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SpaceX Dragon returns with a two-ton payload of experiments
After a one-month visit to the International Space Station, the SpaceX cargo ship returned to Earth Sunday. The SpaceX Dragon is the only supply ship capable of returning items to Earth.
The commercial cargo ship Dragon returned to Earth from the International Space Station on Sunday, bringing back nearly 2 tons of science experiments and old equipment for NASA.
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SpaceX's Dragon splashed into the Pacific, just five hours after leaving the orbiting lab.
"Welcome home, Dragon!" the California-based company said via Twitter.
After a one-month visit, the SpaceX cargo ship was set loose Sunday morning. Astronaut Steven Swanson, the station commander, released it using the big robot arm as the craft zoomed more than 260 miles above the South Pacific.
"Very nice to have a vehicle that can take your science, equipment and maybe someday even humans back to Earth," Swanson told Mission Control.
The SpaceX Dragon is the only supply ship capable of returning items to Earth. The others burn up on re-entry. This was the fourth Dragon to bring back space station goods, with 3,500 pounds (1,600 kilograms) aboard; it came down off Mexico's Baja California coast.
NASA is paying SpaceX and Virginia-based Orbital Sciences Corp. to make station deliveries. Orbital is next up, next month. Russia, Europe and Japan also make occasional shipments.
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Call for Media: ESA astronaut ready for launch to International Space Station
ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst will lift off from the Russian Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 20:56 GMT (21:56 pm CEST) on 28 May, heading to the International Space Station aboard a Soyuz spacecraft. This will be the start of his six-month Blue Dot mission as a scientist and flight engineer on the Stations Expeditions 40 and 41. As part of his mission, Alexander will perform dozens of experiments in physics, biology, human physiology and radiation. A highlight will be the installation and commissioning of the German-built MSL-EML electromagnetic levitator, a facility aimed for containerless materials processing in space. ESAs ATV-5 cargo vessel will deliver the facility in July. Alexander, aged 38, holds a doctorate in geophysics and vulcanology, and has been a member of ESAs astronaut corps since 2009. Born in the southern German town of Knzelsau, Alexander has spent the last four years training for this very special challenge. He will be living and carrying out scientific research in weightlessness, 400 km above Earth. On the heels of Thomas Reiter and Hans Schlegel, Alexander Gerst is the third German ESA astronaut to visit the orbital outpost. Events Media representatives will be able to follow the launch of the Blue Dot mission from three locations in Germany: Launch event for VIP and Media hosted by ESA and DLR at the Columbus Control Centre in Oberpfaffenhofen ESAs Columbus Control Centre (Col-CC) on the DLR site in Oberpfaffenhofen is the hub of this mission. Pedro Duque, ESA astronaut and head of the Space Operations Office, will provide the launch commentary, alongside the centres Flight Director. Wednesday 28 May, 20:1522:15 CEST (admission for media representatives from 19:30 CEST) DLR German Aerospace Center Mnchener Strae 20, 82234 Wessling German Space Operations Centre, building 140 Please apply for accreditation by Monday, 19 May by contacting: Miriam Kamin, DLR Corporate Communications, Oberpaffenhofen Tel: +49 08153 28 2297 Mob: +49 172 7086162 Email:Miriam.Kamin@dlr.deThe cutoff date for accreditation is 19 May. ESA contact: Andreas Schepers Corporate Communications Office European Space Agency ESA/ESOC Tel: +49 6151 902546 Email:Andreas.Schepers@esa.intLaunch event at the Alter Markt in Cologne, jointly hosted by ESA, DLR and the City of Cologne Cologne is the home of the European Astronaut Centre (EAC), where all European astronauts carry out their basic training. While they are on the Station, their medical condition is monitored from EAC. The citizens of Cologne and surroundings are warmly invited to attend the launch of their astronaut into space as part of this special public viewing event. German ESA astronaut Reinhold Ewald will commentate on the live broadcast of the launch from Baikonur. Entry is free, no registration. Wednesday 28 May, 20:0022:15 CEST Alter Markt, 50667 Cologne ESA contact and regional press accreditation: Bernhard von Weyhe Corporate Communications Office European Space Agency ESA/ESOC Tel: +49 6151 904204 Email:bvw@esa.intLaunch event as part of the Science Day series at Hessischer Rundfunk (Hessian Broadcasting Corporation), Frankfurt ESAs Space Operations Centre, ESOC, is located in Darmstadt. This is the home base of Thomas Reiter, ESA Director of Human Spaceflight and Operations. In cooperation with Hessischer Rundfunk, hrINFO Radio and ESOC, regular Science Days introduce the public to the latest space projects. German ESA astronaut Gerhard Thiele will commentate on the live broadcast of the launch from Baikonur. Entry is free, no registration. 