SIO136: Don't Surf on Tsunami, and Other Disaster Advice from Mika McKinnon

Serious Inquiries Only

Thomas Smith

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2018

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Mika McKinnon is a geophysicist, science communicator, sci-fi science consultant, and all around badass! We talk about her awesome job as part Bond Villain, part MacGyver. AFter that, Mika gives us some very good disaster advice and teaches us all about tsunamis and volcanoes! Then we go on to discuss her work as a sci-fi consultant where we finally give the movie The Core the scientific thrashing it deserves. Mika also tells us about one of her scientific heroes, Vera Rubin, and how she never got the Nobel Prize she likely deserved. This is something of a common occurrence with women in science. You don't want to miss this incredibly educational and inspirational interview! Leave Thomas a voicemail! (916) 750-4746, remember short and to the point! Support the show at seriouspod.com/support! Follow us on Twitter: @seriouspod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/seriouspod For comments, email thomas@seriouspod.com Direct Download

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0:00.0	You're listening to serious inquiries only. Oh, Hello and welcome to serious inquiries only this is episode 136 I'm your host Thomas Smith.
0:35.0	All right, I am so excited for today's interview.
0:38.0	Seriously, this was so fun.
0:40.0	Meika McKinnon is joining me.
0:42.0	She is a geophysicist. She is a master of disaster as she says.
0:46.7	She specializes in disaster and also she's a sci-fi science, and actually not just sci-fi as you'll hear, she's a science
0:56.4	consultant for lots of different art and media, but so cool, so much to talk about in terms of disasters and why Armageddon is terrible and why other movies are better or worse or that kind of thing.
1:10.0	What it's like to do her job which is really fascinating and also what it's like to do science consulting for TV shows and movies.
1:19.4	So fun, such a cool person. Without any further delay, let's head on over to my interview with Meika McKinnon.
1:25.6	Mika, how you doing today?
1:35.0	I am doing quite well.
1:37.0	It's an unusually sunny day for me.
1:39.0	Oh, where are you?
1:41.0	Are you in San Francisco?
1:42.0	For the moment I am.
1:43.0	I just got back from one trip and I've got another one coming up in a few weeks.
1:47.8	Actually, in a one week I get to go visit a rocket launch.
1:50.4	Oh, that is so cool.
1:51.5	Yeah, I for one, about the sunniness, I was just in Chicago, and I literally
1:56.7	jumped on a flight where I was like, freezing one day in Chicago. I looked at what the temperature
2:02.2	was going to be at Sacramento Airport, and I thought it was a joke.
2:04.7	I was like I can't even, the difference was like 60 degrees. It was insane. And so yeah, it is very sunny here in California right now and hopefully, you know, enjoy it.
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