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Astronomycast, episode 323, isotopes.

Welcome to Astronomycast, our weekly facts-based journey through the cosmos,

where we help you understand not only what we know, but how we know what we know.

My name is Fraser Kane, I'm the publisher of University and with me is Dr. Pamela Gay,

a professor at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, and the director of CosmoQuest.

Hey Pamela, how are you doing?

I'm doing well, how are you doing, Fraser?

Good, and you're back from your epic Indonesian adventure.

I am, last week I was at the Southeast Asian Young Astronomers Conference,

where I gave a workshop that I'm going to be blogging about on CosmoQuest,

and I gave a talk about CosmoQuest.

It was amazing, it was, I think, the first conference I've been to in my life

where the number of contributed talks by women was the same if not more than the number by men.

Invited speakers were equal numbers, the food was amazing.

I gained a kilogram while I was there.

Yeah, it was, it was in every way, the science was great, the camaraderie was great,

the spiders were the biggest spiders I've ever seen.

I saw your pictures on Google Plus, you were terrified, you just hand next to the spider,

and they were the same size.

Yes, yes, it was a huge spider, it was awesome.

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