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Nocturne

Vanessa Lowe

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Scientists have dubbed this time period the Lunar Anthropocene, a new geological epoch in which human's have become the dominant force shaping the moon's environment. As humans race forward into deeper exploration and utilization of the moon and beyond, astronomer, Dr. Aparna Venkatesan, urges us to consider the shared nature of the cosmos. Support Nocturne by donating at www.patreon.com/nocturnepodcast Shared Space Credits Nocturne is produced by Vanessa Lowe Music Nocturne theme music by Kent Sparling Additional music by Kent Sparling and Kid Otter. Find Dr. Aparna Venkatesan at usfca.edu/faculty/aparna-venkatesan Episode art by Magdalena Metrycka Support Nocturne by donating at www.Patreon.com/nocturnepodcast Nocturne is a proud member of Hub and Spoke audio collective.

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0:00.0	Hub and Spoke. Audio Collective. You're listening to Nocturn.
0:27.3	I'm Vanessa Lowe.
0:33.5	Can I get you...
0:34.6	Can I get you if you're going to be to take a picture of you in front of the board?
0:37.2	Sure. And some of these equations in front of the board? Sure.
0:38.3	And some of these equations are kind of old, but yeah.
0:41.3	I love being in spaces like this. I never in spaces like this.
0:45.3	Like scientific. I can feel...
0:47.3	All my students' artwork for astronomy classes.
0:50.3	Like, I'm so proud of them. I do clear out. Not the back-up.
0:53.3	I'm in a pleasantly cluttered office within the
0:55.6	Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of San Francisco. There are indecipherable
1:00.8	equations written on a large whiteboard on one wall beside a poster with Albert Einstein's face
1:05.4	over some of his quotes about the power of imagination. It's the office of astronomer and
1:10.3	cosmologist Dr. Aparna
1:12.0	Venkatason. Aparna has a ready smile and warm eyes. She listens closely and speaks carefully.
1:19.0	She was also featured in another episode of Nocturn about the effort to preserve dark skies
1:23.4	in Point Rays in Northern California. That episode is called Noctalja, which is the term that she and Dr. John Barantine coined,
1:30.3	referring to grief over the loss of the night sky.
1:33.3	My name is Soparna Venkatason.
1:35.3	I'm a professor of physics and astronomy
1:38.3	at the University of San Francisco.
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