Episode 56 - Weekly Weinersmith Soonish Series - Dr. Elizabeth Frank on New Space
Release Date: 05/05/2019
Episode 64 – Weekly Weinersmith Soonish Series: Dr. Judy Illes on Neuroethics
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In today's episode Kelly interviews Dr. Judy Illes to learn more about the latest work being done addressing the ethics of brain-computer interfaces. Dr. Illes is the Canada Research Chair in Neuroethics, and Director of Neuroethics Canada at the University of British Columbia.
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Episode 63 Weekly Weinersmith Soonish Series - Dr. Bryan Caplan on Automation and Jobs
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In this week's show Kelly talks to Dr. Bryan Caplan about the impact of automation on jobs, and talks to Zach about his collaboration with Bryan called "Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration".
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Episode 62 - Weekly Weinersmith Soonish Series: Dr. Jordan Miller on Bioprinting
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Dr. Jordan Miller and his collaborators recently published a paper where they use a gel that hardens in response to light to create structures that are non-toxic, and so should be compatible with the human body. The paper made the front cover of Science! Check out this week's episode to learn more about the bioengineering work happening in the Physiologic Systems Engineering and Advanced Materials Laboratory at Rice University.
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Episode 61 - Weekly Weinersmith Soonish Series: Rosario Ballesteros-Casas on VRAmericas
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In this week's episode, Kelly interviews Rosario Ballesteros-Casas, the Chief Executive Officer of VRAmericas. VRAmericas is working on AR and VR (virtual reality) applications to help train our workforce.
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Episode 60 – Weekly Weinersmith Soonish Series – Skylar Tibbits on Projects Happening at MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab
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In today’s episode we’re going to chat about some of the cool projects happening at MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab, which is the lab for which our interviewee (Professor Skylar Tibbits) is the Founder and co-Director.
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Episode 59 - Weekly Weinersmith Soonish Series - Joy Dunn on Commonwealth Fusion Systems
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On today’s show Joy Dunn joins us to discuss Commonwealth Fusion Systems. Ms. Dunn spent about 10 years at SpaceX, where she worked on and led teams working on the Dragon spacecrafts, and became known as the “Mother of Dragons”. She is currently Head of Manufacturing at Commonwealth Fusion Systems.
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Episode 58 - WW Soonish Series - Dr. Lindy Elkins-Tanton on Psyche
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Dr. Lindy Elkins-Tanton joins Kelly to talk about how we go about learning about asteroids, and about the Psyche mission in particular. We also spoke with Dr. Elkins-Tanton about the role of artists in communicating space research to the general public in ways that scientists can't.
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Episode 57 - Weekly Weinersmith Soonish Series - Peter Beck on Rocket Lab
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Peter Beck, the founder and CEO of Rocket Lab, joins us today to talk about how Rocket Lab is democratizing space launch.
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Episode 56 - Weekly Weinersmith Soonish Series - Dr. Elizabeth Frank on New Space
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Dr. Elizabeth Frank joins us to talk about NewSpace.
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Episode 55 - The making of Science Abridged Beyond the Point of Usefulness
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Kelly and Zach discuss Zach's new book "Science - Abridged Beyond the Point of Usefulness"
info_outlineWelcome to the reboot of The Weekly Weinersmith, celebrating the paperback release of our book Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That’ll Improve and/or Ruin Everything.
In this podcast series, we’re going to revisit each of the 10 technologies discussed in Soonish, expanding on topics touched on in the book, exploring related matters, and checking out new advances since the book came out.
The first chapter in Soonish is on Cheap Access to Space. We mostly talk about ways to reduce the price of launching things into space, but reducing launch costs is only one part of a current movement called "NewSpace".
In this first podcast episode, we interview Dr. Elizabeth Frank about NewSpace. Dr. Frank earned her PhD at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and did her postdoc at the Carnegie Institution for Science (working on NASA's Messenger, which orbited Mercury). She then spent 2 years working at Planetary Resources, Inc., and is now an Applied Planetary Scientist at First Mode.