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THE STARTALKER NEWSLETTER, ISSUE 58, DECEMBER 12, 2013

This Week's New Podcast Season 4 Time Capsule (Part 1)  December 15, 2013, 7:00pm ET/4:00pm PT     Presenting your favorite episodes from Season 4: 1. StarTalk Live at Town Hall with Buzz Aldrin (Part 1)  2. StarTalk Live! Satisfying our Curiosity about Mars  3. StarTalk Live! Exploring Our Funky Solar System 4. The Joe Rogan Experience  5. Eureka! Asteroid Mining  Not the entire episodes, mind you. Just the tastiest morsels, the juiciest jokes, and the most savory scientific snippets. Next week, in Part 2, we’ll focus on your favorite Cosmic Queries. But for this week, sit back and join us as we take one last look at Buzz Aldrin, John Oliver, Joe Rogan, the Curiosity Rover, Dr. Funkyspoon, and so much more. The podcast will be available Sunday, December 15th at 7:00 PM ET on our website, iTunes, Stitcher and SoundCloud. Photo Credit: © 2013 Daniel Johnson. Catch Up on Last Week's Podcast Cosmic Queries: Science Fiction December 8, 2013     This week, science fiction meets science fact, and, not surprisingly, the facts win. Join astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Eugene Mirman as they explore force fields, transporter beams, artificial gravity and anti-matter reactions. Time travel is on the table, too, from the mechanics of tachyon fields and the Flux Capacitor to Star Trek's warp drive and faster-than-light travel in Star Wars. Neil ponders whether time is static, as in 12 Monkeys and The Time Machine, or malleable, as in Back To The Future. Neil and Eugene discuss Sliders’ depiction of parallel universes and whether mathematical equations can predict the future like in Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series. Listen now. Photo Credit: © LucasFilm Limited. Best of the Blog Saving the best for last? Watch the Geminids this Friday night! Posted December 11, 2013   Could the last major meteor shower of 2013, the Geminids, be the best? We’ll find out Friday night! The Geminids peak on the night of Dec 13 through the morning of December 14th. There is reason to hope, in spite of the possibility of clouds and the presence of a waxing gibbous moon, three days from full. According to Universe Today, “In the 21st century, rates for the Geminids have stayed above a ZHR (Zenithal Hourly Rate) of 120, currently the highest of any annual shower. It’s worth noting that an extrapolated ZHR of almost 200 were seen in 2011 when the Moon was at an equally unfavorable waning gibbous phase! The Geminids always produce lots of fireballs, capable of being seen even under moonlit skies.” Read more. Photo Credit: Stellarium (Courtesy of Universe Today). Keep In Touch! Facebook Google +  Twitter  YouTube  Pinterest Homepage  iTunes  Soundcloud Show RSS Blog RSS Join Our Cosmic Community If you represent an academic or scientific organization that would like to join our Cosmic Community, just click on the following link to complete and submit a short application form and we'll be in touch. Cosmic Community Sign-Up Become a StarTalk Satellite Add the StarTalk Radio widget to your website or blog and let your friends listen to the show right from your site. Get the widget now. StarTalk Radio Now Accepting Corporate Sponsors If your company shares our mission and would like to support StarTalk Radio, please email: Laura Berland

Have You Seen Our New "Behind the Scenes" Video? Neil deGrasse Tyson on Adding Oxygen to the Atmosphere       A fan wants to know what would happen if we added frozen oxygen from space to Earth’s atmosphere like in an episode of Buck Rogers. Once Neil deGrasse Tyson and Eugene Mirman stop laughing, Neil explains why adding oxygen would be a bad idea (imagine the Apollo 1 capsule fire on a much larger scale), why it’s not necessary but how we could easily get oxygen should we need it, and explains why the word “Spaceberg” makes as little sense as the idea the Buck Rogers writers came up with. Watch now.

PRESIDENTIAL SPEAKER SERIES: NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON AT KENT STATE SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

           

Presidential Speaker Series > Presidential Speaker Series: Neil deGrasse Tyson
 

 

 

Wednesday, September 25 at 7 p.m.
Kent Student Center Ballroom

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Neil deGrasse Tyson, Ph.D., is an astrophysicist and the Frederick P. Rose director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History. Tyson’s professional research interests include star formation, exploding stars, dwarf galaxies and the structure of our Milky Way. In The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America’s Favorite Planet, he chronicles his experience at the center of the controversy over Pluto’s planetary status.



