Happy New Year from all of us in STEMPunX studios.

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https://www.timeanddate.com

Much of the information regarding calendars can be found on this site.  There are many rabbit holes to go down.  :-)   This page was particularly helpful.  https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/julian-gregorian-switch.html

http://www.friesian.com/week.htm

Info for the days of the week and other tidbits.

https://www.history.com/news/6-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-gregorian-calendar

Gregorian Calendar rabbit hole.

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

Some of the music was found on this site. Project Gutenberg offers over 58,000 free eBooks. Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online. You will find the world's great literature here, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired. Thousands of volunteers digitized and diligently proofread the eBooks, for enjoyment and education.

Time has slipped by and we are at the end of the year.  Time, what an interesting concept.  We explore time a bit via the TARDIS (DR. WHO fans holla…!) and your imagination.  This week we also explore Science Fiction and Science Fact and how they intertwine.  If you enjoy authors like Phillip K. Dick, television shows like Star Trek and Dr. Who, and movies like Minority Report, this episode is for you.  Sci Fi influences our future.  See how in this holiday special with a nod to Dr. Who and many others that have helped shape the technology of today.

Set your communicator on enjoyment and bliss out about SCIENCE!

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Our Patreon tribe of STEMPunX!   Welcome to our newest member, Erica!  And many thanks to our loyal fans, April, Bert, Beth, Caitlyn, David, Michael, Jana, Janice, John, Kit, Melody, Michael, Mike, Rose, Sandra, Sora and Tom.  Thank you all so much!!

Non-Profit shoutout--->  CGOA  The Columbia Gorge Orchestra Association.  This Gorge local organization creates musical and visual art in the form of Orchestral, Small Ensemble, Jazz, Vocal, and Theatrical performances.  

Check them out and get tickets at: https://www.gorgeorchestra.org

The Columbia Gorge Orchestra Association is the non-profit sponsor of several performing ensembles in the Columbia River Gorge area of Oregon. Current ensembles include the Sinfonietta Orchestra, Voci Choir, Gorge Jazz Collective, Stages Repertory Theatre, The Hood River String Quartet, and the Gorge Youth Chorus.

STEMPunX is hosted and produced by Joe Garoutte.

This episode was also produced by E. Michael Friend and John Hardham

Editing by Joe and Michael.

Music is courtesy of the Free Music Archive  http://freemusicarchive.org 

Show notes:

Time Perception

https://www.brainpickings.org/2013/07/15/time-warped-claudia-hammond/

Planning fallacy

first proposed by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky in 1979, is a phenomenon in which predictions about how much time will be needed to complete a future task display an optimism bias and underestimate the time needed.

This phenomenon occurs regardless of the individual's knowledge that past tasks of a similar nature have taken longer to complete than generally planned. The bias only affects predictions about one's own tasks; when outside observers predict task completion times, they show a pessimistic bias, overestimating the time needed. The planning fallacy requires that predictions of current tasks' completion times are more optimistic than the beliefs about past completion times for similar projects and that predictions of the current tasks' completion times are more optimistic than the actual time needed to complete the tasks. In 2003, Lovallo and Kahneman proposed an expanded definition as the tendency to underestimate the time, costs, and risks of future actions and at the same time overestimate the benefits of the same actions. According to this definition, the planning fallacy results in not only time overruns, but also cost overruns and benefit shortfalls.

Joe and STEMBoT paid homage to Abbot and Costello and their “Who’s on First” routine.

Here is the original:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTcRRaXV-fg

Worldbuilding Institute

http://worldbuilding.institute

University of Alaska project mentioned here:

Nike and Boeing Are Paying Sci-Fi Writers to Predict Their Futures

https://medium.com/s/thenewnew/nike-and-boeing-are-paying-sci-fi-writers-to-predict-their-futures-fdc4b6165fa4

Sci-Futures

https://www.scifutures.com

Science Fiction Has Helped Predict the Future of Technology. Here's Why We Should Be Worried

https://www.inc.com/yazin-akkawi/what-science-fiction-has-taught-us-about-predicting-future-and-why-we-should-be-worried.html

The Films and TV Shows that Predicted the Future

https://medium.com/the-omnivore/the-films-and-tv-shows-that-predicted-the-future-90f636dba720

15 Sci-Fi Books That Predicted the Future

https://mashable.com/video/nasa-hacked-october/

Using science fiction to explore business innovation

https://www.digitalpulse.pwc.com.au/science-fiction-explore-business-innovation/

Sci-Fi Writers Are Predicting the Future. Who’s Listening?

https://www.wired.com/2018/09/geeks-guide-walter-jon-williams/

Joe discusses the condition of our oceans and what is being done to clean them up.  Plastics are making their way into our ecosystem and we legitimately have a severe problem on our hands.  Beck, our STEMPunX intern, shares her views as a teenager concerned about her future and what will be left of the planet by the time she has a family.

Many links in the show notes to a LOT of information about plastics, alternatives, how the cycle starts and what we can do to make a change.  Our planet needs us.

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On a local environmental note, check out the Columbia Gorge Ecology Institute co-founded by our resident scientist Bill Weiler. Their mission is to provide educational opportunities, with an emphasis on stewardship and a sense of wonder in the natural systems of the Columbia River Gorge. They are at  www.gorgeecology.org/

STEMPunX is hosted and produced by Joe Garoutte.

This episode was also produced by E. Michael Friend and John Hardham

Editing by Joe and Michael.

Music is courtesy of the Free Music Archive  http://freemusicarchive.org 

Show notes

Organic beeswax food storage wraps made in Hood River, Oregon with local beeswax.

Roots Wrap

Link: Boyan Slat

https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/wilderness-resources/blogs/remember-kid-who-invented-way-clean-ocean-plastic-hes-back-and-its-happening

What are microplastics?

