Syzygy: Stories of celestial alignment
The Story Collider
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2017
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Part 1: Bryony Tilsley and her husband are planning a local astronomy event when their family undergoes a big change. Part 2: Eclipse chaser David Baron discovers the real magic behind a total solar eclipse. Bryony Tilsley, along with her husband Rob, is a founder of Dartmoor Skies, a U.K. charity that shares the beauty of astronomy with anyone who wants to experience it. She studied writing and choreography at Dartington College of Arts so she loves to bring art and science together. She finds stargazing therapeutic and would like to build an observatory on Dartmoor. She has lots of books, two cats and a dog. David Baron is a science journalist, broadcaster, and the author of American Eclipse: A Nation’s Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World. An avid eclipse chaser, David has witnessed five total solar eclipses in such disparate locales as Indonesia, Australia, and the Faroe Islands. He has spent most of his career in public radio, as science correspondent for NPR, science reporter for Boston’s WBUR, and science editor for PRI’s The World. You can find him online at www.american-eclipse.com.
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.0 | Is NYU a scientist? |
| 0:06.0 | I felt it. |
| 0:07.0 | I was so happy. |
| 0:09.0 | I figured it out. |
| 0:10.0 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:12.0 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:15.0 | Hi everyone, I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true personal stories about science. |
| 0:28.3 | This week, we're bringing you two stories on the theme of Sizogy, a word used to describe when celestial bodies are in alignment, such as during a solar eclipse. |
| 0:36.0 | Our first story this week is from Brianne Tilsley. |
| 0:38.5 | It was recorded in July 2016 at our show with the British Science Association at the Port |
| 0:43.3 | Elliott Festival in Cornwall United Kingdom. |
| 0:49.0 | Hello, hi. |
| 0:51.0 | Nice. |
| 0:59.0 | Okay, so I'm going to talk a little bit about our journey setting up, our organisation. We are a small organisation, we are in our early stages, but it's something that feels like it's growing and it's going in a very exciting direction. |
| 1:06.0 | The reason why we started this is because basically my husband's a nerd. |
| 1:15.5 | He claims that he isn't a nerd, but I just like to point out he's a chap over there with pie on his t-shirt. |
| 1:17.2 | That's the number, not the food group. |
| 1:19.7 | So, yeah, he's definitely a nerd. |
| 1:24.6 | And it's a lot about how he's kind of dragged me into that, slightly reluctantly. |
| 1:30.5 | One of his big loves is astronomy. So a few years ago, myself and his family decided to club together and buy him a telescope. And my very first outing with him onto Dartmoor |
| 1:37.6 | with this telescope was in a dark, cold car park. I don't know if anybody here knows Dartmoor. |
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