Date: August 23, 2010 Title: The Moon of Venus Podcaster: Ben Lillie Organization: The Story Collider, storycollider.org Description: Two tales of science done right and done wrong, starring Nicola Tesla and Giovanni Cassini. Bio: Ben Lillie is a physicist who left the ivory tower for the wilds of New York’s theater district. How now writes [...]
Date: August 22, 2010 Title: The Sound of Strings: An Idea of Design Podcaster: Micol Christopher and Matthew Graham Description: Matthew Graham will describe some of the basics of string theory and provide his own insight into the creationist/science discourse. Bio: Micol Christopher is a professor of astronomy at Mt. San Antonio College, a two-year [...]
Date: August 21, 2010 Title: Astrophysics from the Moon Podcaster: NASA Lunar Science Institute Organization: NLSI Description: Will we ever live and work on the Moon? It’s been a dream of scientists, space advocates and science fiction fans for decades. While the debate of whether to return to the Moon, or if we should go [...]
Date: August 20, 2010 Title: Music on a Planetary Scale Podcaster: Sandy Antunes Links: http://projectcalliope.com http://ScientificBlogging.com/skyday Description: Listen to Mars, now listen to me, now listen to Mars. This is what Mars could sound like, if it sounded like me. Today, we listen to sonification of data, artistic interpretation, and discuss which is ‘better’ and [...]
Date: August 19, 2010 Title: Spacecraft Navigation Podcaster: Steve Nerlich Organization: Cheap Astronomy – www.cheapastro.com Description: It’s not rocket science – oh hang on, actually it is. Bio: Cheap Astronomy offers an educational website where we might be cheap but we can still run rings around Saturn. Today’s sponsor: This episode of “365 Days of [...]
Date: August 18, 2010 Title: Lunar Dust and Dreams Podcaster: NASA Lunar Science Institute Organization: NASA Lunar Science Institute (NLSI) LADEE mission (Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer) Description: Dust on Earth can be a nuisance, but on the Moon tiny particles of dust can have a big impact, on both humans and equipment. Nancy [...]
Date: August 17, 2010 Title: Are We Made from Stardust? Podcaster: Stuart Clark Description: Where did the chemical elements that make up all living things come from? Bio: Dr Stuart Clark is an award-winning astronomy author and journalist. His books include The Sun Kings, and the highly illustrated Deep Space, and Galaxy. His next book [...]
Date: August 16, 2010 Title: How to Get Kids Interested in Science Podcaster: Zachary and Richard Kessin Description: A father and son discuss how to get kids interested in science. Bio: Zachary Kessin is a Software engineer working with HTML5 at Mytopia in Ramat Gan Israel. He is an amature astronomer in his spare time. [...]
Date: August 15, 2010 Title: Mars in August Podcaster: Carolyn Collins Petersen Organization: Loch Ness Productions (http://www.lochnessproductions.com) Music by Geodesium (http://www.geodesium.com) Description: Carolyn Collins Petersen, TheSpacewriter, talks about Mars, the Mars full moon hoax, and her fascination with the Red Planet. Bio: Carolyn Collins Petersen is a science writer and show producer, as well as [...]
Date: August 14, 2010 Title: Amazing Water! Podcaster: Todd Gonzales Description: A very basic lesson of what makes up the water molecule, how it ties to Astronomy and what happens when it is transformed into pure energy. Bio: I was born and raised in California and currently live in Hesperia. In august I will be [...]
The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is a project that will publish one podcast per day, for all 365 days of 2009 and 2010. The podcast episodes are written, recorded and produced by people around
the world.
365 Days of Astronomy is a proud part of the International Year of Astronomy 2009.
