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Episode 73 - Interview with Astronaut Abby
28/10/17 09:03 Filed in: Space
This week I have a great chat with Abigail Harrison, aka Astronaut Abby. We talk about her ambitions for Mars, getting people excited about space, STEM, and the arts, and whether there will be cats on Mars.
(Astronaut Abby/The Mars Generation)
Links to this weeks resources:
The Mars Generation
Astronaut Abby
(Astronaut Abby/The Mars Generation)
Links to this weeks resources:
The Mars Generation
Astronaut Abby
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Episode 66 - All News Show #3
09/09/17 11:06 Filed in: News
This week I've got a bunch of cool short news bits I've been saving up, it's time to catch up. Cassini, Voyager, Mars, Universal Basic Income, Robot artists, and more
(NASA-Cassini)
Sources for this week's show:
Dogmatic thinking study https://scienmag.com/studies-help-understand-why-some-people-are-so-sure-theyre-right/
Future food shortages https://qz.com/1064653/the-world-could-run-out-of-food-two-decades-earlier-than-thought/
Demand for concrete is killing rivers (need material science research, I have previously covered concrete making methods with less impact) http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-41123284
Scotland to begin a UBI test https://futurism.com/scotland-will-begin-funding-universal-basic-income-experiments/
Robot mural artist https://qz.com/1040982/watch-this-robot-can-spray-paint-giant-murals/
Voyager’s 40th https://nasa.tumblr.com/post/164871712984/voyager-the-spacecraft
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/voyager/index.html
Peggy Whitson http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/09/03/548295156/-american-space-ninja-peggy-whitson-back-on-earth-after-record-breaking-flight
https://www.space.com/36285-astronaut-peggy-whitson-spacewalk-record.html
NASA announces accelerated time table for Mars sample return mission http://www.planetary.org/blogs/jason-davis/2017/20170828-mars-2020-sample-return.html
Cleaning up space debris http://www.popsci.com/amp/space-debris-clean-up-spacecraft
Two stars in the far future of our solar system https://motherboard.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/599awz/in-13-million-years-the-solar-system-will-briefly-contain-two-stars
Cassini at the end of it’s mission https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/main/index.html
(NASA-Cassini)
Sources for this week's show:
Dogmatic thinking study https://scienmag.com/studies-help-understand-why-some-people-are-so-sure-theyre-right/
Future food shortages https://qz.com/1064653/the-world-could-run-out-of-food-two-decades-earlier-than-thought/
Demand for concrete is killing rivers (need material science research, I have previously covered concrete making methods with less impact) http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-41123284
Scotland to begin a UBI test https://futurism.com/scotland-will-begin-funding-universal-basic-income-experiments/
Robot mural artist https://qz.com/1040982/watch-this-robot-can-spray-paint-giant-murals/
Voyager’s 40th https://nasa.tumblr.com/post/164871712984/voyager-the-spacecraft
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/voyager/index.html
Peggy Whitson http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/09/03/548295156/-american-space-ninja-peggy-whitson-back-on-earth-after-record-breaking-flight
https://www.space.com/36285-astronaut-peggy-whitson-spacewalk-record.html
NASA announces accelerated time table for Mars sample return mission http://www.planetary.org/blogs/jason-davis/2017/20170828-mars-2020-sample-return.html
Cleaning up space debris http://www.popsci.com/amp/space-debris-clean-up-spacecraft
Two stars in the far future of our solar system https://motherboard.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/599awz/in-13-million-years-the-solar-system-will-briefly-contain-two-stars
Cassini at the end of it’s mission https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/main/index.html