20:0022:30 CEST, Wednesday 28 May Foyer of the main studio at Hessischer Rundfunk Bertramstrasse 8, 60320 Frankfurt/Main ESA contact and regional press accreditation: Nicola Gebers de Sousa Corporate Communications Office European Space Agency ESA/ESOC Tel: +49 6151-902266 Email:Nicola.Gebers@esa.intCoverage The launch will be transmitted live via satellite (details will be available onhttp://television.esa.int/) and webstreamed on ESAs main web portalwww.esa.int(in English) as well as onwww.esa.de(in German). ESA TV offers broadcasters extensive material on the mission and its preparation via special feeds from the Baikonur cosmodrome before the launch. Broadcasters can consulthttp://television.esa.int/for the latest information and footage The latest high-resolution images can be found by registering on ESAs Photo Library for Professionals:http://www.esa-photolibrary.com/Questions on images for media can be directed toesa.photolibrary@esa.intFurther information on the mission For more information on Alexander Gerst and his mission, visit:http://www.esa.int/bluedotFollow Alexander Gerst and the Blue Dot mission on social media: Blue Dot blog:http://blogs.esa.int/alexander-gerstTwitter:http://twitter.com/astro_alexFacebook:https://www.facebook.com/ESAAlexGerstAbout the European Space Agency The European Space Agency (ESA) is Europe's gateway to space. ESA is an intergovernmental organisation, created in 1975, with the mission to shape the development of Europe's space capability and ensure that investment in space delivers benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world. ESA has 20 Member States: Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, of whom 18 are Member States of the EU. ESA has Cooperation Agreements with eight other Member States of the EU. Canada takes part in some ESA programmes under a Cooperation Agreement. ESA is also working with the EU to implement the Galileo and Copernicus programmes. By coordinating the financial and intellectual resources of its members, ESA can undertake programmes and activities far beyond the scope of any single European country. ESA develops the launchers, spacecraft and ground facilities needed to keep Europe at the forefront of global space activities. Today, it launches satellites for Earth observation, navigation, telecommunications and astronomy, sends probes to the far reaches of the Solar System and cooperates in the human exploration of space. Learn more atwww.esa.intFor further information, please contact: ESA Media Relations Office Email:media@esa.intTel: +33 1 53 69 72 99
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Pharrells wife turns heads with her rebellious red-carpet style
Pharrell might rock The Hat, but his gorgeous wife Helen Lasichanh wears The Pants.
From jeans to knickerbockers to jumpsuits, Lasichanh borrows her favorite looks from the boys. What did she wear to the Oscars, where an evening gown is de rigueur? A tux, of course.
Pharrell and Lasichanh are known for mixing casual street style with designer duds (in NYC in 2012).Photo: Dave Allocca/Startraksphoto.com
Like her hit-maker husband, Lasichanh has a daring and distinctive style. She wears European and Japanese designer brands, but picks unexpected pieces, steers clear of anything overtly sexy and appears to prize comfort over glamour. A fashion rebel, she tied the knot last fall in a navy tartan wedding dress. Shes not afraid to tower over her man at awards shows in 4-inch stilettos. And somehow, H, as Pharrell affectionately calls her, makes even her most challenging outfits look cool.
I love her style! shrieks Andr Leon Talley, artistic director of Zappos Couture and former contributing editor at Vogue. Theyre totally into Chanel and Louis Vuitton, but they mix it to make it their own unique style. Helen has this extraordinary quality where she can dress to the nines for the red carpet, or she can go around here with leggings, he adds, nodding at Lasichanh at a recent Uniqlo party.
Asked how she puts together her combos, Lasichanh tells The Post, I dont choose, its just who I am.
Pharrell is almost as prolific in fashion as he is in music, with a new Uniqlo collection as well as upcoming collaborations with G-Star, Adidas Originals and Comme des Garons Parfums, not to mention his own brands. While his wife attends every event with him, she deliberately keeps a low profile and rarely says more than 20 words to the press. Shes been described as a model, a stylist and a designer, but for whom remains a mystery. (Pharrells representative did not respond to requests for comment, even to confirm how her last name is pronounced.) Even her ethnicity is the subject of speculation.
