All the hardcover robotics and artificial intelligence books released February 2021 that I could find
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David W. Brown is a freelance writer who has written extensively for major publications. He’s also a former paratrooper and a veteran of Afghanistan. He recently published a major study of NASA’s Europa mission. We spoke about NASA, space and the book. The Mission (Custom House, 2021)
0:38 – David talks about how he got into covering the space program.
1:35 – David talks about the book and the Europa mission.
3:37 – David talks about when the mission and studies started.
4:48 – David goes into detail about how the spacecraft was developed.
6:41 – David talks about the science instruments chosen for the spacecraft.
9:53 – David talks about the budget battle for the mission.
13:50 – David talks about the balance between old and new instrumentation.
16:10 – David talks about the people who have worked on the mission.
18:06 – David talks about Mars missions.
20:33 – David talks about publicity for the Europa mission.
23:50 – David talks about how he organized the book.
28:13 – David talks about how he approached contentious issues within the program.
32:31 – David talks about representation of female engineers and scientists in NASA and the mission.
35:33 – David talks about how he did his research for the book.
38:24 – David talks about his credentials and ability to get access to material.
39:40 – David talks about his interviews.
41:53 – David talks about NASA’s side studies for missions that may or may not happen.
44:26 – David talks about the uses of cancelled missions and studies.
45:50 – David talks about corporate sponsorship of NASA programs.
50:00 – David talks about being surprised by how difficult the book subject was for him initially.
58:17 – David talks about the personal emotional impact of his research.
1:00:47 – David talks about problems at NASA he identified.
1:05:23 – David talks about his sources for space science news.
1:11:50 – David talks about the book he’s writing about current research on Antarctica and sea level rise.
1:16:38 – David can be found on instagram and twitter @dwbwriter and dwb.io.
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Guests: David W. Brown
Host: Cris Alvarez
Tags: Books, space history, space technology, unmanned space missions, audio interviews, space book, NASA history, podcast, Custom House
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All the hardcover robotics and artificial intelligence books released January 2021 that I could find
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All the hardcover space technology books released January 2021 that I could find
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All the hardcover space exploration books released January 2021 that I could find
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The most interesting space and general science hardcover books being released each month!
For my fans and followers, I’ve begun making EXTENSIVE! lists of the best space and general science hardcover books being released each month and once a day I post the space or general science books I’d most like to read that day.
Just follow me on Twitter at https://twitter.com/SpacewalksMT or on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/Spacewalks-Money-Talks-105071464245851/ to see my daily suggestions and tell me what you think about the selections. Enjoy!
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Jacqueline Feke has studied and taught the history of science for many years and is an associate professor at the University of Waterloo. She is especially interested in ancient mathematicians and wrote about Ptolemy’s approach to his studies, especially astronomy. We spoke about the book Ptolemy’s Philosophy and about the history of science and philosophy in general. Ptolemy’s Philosophy (Princeton University Press, 2018)
0:56 – Jackie talks about why she started studying Ptolemy and his philosophy.
5:25 – Jackie talks about open questions regarding Ptolemy and his philosophy.
5:58 – Jackie talks about how Ptolemy worked with older philosophical ideas.
10:05 – Jackie talks about Ptolemy’s focus on math, ethics, and criticisms of philosophers.
12:00 – Jackie talks about Ptolemy’s approach and its effects on his study of astronomy.
15:10 – Jackie talks about what Ptolemy built on and what he created.
19:02 – Jackie talks about the technology Ptolemy had access to.
21:12 – Jackie talks about Ptolemy and religion.
23:57 – Jackie talks about Ptolemy’s astronomy work.
26:30 – Jackie talks about the short connection between modern mathematicians and ancient mathematicians.
29:29 – Jackie talks about Ptolemy and harmonics.
33:42 – Jackie talks about Ptolemy’s study of sound.
35:44 – Jackie talks about Ptolemy’s approach to hypotheses and whether he taught students.
38:56 – Jackie talks about how these scientists supported themselves.
41:44 – Jackie talks about the resources she used and the other mathematicians she studied.
45:04 – Jackie talks about the study of Ptolemy’s texts.
46:33 – Jackie talks about how many ancient mathematicians there might have been.
49:18 – Jackie talk about the use of Ptolemy’s work in astronomy.
55:06 – Jackie talks about the importance of the history of science.
57:00 – We talk about people’s motivations to study science and go into space.
1:01:22 – Jackie can be found at the University of Waterloo and academia.edu
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691179582/ptolemys-philosophy
https://uwaterloo.ca/philosophy/people-profiles/jacqueline-feke
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Guests: Jacqueline Feke
Host: Cris Alvarez
Tags: Books, science, astronomy, audio interviews, podcast, Princeton University Press,
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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 as chief of navigation for the NEAR mission for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. This is part 2 of a multi-part interview.
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0:27 – Jim talks about how science experiments are proposed for unmanned missions.
2:32 – Jim talks about gravitational fields.
5:00 – Jim talks about the effect of gravity on missiles and spacecraft and gravity harmonics.
10:08 – Jim talks about how a mission used its science instruments to fix an orbit problem.
12:28 – Jim talks about what the NEAR mission did once they got into orbit around the asteroid.
18:00 – Jim talks about writing a paper on learning about the density of the asteroid Eros in the NEAR mission.
24:31 – Jim talks about his Icarus paper made his career.
25:38 – Jim talks about the point where his mission flat-lined temporarily. He goes into detail on approaching Eros.
30:43 – Jim talks about how they fixed a major problem with the NEAR mission.
35:57 – Jim talks about what the NEAR mission did after losing 50m/s in propulsion.
40:36 – Jim explains how they knew the NEAR mission had landed and not crashed on Eros.
41:35 – Jim explains why he was worried about the recent asteroid landing mission OSIRIS-REX. He talks about the software used for navigation.
54:26 – Jim talks about his early motivations to get into engineering work.
https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319789156
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Guests: James Miller
Host: Cris Alvarez
Tags: space history, space technology, unmanned space missions, audio interviews, NASA history, podcast, coding and computing, general science,
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