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The Universe #21: Stay High!

Thu, 05 Sep 2013 23:08:16 GMT

The Universe #20: Oh, Confidence!

Sun, 24 Feb 2013 15:30:12 GMT

The Universe #19: Reaching For My Marshmallow Mateys

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 14:53:35 GMT

The Universe #18: The World Didn’t End

Mon, 31 Dec 2012 01:05:21 GMT

The Universe #17: Earth Is Like A Big Nice McMansion

Sat, 29 Sep 2012 11:12:34 GMT

The Universe #16: Area of Effect Coffee

Sun, 23 Sep 2012 19:56:16 GMT

The Universe #15: Gravitational Slingshotting

Fri, 24 Aug 2012 01:30:49 GMT

The Universe #14: I Can't Grow Facial Hair

Sun, 05 Aug 2012 20:23:58 GMT

The Universe #13: Recursive Balloons

Sat, 30 Jun 2012 13:25:50 GMT

The Universe #12: The Dark Side Of The Sun

Sun, 24 Jun 2012 23:03:09 GMT

Ryan Rampersad is joined by Matthew Petschl and just in time, Ian Buck. On this rare occasion, we discuss the science news, Kepler's planetary discovery, how the Japanese are growing The Flood, the heliopause among other voyages, girls and science and more!

The Universe #11: Using Bare Eyes

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 02:27:05 GMT

Sam Ebertz and Ryan Rampersad discuss the being a know-it-all, or just having answer syndrome, a lot of water pretty far away, fish radiation, the olympic molecule, a runaway black hole and so much more!

And a huge happy birthday to Sam Ebertz!

The Universe #10: Low Chance of Mutiny

Sun, 27 May 2012 09:38:58 GMT

Sam Ebertz announces his huge travel plans with Ryan Rampersad, and then discuss the solar eclipse and SpaceX aftermath, some special videos, spacial speculation, a rant on values and some fun fantasy.

And a special happy birthday to Sam's dad!

The Universe #9: A New Era

Sun, 20 May 2012 02:20:16 GMT

Ryan Rampersad returns to The Universe with host Sam Ebertz to discuss books releases gone rampant, pop scientists, new computing paradigms, silly headlines, the annular solar eclipse, the universe within a black hole, free university courses and so much more!

The Universe #8: By Accident In The Name Of Science

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 20:24:19 GMT

This week, Sam Ebertz and Ryan Rampersad, along with guest Matthew Petschl, discuss the lost chance to see a great meteor shower, a professor beating the law with physics, what it means to be a 100-megaton bomb, Shuttle Discovery's final flight, an impressive new future for space exploration from Planetary Resources, and more!

The Universe #7: Quantum Pop

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 02:51:26 GMT

Sam Ebertz returns from the abyss with Ryan Rampersad to discuss some good reading materials, a star emitting dust, the most powerful infra-red telescope ever, the darker side of the moon, an homage to Yuri's night, mars' missing water, along with good videos of spy satellites, rants on multidimensional quandaries, dark matter not mattering in your body, and film preview, a little bit of magic and more!

The Universe #6: How Much Would You Pay For The Universe?

Sat, 24 Mar 2012 22:04:46 GMT

Sam Ebertz and Ryan Rampersad discuss Angry Birds in Space, Sam's spring break vacation that makes everyone jealous, fantastic pictures, the Hunger Games audio-books and movie, and the science news, NASA's not-so-spying-spy, a robotic jellyfish, Einstein's paper collection and its digitization, a misleading title, a video, How much would you pay for the universe? from Neil deGrasse Tyson, and more!

The Universe #5: An Organ Builder

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:19:21 GMT

This week Sam Ebertz and Ryan Rampersad talk a little about encryption and the lack thereof at NASA, a huge chunk of Dark Matter floating in space, an Elegant Penguin, a new video from the hacked NASA with a Transformer as the narrator, the political climate that's holding science and everything else back and more! Enjoy this episode's new and improved shorter length!

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RSA (algorithm)

Elliptic curve cryptography

Electric current

ROOT

Dark matter blob confounds experts

Gravitational lens

NASA says it was hacked 13 times last year

Scientists reconstruct elegant giant penguin that lived in New Zealand 26 million years ago

Earthshine Helps in Search for Life on Other Worlds

We Are the Explorers

Peter Cullen

The Universe #4: Who Would Cut Off Their Arm?

Sat, 25 Feb 2012 22:34:29 GMT

This week, Sam Ebertz and Ryan Rampersad talk about the huge black hole winds, the buckyball factory, the Euclidean Algorithm that is used in RSA, and argue about base unit consistency, the nature of units and their fractional sizes, on the interchange between mass and electron volts, and more!

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And if you want to know Ryan desires rightness in his numbers, read about Tau.

The Universe #3: Science for Americans

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 06:41:46 GMT

This week, Sam Ebertz and Ryan Rampersad have specual guest, Matthew Petschl, the pyro-technician extraordinaire and discuss continued NASA news, DNA robots, Fermilab sigma-results, the mysterious hypernucleus, ice melt, a fantastic discussion on exo-planet discoveries leading to verifiable inputs for Drake's equation and more!

Hosts

Sam Ebertz & Ryan Rampersad

Guests

Matthew Petschl

Links

This episode was possibly brought to you by Matches from Diamond! Sorry for the editing; lots of quiet moments in the show for live research.

The Universe #2: Competition We're Afraid Of

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 23:32:09 GMT

A few days late, but this week astrophysicist Sam and Ryan emerge from the stars to talk about WolframAlpha going pro, Milky Way's twin and a perpendicular deep-space probe, the size of the solar system and the galaxy, NASA looking for a taxi, more on the value of another moon landing, huge budget cuts everywhere, the fabled P=NP problem, and more!

Hosts

Ryan Rampersad & Sam Ebertz.

The Universe #1: Spark A Revolution

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:46:59 GMT

Welcome to The Universe! Sam Ebertz, amateur quantum machinist and astrophysicist is the host. In this first episode, we talk about humans being able to do the impossible, the potentials uses and possibility of mind reading and converting brain signals back into sound and imagery, and NASA problem. Please pardon some intermittent Skype audio trouble.

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