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Science... sort of

Ep 148: Science... sort of - Through The Looking Gas

Science... sort of

Brachiolope

Of, Science, Network, Paleopals, Media, Brachiolope, Natural Sciences, Sort

4.8677 Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2012

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

00:00:00 - PhD Candidate Trey Mack joins the Paleopals to talk about KELT, a tiny telescope that's able to find planets orbiting other stars. Trey gives us the basics, then we get sidetracked asking him just how he got into this whole astronomy gig in the first place.

00:17:53 - Drinks can also be hard to find, especially if you've already have a few to begin with. Ben, who can't have artifical colors, settle for a Glaceau Vitamin Water Lemonade flavor, to help him through a 'hot' Canadian day. Whatever that means. Ryan and Trey share a Brooklyn Black Ops. And Patrick promotes a new East Coast standard in Old Dominion's Dominion Ale.

00:24:11  - This week Trailer Trash Talk takes a page from This American Life whilst discussing the new, possibly funny, film Sleepwalk With Me. 

00:38:49 - We decide to let Trey stop talking about himself long enough tell us more about his amazing planet-hunting science.

00:55:33 - PaleoPOWs are lot like planets, it helps if you have some idea where to look for them. Ryan is thrilled by a new recurring donation from Blair C., who has drawn some awesome t-shirts you should definitely buy and wear (after getting your Science... sort of shirt, of course). Ben has a Facebook comment from Brittany V. which questions his relationship with bonobos. It's better not to ask. And finally Patrick has a Twitter conversation initiated by Ty Von P. about how an understanding of punctuation finally convinced him to try the show.

 

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Music for this week's show provided by:

Astronomy - Blue Oyster Cult

Home Made Lemonade - Black Prarie

Sleepwalkin' - Modest Mouse

Now That We've Found Each Other - Ray Charles (from Brother Ray Is At It Again!)

Transcript

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0:00.0

Ben?

0:01.0

What?

0:02.0

I have an idea, Ben.

0:03.0

Yeah.

0:04.0

From ScienceSortov.com, you're listening to Science Sort of.

0:07.0

Episode.

0:08.0

Episode 148.

0:23.8

We are beginning right now, and we are here to tell you about things that are science, things that are sort of science, and things that wish they were science.

0:31.0

My name is Ryan.

0:31.9

I will be your host this evening and here to tell me about all of those things I previously mentioned.

0:36.3

I'm a paleo-palio-pal podcasting partners in crime, Benjamin and Tibet. Hello everybody. And Patrick Wheatley.

0:47.8

Greetings people of earth. And Ben. Take that, you computer.

0:54.8

And we also have a very special guest with us tonight.

0:58.0

And our special guest happens to be the one, the only, the tramac of the physics and

1:03.9

astrophysics.

1:04.5

What department is it, precisely?

1:06.5

I don't even know.

1:07.0

You're just down the hall from me.

1:08.7

It's the Department of Physics and Astronomy.

1:10.7

The Department of Physics and Astronomy.

1:13.4

The Department of Physics and Astronomy at Vanderbilt University.

1:16.4

PhD candidate extraordinaire Trey Mack.

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