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Astronomy Cast

391: Entropy

Astronomy Cast

Astronomy Cast

Natural Sciences, Science, Astronomy

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2015

⏱️ 29 minutes

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AstronomyCast 391: Entropy by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay

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This episode of Astronomycast is brought to you by Swinburn Astronomy Online, the world's longest running online astronomy degree program.

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Astronomycast Episode 391 Entropy. Welcome to Astronomycast, a weekly fax-based journey to the cosmos to help you understand not only what we know, but how we know what we know.

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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 Cosmic Quest. How are you doing?

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

0:42.0

Doing very well. The people watching the weekly fax-based hangout and the live show learned that I got married on Friday afternoon.

0:53.0

And that is awesome and congratulations to you and your new awesome life.

0:59.0

Thank you so much. Yeah, you met Carla at DragonCon, so we finally tied the knot.

1:04.0

So congratulations. I have nothing that exciting here. We dressed up in costumes, we handed out candy, we terrified small children.

1:14.0

Yeah.

1:16.0

Yeah, I mean, the only thing I have to add is I did catch that we've been doing something slightly sideways with our recording.

1:23.0

Our good friend, Uncle Bob, who is one of the sponsors of this show, switched which of his companies is sponsoring us this year, and we've been running the wrong ad, and we love Uncle Bob, and I want to state, it's clean coders, who is our current advertiser, and we love clean coders, and we love Uncle Bob, and we're really sorry that he's been doing this.

1:44.0

I'm really sorry that he has so much awesome that we screwed up and promoted the wrong awesome.

1:49.0

Oh no, I have no idea how that could have happened.

1:54.0

That's okay. It's entirely on me. I...

1:58.0

Okay. Yeah.

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All right, well, let's move on to this week's show.

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