Episode 13: Our First Anniversary!

Technology Today

Southwest Research Institute

Technology

4.8 • 19 Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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The Technology Today Podcast is celebrating one year of giving listeners an inside perspective on world-changing science, engineering, research and technology through informative conversations with institute scientists and engineers. On this episode, we highlight some of our memorable “listen and learn” moments and introduce two new segments, “Breakthroughs,” personal stories of discovery told by the people who lived them and “Ask us Anything,” our SwRI experts answer your questions. Listen now to this special anniversary episode of Technology Today.

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0:00.0	Happy anniversary technology today. We're celebrating one year of enlightening conversations,
0:06.0	informative views, and in-depth details about the science, engineering, research, and technology
0:11.6	changing our world. Today we'll revisit some of our best listen and learn moments.
0:17.9	Plus, introducing breakthroughs, personal stories of discovery told by the people who
0:23.0	lived them. Today, the moment a space scientist discovered treasures from the sun. And the all-new,
0:30.3	Ask Us Anything You Ask Our Experts Answer. Coming up, why is the mythical Yeti the unofficial mascot of SWRI? That's ahead on this
0:41.2	anniversary episode of Technology Today. We live with technology, science, engineering, and the
0:51.3	results of innovative research every day. Now, let's understand it better.
0:56.2	You're listening to the Technology Today podcast presented by Southwest Research Institute.
1:02.0	Hello and welcome to technology today. I'm your host, Lisa Benia. One year ago, we started our journey
1:09.3	from deep sea to deep space, listening and learning
1:12.5	about impactful, innovative science, engineering, and technology.
1:17.1	Today we'll hear our first breakthrough story featuring Dr. Craig DeForest.
1:21.5	He tells us what he unexpectedly found as he analyzed images from the sun.
1:27.3	And don't miss the all new, ask us anything. What's up with
1:30.9	the Yeti inside of our front entrance? We'll get to that. But first, year one highlights. We are 12
1:38.1	episodes in and we have learned so much this first year. We're revisiting a few memorable listen and learn moments right now.
1:46.4	We start with our first guest ever, SWRI space scientist Dr. Alan Stern. He leads NASA's
1:53.7	New Horizons mission that brought us pictures of Pluto in 2015. On New Year's Day,
1:59.6	2019, New Horizons flew by Ultima Tully in the Kuiper Belt.
2:04.2	It's the farthest object ever explored by humankind. When we spoke to Alan last year, he was
2:10.0	anticipating the history-making journey to Ultima, and he recalled the spectacular Pluto fly by.
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