Tag: Outer Space
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What’s Special about this Solar Eclipse? A Conversation with Kaitlin Moore
in PodcastsRob Ferrett from Wisconsin Public Radio (WPR) interviews Kaitlin Moore to talk about why the solar eclipse on April 8, 2024 is such a highly anticipated event.
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Mapping the Planetary: Five Questions for Dipesh Chakrabarty
in InterviewsHistorian and postcolonial studies scholar Dipesh Chakrabarty discusses the relationships between humans and the planets we imagine, construct, and inhabit.
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Photographing Isolation and Connection in the Stars
Astrophotography saw Kaitlin Moore through months of COVID-19 lockdown, developing connections among the universe’s most isolated subjects.
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Watching That? Read This!
in ChecklistsMany new movies and TV shows have complex things to say about the entanglement of culture, history, and environment. We recommend the best scholarship to help you decode them.
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Gardening in Outer Space: A Conversation with Simon Gilroy
in PodcastsAstronauts love growing plants in space, and it turns out there are benefits for us on Earth. Botanist Simon Gilroy discusses his experiments growing cotton in zero gravity.
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NASA and the Explosive 1960s: A Conversation with Neil Maher
in PodcastsThe author of the new book “Apollo in the Age of Aquarius” shows how NASA shaped, and was shaped by, 1960s environmentalism, feminism, conservatism, counterculture, antiwar protests, and the black freedom struggle.
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A Reading List To Stay Grounded On Earth Day
in ChecklistsRecommendations of environmental history books that carry us from stardust to coal dust and back, just in time for Earth Day.
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Biosphere 2: Why an Eccentric Ecological Experiment Still Matters 25 Years Later
in CommentaryFour scholars and one of the original “biospherians” offer their takes on perhaps the largest private science experiment in history.
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Edgy Stuff: November 2014 Recommendations
in ChecklistsNovember recommendations from the Edge Effects editorial board.