Beste Prx podcasts (2024)

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No Small Endeavor Thanksgiving Special 1:11

1y ago1:11

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Oliver Burkeman, author of 4000 Weeks: Time Management For Mortals, shares how perhaps it's not what's happening in life, but the fact that it happens at all as a sort of revelation to reboot us to be attuned to awe, wonder, and the present moment.Door PRX

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Radiotopia Presents: Blind Guy Travels 23:55

3y ago23:55

23:55

Listening to The MoviesWhy watch a movie if you can’t see the screen? Matthew and his friend Ben take in a Marx Brothers film and showcase the power of a good description. Blind Guy Travels is written and performed by Matthew Shifrin, and produced and sound-designed by Ian Coss. Blind Guy Travels is a production of Radiotopia from PRX and part of R…

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Q&A with the Passenger List Creative Team - June 29, 2021 40:13

3+ y ago40:13

40:13

*Due to a recording error this recording begins with Kellie Marie Tran answering a question*Join the creators and cast of the hit podcast Passenger List from PRX's Radiotopia for a fan-submitted Q&A about the mystery fiction series. This recording includes Kelly Marie Tran (Executive Producer, Voice of Kaitlin Le), John Dryden (Executive Producer a…

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Prxjects Insights: August Rosenbaum 18:27

5+ y ago18:27

18:27

Prxjects Insights giver dig mulighed for at kommer lidt tættere på nogle af de artister Prxjects by Mercedes-Benz arbejder med. I nærværende afsnit kan du møde August Rosenbaum der er aktuel med to videoer, der giver en indsigt i Rosenbaums arbejde med ny musik. Programmets vært hedder Mads Axelsen. Optagelse, tilrettelæggelse og klip: Mads Axelsen…

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Prxjects Insights: Gents 19:27

6y ago19:27

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Prxjects Insights giver dig mulighed for at kommer lidt tættere på nogle af de artister Prxjects by Mercedes-Benz arbejder med. I nærværende afsnit kan du møde synth-duoen GENTS og høre mere om deres arbejde med singlen “Smoke Machine”. Programmets vært hedder Mads Axelsen.Optagelse, tilrettelæggelse og klip: Mads AxelsenMusik: Mads Koch, GENTSReda…

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Building 29 31:07

6y ago31:07

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All things in the cosmos have a lifespan, from the smallest particles to the most ancient suns. Everything has its season. Every season must come to an end.And this episode marks the end of Orbital Path.So, for the last transit of our podcast, Dr. Michelle Thaller and producer David Schulman join NASA astrobiologist Dr. Jen Eigenbrode on a site vis…

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HELLO, ASTEROID FINAL MIX 20:45

6y ago20:45

20:45

Asteroids, as the dinosaurs found out, can have big effects on life on Earth. Sixty-five million years ago, an asteroid crashed into the Yucatán. The impact caused apocalyptic tsunamis and volcanic eruptions. Grit and ash blotted out the sun. It wiped out species that had roamed the Earth for millions of years.Yet asteroid hits also were critical t…

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Prxjects Insights: Barselona 14:54

6y ago14:54

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Prxjects Insights giver dig mulighed for at kommer lidt tættere på nogle af de artister Prxjects by Mercedes-Benz arbejder med. I premiereafsnittet kan du møde duoen Barselona og høre mere om deres arbejde med singlen “Fra Wien til Rom”, der er med til at anvise en ny retning for bandet. Programmets vært hedder Mads Axelsen. Optagelse, tilrettelægg…

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Black Holes from the Dawn of Light 22:34

6y ago22:34

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To make a black hole, you need to think big. Really big. Start with a star much bigger than the sun — the bigger the better. Then settle in, and wait a few million years for your star to die.That should do the trick, if you want to get yourself a garden-variety black hole. But there’s another kind of black hole. They are mind-boggling in size. And …

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Space Lasers for the Home Planet 23:58

6y ago23:58

23:58

On September 15, 2018, the last Delta II rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force base, in California. It carried into orbit IceSat-2 — a satellite equipped with perhaps the most sophisticated space laser ever built. NASA didn’t put it up there to shoot down rogue asteroids. Instead, it’s taking aim — with exquisite precision — at Earth.On this …

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Brian Greene goes to 11 — again 30:56

6y ago30:56

30:56

In this encore episode of Orbital Path (previously heard in October 2017), Brian Greene, a celebrated explainer of how our universe operates and the director of the Center for Theoretical Physics at Columbia University, sits down to talk with Dr. Michelle Thaller. We live our lives in three dimensions. But we also walk those three dimensions along …

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The Universe of Leonard Susskind 27:11

