Featured Podcast Episodes
365 Days of Astronomy
24 Feb 2015, 12:00 UTC
Shaila Akhter hosts We learn about just how empty space is and how empty it isn't! http://cosmoquest.org/Donate This show is made possible through your donations. Thank you! (Haven't donated? It's not too late! Just click!) The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is produced by NUCLIO. http://nuclio.org/ Visit us on the web at 365DaysOfAstronomy.org or email us at info@365DaysOfAstronomy.org. While you're at it, do support our Learning Space educator training program by going to this site: https://www.patreon.com/LearningSpace Please help us keep training the trainers! Learning Space is a weekly G+ Hangout on Air about topics in astronomy education, outreach and other ways to share science both in the school setting and outside it. We bring you interviews, hands-on demonstrations, lists of our favorite educational resources and more! The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is a project that is publishing one podcast per day, 5 to 10 minutes in duration, for all 365 days of the year. The podcast episodes are written, recorded and produced by people around the world. We are looking for individuals, schools, companies and clubs to provide 5 - 10 minutes of audio for the daily podcast. You can do as few as 1 episode or up to ...
Shaila's SpaceCast - A Journey Through the Interstellar Medium (ISM)
24 Feb 2015, 12:00 UTC
Shaila Akhter hosts We learn about just how empty space is and how empty it isn't! http://cosmoquest.org/Donate This show is made possible through your donations. Thank you! (Haven't donated? It's not too late! Just click!) The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is produced by NUCLIO. http://nuclio.org/ Visit us on the web at 365DaysOfAstronomy.org or email us at info@365DaysOfAstronomy.org. While you're at it, do support our Learning Space educator training program by going to this site: https://www.patreon.com/LearningSpace Please help us keep training the trainers! Learning Space is a weekly G+ Hangout on Air about topics in astronomy education, outreach and other ways to share science both in the school setting and outside it. We bring you interviews, hands-on demonstrations, lists of our favorite educational resources and more! The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is a project that is publishing one podcast per day, 5 to 10 minutes in duration, for all 365 days of the year. The podcast episodes are written, recorded and produced by people around the world. We are looking for individuals, schools, companies and clubs to provide 5 - 10 minutes of audio for the daily podcast. You can do as few as 1 episode or up to ...
Are We Alone?
23 Feb 2015, 15:42 UTC
The world is hot, and getting hotter. But higher temperatures aren’t the only impact our species is having on mother Earth. Urbanization, deforestation, and dumping millions of tons of plastic into the oceans … these are all ways in which humans are leaving their mark. So are we still in the Holocene, the geological epoch that started a mere 11,000 years ago at the end of the last ice age? Some say we’ve moved on to the age of man – the Anthropocene. It’s the dawn of an era, but can we survive this new phase in the history of our planet? Guests: • Pat Porter - Relative • Jonathan Amos – Science writer for the BBC in London • Gaia Vince – Writer, broadcaster, former editor for New Scientist, news editor of Nature, and author of Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made • David Grinspoon – Astrobiologist, senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona • Francisco Valero – Emeritus physicist and research scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego
Surviving the Anthropocene
23 Feb 2015, 15:42 UTC
The world is hot, and getting hotter. But higher temperatures aren’t the only impact our species is having on mother Earth. Urbanization, deforestation, and dumping millions of tons of plastic into the oceans … these are all ways in which humans are leaving their mark. So are we still in the Holocene, the geological epoch that started a mere 11,000 years ago at the end of the last ice age? Some say we’ve moved on to the age of man – the Anthropocene. It’s the dawn of an era, but can we survive this new phase in the history of our planet? Guests: • Pat Porter - Relative • Jonathan Amos – Science writer for the BBC in London • Gaia Vince – Writer, broadcaster, former editor for New Scientist, news editor of Nature, and author of Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made • David Grinspoon – Astrobiologist, senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona • Francisco Valero – Emeritus physicist and research scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego
The Star Spot
23 Feb 2015, 02:00 UTC
Feature Guest: Kevin Shortt It’s a year that saw ups, such as the Dawn mission which became the first to study a dwarf planet. It was a year that experienced downs, like the tragic explosion of SpaceShipTwo and questions over the incident’s implication for space tourism. Through the ups and downs 2014 has been one fascinating year for space exploration. For a retrospective on the year that was, and a look at what’s on the horizon in 2015, today i’m joined at The Star Spot by Kevin shortt, the International Relations Officer for the Canadian Space Society. And on the next episode Kevin Shortt will rejoin me here at The Star Spot for an international survey of the world’s contribution to space exploration. As new nations become major players how will our efforts to explore the unknown change in 2015 and beyond. Current in Space Tony and Anuj both wax poetic. Tony explains how the door has just opened on the road to Europa, Jupiter's ocean world and a candidate int he search for life. Then Anuj on the very long road of Voyager, 40 years travelling and just getting started. About Our Guest Kevin Shortt has worked in the ...
