Month: March 2022
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Episode 394: Punk On The Bus
This episode contains: Break-ins, BBQs and Boxes. Would you like to know more? Sip, Sip, Go!: Good news for coffee lovers: Daily coffee may benefit the heart. A new analysis of meta data shows that coffee is either neutral to, or associated with benefits to the heart. We talk about our own coffee (and bathroom…
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Episode 393: Too Many Titles
This episode contains: We have all three science podcasters on this episode. After going around the horn saying how we’ve been doing we get down to business. Look Up, Picard: NASA’s Webb Reaches Alignment Milestone, Optics Working Successfully. On March 11, the Webb team completed the stage of alignment known as “fine phasing.” At this…
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Episode 392: Emotional Tone-Poem in Space
This episode contains: Ben’s been geeking out in books this last week. Not video games. Weird. But that didn’t stop him getting an XBox Series X on MAR10 day. WHAT A TRAITOR! We chat about Moonglow Bay, a slice of life fishing RPG on Xbox Gamepass. Alicia Keys: Let’s talk about typewriters and e-ink. An…
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Episode 391: Stellar Vampirism
This episode contains: Ben’s been not having some real problems with spreadsheets. In fact, this episode was almost called ‘The Spreadsheet Edition’. This Week in Space: ‘Closest black hole’ system found to contain no black hole. We’ve got some updates to system HR 6819 and the scientists behind the original conclusions were happy that their…
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Episode 390: Penetrating the Galactic Barrier
This episode contains: We record this on Sunday night, without Devon. Ben tells us about Babylon 5 without waiting for the Sci-Fi section of the podcast. Steven then talks about skipping first season of TV shows, including Parks and Rec. There’s Nothing Funny About Measles: Scientists have known for years that measles can alter the…