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Mark all un- played. Discovered by Player FM and our community — copyright is owned by the publisher, not Player FM, and audio streamed directly from their servers. Strange New Worlds is a podcast all about science and Star Trek! Each summarizes the science that they presented at DPS18 and shares their favorite aspect of the conference. Also, Peter talks about how he hid subtle Star Trek Follow me on Twitter!
Peter Gao visits Michael in Seattle to share his research on how atmospheric oxygen can be made without life. Such copious amounts of oxygen might fool astronomers as false-positive biosignatures—but there are clever ways to combat this uncertainty. Then, Michael and Peter respond to Dr.
In this BONUS episode of Strange New Worlds, Michael wishes you a Happy Thanksgiving and talks about the recent groundbreaking discovery of the amino acid tryptophan deep below the bottom of the ocean—and what that might mean for the origin of life.
Follow us on Twitter! Tony Del Genio, Maria Steinrueck, Ryan MacDonald Clouds and hazes play important roles in controlling planetary climates and can both help and get in the way of astronomers who are trying to learn about an exoplanet.
Desun Oka The Kepler Space Telescope has discovered thousands of exoplanets—perhaps some of them are ripe for future human colonies. But is colonialism the right framework to think about humanity's expansion into the cosmos? Historian Desun Oka helps me For their final episode together at Caltech before Michael leaves for the University of Washington, Elise and Michael choose a random Star Trek episode and comment on the exciting science that they find within!
Get ready for a random journey of asteroids, life detection, and facepalms. Follow us on Twitter: Celeste Labedz "The Vulcans say that the desert teaches men the meaning of endurance, but it's the ice that forges real strength. In this episode, Brian tells us about going face-to-face with Patrick Stewart on the set of Star Trek Cecilia Sanders The pages of Earth's history are written in its rocks, and geobiologist Cecilia Sanders is interested in a sequence of rocks that tell the story of one of Earth's coldest periods: In order to read those pages—and the fossilized fine-print that describes life some million years ago—she has to embark In Episode 45, Dr.
Keane about their experiences at the Star Trek Las Vegas convention. Or stop a volcano from erupting, like Spock did in Into Darkness? Volcanologists Kayla Iacovino and David Williams are here to set the record straight about how volcanoes work both on Earth and across the s Ollie StephensonIn Episode 43, Michael chats with geophysicist Ollie Stephenson about the science of earthquakes, using examples of earthquakes in Star Trek to guide the discussion.
Discovery is a real exoplanet. Erika's bibliography at Discover: Discovery Season 2 teaser: In this bonus episode of Strange New Worlds, Dr.
Peter Gao helps Michael prepare for his PhD thesis defense and reminisces about his own Star Trek—themed dissertation talk. Harriet BrettleIn Episode 37, Michael asks first-year Caltech planetary science graduate student Harriet Brettle, "Can science fiction predict the future?
SNW was an annual collection of short stories set in the Star Trek universe, written by amateur writers chosen through an open submissions process. The first volume was published in , with the tenth and final volume published in The main editor of these anthologies was Dean Wesley Smith , though he announced that Strange New Worlds 10 represented his last work on the project.
Co-editors of the series included John J. Ordover , Paula M. Block, and Elisa J. Stories in the book anthologies "can be set in any of the Star Trek time frames and may feature any one or more of the Star Trek characters," according to the submission guidelines, and each anthology included a selection of stories for all of the live-action Star Trek series: The Original Series , Star Trek: The Next Generation , Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , Star Trek: Voyager , and from to Star Trek: In more recent years, each anthology also included a section called "Speculations," containing stories which could not be neatly ascribed to any one of those series.
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Submissions were open only to "nonprofessional writers" which the rules defined as those who had sold no more than two short stories who were residents of the United States excluding Puerto Rico and Canada excluding Quebec over the age of 18 at the time of their submission. The stories themselves were to be original creations no more than words long and not previously published elsewhere.
Writers were permitted to submit more than one story, though required each submission be mailed separately, and no writer could have more than one story published per anthology. Slash fiction was implicitly excluded by prohibiting stories "focusing on explicit sexual activity" or revealing "the hidden passion two characters feel for each other. Other prohibitions included "graphic depictions of violence or sadism" and major changes to the canon , such as "the previously unestablished death of a Star Trek character" or the existence of "a long-lost sibling.