Lasichanh, 33, went to high school and college in Miami. She was a star volleyball player at St. Thomas University, earning the Florida Sun Conferences Player of the Year award in 2001. Her coach, Hector Martinez, calls her a quiet warrior. She was very intense, but she would not necessarily express it verbally.
In a quirky fashion twist, the couple tied the knot on Oct. 12, 2013, in Miami wearing coordinated plaid wedding finery.Photo: INFphoto.com
Lasichanh is said to have met Pharrell in Miami, and they were friends for 2 years before they started dating. She just reminded me so much of myself, Pharrell, 41, told Oprah. Different, and marches to the beat of her own drum. Their son, Rocket, was born in 2008.
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Sexy Cheryl Cole turns heads wearing corset dress with a HUGE train for Cannes red carpet
Cheryl Cole turned heads as she arrived at Cannes Film Festival for her second day[REUTERS]
Pretty singer Cheryl, 30, turned heads as she arrived on the red carpet this evening eating a black dress with a huge train dragging behind her.
The star, who is set to make her return to The X Factor later this year, couldn't stop smiling as she was met by a sea of flashbulbs.
Cheryl was stepping out in the French city for the premiere of movie Foxcatcher, wearing the spectacular dress.
The singer looked uber fashionable as she stepped out earlier this evening [REUTERS]
Cheryl's super long train was a talking point [REUTERS]
The pretty singer's previously uber blonde locks have been tamed with an ombre dip-dye, and teased into a beehive-eqsue style for the evening.
As she posed pouting for the photographers in front of her and the turning t the back, the star showed off her trim figure in the corset dress.
Showing off her buckled stilettos, the Geordie-girl's dress sported a dipped-he - meaning it was shorter at the front than the back.
The singer appears to be enjoying her time in France [REUTERS]
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ALTERED STATES: Proof of NASA Censorship – Video
ALTERED STATES: Proof of NASA Censorship
Okay. I showed you the last two videos so that I could show you THIS video. The same place TWICE. But with MAJOR differences. Same angle, so I don #39;t want to hear from the NASA apologists...
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Dragon Heads Home
A month after delivering more than 2.5 tons of supplies and experiments to the International Space Station, the SpaceX Dragon cargo craft departed the orbital outpost May 18 and headed for...
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NASA: Russia Alone Can't End Space Station Work
Friction between the United States and Russia over Ukraine won't spell the end of the International Space Station, the head of NASA said Monday, dismissing concerns that one of the world's most prestigious scientific endeavors could fall victim to political disagreement.
The comments by NASA Administrator Charles Bolden come a week after Russia warned that it could cease cooperating with the U.S. on the project after 2020. Although Japan, Europe and Canada are also members, all currently depend on Russian Soyuz capsules to take astronauts to the space station since NASA retired its shuttle fleet.
"There is no single partner that can terminate the international space station," Bolden told reporters in Berlin, where he was attending the city's annual air show.
Bolden said that the cooperation between NASA and Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, on the International Space Station hadn't changed "one iota" in recent years. The project has withstood the increasingly frosty atmosphere between Washington and Moscow that saw the U.S. impose sanctions on Russia over its actions in Ukraine.
Still, Bolden indicated that if for one reason or other a country should drop out of the project, the others would seek to continue.
"There is no one partner that is indispensable on the International Space Station," he said. NASA hopes that private companies such as Space X will be able to develop rockets and capsules to fly astronauts to the space station as early as 2017.
Asked whether there might be an opportunity to bring on board China, which NASA is currently banned from cooperating with on human space flight, Bolden said: "There is nothing that I see in the tea leaves that says our relationship is going to change."
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NASA puts Kepler spacecraft back on the job
WASHINGTON, May 19 (UPI) --NASA's Kepler spacecraft -- a satellite launched in 2009 and tasked with scanning space for Earth-like planets orbiting around distant stars -- has been out of commission for almost a year.
But scientists at NASA recently came up with a temporary fix, and a jury-rigged Kepler is preparing to be put back on the job.
The spacecraft lost maneuverability in spring of last year after two of its four wheels broke. Its wheels were central in stabilizing Kepler's imaging instrumentation and pointing it in the right direction. With only two, Kepler spins out of control.
"The approval provides two years of funding for the K2 mission to continue exoplanet discovery, and introduces new scientific observation opportunities to observe notable star clusters, young and old stars, active galaxies, and supernovae," Kepler Project Manager Charlie Sobeck said in a statement.
Beginning at the end of the month, scientists at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, will have the go-ahead to begin their next Kepler mission.
