Fact and Science Fiction

David Bernstein's Blockbuster Science has been a life-saver for my research for the podcast and I was so happy he agreed to be on the show! We talk about how he got the idea for the book, his favorite topics in science (hint: space!), and his job as a forensic data scientist! Follow David on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

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Climate change is an environmental phenomena that has huge implications for life on Earth in the next few decades. I researched climate change adaptation: what we're going to do when the worst effects of climate change happen. I saw a lot of similarities between what is really happening and a sub genre of science fiction called Eco Sci Fi including work from Jeff VanderMeer, Lesley Nneka Arima and Kim Stanley Robinson.

Research includes

Interviews from America Adapts: The Climate Change Podcast

Migration in the context of vulnerability and adaptation to climate change: insights from analogues by Robert A. McLeman and Lori M. Hunter

Crisis or adaptation? Migration and climate change in a context of high mobility by Cecila Tacoli

The Collapse of Western Civilization by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway - get this awesome book for free at Audibletrial.com/factandscifi

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I am back from my hiatus to talk about time travel! Time travel as a theme has been BIG in stories since before the written word. I talk about legends, popular science fiction movies and TV, and then break down what Albert Einstein allowed for in his relativity theories. Buckle up!

This episode included research from Time Travel: A History by James Gleick *I may have called him David in the episode and I am so sorry. Download this audiobook today or another of your choosing by clicking here or copy/past http://audibletrial.com/factandscifi into your browser.

Music and sound effects from Kevin McLeod under Creative Common License, FreeSound.org and SoundImage.org.

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For Halloween and the podcast’s first anniversary I dedicate this special episode to cryptids! Bigfoot, Mothman, Wendigos and Loch Ness Monsters. Where do these stories come from? How can cryptozoologists prove they are real? Using research from folklore researchers, historians and animal researchers, I take a closer look into the world of hidden animals.

Research from this episode:

Going to the Source: Volume 1 to 1877 by Victoria Bissell Brown and Timothy J. Shannon

Cryptozoology in the Medieval and Modern Worlds by Peter Dendle

The Okapi Conservation Project

Legendary Cryptids that Turned Out to be Real on iO9.

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Science fiction and reality blurs when it comes to data science and crime. This episode I discuss predictive policing using examples from Minority Report, Person of Interest and Psycho-Pass to shed light on what actual data analytics programs are in place today.

Research from Michelle Chan Chinese Startup Makes Facial Recognition Glasses for Police Augmented reality glasses for police in China 

Andrew Ferguson Policing Predictive Policing 

Christina Larson Who needs democracy when you have data? 

Anna Johansson 5 Lessons Learned from the Predictive Police Failure in New Orleans 

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What can we learn from early science fiction about the ocean? What technology was inspired from this ocean speculation? This episode I want to take you on a journey through centuries of science fiction about the ocean. A journey, you may say 20,000 leagues under the sea, from mythic sunken cities like Atlantis to real companies mining resources from the seabed. 

Research from this episode came from Mark Adams' Meet Me in Atlantis, World Ocean Radio.org, Robert Ballard’s ‘Why We Must Explore the Sea’ in Smithsonian magazine, and audio clips from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea copyright 1954. Fluidscape by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license. Further music by The 126ers and Bad Snacks

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The Jurassic Park franchise has renewed interest in dinosaurs and speculation about bringing them back to life. But speculative and scifi authors have fantasized about present day humans surviving prehistoric animals since the 1800s. I debunk myths about dinosaurs, talk about current research in paleontology and dinosaur behavior!

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This episode I dive deep into space. I watched 2001: A Space Odyssey and Solaris (2002) for the first time! I specifically talk about the different kind of space stations, how we might live in space, and how well 2001: A Space Odyssey predicted current technology. I used research from WIRED, Popular Mechanics, Astronaut.com, and NASA itself to explain what space stations might look like in the future. Ringworlds, cylinders, spheres, oh my!

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This episode I break down colonizing another planet or moon. Will we find an exoplanet that can support life? What kind of challenges await Mars and Moon colonies? From figuring out how to breathe to growing food, colonizing space will be the most difficult thing humans may have to do. I use examples from Star Wars, The Martian, and more. Stay tuned for Part II when I discuss generation ships and space stations.

Research from NASA.gov, Science of Star Wars, and MIT

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This episode I invite my friend Paul to help me tackle the gigantic topic of traveling across space. Using examples from Interstellar, Stargate, Star Wars and more, we talk about how it works, how it may work in the future, and the interesting theoretical concepts that science fiction uses today to make interstellar travel possible and to tell the best stories.

Research from this episode includes:

The Science of Interstellar by Kip Thorne

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli

How to Build Your Own Spaceship by Piers Bizony

Clips from Hidden Figures and Interstellar

Sound effects from SoundImage.org

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