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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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All Episodes

60:44

Star Bound : Guests : Emily Carney and Bruce...

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2025/04/03

We like big shuttles and we cannot lie... Kovi and Benjamin double up their guest payload this episode, as they speak with space historians and authors Emily Carney and Bruce McCandless III. Emily and Bruce just released their new book 'Star Bound' about the evolution of the space program - from the very first person to build a little rocket all the way to astronauts today. They share how their experience brought them together, what inspired their book, and the awesome things we've done - and will

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45:12

Seti, Seti bobeti. Bonana fanna fo feti. SETI! :...

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2025/03/20

The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Kovi laughed as Benjamin's mind was blown when hearing this knowledge nugget from this week's guest, researcher for the SETI Institute, Dr. Chenoa Tremblay. Who, you asked? Let's put it this way - if there are alien civilizations out there, Chenoa is the person who's going to find it. Seriously. Name a radio telescope - chances are she's used it to look for life, or signs of life, out there in the cosmos. Join us as we discuss biosignatures,

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63:09

Too many nerds in the Podcast : Guest : Graham Lau

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2025/03/06

Before we could even press record, astrobiologist Dr. Graham Lau was already explaining to Kovi and Benjamin how advanced alien civilizations have already discovered, and been taken over by, their own version of AI - and they're coming to get us. If that's not a reason to give this episode a listen we don't know what is. Tune in to our milestone 50th episode as the gang discusses possible life on other worlds, what they need to evolve, how we can detect them, is there possible extraterrestrial life

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65:48

SciComm(edy) : Guest : Rayner The Explainer

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2025/02/27

Kovi got an astrophysics degree because he wanted to do astrophysics and then just kind of fell into this SciComm game. Benjamin got a film degree because he wanted to do film and then just kind of fell into this SciComm game. This week's guest, Rayner the Explainer, got both science AND arts degrees (at the same time!) specifically for SciComm, and has dazzled and sparkled her way across the scicommverse with no signs of slowing down. Join the boys as they talk to Rachel about her science comedy

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54:03

Sometimes You Feel Like A Nerd, Sometimes You Don't :...

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2025/02/13

From record-breaking rockets to stranded astronauts, 2024 was one hell of a year for space exploration. In this episode, Kovi and Benjamin take a look back at the most exciting, bizarre, and groundbreaking moments in space science and technology. They break down SpaceX's relentless launch streak and Starship's ambitious test flights, Boeing's Starliner drama, two astronauts' unexpected extended stay in orbit, new missions to explore our universe, a solar eclipse, deep space discoveries, private

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57:50

Getting The Band Back Together : Guest : Space Case...

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2025/01/30

In 2022 the Space Case Sarah Show was already quite the popular podcast, and Sarah knew if she wanted it to reach levels of awesomeness that broke the Karman Line there was only one thing she could do. She brought on Kovi and Benjamin to give her show that extra boost of science knowledge and whatever it is Benjamin does. Sadly the show ended in 2023, but that was a good thing. It brought The Nerd and The Scientist to life, and gave Sarah the room she needed to explore, learn, teach, get closer to

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49:32

Whatcha' Talking About, Einstein? : Q&A with BSA...

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2024/12/26

Kovi brings science to the troops - scout troops, that is! Ever wondered why Pluto got kicked out of the planet club? Or how close we are to mining asteroids like sci-fi heroes? In our latest episode, Kovi takes on the cosmos in a special scout-led Q&A with Boy Scout troops 175 and 4175 from Foster City, California. From what makes a radio telescope work to escaping black holes, no question is too big—or too out there. Tune in for thoughtful answers, surprising insights, and plenty of

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49:55

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Pulsar : Guest : Rowina Nathan

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2024/12/03

This week's guest, Rowina Nathan, joins Kovi and Benjamin to talk about pulsar timing, the gravitational wave background, and what it means to be the Pink Astrophysicist! While there are many pulsars to work with, she only works with 'the best ones' - some of them, well, they have quirky personalities that make them difficult to work with. What led Rowina to study gravitational waves? Why does she find pulsar timing more elegant than blackhole collision nonsense? What's her favorite flavor of

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58:03

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

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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

Science, Actually Presents : The Nerd and the Scientist ·

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...

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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 :...

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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?

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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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