Episode 71: 2014: An Amazing Year for Space Exploration, with Kevin Shortt
23 Feb 2015, 02:00 UTC
Feature Guest: Kevin Shortt It’s a year that saw ups, such as the Dawn mission which became the first to study a dwarf planet. It was a year that experienced downs, like the tragic explosion of SpaceShipTwo and questions over the incident’s implication for space tourism. Through the ups and downs 2014 has been one fascinating year for space exploration. For a retrospective on the year that was, and a look at what’s on the horizon in 2015, today i’m joined at The Star Spot by Kevin shortt, the International Relations Officer for the Canadian Space Society. And on the next episode Kevin Shortt will rejoin me here at The Star Spot for an international survey of the world’s contribution to space exploration. As new nations become major players how will our efforts to explore the unknown change in 2015 and beyond. Current in Space Tony and Anuj both wax poetic. Tony explains how the door has just opened on the road to Europa, Jupiter's ocean world and a candidate int he search for life. Then Anuj on the very long road of Voyager, 40 years travelling and just getting started. About Our Guest Kevin Shortt has worked in the ...
365 Days of Astronomy
18 Feb 2015, 12:00 UTC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lCOITp43FM Streamed live on Feb 11, 2015 Dr. Pamela Gay hosts. Guests are Dr. André David Tinoco Mendes (research physicist at CERN, Geneva) and Dr. Denis DaMazio (Brookhaven National Labs). Everything in our universe is made up of a very small numbers of particles, and is controlled by just four forces. In this Hangout, we will discuss these basic building blocks of everything. Diagram #1, the Standard Model: http://images-mediawiki-sites.thefullwiki.org/04/1/1/1/38812963758148916.png Diagram #2, Newton's apple: http://files.seds.org/pub/images/space_art/gravity-poster.gif Diagram #3, A bar magnet: http://www.magnetyze.com/image.axd?picture=2012%2F3%2Fmagnetic-field-iron-shavings.jpg Diagram #4, The Strong Nuclear Force: https://profmattstrassler.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/nuclear_force.png Diagram #5, Quarks and neutron decay: http://www.antonine-education.co.uk/Image_library/Physics_1/Particles/neutron_decay.JPG Diagram #6, The four fundamental forces: http://www.ipp.phys.ethz.ch/outreach/bosons?hires Diagram #7, The Higgs boson joins them all: http://i.stack.imgur.com/UYdcf.jpg André's gluon diagram: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/Feynmann_Diagram_Gluon_Radiation.svg André's special case diagram: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/Feynman_Diagram_Y-3g.PNG André's standard model diagram: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Standard_Model_of_Elementary_Particles.svg/799px-Standard_Model_of_Elementary_Particles.svg.png André's Newtonian gravitation equation: http://education-portal.com/cimages/multimages/16/gravtyequation.jpg Inspiring Science 4 Forces Lesson Plan: http://portal.opendiscoveryspace.eu/community/four-forces-standard-model-particles-805486 The Inspiring Science Education portal: http://www.inspiring-science-education.net/ A magnetic wand: http://www.cashco1000.com/mm5/graphics/00000001/HAY-53481-RedBingoWandSet2.jpg The Galileo Teacher Training Program: http://www.galileoteachers.org/ http://cosmoquest.org/Donate This show is made possible through your donations. Thank you! (Haven't donated? It's not too late! Just click!) The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is produced by NUCLIO. http://nuclio.org/ Visit us on the web at 365DaysOfAstronomy.org or email us at info@365DaysOfAstronomy.org. While you're at it, do support ...