In February 2012, he released his 10th book, containing every thought he has ever had on the past, present and future of space exploration: Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier. Currently, Tyson is working on a 21st-century reboot of Carl Sagan’s landmark television series COSMOS, to air in 13 episodes on the FOX network in the spring of 2014.


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THE STARTALKER NEWSLETTER, ISSUE 41, AUG 1, 2013

Issue 41, August 1, 2013 This Week's New Podcast Cosmic Queries: Dark Matter and Dark Energy August 4, 2013, 7:00pm ET/4:00pm PT If dark matter is the longest unsolved problem in astrophysics, how can Neil deGrasse Tyson answer your Cosmic Queries this week? Well, it turns out we do know something about the stuff that makes up 96% of our universe. For instance, how it affects the rotation of galaxies, and what would happen if it disappeared. And whether dark matter is increasing as the universe expands. You’ll find out if there are connections between black holes and dark matter and what Hawking Radiation is. Did the recent experiments on the ISS explain why dark matter doesn’t interact with ordinary matter? Plus, Neil tells comic co-host Leighann Lord why he thinks dark energy should be named Fred. The show will be on our website and iTunes this Sunday, August 4th at 7:00pm ET. Dark Matter Visualization courtesy of SDSC and NPACI Visualization Services. Catch Up on Last Week's Podcast The Science of Hip Hop with GZA (Part 2) July 28, 2013 The role of science in hip hop culture is the theme that runs through Part 2 of Neil deGrasse Tyson’s interview with rapper GZA. There’s a spirited discussion between Prof. Chris Emdin, Neil, and Chuck Nice about the distinction between real science and pseudo-science, the importance of a creative approach to learning, and the drawbacks of the “banking model” of education. GZA raps about his early days, and schools Neil about the formation of the Wu-Tang Clan, the golden age of MCs, and the lack of lyrical creativity among current rap artists. Listen now.  (Note: Portions of this podcast appeared previously in a StarTalk Radio video on The Nerdist.) Photo Courtesy of RapGenius.com. Best of the Blog Report from Astronomy Night at SpaceFest 2013 Posted July 31, 2013 StarTalk’s Cosmic Community is really taking off! The aim of our evolving group of academic and scientific organizations, programming groups, schools and astronomy clubs is to promote excitement and interest in STEM education – and we did so with flying colors over this past weekend! The Intrepid Museum’s NYC SpaceFest included the re-opening of the Space Shuttle Enterprise Pavilion, along with many special activities, exhibits, and astronaut guests. Cosmic Community member organizations were well-represented throughout the festivities. Read more. Photo Credit: © 2013 Stacey David Severn. All rights reserved. Have You Seen Our Latest "Behind the Scenes" Video? Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains Multiple Star Systems Is it possible to have a solar system of stars? In one of our funnier Cosmic Queries segments, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson answers StarTalk Radio fan Arlen Kundert by explaining how multiple star systems like our neighbor, the Alpha Centauri system, can exist, and what the impact of dueling stellar gravity is on the orbit of planets. Don't miss Chuck Nice's riff on emotionally conflicted planets. Watch now. Don't miss any of our StarTalk Radio videos on YouTube. Subscribe to the StarTalk Radio YouTube Channel. Keep in touch Facebook Twitter YouTube Google + Pinterest Homepage  iTunes Shows (RSS) Blog (RSS) Subscribe to The StarTalker - click here!  Join Our Cosmic Community! If you represent an academic or scientific organization that would like to join our Cosmic Community, just click on the following link to complete and submit a short application form and we'll be in touch. Cosmic Community Sign-Up Become a StarTalk Satellite! Add the StarTalk Radio widget to your website or blog and let your friends listen to the show right from your site. Get the widget now. StarTalk Radio is now accepting corporate sponsors. If your company shares our mission and would like to support StarTalk Radio, please email: Laura Berland The StarTalk Team StarTalkTeam@startalkradio.net www.startalkradio.net