The craft will be positioned in such a way that pressure from the sun's rays keep the observatory stable. Kepler will only be able to work for 80-odd days at a time, after which it will have to be momentarily rotated to protect the imaging lens from direct sunlight.
Kepler's sole instrument is a called a photometer. It continually monitors the stars of a certain brightness, and periodically transmits its data to Earth.
Since its launch, Kepler as detected more than 3,800 potential exoplanets, and 960 of these have been confirmed by NASA scientists. That means more than half of all known alien planets have been discovered by Kepler.
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NASA announces winners of space apps competition
NASA has announced the five winners of its 2014 International Space Apps Challenge. The contest is an international "hackathon" aimed driving innovation for future space missions and to improve life on Earth. The categories are Earth Watch, Technology in Space, Human Spaceflight, Robotics and Asteroids.
Over 8,000 individuals participated in the challenge at 95 locations around the world from April 11-12. The contest was broken down into 40 challenges across the five categories and submissions included software, hardware, data visualizations, and mobile or Web applications. NASA judges selected a winner in each category, while social media users around the world chose a Peoples Choice favorite.
Among the winners was SkyWatch, which solved the "Alert-Alert" challenge and was selected as being the "Best Use of Data." Alert-Alert was one of challenges in the Technology in Space theme and asked participants to create a central place for information and visualizations of sky phenomena. SkyWatch provides a near-real-time visual representation of data collected from observatories around the world, giving users the coordinates of celestial events with their location plotted through Google Sky.
Android Base Station solved the "PhoneSat" challenge and was chosen as the "Best Use of Hardware." The PhoneSat challenge was also part of the Technology in Space category and asked participants to convert a smartphone into a satellite. Android Base Station uses a 3D-printed receiver to connect to satellites and transform a smartphone into a Wi-Fi hotspot.
Aurora Wearables: Fashion meets Function solved the "Space Wearables" challenge, which was another from the Technology in Space category. It asked participants to design wearable clothing and accessories that could be useful in space. Aurora Wearables: Fashion meets Function is an internet-connected spacesuit designed for astronauts to wear on the International Space Station and beyond. The suit allows the wearer to stay better connected with people on Earth via social media, displays a weather status for their home location and has an in-built 3D printer for creating tools and parts.
Yorbit solved the "Earth as Art" challenge and was chosen as the Most Inspiring submission. Earth as Art was one of the challenges in the Earth Watch category and challenged participants to create a search tool for finding beautiful earth-observing satellite images. Yorbit allows users to search, personalize, and share photographs captured by NASA satellites orbiting high above Earth. The images can be edited and can be overlayed on Google Maps.
The last of the five submissions selected by the NASA judges was SkySnapper, which solved the "My Sky Color" challenge. It crowdsources photos of the sky taken by users to help assess air pollution based on the sky's color. The challenge itself was part of the Earth Watch category of challenges and asked participants to create a tool with which people can record the color of the sky using consistent and qualitative standards at a specific location.
The People's Choice Award winner was awarded to Space Helmet. This project was part of the Human Space Flight category and solved the "SpaceT" challenge, for which participants had to develop an app that takes advantage of the latest generation of wearable smart technology for a future space traveler. Space Helmet displays oxygen levels, heart-rate and other information for wearer astronaut on a head-up display.
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NASA uses solar power to get crippled Kepler back to work
Despite two broken wheels had NASA's planet-hunting telescope spinning out of control, the Kepler Space Telescope is using the power of the sun to continue its search for Earth-like planets.
NASA announced that it even though the space telescope is down from four to two working wheels, the agency has approved a plan that will keep Kepler working for at least another two years. This newly reconfigured mission has been dubbed K2.
The telescope, launched in 2009, lost the use of one of the four wheels that control its orientation in space in May 2013. That was the telescope's second wheel failure.
With the loss of the second wheel, NASA could no longer manipulate the telescope's positioning and ground engineers struggled to communicate with it since the communications link went in and out as the spacecraft spun uncontrollably.
Several months later, NASA engineers reported that they were unable to get the two disabled wheels working properly again so Kepler would be unable to continue its original planet-hunting mission. At that point, NASA was working to figure out what other scientific research -- like searching for asteroids, comets or supernovas -- Kepler could do in its diminished capacity.
However, scientists came up with a way to keep the telescope focused on its original planet-hunting mission.
Engineers, according to NASA, discovered they could use the sun's radiation pressure to actually balance the telescope in space.
