Month: July 2015
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Episode 061: Books and the Blind
Recorded July 22, 2015. This episode contains: closing the chapter, poorly administered test, confirmation bias, Jurassic Park, the Girl with all the Gifts by Mike Carey (SPOILERS), Seveneves by Neal Stephenson, Spin trilogy by Robert Charles Wilson, the plight of Bruce Willis, Pinky and the Brain, pictures in audio books, TV for the blind, not…
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Episode 060: Space Madness
Recorded July 15th, 2015 This episode contains: Heart on Pluto, Pluto’s not a planet—deal with it Nano-Nano: Pentaquark, five quark particle, hadrons, protons and neutrons, quark flavors, spin, anti-quarks, Large Hadron Collider (LHC), bump hunting, regular hadrons have three quarks, Ghost Busters’ particle physics, 10^-6 seconds after the Big Bang, quark-gluon plasma http://www.nature.com/news/forsaken-pentaquark-particle-spotted-at-cern-1.17968 This Week…
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Episode 059: The Martian
Recorded July 8th, 2015 This episode contains: Life choices, Nooooooo!, Star Wars App, engagement, gay marriage ruling, asking for hand in marriage tradition, Devon can be romantic This Week in Space: Quintuple star system, touching binary stars, method of detection, solar systems with even more stars, if Jupiter was a star http://io9.com/astronomers-have-discovered-an-exotic-quintuple-star-sy-1716473889 Biological Imperative: Chronological age v.…
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Episode 058: The Meteor Composition Estimation
This episode contains: Exploding on a barge, Inside Out, ideas, GIRL! GIRL! GIRL!, true cider, banana bread beer Pop Sci: Space X disaster, reusable rockets, Steven and Devon get their wires crossed, mission to ISS, holo-lense, augmented reality, the meteor composition estimation, real space travel v. Sci fi space travel, minor spoiler for The Martian,…
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Episode 057: The Brains of Inside Out
This episode contains: Frantically trying to think of a reference to Inside Out, joys of parenthood, Indiana Jones, Crystal Skull was apparently the best they had (yikes). Pop Sci: Easy eye surgery, skeptical flags, laser eye surgery, bionic lenses, 20/20 x 3, cowboys don’t wear glasses. http://www.collective-evolution.com/2015/06/19/the-8-minute-surgery-that-will-give-you-superhuman-vision-forever/ This Week in Space: Blue Hook Stars, birth…