Blue Dot

Inexorable. The unrelenting power of the expanding, rising oceans is something that humans WILL be dealing with for decades, if not centuries to come. In this episode we talk to Rolling Stone Magazine contributing editor Jeff Goodell. Jeff is the author of The Water Will Come .

It's Part 2 of our series on The Science Communicators. For some science majors, their love of nature knows few bounds and the thought of research in just one field of study wasn't appealing. What was is sharing their natural curiosity through the medium of YouTube and beyond. We talk to Ines Dawson from the U.K. and creator of Draw Curiosity . Then we visit with Nick Lucid about his take on science where it is OK "to be a little crazy," on The Science Asylum channel. Then Nolan joins Dave to

In this episode Dave talks to three science communicators with YouTube Channels. Jacklyn Duff's videos focus on science and technology on her SciJoy channel . Jade Tan-Holmes is an Australian whose Up and Atom videos focus on physics, math and computer science. Sheryl Hosler, aka The Roving Naturalist , loves to share her passion for environmental science. All three came to the same conclusion — that communicating their passion for science was a stronger calling than the traditional research

This week, Dave is joined by special cohost Kate Fullam from the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science. Kate and Dave interview Sara MacSorley. Her new coloring book Super Cool Scientists, profiles a diverse array of women scientists. The coloring book is designed to engage girls in thinking of scientific careers as possible futures for them. Super cool ones! This program is the second of an ongoing collaboration with the Alda Center based at Stony Brook University in New York.

Dave talks to Jess McIver. Dr. McIver is an astrophysicist with the LIGO gravitational wave detection observatory. She's been deeply involved in the first detections of gravitational waves from a black hole (which won a Nobel Prize for Physics earlier this fall) and the recent detection of the collision of two neutron stars. The collision produced not only gravitational waves, but bursts of electromagnetic radiation across the spectrum observed by telescopes around the world and in space. The

Dave talks to Kathryn Miles, author of Quakeland . In her new book, the journalist explores the less obvious threats due to seismicity than the usual "California and the west are earthquake country," point of view. In fact, most of the U.S. is shockingly vulnerable to earthquakes that could cost lives and damage an increasingly fragile infrastructure. Explore the deepest mine in the country and discover, along with our guest, how little we understand the inner workings of our own planet.

On this episode of Blue Dot, Dave talks to Gleb Raygorodetsky about his new book " The Archipelago of Hope ." In it, the National Geographic correspondent and scientist tells the stories of six indigenous peoples from around the world. For the past two decades Raygorodetsky has lived with and documented people like the Skolt Sami of Finland, the Nenets and Altai of Russia, the Karen of Myanmar and the Tla-o-qui-aht of British Columbia. These peoples don't debate the existence of human-induced

When the Cassini orbiter was sent plunging into Saturn on September 15, it was the end of a mission and the end of an era of solar system exploration. In this episode, Dave talks to two Cassini team members — one who has been with the mission since the beginning and another that is a relative newcomer.

On March 27, 1964, Alaska was rocked by the largest earthquake ever recorded in North America. It caused widespread damage, landslides and destructive tsunamis. It also helped to cement our current understanding of the most important idea in the Earth Sciences — the modern theory of plate tectonics. On this episode of Blue Dot, Dave talks to Henry Fountain, the New York Times science writer who wrote about the Alaska disaster and its aftermath in The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in

Dave talks to Emer Reynolds, the director of the new documentary The Farthest , which aired on PBS Nova this summer. It tells the epic story of the twin Voyager spacecraft. Launched in 1977, the Voyagers were the designed to tour the outer solar system thanks to an alignment that happens once in every 175 years. Voyager 1 flew by Jupiter and Saturn and then was flung into the outer solar system above the plane of the planets becoming the fastest object ever made by humans. In 2012, it entered