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Supernovae and Caroline Moore Mike interviews Caroline Moore, the youngest discoverer of a supernova and Michael, Doug and Mike dicuss supernovae in general in some detail.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CCDs, Cosmology and BenMichael, Doug and Mike discuss the charge coupled device (CCD), answer reader mail about cosmology and interivew Slacker Blogger Ben Huset.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website North Star SpecialA thorough and lengthy show about the North Star, Polaris, including an interview with Dr. Edward Guinan.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Slackerchat with Michael, Doug and MikeMichael, Doug and proto-Slacker Mike Simonsen discuss Citizen Sky, Jupiter, Stardust, Active SETI and much, much more.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview: Evalyn GatesDoug and Michael interview cosmologist Dr. Evalyn Gates about white dwarfs, dark matter, dark energy and women in science.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview: Peter BrookhouseDoug Welch interview Peter Brookhouse about protecting Australia's observatories from bush fires.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Simo-Slacker Interviews Pt. IIMike Simonsen interviews Christopher Tout, Paula Szkody and Boris Gaensicke about cataclysmic variable stars.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Simo-Slacker Interviews Pt. IA full show complete with discussion by Michael and Doug, 2 interviews by Mike Simonsen about cataclysmic variable stars and more chatter and laughing.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 365 Days of Astronomy: 2/12/09This is a cross-post of our third contribution to The 365 Days of Astronomy podcast. It is part 2 of a 2 part series with Dr. Roberta Humphreys and Dr. Kris Davidson from the University of Minnesota, discussing massive stars.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 365 Days of Astronomy: 1/12/09This is a cross-post of our second contribution to The 365 Days of Astronomy podcast. It is part 1 of a 2 part series with Dr. Roberta Humphreys and Dr. Kris Davidson from the University of Minnesota, discussing massive stars.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview with George HrabAn interivew with musician, skeptic, podcaster and 365 Days of Astronomy theme song writer George Hrab. Also includes a live extended version of the 365 Days of Astronomy theme song!Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dark Energy with Dr. Michael TurnerAn interivew with cosmologist Dr. Michael Turner, who coined the term Dark Energy. We caught up with Dr. Turner at the AAS Meeting in Long Beach, CA on Jan 7th, 2009.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 365 Days of Astronomy: 1/5/09This is a cross-post of our first contribution to The 365 Days of Astronomy podcast. Doug and Michael discuss the cause of the seasons here on earth and other aspects of the night sky as explained by simple geometry.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview: Ken Mogul on using Global Rent-a-ScopeDoug interviews Ken Mogul, who has been using the Global Rent-a-scope system to observe variable stars from his bed.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview: JJ Kavelaars and the Kuiper BeltMichael and Doug discuss Mars Phoenix, Hubble and iPhone rockets plus an interview with Dr. JJ Kavelaars about Kuiper Belt objects.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is Geoff Clayton the man from Nantucket?From the Nantucket studios of Slacker Astronomy, we join Aaron, Michael and Doug for some astronomical chatter, including an interview with Dr. Geoff Clayton, an expert on R Coronae Borealis stars.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Another Slacker Chat!After the tragedy of the "lost episode", undaunted, we got the gang together on Skype and had some fun recording a new show. Warning: Some politics within!Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website SOFIA and HubbleBrief discussions about SOFIA and the upcoming Hubble servicing mission from the AAS meeting in Saint Louis. Cameos by Phil Plait (Bad Astronomy) and Mike Simonson (AAVSO).Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Slacker Chat with Doug, Michael, Aaron and TravisWe bring the old gang back together for a chit chat about Mars, Brian May, kinematic footprints, IYA and more. We had some technical problems so please ignore the occasional static, beeps or bad jokes.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview: Doug Baum on the BIPHDoug and Michael interview Doug Baum who, along with his partner Russ Lederman, has developed the Binocular Photon Machine (BIPH), a device which amplifies incoming light 50,000 times, effectively tripling your telescope aperture. We talk about the device, how it works and the cool ways it can be used.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview: Ethan VishniacAn interview with Dr. Ethan Vishniac who is the editor-in-chief of The Astrophyscial Journal and a professor of astronomy at McMaster University.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview: Science CafesAn interview with Ben Wiehe of WGBH about science cafes.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Aaron Price on BZ UMa [FF]Aaron Price won a Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award for this poster on the cataclysmic variable star BZ UMa. Aaron walks us through his poster and results.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview: Juan Collar and Detecting Dark MatterAn interview with Juan Collar of the Kavli Institute on detecting dark matter in the laboratory.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Goddess of the IYA [FF]A short interview with Susana Deustua about the International Year of Astronomy, with a brief cameo by Mike Simonson of the AAVSO.