All the new science hardcover books released March 2021 that I could find
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Above – Particle Physics at the Year of 150th Anniversary of the Mendeleev’s Periodic Table of Elements: Proceedings of the Nineteenth Lomonosov Conference on Elementary Particle Physics
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James Miller has decades of experience working on spacecraft navigation. He has also worked extensively in programming computer systems to conduct navigation operations. We spoke about his experiences with the Mariner, Viking, and NEAR missions for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. This is part 2 of a two part interview.
0:25 – Jim talks about a shutter problem with Mariner 6.
5:03 – Jim talks about his section manager on the mission and getting fired and rehired.
13:27 – Jim talks about Viking issues.
20:53 – Jim talks about Dennis Tito, Lou Kingsland, and backhanded compliments.
24:17 – Jim talks about Jupiter mission Galileo.
28:12 – Jim relates an interesting story on the discovery of volcanoes on Io.
33:51 – Jim talks about navigating missions out of the solar system.
38:46 – Jim talks about the new book he’s writing on general relativity and software.
43:57 – Jim talks about Harry Lass.
https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319789156
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Guests: James Miller
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Tags: space history, space technology, unmanned space missions, audio interviews, NASA history, podcast, coding and computing, general science,
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Jacqueline Mitton has published over thirty books on astronomy and is a past editor of the Journal of the British Astronomical Association. Simon Mitton is Life Fellow at St Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge. He has written more than a dozen books on astronomy and the history of science and is Fellow and a former Vice-President of the Royal Astronomical Society. I spoke to them about their new book on famous astronomer Vera Rubin. Vera Rubin (Belknap Press, 2021)
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0:37 – Jacqueline talks about how she got into studying Vera Rubin.
3:57 – Simon talks about how he got into writing on Vera’s work.
8:37 – Simon talks about how he became interested in astronomy.
9:38 – Jacqueline talks about how she organized the biography.
14:18 – Simon talks about how science biographers usually approach their subjects.
15:31 – Jacqueline talks about the importance of conveying Vera as a person.
16:23 – Simon talks about Vera’s scientific discoveries.
18:06 – Jacqueline talks about Vera’s scientific interests.
18:30 – Simon talks about the material the universe is made of.
18:58 – Jacqueline talks about Vera’s interest in determining galaxy masses.
19:59 – Simon talks about Vera being an observational astronomer.
21:24 – Jacqueline talks about Vera’s measurements of galaxy rotation speeds.
22:44 – Simon talks about Vera’s results being a puzzle.
23:36 – Jacqueline talks about Vera not being first to find flat galaxy rotation curves.
27:50 – Simon talks about Vera having access to a better spectrograph than others.
29:08 – Jacqueline talks about Vera’s work after the Andromeda galaxy.
30:37 – Simon and Jacqueline talk about dark matter the stability of spiral galaxies.
35:15 – Simon talks about Vera’s interest in dark matter.
37:23 – Jacqueline talks about Vera’s feelings about physics.
41:37 – Jacqueline talks about how Vera broke down barriers for women.
44:42 – Jacqueline talks about when Vera realize she needed to stand up for women.
54:05 – Simon and Jacqueline talk about the archives they used for their research.
57:37 – Jacqueline and Simon talk about Vera’s correspondence with a Jesuit priest.
1:01:50 – Jacqueline and Simon talk about how surprised they were that some colleagues had thought Vera’s life might not be interesting.
1:13:18 – They can be found at totalastronomy.com
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674919198&content=reviews
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Guests: Jacqueline and Simon Mitton
Host: Cris Alvarez
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All the new cyber and math hardcover books released February 2021 that I could find
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Above – Participatory Surveillance: Sharing our Life Online
Above – The Physics and Mathematics of Instantons
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James Miller spoke to me about various Jet Propulsion Laboratory missions he’s worked on. This is the youtube version of a previously posted podcast episode.
Tags: Videos, space history, space technology, unmanned space missions, audio interviews, NASA history, coding and computing, general science,
Youtube version of my talk with James Miller about the early days of nuclear power plants and the NEAR mission
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Laird A. Thompson is Professor Emeritus of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He has held appointments at the Kitt Peak National Observatory, at the Universities of Hawaii and Nebraska, and is a member of the American Astronomical Society and the International Astronomical Union. He recently released a book on his part in discovering cosmic voids and what it took to earn acceptance for the science of cosmic voids. We spoke about the book, cosmology, and cosmic voids. The Discovery of Cosmic Voids (Cambridge University Press, 2020)
0:38 – Laird talks about how he got into studying cosmology.
1:53 – Laird talks about the mapping out the galaxy distribution and red shift.
5:44 – Laird talks about the focus of the book and how earlier astronomers thought about the emptiness of space between galaxies.
8:19 – Laird talks about the theories about why the galaxy has lumps and voids.
11:55 – Laird explains the concept of emptiness in space.
14:29 – Laird talks about the gravitational center of a cluster.
16:48 – Laird talks about how galaxies maintain separation.
19:48 – Laird talks about the expansion of the universe.
21:46 – Laird talks about the technology and methods used to map the universe.
23:54 – Laird talks about the assistance of computing in this work and computational astrophysics.
26:01 – Laird talks about graduate student interest in this subject.
27:25 – Laird talks about the Webb telescope.
30:56- Laird talks about the observatories that support his research.
32:20 – Laird talks about the race between teams to get results out.
38:25 – Laird talks about the mathematics and thinking behind the theories.
41:19 – Laird talks about his research for the book.
42:50 – Laird talks about being surprised that people hadn’t seen cosmic voids before.
44:21 – Laird talks about wanting to know what dark matter is.
46:43 – Laird talks about technologies that can be used to detect dark matter constituents. 48:32 – Laird talks about the support astronomers get from governments and philanthropists.
50:15 – Laird talks about resourcing space science and priority reviews.
51:46 – Laird talks about the nature of discoveries and how they are developed and accepted.
53:13 – Laird talks about getting the book published.
http://jc-t.com/lairdthompson/
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Guests: Laird Thompson
Host: Cris Alvarez
Tags: Books, science, artificial intelligence, astronomy, space history, audio interviews, space book, podcast, Cambridge University Press, planetary science,
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All the new astronomy hardcover books released February 2021 that I could find
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All the new technology hardcover books released February 2021 that I could find
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Above – Driving Innovation and Productivity Through Sustainable Automation (Advances in Computational Intelligence and Robotics)
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Above – Short Pulse Laser Interactions With Matter
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Above – An Introduction to the Methods of Relativistic Molecular Quantum Mechanics
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Above – Handbook of Electrical Steel
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Above – Magnetic Micro-/Nano-materials for Proteomics Analysis
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David W. Brown has researched the Europa mission and he wrote a book about it. Here’s the video version of my interview of David Brown.
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