Show Notes: 

• Christine Atha (10:30) 
• “Dropping bombs on the landscape” (13:30)  
• Land art (14:30)  
• Michael Heizer “Displaced Replaced Mass” (16:10)  
• Is this art? (19:00)  
• Take out the human completely, take out what it means to anybody and try to imagine this thing existing on its own (21:00)  
• Imagine what it means to be the object, to be the force (21:20)  
• How chaos and order is an analogy for science and art (23:30)  
• Why the human condition responds to explosives in amazing way (24:30)  
• Explosions in nature - coronal mass ejections (26:20)  
• European Space Agency Artist in Residency (27:00)  
• Bernard Foing (29:35)  
• Ars Electronica (30:20)  
• Antidisciplinary (31:15)  
  • Museum as a space for anything that doesn’t fit anywhere else (33:50)  
• Mondrian painting (32:05)  
  • Picture of sun absorption/emission line spectrum (32:40)  
• How to become interdisciplinary? (34:30)  
• Step into the unknown (35:40)  
• Culture and art in the space age (36:45)  
• International Astronautical Congress (37:20)  
• Who is space for? (37:40)  
• Voyage 2 Golden Record (39:00)  
• Key to the Cosmos (39:40)  
• What are you begging people to wonder? (41:30)
  •  Miha Türsic
• Frank Wright The Overview Effect (43:20)  
• Journey of an electron in space and STARSTORM (47:50)  
• John McPhee and his power with creative nonfiction
• Lightning round (53:20):  
  • Book: Meetings with Remarkable Trees
  • Passion: Shaolin Kung Fu 
• Aoife online:   
  • Website
  • Brilliant work, including pictures of Star Storm
  • Twitter
• 'Five-Cut Fridays’ series   
  • Aoife’s List

Show Notes: 

• Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute (2:11) 
• IEEE Computer Society 2019 W. Wallace McDowell Award (3:30) 
• “Trying to do things in the wrong way” and having an internal compass to know when to redirect oneself (4:45) 
• Responding to how you are being seen (5:30) 
• Contradiction a deeply personal experience and growing comfortable with ambiguity (7:30) 
• Reasoning through uncertainty (7:45) 
• Breaking down physical barriers to change culture (9:40) 
• Reason through that which cannot be reasoned with (16:10)
  
  
• Put yourself in situations that are uncomfortable to you (16:50) 
• Purpose-driven approach (18:30) 
  • Think 'not black and white outcomes, but aspirational goals' (20:10) 
• Precondition to learning is humility (22:10) 
• Approach to role of teacher (25:10) 
• Data Science is a field emerging out of practice (27:00)
  
  
• What has changed with capability (28:00) 
• What is Data Science? (31:15)
  
  
  • It is about the community, not the practice  
• Community of Purposes (31:20) 
• Three axes of classifying a subject (36:00) 
  • Knowledge, skills, and (now) awareness
• Simon Sinek TED talk (39:40) 
• Proposition and counter proposition (40:30) 
• David Hume and what is goodness (40:40) 
• Understanding complex physical systems (44:00) 
• Unknowables and knowledge domains (45:00) 
• Inapplicability of black and white thinking in complex world (47:20) 
• Lighting Round (47:50) 
  • Books:  
    • Kahlil Gibran The Prophet
    • Bill Bryson A short history of nearly everything 
    • James Gleick Chaos
  • Passion: 
    • Studying history  
    • Running 
      • Haruki Murakami What I talk about when I talk about running (51:25) 
  • What is making your heart sing right now? 
    • The nature of time 
  • Something screwed up (55:00) 
    • Sleep 
• Find Rajesh online:  
  • HDSI
• 'Five-Cut Fridays’ series  
  • Rajesh’ playlist

Show Notes: 