6+ y ago27:11

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To hear Leonard Susskind tell it, we are living in a golden age of quantum physics. And he should know.Susskind is a grandee of theoretical physics. In the 1960s, he was one of the discoverers of String Theory. His friends and collaborators over the years include the likes of Nobel Prize winners Gerard 't Hooft and Richard Feynman.And, for more tha…

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Mars Goes Organic 28:12

6+ y ago28:12

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For a long time, probably as long as we have been gazing up at the night sky, people have been asking ourselves: Are we alone? Is there life out there, anywhere else in the universe?For modern Earthlings, our fascination with extraterrestrial life has focussed on one place in particular: Mars.The planet today is a forbidding, arid place. But billio…

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Earth, Desert Planet? 6:59

6+ y ago6:59

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Zoe is in 8th grade. She’s a student in Mr. Andersen’s Earth science class at a public school in Brooklyn.Lately, she’s been concerned about the future of the planet.Specifically, Zoe has been learning about the phenomenon of planetary dehydration — and she wanted to ask Dr. Michelle Thaller what would happen if Earth lost its water.It’s part of a …

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Introducing...Telescope! 8:20

7y ago8:20

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Instead of grappling with the big, cosmic questions that preoccupy adults, this week on Orbital Path we’re doing something different.We’re grappling with the big, cosmic questions that preoccupy kids.It’s part of a new project called “Telescope,” where Dr. Michelle Thaller takes on the really big questions in astronomy—from public school students.I…

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Star Death Tango 24:11

7y ago24:11

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On August 17, 2017, an alert went out. Gravitational wave detectors in Louisiana and Washington state had detected a disturbance from deep space. The effect was subtle — these detectors and a sister site in Italy measure disturbances smaller than a proton. But the evidence was dramatic. And the story they told was truly cataclysmic: A pair of neutr…

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Ozone Disaster Redux 20:02

7y ago20:02

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Scientists in 1985 discovered something that threatened the world we live in: The ozone layer had a hole in it. A big one. And this hole was growing very quickly. If it continued to grow, the consequences would be dire.Presented with the science, world leaders came up with an international agreement. The Montreal Protocol, as the treaty was called,…

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Fireside Physics: A Solstice on Saturn? 17:00

7y ago17:00

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In this darkest season of the year, Dr. Michelle Thaller and NASA astronomer Andrew Booth curl up by the fire. Gazing into the embers, red wine in hand, they consider the meaning of the winter solstice — on other planets. Like Uranus, where parts of the planet go 42 earth years without seeing the sun. Or Mars, where winters are made colder by an or…

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From Another Star 16:15

7y ago16:15

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NASA’S office of planetary defense isn’t worried about Klingons or Amoeboid Zingatularians. They worry about asteroids and comets. Like the one that exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia in 2013. It was about 20 yards across. An asteroid 150 yards in diameter could take out a city. An even bigger one — as the dinosaurs reading this will attest — could …

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Winter's Night Sky 12:00

7y ago12:00

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These days, astrophysicists like Dr. Michelle Thaller use instruments to probe the distant reaches of our galaxy, and far beyond. They use interferometry, the Hubble space telescope, and other technology impossible to imagine when the constellations of the winter sky were named. But, as the season changes and Orion returns to view, Michelle still f…

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Aliens Again! 16:37

7y ago16:37

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We've got some awkward news to share, folks: The producer of Orbital Path is claiming he’s been abducted by space aliens.So this week, we're dusting off the theremin and returning to one of our favorite early episodes — “Must Be Aliens.” Dr. Michelle Thaller talks with Phil Plait — AKA the "Bad Astronomer" — about the Kepler mission to find planets…

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Time and Space in the Kingdom of Bhutan 9:35

7y ago9:35

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The Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan avidly guards its traditional culture. Bhutan is a nation that — instead of looking to GDP or debt ratios — measures success by an index of “Gross National Happiness.”In this episode of Orbital Path, Dr. Michelle Thaller describes her recent adventures in Bhutan — including a climb to a Buddhist monastery perched on …

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The 11 Dimensions of Brian Greene 29:23

7y ago29:23

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We live our lives in three dimensions. But we also walk those three dimensions along a fourth dimension: time.??Our world makes sense thanks to mathematics. Math lets us count our livestock, it lets us navigate our journeys. Mathematics has also proved an uncanny, stunningly accurate guide to what Brian Greene calls “the dark corners of reality.”??…

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Minisode 5: Scary Math 11:42

7y ago11:42

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In a scary time, in a scary world, in a scary universe, NASA astronomer Andrew Booth says one of the things that frightens him most is math. Specifically, the unshaken power of mathematics to describe the universe. That’s because, beyond the comforting world of Newtonian physics, math gets mind-bendingly weird. So from the relative safety of their …

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Episode 22: Journey to the Sun 18:00