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview: Rick Fienberg of Sky and Telescope [FF]A short interview with Rick Fienberg of Sky and Telescope magazine.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ice CubeMichael and Doug discuss the Ice Cube Neutrino Observatory, supernovae light echos and buying a star.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Light PollutionJulie Wilbert brings us a report on light pollution with members of the Minnesota Astronomical Society.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Whatever the hell is Slacker AstronomyAn interview with Aaron Price about the history of Slacker Astronomy plus ramblings by Michael.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast interview with Brant RobertsonDoug and Michael chat with Brant Robertson, who is a Spitzer Fellow doing research at The Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics. Brant is a theoretical astrophysicist involved with computer simulations of the evolution of galaxies.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Slackerpedia Galactica 8.0: A Brief History of the UniverseA brief history of the universe according to modern cosmology. Also a brief discussion of asteroid 2007 WD5, which may hit Mars.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website First Principles 4.0 - Inside Stars [FF]Discussion on what stars are and how they work.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview: Timothy Ferris [FF]Astrotalk about news and events followed by an exclusive interview with author and film maker Timothy Ferris.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video: DAO Visit [FF]A tour of the DAO Observatory in Victoria, BC, Canada.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website SG Chit Chat #5 Opening skit, Astro news, another First Principles, discussions of astronomy tenure
policies and the first of a new recurring segment: Kavli Cosmology Nugget, where cosmologists sit
around a table with wine and cheese and talk shop.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cosmology #8: Dr. Lucy Fortson on VERITAS and new forms of astro researchDr. Lucy Fortson is vice president for research at the Adler Planetariumand a member of the VERITAS gamma ray experiment. She talks about VERITAS, gamma rays, astronomyartifacts and new roles for the public in astronomy research practices.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cosmology #7: The CMB Soap Opera w/Dr. Stephan MeyerDr. Stephen Meyer has been a part of most of the major CMB discoveries in the past two decades.He takes us on a journey of all the experiments, their challenges and successes and then sets the stage for the nextphase of CMB experiments.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cosmology #6: Dark Energy w/Dr. Josh FriemanDr. Josh Frieman discusses dark energy and alternative theories along with current and pending experiments totest it.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cosmology #5: Dr. Michael Turner updates his famous 1998 paper: Cosmology Solved?Dr. Michael Turner updates his famous 1998 checklist of the seven major cosmological questionsListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cosmology #4: Nobel Laureate Dr. Jim Cronin On Cosmic RaysDr. Jim Cronin, winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize in physics, discusses cosmic rays and the Pierre AugerObservatoryListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cosmology #3: The Big Bang and CMB w/Dr. Clem PrykeDr. Clem Pryke discusses the Big Bang, the cosmic microwave background, andvarious properties of it currently being tested in an effort to test and answer open questions about theBig Bang.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cosmology #2: Dark Matter w/Dr. Andrey KravtsovDr. Andrey Kravtsov gives a good description of the dark matter concept along with currentunderstandings, challenges and active experiments underway to positively detect dark matter.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cosmology #1: The South Pole Telescope and KICP w/Dr. John CarlstromOur first interview from the Kavli Institute For Cosmological Physics. The Director, Dr. JohnCarlstrom, gives us an overview of the institute and the major equipment they are building and using. Throughout theweek we will bring you many interviews, both audio and video, from the institute and about all things cosmology.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website SG #5.0It's baaaacckk.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Promo: SL Chat with Phil Plait and Eric Chaisson Plus Request For Help With Pilot StudyWe have two upcoming chats in Second Life - Dr. Eric Chaisson on April 9 and Phil Plait (The Bad
Astronomer) on April 21. Also, I need your help with a pilot study for a school project. Then we close out with the
famous Harry Carey SNL skit "Space: The Infinite Frontier"
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website First Principles 2: Mass and Stuff (also McNaught/Titan skits)The second in the First Principle series in which our heroes posit on mass, inertia and other stuff. Also, two skits with Travis and Rebekah about Comet McNaught and Titan.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website First Principles 1.0: AstronomersThe first episode of a new segment called First Principles, in which we discuss the basics of what astronomers are and what they do.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video: The Moon Is A TripFun with the Apollo Lunar Surface JournalListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Second Life Astro Cafe Interviews PromoJoin us Feb. 3 and Feb. 5 in Second Life for Slacker Astronomy Cafe Interviews withDr. Stuart Lowe and Dr. Doug Welch. More on Second Life at slackerpedia.org.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | |