It might be a snow day where you are, but here at scienceTASTIC we braved the cold to bring you all the latest science headlines. Mark lashed his Siberian husky (Mr. Eko) to a sled to report on humanoid robots exploring the moon, Mike trudged through six miles of two-foot high snow to weigh quality [...]
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The torch has been lit and the Science Podcast Olympiad is on! Mike goes for gold with his report on a South Korean city of the future! Mark manages to walk away with a bronze for his story on asteriod collisions, despite a suspiciously low score from the Swedish judge. Alas, Joe falls shy of [...]
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In this episode of scienceTASTIC the crew takes a little time from combatting VENOM to bring you the latest headlines. Mark (vehicle codename “Gator”) explores some avant garde chimp cinema, Mike (vehicle codename “Condor”) takes aim with a giant gun that shoots stuff into orbit (Popular Science, February 2010), and Joe (vehicle codename “Thunderhawk”) turns [...]
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Welcome to the Being John Malkovich episode of scienceTASTIC, as we each take turns crawling into each other’s heads and covering stories we think our co-hosts would pick. Mike (dressed up as Mark) delves into the phychology of the soccer penalty kick, Mark (doing a superb impression of Joe) demos a new portable sleeping cocoon, [...]
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2009 may have been the International Year of Astronomy, but for our first show of 2010 we wanted to show that our support of the space sciences will continue. Mark counts down the top ten methods of deep space travel, Mike uses ESA’s Herschel telescope to look back in time, and Joe asks for your [...]
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In this episode of scienceTASTIC we peak into our crystal ball to see what science has in store for us. No news on personal jet packs yet, but Mark shows how we could all be flying to work in our own two-seater planes (with video). It’s a bit of a bummer that the oceans are [...]
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Here in episode 031 of scienceTASTIC we all get a chance to report on some of our favorite things. Mike – a noted span enthusiast – lays out a new method of building bridges*, Neil deGrasse Tyson fanboy (and future object of a restraining order) Mark shares a video of an NdeGT talk, and chip-lover [...]
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Mark and Joe were all set to throw down some stories for this week’s scienceTASTIC, but instead decided to visit the Lake Erie Nature and Science Center… and you’re invited! First we sit down to get the lay of the land with Director of Development and Community Relations Renee Burslem. Then we stand up to [...]
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Unfortunately the first half of this write-up for episode 029 of scienceTASTIC is lacking a clever little theme that we’re usually so proud of. I mean, Mark’s claim that humans are nearing immortality, Mike getting rats hooked on junk food, and Joe’s study about clean smells leading to more virtuous living really have nothing to [...]
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Episode 028 of scienceTASTIC is the perfect marriage of good times and great science. Mark gets down on one knee to tell us about a talking piano, Mike vows to honor and obey new technology from the “Bridge Whisperer”*, and Joe shoves a fork-full of cake into the beak of birds that understand physics. Swing [...]
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