Podcast: Light Pollution

Special Correspondent Julie Wilbert brings us a podcast report on light pollution with members of the Minnesota Astronomical Society.

Light Pollution (MP3, 17.2MB, 18:40)

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Whatever the hell is Slacker Astronomy?

I posted this to the feed a while ago. It’s a short-ish podcast which discusses the history of Slacker Astronomy with Aaron Price, the founder of Slacker Astronomy, and includes random musings by yours truly about the future of the podcast/blog. I marked this explicit in iTunes because I use the f-word once.

Whatever the hell is Slacker Astronomy (MP3, 17MB, 18:30)

As always, we welcome your feedback so email us if anything comes to mind.

Podcast interview with Brant Robertson

We have a new show! Doug and I had a great 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.

Check this sh!t out:

Credit: Brant Robertson, Spitzer Fellow, KICP/UChicago

This interview is quite long so we’ve uploaded low and high rez versions. The low rez version is the one in the RSS feeds.

If you subscribe to the feed, the audio is probably already on your box. Or you can check out the show notes or download the MP3 file directly:

Slacker Astronomy podcast interview with Brant Robertson (low rez) (MP3, 24.7MB, 1:11:20)

Slacker Astronomy podcast interview with Brant Robertson (high rez) (MP3, 65.6MB, 1:11:20)

New Podcast: Slackerpedia Galactica 8.0

We just posted a new podcast to the feed: Slackerpedia Galactica 8.0: A Brief History of the Universe. So if you subscribe to the feed, the audio is probably already on your box. Or you can check out the show notes or download the MP3 file directly:

Slackerpedia Galactica 8.0: A Brief History of the Universe (MP3, 17.2MB, 36:12)

In this show Doug and I discuss the the cosmological timeline as I wrote about in a previous post. We also talk a little about asteroid 2007 WD5 and its possible upcoming impact with Mars.

First Principles 4.0 - Inside Stars

Well, we pulled our heads out of our slacker haze and managed to post a new podcast on the feed! It’s a First Principles® episode about stars.

First Principles 4.0 - Inside Stars (MP3 file, 26.7MB, 28:24)

SG 7.0: Interview with Timothy Ferris

Finally, another exciting podcast installment from the slackers! This episode features chit-chat with Travis, Doug and Michael and an interview with Timothy Ferris.

Listen now (MP3, 48:06, 33.2 MB)

The show notes are on the Slackerpedia Galactica.

Slackerpedia Galactica v6.0

It’s been on the feed and now it’s on the tubes: check out Slackerpedia Galactica 6.0.

Astronomy, without the boring stuff.

SG 5.0

It’s online. Show notes here

First Principles 2: Mass & Stuff

We have a new first principles and two new skits about McNaughty and Titan.

Show Notes are here.

Discuss in the forums here.

First Principles 1.0: Astronomers

Here is a Slackerpedia Galactica special episode in which we introduce a new little segment dealie called First Principles. It will be a semi-regular segment in the podcasts and we will discuss the basics of topics from stars to statistics and cosmology to F=ma.

In this segment we discuss astronomers: who are they, what do they do and how do they do it.

The show is on the feed so subscribe if you haven’t already. You can also download the audio file directly (MP3 audio file, 7.3MB, 15:34) and there are some show notes available. Tell us what you think in the forums!