Strange New Worlds: A Science & Star Trek Podcast
215 episodes - English - Latest episode: 7 days ago - ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsHosted by planetary scientist and astrobiologist Dr. Michael L. Wong, Strange New Worlds examines science, technology, and culture through the lens of Star Trek!
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Episodes
Episode 12: Droning On
September 10, 2017 17:19 - 26 minutes - 12.4 MBGuest: Nathan Stein In Episode 12, Mike and Elise interview Nathan Stein about his adventure to a remote Caribbean island to study microbial mats using a drone outfitted for science.
Episode 11: Stories from Estonia
August 30, 2017 16:21 - 25 minutes - 12.1 MBGuests: Mari-Liis Aru, Philippe Nauny, Umesh Bhat, Aswin Manohar In Episode 11, Michael brings back stories and clips from his recent trip to Estonia for an astrobiology conference. You can follow Mari-Liis on Tumblr (http://sci-universe.tumblr.com/) and Instagram (@aspacecolonizer). And you can find Michael on Twitter (@miquai) and Instagram (@miquai).
Episode 10: Feeling Science
August 25, 2017 15:45 - 30 minutes - 14.3 MBIn Episode 10, Mike and Elise speak to Jane Liu about her master's thesis on the role of emotions in science and science communication.
Episode 9: What's a Biosignature?, Part 2
August 15, 2017 02:49 - 31 minutes - 15 MBIn part two of our discussion with Cecilia Sanders, we learn more about her research on chemosynthetic life forms and discuss how Star Trek's tricorder might work.
Episode 8.5: BONUS! George Takei & Tim Russ at the JANM
August 06, 2017 02:17 - 18 minutes - 8.91 MBIn this bonus episode of Strange New Worlds, Mike and Elise take you on an away mission to the Japanese American National Museum in LA.
Episode 8: What's a Biosignature?, Part 1
July 27, 2017 15:12 - 28 minutes - 13.6 MBGuest: Cecilia Sanders In Episode 8, Mike and Elise chat with Cecilia Sanders about how to look for signs of life in the universe.
Episode 7: History Is a Lie, Part 2
July 21, 2017 15:21 - 25 minutes - 12.1 MBIn Episode 7, Mike, Elise, and Desun look towards the future of humanity and of Star Trek from a historian's point of view.
Episode 6: History Is a Lie, Part 1
July 15, 2017 02:22 - 35 minutes - 16.8 MBIn Episode 6, Mike and Elise speak with historian Desun Oka about the historical context from which Star Trek emerged.
Episode 5: Captain Bioreactor (I'm Not Quite Sure What Antibodies Had to Do with It)
July 09, 2017 22:53 - 25 minutes - 12.2 MBIn Episode 5, Mike and Elise bring aboard Heidi Klumpe to investigate the disappearance of Klingon cranial ridges in the Star Trek: Enterprise episodes "Affliction" and "Divergence."
Episode 4: Disks Galore
July 04, 2017 01:27 - 28 minutes - 13.5 MBIn Episode 4, Michael and Elise bring in Christopher Spalding to talk about the binary disks in the Star Trek: Discovery trailer as well as astrophysical disks in general. Note: Chris uses the term "Hill sphere." Listeners may have heard the alternative term "Roche lobe." These are essentially the same. Erratum: Michael calls the Discovery character "Michael Burnhams" when it is actually Michael Burnham.
Episode 3: The Star Hunter
June 23, 2017 22:54 - 29 minutes - 13.8 MBIn Episode 3, Michael hails Erika Carlson to discuss systems with more than one star, how they're discovered, how they form, and the real triple star system that is said to house Spock's home planet, Vulcan. The book about the "Harvard computers" that Erika mentions at 21:26 is called "The Glass Universe" by Dava Sobel.
Episode 2: How to Find a Strange New World
June 20, 2017 15:22 - 16 minutes - 7.73 MBIn Episode 2, we talk to Dr. Courtney Dressing about the frontiers of exoplanetary astronomy. Erratum: [6:47] The reference for the first discovery of an exoplanet around a puslar was from 1992 instead of 1995.
Episode 1: The Mystic Ship
June 16, 2017 03:43 - 31 minutes - 15 MBIn Episode 1 of Strange New Worlds, Michael Wong and Elise Cutts sit down with Dr. Peter Gao and discuss the Star Trek: Discovery trailer (released May 17) as well as the science of clouds and hazes in planetary atmospheres.
Episode 0: Introduction
June 08, 2017 08:10 - 13 minutes - 6.34 MBIn Episode 0, Michael introduces the mission of Strange New Worlds and beams in a co-host!
Episode –1: Announcement
June 07, 2017 04:21 - 1 minute - 620 KBStrange New Worlds Episode –1 Announcement