Bench Talk | KY Legislature Update - Exoplanet Hunting at Home - Modeling Scents | March 28, 2022

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English - March 28, 2022 05:41 - 28 minutes - 25.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 14 ratings
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Rob Weber updates us on the final days of the Kentucky House and Senate in regards to science and education legislation. Mary Williams tells us about her experience (as a citizen scientist) hunting for exoplanets. Amanda Fuller interviews student Alexandria Driehaus (WKU) about her research on categorizing scents using 'machine learning'.

Here is the link on KY legislative issues: https://www.kyscience.org/legislative_issues_2022.php

To volunteer to be an exoplanet hunter: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/mschwamb/planet-hunters-ngts

To see Ms. Driehaus's talk and data go here and look for the Physics Section: https://mms.kyscience.org/members/publication/program_issue.php?iid=971169

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