Tag: WNYC
Radiolab: after birth and the formation of self
by Greg on Aug.25, 2009, under Science Life
I haven’t done a Radiolab Saturday in some time, but don’t worry, i will be posting more segments i find interesting in the Fall. Weekends have been packed with events and summer lounging. I wanted to write about this particular Radiolab short though, because it is linked to the current book i am trudging happily through: Metzingers’ The Ego Tunnel. So far, it is as mind blowingly disorienting as Jim told me. The concept that the self — the subjective point of view that humans use to interact with their environment– is a myth is not an easy understanding. But i think i am getting there, and this Radiolab, an extra morsel from their really compelling hour long show on the afterlife, starts to make me understand what it is like to develop ones ego tunnel, or sense of self.
wait wait, i will tell you
by Greg on Aug.06, 2009, under Science Life Alert
NPR’s wonderful weekend news quiz show, Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me is coming to NYC this fall:
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Leonard Lopate talks to Harold Varmus
by Greg on Mar.17, 2009, under Science Life
Comments Off :harold varmus, leonard lopate, WNYC more...WNYC Hosts: Science in the Media, A Panel Discussion
by Greg on Mar.11, 2009, under Science Event
| March 11, 2009 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
This looks great!
Panelists:
Ellen Horne (Executive Producer, WNYC’s Radio Lab)
Ellis Rubinstein (President, New York Academy of Sciences)
Joseph Bonner (Director of Communications and Public Affairs, The Rockefeller University)
Adrienne Klein (Co-Director of Science and the Arts, The Graduate Center at CUNY)
Bruce McEwen (Alfred E. Mirsky Professor, Harold and Margaret Milliken Hatch Labratory of Neuroendocrinology, The Rockefeller University)
Moderated by Robert Pollack (Director, Center for the Study of Science and Religion)
Wednesday, March 11th, 7:00-9:00pm, New York Society for Ethical Culture, 2 W. 64th Street.
(Light dinner refreshments will be served.)
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Little Galaxy With a Tail
This infrared portrait of the Small Magellanic Cloud, taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, reveals stars and dust in this galaxy as never seen before. T The image shows the main body of the Small Magellanic Cloud, which is comprised of the "bar" and "wing" on the left and the "tail" extending to the right. The bar contains both old stars (in blue) and young stars lighting up their natal dust (green/red). The wing mainly contains young stars. The tail contains only gas, dust and newly formed stars. Spitzer data has confirmed that the tail region was recently torn off the main body of the galaxy. Two of the tail clusters, which are still embedded in their birth clouds, can be seen as red dots. The data in this image are being used by astronomers to study the lifecycle of dust in the entire galaxy: from the formation in stellar atmospheres, to the reservoir containing the present day interstellar medium, and the dust consumed in forming new stars. The dust being formed in old, evolved stars (blue stars with a red tinge) is measured using mid-infrared wavelengths. The present day interstellar dust is weighed by measuring the intensity and color of emission at longer infrared wavelengths. The rate at which the raw material is being consumed is determined by studying ionized gas regions and the younger stars (yellow/red extended regions). The Small Magellanic Cloud, and its companion galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud, are the two galaxies where this type of study is possible. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/STScI
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