester Kiewit, 567 Cape Talk. 
Production by Chris Smith.

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How do African animals withstand extreme cold in the Kalahari? Does the data we're all generating and storing weigh anything? How does relativity relate to the real world? Why do we run Olympic races in the direction we do? Is the ozone hole disappearing now? Were left handers less able to defend themselves back in history? Is a germinating seed making new matter? And will volcanoes eventually empty the Earth of magma? Lester and Chris have the answers...

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