Science Night
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Displaying Episode 1 - 10 of 19 in total of Science Night with the tag “climate change”.
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Stranded in Space
August 30th, 2024 | Season 3 | 41 mins 32 secs
bees, boeing, cancer, climate change, iss, lung cancer, nasa, robotics, space, space travel, space x, starliner, synthetic skin
We are back with an episode from the past, that is also relevant in the present, and will remain topical into the future...confused? You'll have to listen to the episode! We're talking about startling synthetic skin, cancer-detecting bees, and a cosmic crisis.
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The Great Geoengineering Debate
March 13th, 2024 | Season 3 | 54 mins 49 secs
big oil, carbon emissions, climate change, climate crisis, engineering, fossil fuels, geoengineering, moths, pollinators, scicomm, science
This week Matt Sauers is back and we're looking we're looking at the shiny new technological idea that could turn back the clock on climate change...or it could fundamentally alter the atmosphere setting in motion a series of events that renders the planet unlivable. So let's ask the question, is it better to invest in solar engineering? Or would we be better served to put that time and effort into finding more sustainable types of energy. Plus we're also talking about some polluted pollinators that are covered in dinosaur juice exhaust.
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Fins on Film: A Sharkfest Special
July 12th, 2023 | Season 3 | 19 mins 28 secs
biology, cape cod, climate change, disney, disney plus, disney+, diving, film making, great white sharks, marine biology, nat geo, national geographic, photojournalism, seals, sharkfest, sharks, underwater photography, white sharks
This week, Jason is talking to Brian Skerry, a photojournalist and film producer that specializes in underwater wildlife, about his new documentary "The Return of the White Shark! A film that you can see RIGHT NOW on Disney+ as part of National Geographic's Sharkfest!!!!!
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Little Fires Everywhere
June 14th, 2023 | Season 3 | 13 mins 39 secs
canada, climate action, climate change, climate crisis, fire season, global warming, scicomm, science, wildfires
This week we're starting our summer scicomm adventure by talking about the wildfires that are tearing through the True North and choking out the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. Spoilers, it's climate change...it's always climate change
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Sports in the Climate Era
April 19th, 2023 | Season 3 | 39 mins 37 secs
anthropology, archaeology, baseball, bronze age, climate change, climate crisis, climate emergency, fifa, football, fusion energy, global warming, horses, indigenous, native american, nuclear fusion, pegasus iii, psychedelics, scicomm, science, soccer, sports, tokamak
Coming up to bat, we have four scicomm stories from the news. First, we talk about psychedelic substance use in the Bronze Age. Next, we're re-examining the origin of horses in indigenous communities in North America. To round out the first half, we have our favorite new segment where Dr. Diem clears up the fusion confusion. In the second half, we're looking at sports in the climate era, where Jason laments the death of baseball, James relives a Red October to remember, and Steffi thinks about life in the white tent.
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Stellar Scicomm
April 5th, 2023 | Season 3 | 39 mins 52 secs
british parliament, capitol hill, carbon capture, climate change, climate crisis, fusion energy, scicomm, science, science advocacy, science policy, stellerator, tokamak, us government
This week we're talking about two of our favorite things, science advocacy, and fusion energy. First, James, Jason, and Steffi talk about their recent trip to D.C. Next, we talk about science advocacy across the pond. In the second half, we talk about the recent news about carbon capture, and a hot new fusion energy company is building a stellarator.
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A Festival of Fusion: The 2022 Year in Review
February 8th, 2023 | Season 3 | 39 mins 59 secs
arc, climate change, climate crisis, east, fusion, fusion energy, iter, jet, nuclear fusion, physics, scicomm, science, sparc, step, tokamak
We're back with another look back at the year in fusion energy. Join us as our friendly fusioneer Steffi Diem and special guest Arturo Dominguez talk about the highlights and high temps from an exciting year.
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Informal Education with Dr. Kelly Salmon & Alyson Michael
October 12th, 2022 | Season 3 | 51 mins 42 secs
biology, chaos theory, chemistry, climate change, creation, droplets, education, evolution, mathematics, narwhal, origins, scicomm, science, stem
This week we're talking to two instructors from the New Hampshire Academy of Science about informal STEM education and inspiring the future of science. In the news, we're talking about dynamic droplets and chaotic cetaceans.
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The Ballad of the Nine Inch Snails with Bea Ramiro
May 27th, 2022 | Season 3 | 56 mins 4 secs
astronomy, biochemistry, biology, biomedicine, black holes, chemistry, china, climate change, comets, cone snails, epidemiology, field work, fusion energy, grad school, medicine, mollusks, monkey pox, nuclear fusion, physics, physilogy, scicomm, science, tritium
This week, we have the triumphant return of those marvelous mollusks, the cone snails! We're talking to Bea Ramiro from the Safavi Lab at the University of Copenhagen, who is looking at a potential medical use for cone snail venom. In the news, we hop aboard the de-hype train, talk about fusion fuel, sing a black hole song, and explore a secret garden. Plus a new line of cone snail merch at our website, scinight.com/merch!
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The Interface of Science and Policy with Dr. Alma Cristal Hernandez-Mondragon
April 29th, 2022 | Season 3 | 1 hr 5 mins
astronomy, biology, climate change, dartmouth, frogs, jpl, mating calls, mexico, nasa, physics, policy, scicomm, science, scipolicy, scorpions, snakes, space, the three body problem, theoretical physics, three body
This week we're featuring a conversation with Dr. Alma Cristal Hernandez-Mondragon, a science policy advocate from Mexico City that is paving the way for a generation of science advocates in Mexico. In the news, we're talking about troubling transmissions, frog tinder, and anti-venom achievements.