Protons of sunlight exert pressure on the spacecraft, NASA explained. If the telescope is positioned exactly, it can be balanced against the pressure like a pencil can be balanced on your finger. That means the telescope can be positioned without the use of the two damaged wheels.
The spacecraft will be rotated periodically to prevent sunlight from affecting the telescope lens.
The spacecraft will be able to focus on a specific part of the sky for about 83 days. After that point, the telescope will be rotated to protect the telescope from the sun. NASA expects Kepler to complete four of these studies every year.
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Liberating Devices From Their Power Cords
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Newswise Imagine a future in which our electrical gadgets are no longer limited by plugs and external power sources.
This intriguing prospect is one of the reasons for the current interest in building the capacity to store electrical energy directly into a wide range of products, such as a laptop whose casing serves as its battery, or an electric car powered by energy stored in its chassis, or a home where the dry wall and siding store the electricity that runs the lights and appliances.
It also makes the small, dull grey wafers that graduate student Andrew Westover and Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Cary Pint have made in Vanderbilts Nanomaterials and Energy Devices Laboratory far more important than their nondescript appearance suggests.
These devices demonstrate for the first time as far as we can tell that it is possible to create materials that can store and discharge significant amounts of electricity while they are subject to realistic static loads and dynamic forces, such as vibrations or impacts, said Pint. Andrew has managed to make our dream of structural energy storage materials into a reality.
That is important because structural energy storage will change the way in which a wide variety of technologies are developed in the future. When you can integrate energy into the components used to build systems, it opens the door to a whole new world of technological possibilities. All of a sudden, the ability to design technologies at the basis of health, entertainment, travel and social communication will not be limited by plugs and external power sources, Pint said.
The new device that Pint and Westover has developed is a supercapacitor that stores electricity by assembling electrically charged ions on the surface of a porous material, instead of storing it in chemical reactions the way batteries do. As a result, supercaps can charge and discharge in minutes, instead of hours, and operate for millions of cycles, instead of thousands of cycles like batteries.
In a paper appearing online May 19 in the journal Nano Letters, Pint and Westover report that their new structural supercapacitor operates flawlessly in storing and releasing electrical charge while subject to stresses or pressures up to 44 psi and vibrational accelerations over 80 g (significantly greater than those acting on turbine blades in a jet engine).
Furthermore, the mechanical robustness of the device doesnt compromise its energy storage capability. In an unpackaged, structurally integrated state our supercapacitor can store more energy and operate at higher voltages than a packaged, off-the-shelf commercial supercapacitor, even under intense dynamic and static forces, Pint said. One area where supercapacitors lag behind batteries is in electrical energy storage capability: Supercaps must be larger and heavier to store the same amount of energy as lithium-ion batteries. However, the difference is not as important when considering multifunctional energy storage systems.
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Special-needs shopping cart rolls into Huntsville
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An Alabama family is pushing to make it easier to push your older special-needs child on shopping trips.
David and Drew Ann Long of Alabaster came up with the design for the specialized vehicle, dubbed "Caroline's Carts," so people don't have to push a shopping cart and a wheelchair at the same time.
The cart features a special contoured seat replacing the fold-out seat found in traditional shopping carts. It also features a harness capable of securing a person up to 250 pounds. The handles of the cart can swing upward to provide better access to the seat area.
Stores around the country are picking up the carts, including the Kroger store on Moores Mill Road and the Publix on Winchester Road, as well as retailers in the Florence area.
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'24: Live Another Day' episode 4 recap: Jack Bauer reaches the end of the line
Considering he spent the whole night in one building, it was a really intense hour for Jack Bauer on "24: Live Another Day." Jack was inside the embassy with only one goal in mind: Get Tanner's flight key to prove the impending terror attack.
The problem with that goal is practically everyone is out to destroy him, even President Heller. Once the president learned that Jack is actually in London he speaks to him on the phone. Though Bauer makes a convincing argument, it simply isn't enough, especially when Heller has Chief of Staff Bourdeau in his ear.
Jack got to Tanner before the CIA could and convinced him to hand over the flight key, but was still trapped in the embassy. With no way out, he has Chloe direct him to a secured communications room in the building. Once there, naturally he has tot take hostages because the stakes need to be raised.
Morgan makes it to Tanner after Jack has gotten what he wants and, after hearing his story, she actually believes that Jack is doing the right thing. When she finally tracks Jack to the communications room, she gets into it via an air vent before the Marines can breach it and kill him.