7y ago18:00

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Remember the myth of Icarus? He and his dad were trying to escape from prison. Locked up on the Greek island of Crete, they made wings out of beeswax and bird feathers. They soared to freedom — but Icarus got cocky, flew too close to the sun, and fell into the sea. A few thousand years later, NASA is ready to do the job right.The Parker Solar Probe…

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Minisode 4: Hot Tub Physics! 11:27

7y ago11:27

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After a full day in a clean suit, there’s nothing like a dip in the hot tub.NASA astronomer Andrew Booth spends his days working with lasers, developing some of the word’s most advanced telescopes. When he gets home from work, he loves to pour a glass of wine and slip into the hot tub.And ponder some of the weirder aspects of astrophysics.Orbital P…

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Episode 21: First Light 22:53

7+ y ago22:53

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There was a time before planets and suns. A time before oxygen. You could say there was time, even, before what we think of as light.Back in 1989, the Big Bang theory was still in question. But that year, a NASA team led by cosmologist John Mather launched a mission to probe the earliest moments of the universe.Mather won the Nobel Prize in Physics…

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Episode 20: Holy Sheet! 20:49

7+ y ago20:49

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NASA is relying on hi-tech lasers — and some vintage U.S. Navy hand-me-downs — to learn about the polar regions of a remarkable, watery planet. It's located in the Orion spur of our galaxy. NASA scientists have detected mountain ranges completely under ice. But the remaining mysteries of the ice here are profound, and what the science tells us coul…

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Mini-sode 3: Dr. Thaller Helps You Prep for The Eclipse 11:16

7+ y ago11:16

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The big one is coming! That is, the total solar eclipse of Aug. 21. Dr. Thaller shares her wisdom on how best to view the eclipse and its larger implications for science.Door PRX

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Mini-sode 2: What up, Jupiter? 6:47

7+ y ago6:47

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Recently, we’ve started to get the first images back from Juno, which is on a mission to Jupiter. Host Dr. Michelle Thaller walks us through the results so far and how you can participate in what Juno discovers next.Learn more about the Orbital Path podcast at orbital.prx.org.Door PRX

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Episode 19: We Are Stardust 16:56

7+ y ago16:56

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Dr. Michelle Thaller visits the NASA lab that discovered that meteorites contain some of the very same chemical elements that we contain. Then, Michelle talks to a Vatican planetary scientist about how science and religion can meet on the topic of life beyond Earth.Learn more about the Orbital Path podcast at orbital.prx.org.…

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Episode 18: Cassini Countdown 22:30

7+ y ago22:30

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When the Cassini spacecraft blasted into space on October 15, 1997, even the most optimistic scientists would have had a hard time predicting the mission’s success. Dr. Michelle Thaller speaks with the Cassini mission’s Project Scientist Linda Spilker, as well as Julie Webster, a longtime Cassini engineer and a manager for spacecraft operations. On…

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Episode 17: Making (Gravitational) Waves 26:21

7+ y ago26:21

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Nearly 100 years after Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves — huge undulations in the fabric of space-time itself — in 2015, detectors here on Earth finally picked up the signal of these massive disturbances. Dr. Michelle Thaller pulls apart the power and mystery of gravitational waves, and talks with Dr. Janna Levin, theoretical…

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Mini-sode 1: NASA's NICER Mission 6:28

7+ y ago6:28

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Listeners, we’ve heard you! You requested more episodes, so we present the first of our mini episodes. They’ll arrive two weeks after each monthly regular episode, and include Michelle’s insight on the latest space news. Enjoy episode one:NASA’s NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer) mission will launch in May. Michelle explains the NIC…

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Episode 16: Lessons in Landslides 22:09

7+ y ago22:09

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Space science can help track what's happening on earth. Orbital Path talks landslides and the satellites that monitor them for the third anniversary of the deadliest landslide in US history.On March 22, 2014 a 650-foot hillside collapsed and covered the community of Oso, Washington. Forty-three people died. David Montgomery studied the Oso landslid…

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Episode 15: Space Robots to Europa! 18:44

8y ago18:44

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Galileo discovered Europa, Jupiter's fourth-largest moon, in 1610. In 1977, the Voyager spacecraft buzzed past and we realized it was covered in ice. It took a few more years to understand that it also likely had unfrozen liquid water oceans.In this episode, Kevin Hand, deputy project scientist for the Europa mission at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab (J…

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Episode 14: How the World Came Together to Avoid Ozone Disaster 18:02

8y ago18:02

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In 1985, the British Antarctic Survey discovered something that shocked scientists around the world: the ozone layer had a hole in it. And the hole was growing very quickly.When they were presented with the problem, politicians and world leaders quickly came up with an international agreement to immediately reduce chlorofluorocarbons released into …

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Episode 13: Warning: Space May Wreak Havoc on Your Body 14:32