• The SETI Institute (1:15 and 6:10) 
• FDL program (NASA Frontier Development Lab) (4:30 and 36:00) 
• Jesuit thinking (5:00) 
• Brother Guy J. Consolmagno (6:20) 
• Take advantage of the breadth of knowledge available to you and cut across the boundaries of knowledge (7:30) 
• Early mentor, Ken Nill, and how he altered Bill’s trajectory (12:00) 
• Value of having both technical and managerial skills (14:10) 
• Create a ‘powerful combination of skills’ (14:20) 
• First mentor: high school physics teacher (17:15) 
• Signs to look for in mentor (17:40) 
• Being curiosity-driven (19:15) 
• LaserTron (22:20) 
• Bell Labs (23:00) 
• Have an understanding of all sides of the industry/business/problem (26:15) 
• Skills from industry most valuable to science (36:30) 
  • Organization of science 
    • Six areas of research that define SETI’s direction (38:40) 
    • SETI Science Council (39:00) 
  • Evaluating the research and targeting future research (43:00) 
• Drake equation (38:00) 
• Antidisciplinary and Joi Ito (40:15) 
• Science of Team Science (40:35) 
• Moneyball approach to science (41:25) 
• Bill’s practices (45:45) 
  • Be open minded (48:40) 
  • Do your homework to have meaningful conversations (49:10) 
• Taiji and Daoist philosophy (47:30) 
• Lightning Round (50:00) 
  • Books 
    • Childhood’s End
    • Three body problem
    • Snow Crash  
    • Galileo’s Daughter
  • What is making your heart sign? 
  • Carl Sagan’s ’star people'
    • SETI outreach
      • Workshop "Decoding alien intelligence” (58:00) 
        • Jesuit casuistry
    • Biggest mistakes: what NOT to do, not following instincts, and letting problems go on longer than they should have (1:00:00) 
• Find Bill online:  
  • SETI
• 'Five-Cut Fridays’ series  
  • Bill’s playlist

Show Notes:

• Polar mission, Solar-Terrestrial Physics Science Initiative, Van Allen Probes mission, and Parker Solar Probe mission (01:05)
• NASA Heliophysics Division (01:20)
• Nicky at South by Southwest (03:20)
• Nicky on the TEDx stage (03:35)
• Delta IV Heavy launch vehicle (04:35)
• Solar energy effects on GNSS (06:50)
• Idea of assessing your presentations from the questions you receive (08:25)
  • Power of ‘I don’t know’ (08:50)
• ask questions to discover (12:20)
• Goddard Space Flight Center (15:50)
• imposter syndrome (16:45)
• Mentors:
  • Mario Ocuña (27:50)
  • Bob Hoffman (28:05)
  • Barry Mauk (29:30 and 39:40)
• Applied Physics Lab (APL) (29:20)
• Living With a Star initiative (29:20)
• What is Space Weather? (30:45 and 39:00)
• ‘Transdisciplinary’ in science (31:15)
  • Heliospheric System Observatory and diversity of thought (33:25)
• What is Heliophysics? (32:20)
• IMAP mission (32:40)
• Norbert Weiner “fruitful areas for growth in no man’s land between the various established fields” (36:40)
• MIT Media Lab and Joi Ito - antidisciplinary (36:40)
• NASA’s Next Generation Principal Investigator (37:40)
  • NASA PI incubator program (37:50)
• Make sure people are equipped and give them the confidence to do things (44:20)
• Forms of empowerment (45:40)
• Book: Hidden Figures (51:45)
• Find Nicky online:  
  • Twitter
  • NASA
• 'Five-Cut Fridays’ series  
  • Nicky's playlist

Show Notes: 

• Andrés’ first website: “a small trip through Columbian music” (04:10) 
• Cosmos (TV Show and Book) by Carl Sagan (05:50) 
• Jesuit Ignatian spiritual retreats in reference to Ignatius Loyola (08:00 and 11:15) 
• How do you create space to listen to yourself? (13:30) 
• NASA Frontier Development Laboratory - FDL (15:51) 
  • ‘Deep Learning’ (17:00) 
• What makes a team fail? (18:00) 
  • Enhancing the effectiveness of team science
• 'Treat colleagues as customers’ (22:30) 
• ‘Fixing problems with data’ - data wrangling (22:40) 
• Questions leaders of teams must ask (23:45) 
• The idea of taking something from another field to apply to your own (28:50) 
• Open source (29:15) 
  • Fear of being ’scooped’ that exists in science (29:45) 
• First images of the sun to maps that exist now (31:00)  
• Lika Guhathakurta (32:00) 
• ’The great majority of amazing commercial products are new applications of existing technologies’ - power of knowledge transfer (34:40) 
• ‘Being open by default’ (38:10) 
• Kepler mission (39:10) 
• TensorFlow Software (40:30) 
• Wang-Sheeley-Arge ENLIL (41:50) 
• Experiencing and interacting with fear in our lives (43:30) 
• ‘Being first is overrated’ (44:30) 
• Science as a social endeavor (45:45) 
• Lightning Round (52:50): 
  • Momo by Michael Ende 
• Music is the passion that has guided him (54:00) 
  • ‘Communication at any level is a performing art' 
  • 'Five-Cut Fridays’ series 
    • Andrés’ playlist
  • If you have help you can recover from almost anything’ (58:30)
  • ‘Gives you control of your own narrative' (58:50)

