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116 – Science Journalism with Sanden Totten pt. 2

116-sanden-tottenSanden Totten (@sandentotten), from Bill Nye Saves the World and the Brains On! Podcast, returns to share more pear cider from Sonoma Cider and continue a great chat about science, information, punk rock, identity, and how to trust data and information.

Music at the end from Craft Spells with Your Tomb.

115 – Science Journalism with Sanden Totten pt. 1

Sanden Totten (@sandentotten), from KPCC, Bill Nye Saves the World, and the Brains On! podcast, drops by to share some Pitchfork Pear Cider from Sonoma Cider and chat about his career in science journalism, getting into punk, and what he loves about science. A call to Chad Daniels starts things off.

Music at the end from the Riverboat Gamblers with Good Veins.

If you haven’t read this amazing story about the four immigrant kids who beat MIT at a robotics competition, here is the link. It was mentioned during the chat with Dianna Cowern, and it is well worth your time.

And here is a link to the video that Dianna mentioned about why mirrors flip horizontally but not vertically.

85 – Physics with Dianna Cowern pt. 1

The Physics Girl herself (@thephysicsgirl) Dianna Cowern is the guest this week. David travels to San Diego and records a conversation from the offices of the enterprise that is the Physics Girl. Dianna has had a fascinating life, and she’s obsessed with physics and sharing cool physics knowledge with the world. Get to know her and a little bit more about the world just by listening to this episode and watching her youtube videos.

Music at the end, recorded live at the Junk Show, by Common Miner with Pictures from the album The Match That Stayed Lit.

63 – Asteroids with Farah Alibay pt. 1

Farah Alibay (@trifarahtops), a systems engineer at JPL with a PhD from M.I.T. in Astronautics and Aeronautics, drops by to share some Punkin Ale from Dogfish Head Brewing and chat about the mission to Mars, space in general, and how to remove a boulder from an asteroid.

Dance Me to the End of Love by Leonard Cohen (RIP) finishes it off.