Instead, she convinced Bauer to give himself over to her custody and says she'll upload the information on the flight key so the terror attack can be stopped. Jack agrees as the last second, right before the Marines burst through the door and finish him off once and for all. It's a big step for Jack, who normally doesn't play fast and loose with his trust.
Meanwhile, Margot is really stretching the limits of her power within the family. Naveed wants away from his mother-in-law, but his wife Simone is loyal to her mother. Still, he comes up with an escape plan for the both of them and she seems interested in taking it. She ends up coming clean with her mother, though.
That was definitely not a good idea, as Margot then uses Simone against him. To get what she wants, which is Naveed piloting the drones that will be used in the attack, she has her daughter's finger chopped off. It does the trick though and the episode ends with Margot calling for her people to take control of the 10 drones closest to London.
The next hour is shaping up to be the most devastating yet.
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The best science and technology podcasts
Years of Living Dangerously The American cable network Showtime recently made a bold, eye-opening documentary series about climate change, in which investigative journalists and Hollywood actors (Matt Damon, Jessica Alba, Harrison Ford, to name a few) explore the real-world impact of our planets rising CO2 levels. This impressive video podcast strand features an array of snippets and bonus footage from each episode. (NB: Showtime have also made the first episode available in its entirety on YouTube)
Physics Central From the outside, physics is often perceived as a closed, intensely specialist subject the purview of Mensarated academics rather than regular punters. This excellent podcast proves that theory wrong, with a range of engaging and accessible features that open up the subject to anyone with a bit of curiosity. Recent highlights include segments on the physics of Picasso's painting style, Second World War bombing strategies and a particularly engaging piece on the physics of crowds at heavy metal gigs.
MinuteEarth Why does the Earth have deserts? How tall can a mountain be? Who invented frozen food? How fast is our atmosphere heating up? This fantastic series of podcasts which uses beautiful pencildrawn animation and easytofollow narration to illuminate dozens of different scientific queries has the answers.
The Naked Scientists
The Naked Scientists Describing themselves as "a mediasavvy group of physicians and researchers from Cambridge University [who] strip science down to its bare essentials and promote it to the general public", the Naked Scientists are a likeable bunch who run a variety of podcast strands as well as a regular slot on Radio 5 Live's Up All Night. I stop by their website at least once a week, and always find something diverting to listen to: from a long feature on sport science to a meaningful discussion of the most toothfriendly way to eat boiled sweets.
Science Friday Video Podcast Every week, the folks behind the brilliant NPR radio show Science Friday (www.sciencefriday.com) put out a short, selfproduced video podcast detailing a quirky science or design story that they've come upon. Recent highlights include a tutorial of how to make a simple robotic hand using coffee; why the moth is more than just a drab butterfly; a tour of a beautifulbuttiny 13square metre house; and an interview with Al Gore about his book 'The Future'.
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James O'Brien's Mystery Hour Why do pigeons nod when they walk? Is toast healthier than bread? Why do some people have curly hair? These and a multitude of other questions entertaining, strange, topical and complex have been answered by LBC presenter James O'Brien during the 'Mystery Hour' segment of his daily phonein, which is now available as a weekly podcast. Perfect for long family road trips.
Green.tv Created in partnership with the United Nations Environmental Agency, Green.tv is a rich and pleasingly unsanctimonoius source of video content about the environment and clean tech. Their website (www.green.tv) is the heart of the operation; but they also put out a variety of engaging video podcasts including this one focusing on waterrelated issues, which features such luminaries as Gael Garcia Bernal and the sustainability guru Will Day.
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The Rural Route (Alberta Rural Family Medicine Network) – Video
The Rural Route (Alberta Rural Family Medicine Network)
The Alberta Rural Family Medicine Residency Experience: The challenge is the reward. Learn more about the Alberta Rural Family Medicine Network (ARFMN), funded by the Alberta Rural Physician...
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Morehouse School of Medicine and the NAACP have lost their minds! – Video
Morehouse School of Medicine and the NAACP have lost their minds!
Joe Madison, "The Black Eagle" Eagle #39;s Nest Studios, Madison questions why the Morehouse School of Medicine invited the Governor of Georgia Nathan Deal to be the commencement speaker at...
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5-16-14 Risk It/One Day (Matisyahu)-Medicine for the People – Video
5-16-14 Risk It/One Day (Matisyahu)-Medicine for the People
Every cell is transforming and returning to original concepts to construct And then I started to shapeshift... and the animals within me grew tails and the talons I hitched a ride on the back...
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