Wikipedia @ 25: Lake Baikal

May 19
5 mins

Episode Description

Based on an original blog post at: https://danq.me/2026/05/19/wp25-lake-baikal/

Today's random Wikipedia article was about a kind of seal that lives only in Lake Baikal in Siberia, which turns out to be a really, really big lake. Like: it's got about a fifth of the world's fresh water in it; that's how big it is!

00:00 Intro
00:21 Wikipedia's 25th Birthday
01:03 Baikal Seals and Lake Baikal
03:11 Omul and Raskolotka
03:52 Baikal Deep Water Neutrino Telescope (BDWNT)
05:15 Outro
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