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Astronomycast, episode 260, from Monday, April 9, 2012, the technology of lasers and lasers.

Welcome to Astronomycast, our weekly facts-based journey to the cosmos. We help you understand not only what we know, but how we know what we know.

My name is Fraser Cain, I'm the publisher of University Day, and with me is Dr. Pamela Gaye, a professor at Southern Illinois University, Evansville.

Hey Pamela, how are you doing?

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

Doing great, so I wanted to give a big shout out to a piece of technology that we've had for a little while, but I had never, like, directly used it, which is the Astronomycast app.

Which my kids love to listen to Astronomycast, it's what they go to bed to every night.

I'm not sure what they-

That's creepy.

I don't think a lot of it is getting retained, so every now and then I quiz them, but I guess they like to listen to our voices, which I think is adorable.

Okay.

And I decided to give them the app, because it gives the access to the entire catalog, and you don't have to download it and install it on your iPhone or whatever.

I know there's a lot of people out there that like to listen to all the back catalog issues, episodes of Astronomycast.

And I also had gotten a few complaints from people that some of the old titles were in, so I went back and fixed everything, so now it should be really tight.

All of the episodes are there, you can get all 250 plus episodes, and just play them all instantly through our iPhone app.

And I think it's a $1.99 for the app itself.

And something completely reasonable on what you're paying for is someone other than us wrote the app.

Yeah, that's exactly right.

And it's done through our audio hosting provider, but it's really convenient and a really good way to get access to our entire library of episodes, and I highly recommend it.

So, go download it.

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