Inspiring Science Education - The Four Forces & The Standard Model of Particles
18 Feb 2015, 12:00 UTC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lCOITp43FM Streamed live on Feb 11, 2015 Dr. Pamela Gay hosts. Guests are Dr. André David Tinoco Mendes (research physicist at CERN, Geneva) and Dr. Denis DaMazio (Brookhaven National Labs). Everything in our universe is made up of a very small numbers of particles, and is controlled by just four forces. In this Hangout, we will discuss these basic building blocks of everything. Diagram #1, the Standard Model: http://images-mediawiki-sites.thefullwiki.org/04/1/1/1/38812963758148916.png Diagram #2, Newton's apple: http://files.seds.org/pub/images/space_art/gravity-poster.gif Diagram #3, A bar magnet: http://www.magnetyze.com/image.axd?picture=2012%2F3%2Fmagnetic-field-iron-shavings.jpg Diagram #4, The Strong Nuclear Force: https://profmattstrassler.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/nuclear_force.png Diagram #5, Quarks and neutron decay: http://www.antonine-education.co.uk/Image_library/Physics_1/Particles/neutron_decay.JPG Diagram #6, The four fundamental forces: http://www.ipp.phys.ethz.ch/outreach/bosons?hires Diagram #7, The Higgs boson joins them all: http://i.stack.imgur.com/UYdcf.jpg André's gluon diagram: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/Feynmann_Diagram_Gluon_Radiation.svg André's special case diagram: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/Feynman_Diagram_Y-3g.PNG André's standard model diagram: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Standard_Model_of_Elementary_Particles.svg/799px-Standard_Model_of_Elementary_Particles.svg.png André's Newtonian gravitation equation: http://education-portal.com/cimages/multimages/16/gravtyequation.jpg Inspiring Science 4 Forces Lesson Plan: http://portal.opendiscoveryspace.eu/community/four-forces-standard-model-particles-805486 The Inspiring Science Education portal: http://www.inspiring-science-education.net/ A magnetic wand: http://www.cashco1000.com/mm5/graphics/00000001/HAY-53481-RedBingoWandSet2.jpg The Galileo Teacher Training Program: http://www.galileoteachers.org/ http://cosmoquest.org/Donate This show is made possible through your donations. Thank you! (Haven't donated? It's not too late! Just click!) The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is produced by NUCLIO. http://nuclio.org/ Visit us on the web at 365DaysOfAstronomy.org or email us at info@365DaysOfAstronomy.org. While you're at it, do support ...
StarDate Online
17 Feb 2015, 06:00 UTC
The subtle glow of the Milky Way arcs high across the sky early this evening. If you’re away from pesky city lights, look for it stretching from the southeast to almost directly overhead and then down to the northwest. The band of light we see as the Milky Way is the combined glow of millions of stars in the disk of our home galaxy. The disk is about a hundred thousand light-years wide, and we’re more than half way out toward its edge. On summer evenings, we face the heavily populated center of the galaxy, so the Milky Way is brighter and thicker. At this time of year, though, it’s far less impressive because we’re looking away from the center of the galaxy and toward its thinly settled outskirts. In fact, the point that’s directly opposite the galactic center is high overhead in early evening, between the bright stars Capella and Aldebaran. Even though the Milky Way looks relatively thin at this time of year, we do see a collection of some of the brightest stars in the night sky. Many of those stars are in the Orion spiral arm — the same one that holds our own solar system. ...
Winter Milky Way
17 Feb 2015, 06:00 UTC
The subtle glow of the Milky Way arcs high across the sky early this evening. If you’re away from pesky city lights, look for it stretching from the southeast to almost directly overhead and then down to the northwest. The band of light we see as the Milky Way is the combined glow of millions of stars in the disk of our home galaxy. The disk is about a hundred thousand light-years wide, and we’re more than half way out toward its edge. On summer evenings, we face the heavily populated center of the galaxy, so the Milky Way is brighter and thicker. At this time of year, though, it’s far less impressive because we’re looking away from the center of the galaxy and toward its thinly settled outskirts. In fact, the point that’s directly opposite the galactic center is high overhead in early evening, between the bright stars Capella and Aldebaran. Even though the Milky Way looks relatively thin at this time of year, we do see a collection of some of the brightest stars in the night sky. Many of those stars are in the Orion spiral arm — the same one that holds our own solar system. ...
The Planetary Society Radio Podcast
17 Feb 2015, 06:00 UTC
The Beagle 2 Mars lander disappeared after it separated from the Mars Express orbiter on Christmas Day, 2003. Eleven years later, it has been found, partially-deployed on the Martian surface. Longtime Beagle 2 mission leader Mark Sims tells the story.
Found! Beagle 2 on Mars
17 Feb 2015, 06:00 UTC
The Beagle 2 Mars lander disappeared after it separated from the Mars Express orbiter on Christmas Day, 2003. Eleven years later, it has been found, partially-deployed on the Martian surface. Longtime Beagle 2 mission leader Mark Sims tells the story.
StarDate Online
14 Feb 2015, 06:00 UTC
The Sun looks constant and steady, but it’s not. It goes through an 11-year cycle that produces dramatic changes on its surface and in its hot outer atmosphere. These changes can have a direct impact on daily life here on Earth — especially on our technology. So a better understanding of this cycle can help keep things running smoothly. To that end, NASA launched a satellite to study the peak of the solar cycle 35 years ago today. Known as the Solar Maximum Mission — Solar Max for short — it needed a little help to get the job done. The craft failed less than a year after launch. But in 1984, space shuttle astronauts repaired it in orbit, giving it five more years of life. The peak of the solar cycle produces a lot of dark sunspots, which are magnetic storms on the Sun’s surface that are big enough to swallow Earth. But it also produces giant explosions known as solar flares, as well as massive eruptions of hot gas. When these outbursts reach Earth, they can zap satellites, force airlines to re-route flights, and even knock out power grids on the ground. You might expect that the Sun ...
