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Science, Actually Presents : The Nerd and the Scientist

Science, Actually

Astrophysicist Kovi Rose and scicommer Benjamin Salles love space, and bad puns, and are united in their shared belief that they"re brilliantly funny.

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58:03

We’re Gonna' Need A Bigger Rocket : Guest : Dimos

Science, Actually Presents : The Nerd and the Scientist ·

2024/11/14

Our first ever guest returns and becomes our first return guest! Dr. Dimos Katsis is back, and this time he's talking about Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket which is planning on launching for the first time ever next month, December 2024. New Glenn is so big, it can fit Blue Origin's current rocket - the New Shepard - inside its payload. New Glenn's never flown before, never tested multiple stages before, never tested it fairings before, never launched a satellite before, and never used

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51:48

Bah Bah Black Hole Have You Any Mass : Guest : Ciaran...

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2024/11/07

During their last Standard Model episode Kovi said, "we really need to get an expert to talk about this." So they did! This week's guest is Ciaran O’Hare - an ARC DECRA fellow at the University of Sydney. He works on aspects of dark matter particle physics and astrophysics, including direct detection, axions, and dark matter halo models. Although Kovi and Benjamin pretty much wrapped up all you need to know about the Standard Model and quarks and neutrinos in their last episode - they thought maybe

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44:12

Episode 42 - Life, the Universe, and Everything :...

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2024/10/24

Episode 42 - the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything. Well, we don't actually have that answer just yet - but we're working on it - and the best we have thus far is the Standard Model. In this episode Kovi and Benjamin talk about the fundamental building blocks of matter, electromagnetism, the strong force, the weak force, why gravity's such a jerk it can't be worked into the Standard Model, and Kovi makes the decades long process of learning, researching, creating

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51:22

My Podcast Brings All The Nerds To The Yard : Fastest...

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2024/10/17

Time goes by fast when you're having fun - just like this episode! This episode goes by fast as Kovi and Benjamin have fun talking about the fastest things in the universe! Hypervelocity stars, the solar wind, supernova ejecta, fast radio bursts, neutrinos and more. They even cover the fastest manmade objects - both on purpose and by accident - and the fastest crewed vehicle in history.

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39:20

Laika’s Latkes : Art in Science

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2024/09/26

Both science and art rely on imagination and creativity to explore new ideas, solve problems, and innovate. Art helps make abstract or complex scientific concepts more accessible through visual representation (e.g., illustrations, diagrams, models). In Kovi's and Benjamin's 40th EPISODE of the Nerd and the Scientist, they talk about different way scientific theories and information is presented to the general public in a variety of ways - from data plots to paintings, from sculptures to video games,

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43:51

I’m space walking here! : Science of Superheroes

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2024/09/19

Kovi and Benjamin like the superheroes, too! Comic books aren't exactly where one would go to learn science, but - believe it or not - a great many times they get the science right! The Flash felt more and more tired and leaded the closer he got to the speed of light. The tensile strength of Spider-Man's webbing is about 1,000 megapascals - close to the 1,200 megapascal tensile strength of an actual spider. Energy cannot be destroyed, only converted into some other form - as demonstrated by Thor's

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48:22

Take a Spacewalk on the Wild Side : Hertzsprung...

Science, Actually Presents : The Nerd and the Scientist ·

2024/09/12

Stars are so hot right now. Annie Jump Cannon, Henriette Leavitt, Antonia Maury, Florence Cushman, Cecilia Payne and others began cataloging and manually classifying stars in the late 1800's - over 350,000 of them. During that time, two astronomers simultaneously discovered a pattern in all that data. Between 1911 and 1913, Danish astronomer Ejnar Hertzsprung and American astronomer Henry Norris Russel plotted the stars recorded by Cannon and her team, and placed them on a diagram - the axes of

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62:24

Traveling At The Speed Of Thought : Guest : Janet...

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2024/09/05

This episode's guest, teacher and science communicator Janet Ivey-Duesnsing from Janet's Planet, has Kovi and Benjamin traveling at the speed of thought! Listen in as Janet shares her journey from music, to science, to sparking an interest in science in thousands upon thousands of kids around the world.

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53:20

What Happens On The Moon, Stays On The Moon :...

Science, Actually Presents : The Nerd and the Scientist ·

2024/08/29

Kovi and Benjamin talk about stars and planets and galaxies all the time on this show - but how do we see them? In this episode the lads discuss the evolution of the telescope - from the first lenses thousands of years ago in ancient Greece, to the curiosities of eyeglass makers in the 13th-16th centuries, to some tourist in Venice in 1609 who saw a spyglass and thought he could make a better one. That tourist was Galileo Galilei, and after he turned his own hand-made telescope skyward, word spread

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51:14

Go, Rocket, Go! : Guest : Melody Korman

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2024/08/08

Executive Director of the Israel Space Forum, Space Mission Manager for the Rakia Mission, SpaceLab mentor and Flight Operations Manager for the Ramon Foundation, and Stargate SG-1 fanatic, Melody Korman, took time out of her ridiculously busy (and all-things-space packed) schedule to talk to Kovi and Benjamin about just some of the things she's done. From helping kids get their science experiments to space, to being the one who tells astronauts what to do, these are the things Melody calls fun.

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46:43

There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Tardigrade :...