8y ago14:32

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Going to Mars is hot right now, just ask Matt Damon. But would you go if you knew your bones would turn into something called “pee brittle”?Former astronaut Michael Massimino reveals the uncomfortable side of liftoff. And Dr. Jennifer Fogarty from NASA’s Human Research Program elaborates on the physical challenges humans face with longterm weightle…

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Episode 12: In Search of Planet 9 16:23

8y ago16:23

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An Orbital Path episode all about… an orbital path! Planet 9's, to be exact. The replacement for Pluto as our solar system’s ninth planet is out there somewhere, and astronomers can see the ripples it creates, especially at this time of year.Door PRX

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The Invention of the Home Pregnancy Test 11:38

8y ago11:38

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We love a good backstory to a scientific invention that is ubiquitous today. Meet the women who got pregnancy tests out of labs and into homes. Learn more: https://transistor.prx.org/2016/02/the-invention-of-the-home-pregnancy-test/Door PRX

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Episode 11: Black Hole Breakthroughs 13:48

8y ago13:48

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Scientific discovery can happen in two ways: “Eureka!” moments of sudden understanding, where researchers glean unexpected insight into new phenomena. Or, a slower, less glamorous hunt for truth that happens day-after-day, for years. But both methods can lead to new understandings that pushes the field forward for future breakthroughs.In this episo…

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Episode 10: Done in the Sun 13:44

8y ago13:44

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The sun can seem like a friendly celestial body. It is the source of summer, crops, and basically all life on Earth. But the sun has a dark side too. Just as sun decided when life on Earth could begin, it will also decide when life on Earth will definitely end.Dr. Michelle Thaller speaks with Dr. C. Alex Young, Associate Director for Science in the…

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Episode 9: Howdy, Neighbor 12:03

8y ago12:03

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When Proxima b's discovery appeared in Nature on August 24, the media breathlessly announced a new Earth-like planet just 4.2 light years away from Earth. Astronomers have, for years, anticipated a planet orbiting Proxima Centauri. Michelle Thaller talks with astrophysicist Dr. Patricia Boyd about NASA’s ongoing search for exoplanets and what’s the…

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Episode 8: A Tale of Two Asteroids 15:28

8+ y ago15:28

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The asteroid belt is portrayed in movies as a crowded place with massive rocks bouncing each other like pool balls, capable of sending a mile-wide missile hurtling toward Earth at any moment. The reality is much more fascinating.Host Dr. Michelle Thaller speaks with Dr. Lucy McFadden, Co-Investigator of NASA’s Dawn Mission to orbit the asteroids Ve…

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Episode 7: Chasing An Eclipse 17:38

8+ y ago17:38

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Michael Kentrianakis loves eclipses and has seen them from all over the world. Host Michelle Thaller and Mike talk about the stages of the eclipse we can see in his video that went viral a few months ago after an Alaska Airlines flight. That flight was diverted for better eclipse viewing thanks to Joe Rao, who has convinced airlines to do this befo…

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Episode 6: A World Without Boundaries 18:49

8+ y ago18:49

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From space, the view of earth has no boundaries for countries, no barriers to achievement. Michelle Thaller speaks with Aprille Ericcson, a senior engineer at NASA, about her career path and about current challenges recruiting more women and minorities into engineering and space science.Produced by Lauren Ober. Learn more at orbital.prx.org.…

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Episode 5: Michelle & Her Mom 15:20

8+ y ago15:20

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In this special Mother's Day episode, Michelle talks with her mom about what it was like raising a space-obsessed daughter in Wisconsin and watching her grow into a scientist.Orbital Path is produced for PRX by Lauren Ober. Subscribe iTunes or wherever you listen to podcasts. Image: Michelle's sister (top L), Michelle (top R), and their mom in the …

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Episode 4: In Praise of Volcanoes 16:33

8+ y ago16:33

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Astronomer Michelle Thaller talks with Ashley Davies, a research scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, about the importance of volcanoes in the creation of Earth and how the study of volcanoes in space can help us understand life here. Davies has journeyed to remote volcanoes like Mt. Erebus in Antarctica and Erta Ale in Ethiopia as a way to …

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Episode 3: The Most Dramatic Sky 15:59

9y ago15:59

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The most rare objects in the night sky are only visible in some extreme places. Dr. Michelle Thaller introduces us to Dr. Anna Moore, a scientist whose trips to Antarctica help us better understand the solar system.Learn more about the show at orbital.prx.org.Door PRX

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Episode 2: Mass Extinctions Get Personal 17:43

9y ago17:43

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Dr. Michelle Thaller talks to Prof. Lisa Randall, a theoretical particle physicist at Harvard, about her new book, Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe. The scientists explore what caused the dinosaurs' extinction and the role dark matter plays in the universe and our world.About the Show: Astronomer and …

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