Perseverance, originally known as Mars 2020, is a 1-ton rover which landed on Mars today, 18 Feb 2021. Remember Capt John from episode 102? He's back, and we call the play-by-play as if this were sports. Because we love sports. Uh, yeah. We swear we do. #edutainment

Paige Lemen is a PhD student in Neuroscience at the University of Tennessee, Memphis. When Covid hit, her lab had new priorities, and she’s up to the challenge and helps keep people informed. We discuss Coronavirus, a bit about infectious disease, vaccines, and address many of the misconceptions and false information that’s out there. Follow her on instagram @PaigeLemen. Intro song: “The Geeks were Right” by The Faint

Captain John Gentile is the Captain of a sailboat named “Avalon” based in Vieques, Puerto Rico. We discuss ‘Oumuamua (the first known interstellar object to pass through our solar system), sailing, the 80’s and 90’s, and several other topics we veer off on. Intro song: “Rio”, by Duran Duran

Anthony Copozzi is the singer of the NY-based band Loss Becomes. We try to figure out why science headlines have been talking about "Planet X" - a gigantic planet past Pluto (and that some conspiracy theorists throughout the years have said some pretty crazy stuff about).  Also: wrestling, comics, and life in the time of pandemic. Intro song: “Mathematics” by Mos Def

0:00 Intro

2:06 Good News! Polio!

4:26 Large Hadron Collider Upgrade @ CERN

5:33 Trading Bodies

9:15 Covid - Convalescent Plasma & Vaccines

19:00 Visit deepcoverny.com

21:07 Life Came from a Meteor (maybe?)

23:21 Swimming Dinos Eating Swimming Dinos

25:49 SpaceX vs. ULA

33:03 Make Your Podcast with Anchor!

35:36 Climate Change Catastrophes

37:30 Bad News! Asteroids!

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0:00 Intro

3:33 Terror Crocodile

6:08 Isle of Wight Dinos

8:00 Boomerang Earthquakes

9:22 Hurricane Season

13:34 Coffee Crisis

15:27 Yogi’s Spotlight

19:39 Arecibo Telescope

20:44 Satellite Constellations

24:00 Mars Updates

27:00 Ceres

31:30 New Astronomy Words

33:14 Fast Radio Bursts

36:38 Pink Planet

38:33 Technology Update

44:38 Infectious Disease: Salmonella & Covid

48:11 Sperm Swimmin’

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Over the past year, Yogi was a contributor to a podcast “Friend Beers”; this episode contains some clips from that. Segments: (1) “A Week in Science” for the week of Nov 18, 2019. (2) Dwarf Planets: What are they, and will there be more? (3) Betelgeuse is dimming ... Should we care?