Show Guests

January 16, 2007

Tarter, Jill
Bernard M. Oliver Chair and Director of the Center for SETI Research at the SETI Institute
SETI and the Pioneer 10 Placque (3/9/03)
The Gospel According to SETI (5/17/06) .mp3 .wma
The Singularity (11/27/05) .mp3 .wma

Tarvyd, Ed
Professor of Marine Biology and Zoology at Santa Monica College
There's Noah Counting (10/18/06) .mp3 .wma

Theisinger, Peter

Mars Exploration Rover Project Manager

It’s the Red Rover All Over Again. Touchdown: Opportunity (1/25/04) .mp3 .wma

Thomas, Dave

Physicist, mathematician, and CSICOP Fellow

Alien Visitors? (1/11/04) .mp3 .wma

Trent, Jonathan

Microbiologist and nanotechnologist, NASA Ames Research Center

Going to Extremes: Biology in Unlikely Places (2/8/04) .mp3 .wma

Turnbull, Margaret
NASA Astrobiology Institute
(4/21/02)

Turner, Paul
Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
Emerging Viruses (3/27/05) .mp3 .wma

Tyson, Neil de Grasse
The Frederick D. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium, astrophysicist and author
Astronomy Superstar: Neil Tyson (12/12/04) .mp3 .wma

Underdown, James

Center for Inquiry – West and member of CSICOP
Alien Visitation - Closed Mind Encounters? (3/6/05) .mp3    .wma
All Luck is Dumb (4/3/05) .mp3    .wma
The Amazing Randi (9/4/05) .mp3     wma
Creationism in the Classroom (2/6/05) .mp3      .wma
Curses! (6-14-06) .mp3     .wma
Global Warming - Is There Any Room for Doubt? (6/5/05) .mp3      .wma

The Gospel According to SETI (5/17/06) .mp3    .wma
Investigating Paranormal Claims (12/14/03) .mp3     .wma
Media Hype (5/1/05) .mp3     .wma
Meet a Psychic (8/2/06) .mp3       .wma
Psychic Sleuth (3-1-06) .mp3    .wma

Sci Fi and the Fall Lineup (11/6/05) .mp3    .wma
Sleight of Hand (4/5/06) .mp3   .wma
There's Noah Counting (10/18/06) .mp3   .wma
When Seeing is Disbelieving (3/21/04) .mp3      .wma
Why We Love Live Radio (8/7/05) .mp3      wma

Vakoch, Doug

Director, Interstellar Message Composition, SETI Institute
Artificial Intelligence (7/13/03)
Big History (8/24/03)
Interstellar Messaging and Zero Gravity (10/13/02)
Living in Space (7/20/03)
Superhumans (10/30/05) .mp3 .wma

Will the Aliens Speak Math? (8/15/04) .mp3 .wma

Valero, Francisco
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
No Free Launch (6/28/06) .mp3 .wma

Vance, Erik
Fellow, California Magazine
Waking the Giant (10/25/06) .mp3 .wma

Varley, John

Director of the Yellowstone Center for Resources at Yellowstone National Park
The Big Bang, Again and Again? (9/18/05) .mp3 wma

Venter, Craig

President of the Center for the Advancement of Genomics

The Ultimate Genetic Code Book (9/12/04) .mp3 .wma

Vinge, Vernor
Science fiction author and futurist
Robot Uprising (5/3/06) .mp3 .wma
Superhumans (10/30/05) .mp3 .wma

Vyse, Stuart
Chair of the Psychology Department, Connecticut College, and the author of Believing in Magic
All Luck is Dumb (4/3/05) .mp3 .wma

Ward, Peter

Paleontologist at the University of Washington, Seattle, and author of Gorgon: Paleontology, Obsession, and the Greatest Catastrophe in Earth's History

From Microbes to Mensa: What Life is Out There? (1/10/07) .mp3 .wma
Mother of All Extinctions (1/30/05) .mp3 .wma

Warner, Malcolm
Director of the Australian Centre for Astrobiology, Macquarie University
When Life Began (7/19/06) .mp3 .wma

Watt-Cloutier, Sheila
Canadian Inuit Activist and International Chair for Inuit Circumpolar Conference
Waking the Giant (10/25/06) .mp3 .wma

Weber, Art

SETI Institute
New Views on Ooze: How Life Began (2/1/04) .mp3 .wma

Wegryn, Eric
Planetary astronomer from the Cassini Mission
When Life Began (7/19/06) .mp3 .wma

Weinstock, George
Co-director of the Human Genome Sequencing Center in Houston
That Last 2% (12/13/06) .mp3 .wma

Whalen, Paul

Psychologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison

Media Hype (5/1/05) .mp3 .wma

Wilson, Daniel
Author of How to Survive a Robot Uprising
Robot Uprising (5/3/06) .mp3 .wma

Wilson, Ian
Molecular Biologist, Scripps Research Institute
Monsters and Mutations (7/5/06) .mp3 .wma

Wiseman, Richard
Psychologist at the University at Hertfordshire, magician, and author of The Luck Factor
Sleight of Hand (4/5/06) .mp3 .wma

Woit, Peter
Mathematician at Columbia University and author of Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law
How the Universe Measures Up (9/20/06) .mp3 .wma

Wolfson, Richard
Professor of Physics, Middlebury College, and author of Simply Einstein: Relativity Demystified
Einstein's Special Centennial (2/20/05) .mp3 .wma

Woolf, Nick
Professor of Astronomy and the Steward Observatory at the University of Arizona
Life Beyond Earth (4/10/05) .mp3 .wma

Wowk, Brian
Senior Scientist at 21st Century Medicine, Inc.
The Ultimate Chill Out: The Promise of Cryonics (7/31/05) .mp3 wma

Yajnik, Juhi

Intern on Are We Alone?

F Is For Science (5/31/06) .mp3 .wma
Quantum Universe (6/7/06) .mp3 .wma

Yarus, Michael

Professor of Molecular Biology, University of Chicago

New Views on Ooze: How Life Began (2/1/04) .mp3 .wma

Ziurys, Lucy
Professor of chemistry and astronomy (as well as a member of the NASA Astrobiology Institute team) at the University of Arizona and Director of the Arizona Radio Observatory.
Look! Up In the Sky! (5/24/06) .mp3 .wma

Zubrin, Robert
President, Pioneer Astronautics, Board member of the International Mars Society, and author of many books including The Case for Mars and The Holy Land
Panspermia (9/14/03)
Shuttle Showdown (7/24/05) .mp3 wma

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