Podcast: Quantum Mechanics in the Minecraft Universe

At Minecon 2013, the annual convention for players of the staggeringly popular video game Minecraft, representatives from Caltech, Google, E-Line Media, and MinecraftEDU announced a new mod for the game aimed at introducing a few key principles of quantum mechanics. It's called qCraft, and it's been downloaded more than 100,000 times since then (millions, if you count the major mod packs that include qCraft). Even better, it's been used in hundreds of classrooms already to explore fundamentals o...