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These Vibes are Too Cosmic
Jun 13, 2021 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
With DJ AskTheQuestion
These Vibes Are Too Cosmic, your weekly science show on WPRB!
New Sunday Home
Brains, exoplanets, and you
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10:02 AM |
| Jeff Snyder Happy Swing Jeff Snyder These Vibes Theme Song 2016
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10:03 AM |
![]() | Third Attempt Air Third Attempt N Beats from the Quarantine Beatservice Records 2021
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10:06 AM |
![]() | Steve Riley & The Mamou Playboys Blues de Port Arthur Steve Riley & The Mamou Playboys Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys New Rounder 1990
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10:22 AM |
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Eclipse gossip and the coefficients of thermal expansion of concrete and steel | |
10:23 AM |
![]() | Japanese Breakfast Paprika Japanese Breakfast N Jubilee Dead Oceans 2021
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10:26 AM |
| Niagara Triangle Parade (パレード) Niagara Triangle Niagara Triangle Vol. 1 Niagara 1976 Japan
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10:31 AM |
![]() | Mississippi John Hurt Spike Driver Blues Mississippi John Hurt Today! Vanguard Records 2006
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10:35 AM |
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Quantum vapor sensors help us detect magnetic fields produced by BRAINS | |
10:47 AM |
| Onyina Baako Yeyaw Onyina I've Found My Love (1960s Guitar Band Highlife of Ghana) Original 1990 Ghana
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10:50 AM |
![]() | Rebe xanclas sobre el asfalto Rebe N solo pasiones... - EP Elefant Records 2021 Spain
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10:52 AM |
![]() | DakhaBrakha Torokh DakhaBrakha Alambari 2020 Ukraine
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10:57 AM |
| KeiyaA Work KeiyaA Work EP S/R 2015 Chicago
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11:02 AM |
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Exoplanets found by Citizen Scientists! TESS satellite | |
11:18 AM |
![]() | Tiye Phoenix Dem a Fall Tiye Phoenix The Glow EP 2020 New Jersey
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11:20 AM |
![]() | The Hotelier In Framing The Hotelier Home, Like Noplace Is There Dreams of Field 2014 Massachussetts
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11:22 AM |
![]() | Axolotes Mexicanos Vergüenza Axolotes Mexicanos N :3 Elefante 2021
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11:25 AM |
![]() | El General Rais Lebled El General Rais Lebled - Single 2010 Tunisia
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11:29 AM |
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Anticipation of good and bad events is separated in the brain | |
11:41 AM |
![]() | Su Na Tell Me (feat. Ravyn Lenae) Su Na Surface - EP S/R 2016 Minneapolis
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11:44 AM |
![]() | Katie Dey Bearing Katie Dey Mydata Run For Cover 2020 Melbourne, Australia
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11:50 AM |
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mRNA vaccine trial in sub-Saharan Africa is held up by Moderna's refusal to cooperate | |
11:58 AM |
![]() | Leila Abdul-Rauf Life Leaving Leila Abdul-Rauf Diminution Helix-Loop-Helix 2018 Oakland, California
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Chat is archived.
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Brian (host)
10:03:33 AM
Welcome friends! Thanks for joining the chat this morning!
ǝɹnɔsqꓳ ǝɥꓕ ǝʌɐꓷ
10:23:55 AM
I was fortunate to have caught the annular eclipse 🌒.
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Brian (host)
10:24:19 AM
Welcome Dave! Where did you see it from??
ǝɹnɔsqꓳ ǝɥꓕ ǝʌɐꓷ
10:24:47 AM
For ONCE, the clouds cooperated. Usually, clouds interfere with everything (Venus transit, meteor showers, comets).
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Brian (host)
10:25:47 AM
I know! Honestly this is the reason it is hard for me to plan ahead for these things. I thought about driving to the beach to see the eclipse, but the risk of waking up at 4:30am to see only clouds discouraged me.
ǝɹnɔsqꓳ ǝɥꓕ ǝʌɐꓷ
10:25:58 AM
I scoped out a location in advance in Plainsboro. We have some farm fields at the edge of town, where the grove of trees are distant enough to block only the first few minutes of sunrise.
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Brian (host)
10:27:18 AM
That sounds like a great choice. Farmland is reliably flat and tree-free.
ǝɹnɔsqꓳ ǝɥꓕ ǝʌɐꓷ
10:28:18 AM
It was cool to see an orange crescent sunrise.
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Brian (host)
10:29:56 AM
I bet! I was happy to at least see a chunk taken out but I didn't realize when I went out how fast the shadow would move away. in 20 minutes, I think it went from >70% coverage to ~30%.
ǝɹnɔsqꓳ ǝɥꓕ ǝʌɐꓷ
10:35:26 AM
I'm looking forward to the discussion of exoplanets. Even having taken 1 astrophysics class in college, I have trouble understanding how we can infer anything definite from the transits of these distant exoplanets. I mean, even with modern telescopes, the stars are still just tiny points of light.
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Brian (host)
10:51:08 AM
Exoplanet scientists have become more and more clever... You need more than one way to verify their existence, too!
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Mark
11:04:46 AM
hi brian welcome to the sunday schedule! are you archiving your shows i didn’t see them on the tvr2 web site
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Brian (host)
11:20:23 AM
Thanks Mark! I'm glad you found me :) So far I have been too busy with other things to post the shows, but I do have recordings so maybe can begin if there is popular demand
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Mark
11:22:53 AM
ok thanks if u don’t post them only gives us more incentive to b listening all the time :) i missed the expansion discussion:(
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Brian (host)
11:24:00 AM
Sorry to hear it, but I'm glad you're here now!
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Mark
11:26:50 AM
ha thanks ! maybe we can form a group of tvr2c listeners who can discover an exoplanet! :)
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Brian (host)
11:46:04 AM
You all ought to! It would be a WPRB-based science publication
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Brian (host)
12:00:03 PM
Thanks everyone for tuning in today!