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/microplastics.html

Learn about microfibers from doing your laundry. 

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/pick-your-wardrobe-carefully-lives-clams-and-mussels-may-depend-it-180960761/

Ocean Cleanup Project

https://www.theoceancleanup.com

CNET video of Ocean Cleanup launch and more.

http://youtu.be/nYC4Q-0wcAc

How does trash get into the ocean?

http://www.gorillabins.ca/blog/how-does-garbage-end-up-in-the-ocean/

This is how your plastic bag ends up in the ocean...

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/22/plastic-ocean-garbage_n_5191294.html

How on earth does all the plastic get into the oceans?

https://wastelandrebel.com/en/how-on-earth-does-all-the-plastic-get-into-the-oceans/

Where does marine debris come from?

https://oceantoday.noaa.gov/trashtalk_wheredoesmarinedebriscomefrom/

Newplasticseconomy.org

https://newplasticseconomy.org

This larvae can eat plastic!  Well, some types anyway...

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/04/wax-worms-eat-plastic-polyethylene-trash-pollution-cleanup/

And what can we do locally and personally:

Zero waste solutions

https://www.goingzerowaste.com/blog/101-easy-eco-friendly-zero-waste-tips

https://www.eartheclipse.com/pollution/amazing-ways-to-prevent-water-pollution.html

Columbia Gorge Ecology Institute

www.gorgeecology.org/

In this episode Joe takes you fishing!  As an avid steelhead fly-fisherman, Joe wrestles with the topic of whether or not fish feel pain.  Joe's guest this week is Professor Victoria Braithwaite Professor of Fisheries and Biology at Penn State University.  She is also author of the book Do Fish Feel Pain? and a published science report studying the same.  This episode was so packed with information that the full interview simply had to be shared, but in a Patreon only post.  All Patreon STEMPunX receive the Bonus Interview as a reward for being a part of the team!  #ThankYouPatrons

Show Note Links:

Do Fish Feel Pain? - By Professor Victoria Braithwaite

For those who want to read the opposite view, after all this is about science, and knowledge is power.   Why fish do not feel pain. - By Brian Key

And a peer review by Victoria Braithwaite, and Paula Droege, (2016) Why human pain can’t tell us whether fish feel pain. 

Nociception: In nociception, intense chemical (e.g., chili powder in the eyes), mechanical (e.g., cutting, crushing), or thermal (heat and cold) stimulation of sensory nerve cells called nociceptors produces a signal that travels along a chain of nerve fibers via the spinal cord to the brain

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Guest:

Professor Victoria Braithwaite - Penn State University

The Dorothy and Lloyd Huck Chair in Behavioral Biology

Professor of Fisheries and Biology

Music by:

Kit Garoutte

https://kitgaroutte.net

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STEMPunX is hosted and produced by Joe Garoutte.

This episode was also produced by E. Michael Friend and John Hardham

Editing by Joe and Michael.

In this episode Joe speaks to veteran videographer, and co-producer, John Hardham of Lightwave Communications about the video specs needed in drone cameras for high quality video production.  Joe also interviews Alex Bryan, a commercial drone pilot about the differences between the consumer drones that we can easily afford and the professional drones flown by licensed pilots. A brief review of 4 drones Joe flew as research for the podcast is weaved in as well.  A more thorough review, and a video of a drone gone rogue, are available in Patreon only BONUS posts.

Patreon BONUS - Drone review podcast segment.  Joe gives an in-depth account of the 4 drones he tested out as potential video sources for the web-series.  It is available exclusively to our patrons, current and future alike.  We will send you a link after signing up so you can see it. 

Patreon BONUS - A Drone Gone Rogue video. A bonus video of the rogue drone escape attempt.  It is available exclusively to our patrons, current and future alike. We will send you a link after signing up so you can see it. 

(Promise not to laugh.  We almost lost it to the freeway.)

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Alex Bryan, Professional drone pilot:

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Music by:

Kit Garoutte

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STEMPunX is hosted and produced by Joe Garoutte.

This episode was also produced by E. Michael Friend and John Hardham

Editing by Joe and Michael.

Take a journey with Joe to understand a bit about pollination. See what he has discovered over the last three years of simply trying to pollinate his own garden, and learn some hard realities of becoming a hobby beekeeper.  Joe's guest is Andony Melathopoulos, Assistant Professor - Pollinator Health Extension at Oregon State University.  They talk about pollination, the Oregon Bee Atlas, the Oregon Bee Project, and the dreaded varroa mites AND ways to combat them.

Show Notes:

1. Angiosperm-any of about 300,000 species of flowering plants.

Music by:

Kit Garoutte

https://kitgaroutte.net

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STEMPunX is hosted and produced by Joe Garoutte.

This episode was also produced by E. Michael Friend and John Hardham

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BONUS EPISODE!  Joe introduces listeners to STEMBoT and we learn that the similarities between humans and computers are more numerous than the differences.  Listen in to discover what STEMBoT's role is in the show and more. This is not a paid post.  It doesn't increase your Patreon pledge.  ENJOY!

Music by:

Kit Garoutte

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STEMPunX is hosted and produced by Joe Garoutte.

This episode was also produced by E. Michael Friend and John Hardham

Editing by Joe and Michael.

Joe sits down with Co-Producer E. Michael Friend and mad scientist Bill Weiler to talk about what makes this podcast important to them and how STEM is connected to everything.

• STEMPunX Website for more info on our web-series and the hosts.

• A webpage listing job opportunities with the many STEM businesses in the Columbia River Gorge.

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Music by:

Kit Garoutte

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STEMPunX is hosted and produced by Joe Garoutte.

This episode was also produced by E. Michael Friend and John Hardham

Editing by Joe and Michael.