Show Notes:  

• Geodesics (12:40) 
• Booz Allen Hamilton (21:00) 
• Kirk ’surprised’ himself through the cognitive ability test at a job interview - the idea of surprising ourselves through exposing ourselves to new ideas (25:00) 
• "Cognitive view of the whole, and not just a narrow silo’ed view - the bias buster” - systems thinking (26:40) 
• Underfitting and Overfitting (27:00) 
• Data Science: the application of scientific discovery from data (30:00) 
• ‘Miracle Year of Physics’ - Albert Einstein’s immaculate year (32:00) 
• The Hubble Telescope (35:50) 
• “Any job worth doing, is worth doing poorly” (37:50) 
• “All models are wrong, but some are useful” - George Box (38:30) 
• “Fail fast to learn fast” - discussed in Tim Ferriss’ conversation with Google’s Astro Teller (40:30) 
• Palomar Mountain (46:00) 
• Kirk’s approach to information deluge (47:00) 
• Data literacy (48:45) 
• We discuss the ‘lens’ we each put on the world - here’s a brilliant take on the subject by Maria Popova (51:30) 
• "The message is in the madness” (57:00) 
• Lighting Round: 
  • Book: Language in thought and action by Hayakawa (01:05:30) 
  • Family has been most important to setting Kirk’s trajectory 
  • Making his hear sing: contribution to a book “Demystifying AI for the enterprise” (59:40) 
• Kirk’s Five-Cut Fridays
• Find Kirk online: 
  • Twitter: @KirkDBorne 
  • LinkedIn
  • Personal blog: http://rocketdatascience.org/ 
• Find us at originspodcast.co  

Show Notes: 

• Matt’s bands (1:30): Tiny Danza and RVNNERS 
• Being singularly focused versus pursuing multiple curiosities. Tim Ferriss blog on one way to think about this: Push vs. Pull Processes 
• Sonification (9:03) 
• TEDx talk University of Toronto (10:12) 
• Matt’s interaction with the six-year old fan of his work (11:00) 
• Matt discusses acting almost unconsciously during his TEDx talk because of his preparation - this might be similar to a ‘flow state’ (discussed by Dr. Csikszentmihalyi on the TED stage) (13:30)  
• Course on astronomical sonification (16:30) 
• Idea of education being built on ‘really clear scaffolding’ (18:40) 
• Antidisciplinary and Joi Ito  (20:45) 
• Sara Mazrouei and dating craters on the moon and listening to their impacts (24:15) 
• Matt on Twitter (@astromattrusso) (26:30) 
• The age of data (28:10) 
• Looking to what’s next vs. living in the now (32:00) 
• Derek Sivers “if it’s not a HELL yes, then it’s a no” (34:55) 
• Books: 
  • Planet Hunters (36:50) 
  • Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (37:00) 
  • Music of the Spheres (37:20) 
  • Figuring (37:45) 
  • Breakfast of Champions (39:00) 
• Nerding out about taking notes (41:00) 
• Where to find Matt online:  
  • Planetarium shows: System sounds 
  • Matt’s website
• Matt’s Five-cut Fridays and my Spotify account with all Five-Cut Friday playlists 
• If you like this podcast, then share it with someone you think you will love it, too  

Show Notes: 

