Episode – 0726 : Exoplanets Podcast Transcript Ever since astronomers figured out that the stars in the sky are just like our sun, they began wondering if those stars had […]
Episode – 0694 : Jupiter: The Solar System’s Largest Planet
Episode – 0694 : Jupiter: The Solar System’s Largest Planet Podcast Transcript Ever since humans looked up at the night sky and noticed that some of the points of light […]
Episode – 0667 : A Star is Born
Episode – 0667 : A Star is Born Podcast Transcript It is estimated that within the observable universe there might be as many as a septillion stars. While each of […]
Episode – 0589 : The Wonderful World of Stromatolites
Episode – 0589 : The Wonderful World of Stromatolites Podcast Transcript If you measure the success of a lifeform by how long they manage to exist on Earth, then by […]
Episode – 0532 : The James Webb Space Telescope
Episode – 0532 : The James Webb Space Telescope Podcast Transcript Sometime within the next week of my recording this episode, hopefully, a rocket will be launched from the European […]
Episode – 0512 : Planet 9
Episode – 0512 : Planet 9 Podcast Transcript The planet Neptune was discovered in 1846. Ever since then, astronomers have felt there had to be another planet beyond the orbit […]
Episode – 0426 : The Carrington Event
Episode – 0426 : The Carrington Event Podcast Transcript On September 1 and 2 of 1859, people all over the world were treated to something quite rare. Auroras were seen […]
Episode – 0425 : The Fermi Paradox
Episode – 0425 : The Fermi Paradox Podcast Transcript In a previous episode, I spoke about the Drake equation and the odds of there being intelligent extraterrestrial life. Many people […]
Episode – 0420 : The Planet Mercury
Episode – 0420 : The Planet Mercury Podcast Transcript The planet Mercury is the smallest, fastest, and most pot-marked planet in our solar system. It is in many ways, unlike […]
Episode – 0394 : How Do Satellites Work?
Episode – 0394 : How Do Satellites Work? Podcast Transcript Somewhere over your head, right this moment is an artificial satellite. Many of them actually. They beam television and radio […]
Episode – 0379 : The Miller–Urey Experiment
Episode – 0379 : The Miller–Urey Experiment Podcast Transcript One of the fundamental questions of humanity is where did we come from? How did life on Earth come about? While […]
Episode – 0369 : Supernovas: They’re a Blast!
Episode – 0369 : Supernovas: They’re a Blast! Podcast Transcript One of the brightest things in the universe is caused by one of the most powerful explosions in the universe: […]
Episode – 0362 : 10 Ways You Can Know That the Earth is a Sphere
Episode – 0362 : 10 Ways You Can Know That the Earth is a Sphere Podcast Transcript One of the saddest things in the modern world is that with all […]
Episode – 0354 : Absolute Zero
Episode – 0354 : Absolute Zero Transcript One of the interesting things about temperature is that no matter how cold you’ve ever been, or how low of a temperature anyone […]
Episode – 0309 : The South Atlantic Anomaly
Episode – 0309 : The South Atlantic Anomaly Transcript For years people believed that there was a part of the Atlantic Ocean where ships and planes would disappear called the […]
Episode – 0233 : A History of Mars Exploration
Episode – 0233 : A History of Mars Exploration Transcript Ever since humans looked up at the stars they noticed that a few of them were different from the others. […]
Episode – 0204 : Milankovitch Cycles
Episode – 0204 : Milankovitch Cycles Transcript The Earth takes a year to go around the sun, and a day to turn on its axis. It is tilted 23.5 degrees […]
Episode – 0179 : Why Does The New Year Start on January 1?
Episode – 0179 : Why Does The New Year Start on January 1? Transcript New Year’s Day is not only the day we turn over a new year on the […]
Episode – 0166 : What’s the Deal With Dark Matter?
Episode – 0166 : What’s the Deal With Dark Matter? Transcript Over the last several centuries, there have been many unsolved questions that scientists have put their minds to solving.Most […]
Episode – 0148 : Radiation 101
Episode – 0148 : Radiation 101 Radiation or radioactivity is one of the scariest words in the English language. While radiation can indeed be very dangerous, most people don’t really […]