Science Fiction

Big Picture Science

Science, Technology

4.5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2017

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

No one knows what the future will bring, but science fiction authors are willing to take a stab at imagining it. We take our own stab at imagining them imagining it. Find out why the genre of science fiction is more than a trippy ride through a bizarre, hi-tech world, but a way to assess and vote on our possible shared future. Also, an astronomer learns how many rejection slips it takes before becoming a published science fiction author …. what author Bruce Sterling wants to get off his chest … and what the joke about the neutron walking into a bar to ask the price of beer has in common with H.G. Wells, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Ridley Scott. Oh, and the price of beer? Bartender: “For you, no charge.” Guests: Ed Finn - Director of the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University Andrew Fraknoi – Chair of the astronomy department at Foothill College. His story, "The Cave in Arsia Mons", is in "Building Red", here. His list of astronomically correct science fiction is here. Bruce Sterling - Science fiction author, journalist, and editor Brian Malow - Science comedian, science communication officer, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an airwave media podcast.
0:05.0	The world is filled with many questions such as, did giants exist?
0:09.0	What is junk DNA?
0:10.4	Does it mean that you're trash?
0:11.8	Do you ever wonder if aliens have underwater bases in our oceans and that's why there are so many
0:16.8	UFO sightings off the coast of islands all over the world?
0:20.8	How serious even is climate change and when should we start building our rafts?
0:25.0	Hello everyone, you may recognize me as Gabby from the History of Everything podcast.
0:29.0	And my name is Bruna, and you don't recognize me from anything yet. Together we're two scientists. is a
0:33.7	and you don't recognize me from anything yet. Together we're two scientists who explore the answers to these questions and many
0:37.3	many more in our new podcast, Mystery of Everything,
0:40.6	available everywhere you get your podcast.
0:43.0	The corporate world is like the ocean.
0:45.0	It's alluring, but it's also full of deadly creatures that can shred you to pieces.
0:49.0	It becomes kind of like a Game ofrones political arena where everyone's trying to
0:54.1	murder you to get your job. My family doesn't come from corporate
0:57.1	backgrounds so I didn't have any sort of guidance in that. This is not your typical
1:01.4	work podcast. Sometimes you need to be empathetic.
1:03.9	And then there are times that you ask for input,
1:05.8	but you don't really give a shit.
1:07.2	Listen to the and the award-nominated podcast,
1:09.6	surfing corporate.
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