• Apache Open Source Software Foundation (4:00) 
  • Apache projects: Tika (26:30), Nutch (15:10), Hadoop (36:05) 
• Chris’ resume and the ‘web of activities’ (7:15)
• “It’s all got to relate to one another”-Chris (7:15) 
  • Tim Ferriss’ scratch your own itch
• “JPL” (8:05) NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• USC ’systems perspective’ (8:25) 
• ‘Architect software’ (8:35) 
• ‘Big software systems’ (8:53) 
• Search engines (9:43) 
• Similarities between web search and science data search (11:56) Google’s take
• (12:15) Big changes in data and compute in Earth Science missions: Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO, and OCO-2) vs Quick Scatterometer (QuickSCAT). ‘Drawing inspiration from the grid’ section of this article
• open source (17:58) 
• Ellis Horowitz (19:44) 
• Really Simple Syndication (RSS) (19:50) 
• What is a developer? (21:10) 
• Jérôme Charron (22:11)
• Information deluge (24:55) 
• Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy babel fish (27:10) 
• Apache Tika software (28:00 - 30:00) 
• Number of file types on internet (28:09) 
• Panama Papers (30:05) 
• Python and Java (31:03) 
• Data science (31:31) 
  • DJ Patil, Jeff Hammerbacher, Hillary Mason
  • Data science Venn diagram
• Do the ‘hard work’ and pay attention to weaknesses (38:45) 
  • Seth Godin thoughts
• Nenad Medvidovic (41:02) 
• Lightning round (44:08):  
  • One Minute Manager
• Chris’ Five-Cut Fridays playlist (50:20) 

Show Notes: 

• Kerry’s quilt kickstarter (~3:00)
  
  
• Vipassanā mediation/retreats (~5:30) 
• Sitting practice meditation (~12:55) 
• We discuss morning routines and I’m a complete nerd for people’s routines - here are a few examples of morning routines from other thought-leaders (~14:40) 
• Sam Harris morning guided meditation (~17:05) 
• Julia Cameron The Artist’s Way (~22:00) 
• Sam Harris guided meditation app (~23:00) 
• Auburn University Rural Studio (~19:15) 
  • Director of Rural Studio and Kerry’s mentor: MacArthur Fellow Samuel Mockbee (~20:38) 
    • “You are the architect of your education” and other quotes
• Philadelphia Charter High School for Art and Design (~25:40) 
• Big Yellow Arrow (no link, because, believe it or not, this was before Instagram ruled everything we do! Just imagine an 80-foot yellow arrow carried around and positioned across the country...brilliant!) (~27:16) 
• Remaining permeable to new ideas - Debbie Millman and Ingrid Fetell Less discuss this on an excellent episode of Design Matters (~32:20) 
• The idea of streamlining your life to free your mind to focus on your passions (~33:30) 
• My Five-Cut Friday’s Playlists - see all of the playlists on my Spotify account (~45:50) 
  • Kerry’s Five-Cuts with the theme “Searching for Space"
  • My Five-Cut Fridays for April 12, 2019 (the date of the release of this episode) 
• A list of five books hand-picked by Kerry: 
  • Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer 
  • When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chödrön 
  • Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home by Toko-pa Turner 
  • You Must Change Your Life: The Story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin by Rachel Corbett 
  • His Dark Materials (Trilogy) by Philip Pullman 
• Where to find Kerry online:  
  • Personal website (KerryLarkin.com) 
  • Comma Workshop (CommaWorkshop.com) 
  • Instagram (@commaworkshop) 

Show Notes: 

• The Canadian High Arctic Ionospheric Network (CHAIN) - http://chain.physics.unb.ca/chain/
• Jay’s research group: 
  • http://radio.physics.unb.ca/jayachandran/
• Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station 
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thumba_Equatorial_Rocket_Launching_Station
• Books mentioned: 
  • Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
  • Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!   
  • Alice in Quantumland
• Authors mentioned:  
  • Henning Mankell (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henning_Mankell) 
  • Ian Rankin (https://www.ianrankin.net/) 
• The audio cut off prior to the details of where to find Professor Jayachandran online, so here is the important information  
  • His research group: http://radio.physics.unb.ca/jayachandran/