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2024/08/01

Blazars are just quasars that are pointed at us? That's it? Yep, that's it according to our guest, PhD candidate Emily Kerrison, in our latest, 'scintillating' episode. Do you mean 'scintillating' as in 'radio scintillation'? The same! Joining us from the University of Sydney, Australia, Emily tells Kovi and Benjamin the ins and outs of AGNs (Active Galactic Nuclei). Quasars, blazars, and BL Lac objects - oh my!

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46:59

Astronaut? More Like Astro-CAN! : Why So Sirius?

Science, Actually Presents : The Nerd and the Scientist ·

2024/07/25

In talking about the show one day, Benjamin told Kovi a corny space pun. Kovi chuckled and told another one to Benjamin. "We should make an episode entirely us telling bad jokes!" they said to each other - and here we are. This week Kovi and Benjamin tickle your funny bone and tackle your patience as they share some of the worst space jokes in the universe. Buckle up, because these jokes are light-years from funny. Join us for an episode that's guaranteed to make you groan, cringe, and possibly

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48:36

Bada Bing Bang : Nebulae

Science, Actually Presents : The Nerd and the Scientist ·

2024/07/18

Things get messy-ier in this episode as Kovi and Benjamin discuss Messier Objects, supernova remnants, nebulae, and stellar nurseries where stars are born. Tycho's Supernova is just as spectacular as the golden nose of the man who discovered it, there's a Jewel Box out there just as sparkly as the jewel boxes here on Earth, and before you Google 'Trumpler', be sure to add a 14 to it if you want to see something absolutely beautiful tucked away in the Carina Nebula.

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43:59

The Launch Pad Is For Loading And Unloading Only :...

Science, Actually Presents : The Nerd and the Scientist ·

2024/07/11

Kovi and Benjamin get all wibbly-wobbly as they talk about the timey-wimey scifi gadgets in scifi films and shows. Independence Day, Doctor Who, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and 2001: A Space Odyssey. We don't have a sonic screwdriver just yet - but we're getting there, the HAL 900 was, basically, Siri and AI all wrapped up with a thirst for murder, and that goodness our phones can translate just about anything without the need of squeezing a Babel fish in our ears.

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48:17

Where the Universe Ends : Interstellar Medium

Science, Actually Presents : The Nerd and the Scientist ·

2024/07/04

The science between the science! Kovi put on his special science goggles as he and Benjamin discussed the Interstellar Medium (ISM). The space between the stars is massive - but not empty! Going back to the 1860's we began to learn there's something out there, in 1904 we confirmed it, and since 1909 we learned that there's gas, dust, cosmic rays, shock-heating from supernovae, nebluae and more. Where does a nebula end and interstellar space begin? What IS a nebula? Join the nerd and the scientist is

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50:33

Look Who Knows So Much About Space : How Do I Become...

Science, Actually Presents : The Nerd and the Scientist ·

2024/06/27

Astronauts go to space. Space tourists go to space. So... What's the difference? Kovi and Benjamin have a conversation this episode about when space travel switched from only sending the best of the best military trained and/or highly science educated into space to just sending anyone who could afford a ticket. A space traveler was once a young, healthy, heavily trained person who's been pushed to the physical limits in preparation for a solo flight. Nowadays anyone can go, old or young, as part of

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48:48

Clifford, The Big Red Tardigrade : Golden Records

Science, Actually Presents : The Nerd and the Scientist ·

2024/06/20

Ever since we've been sending spacecraft out into the universe, we've sent little bits of cargo with them. Be it for hope and optimism, the preservation of our culture, or an olive branch of sorts to whomever might find it drifting out there in space, human beings have long been fans of the ultimate messages in a bottle. From the famous golden records on Voyagers 1 and 2, to an astronomer's ashes speeding past Pluto, Kovi and Benjamin take a look at messages humans have sent to space and are

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46:30

Goodnight Moon : Search for Exoplanets

Science, Actually Presents : The Nerd and the Scientist ·

2024/05/30

Transits and microlensing and radial velocity - oh my! Are there other civilizations out there? Maybe. What there's definitely a ton of beyond our Solar System are other worlds. This week Kovi and Benjamin talk about exoplanets - from the beginning of how we first began discovering them in the 90's, to today where we not only have a catalog of thousands of exoplanets, but we know their sizes, masses, atmospheres, and have even snapped a photo of a few.

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42:19

Ding Dong, Space : Aurorae

Science, Actually Presents : The Nerd and the Scientist ·

2024/05/23

This week Kovi and Benjamin discuss the aurorae many of us witnessed last week as a result of a particularly large solar storm. ...and not just that! They also go on to discuss how aurorae are formed, why the northern and southern lights are different, what they look like on other worlds, and mention that even some brown and red dwarf stars that have aurorae. They even discuss the proper pluralization of aurora ... aurorae. Trust us - it gets nuts.

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41:11

The Tardigrade in the Hat : Space Infrastructure

Science, Actually Presents : The Nerd and the Scientist ·

2024/05/16

Getting things to space is relatively easy - just hop on a rocket - but still somewhat expensive. Once in space getting from place to place is hard - once you've launched you're either going into orbit and staying there, or on your way to a far away destination - and takes a very long time. What can we do to make space travel quicker and cheaper, can we speed up communication with these far away places, and is that a giant dinner plate standing in the desert? Kovi and Benjamin answer all these

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