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Learn Romanian with Free Podcasts Whether you are student or a seasoned speaker, our lessons offer something for everyone. We incorporate culture and current issues into each episode to give the most informative, both linguistically and culturally, podcasts possible. For those of you with just the plane ride to prepare, check our survival phrase series at RomanianPod101.com. One of these phrases just might turn your trip into the best one ever!
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Sound of Astronomy

Society for Popular Astronomy

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The SPA was founded in 1953 as the Junior Astronomical Society, and has been helping beginners to astronomy ever since. Visit our website to find out more: www.popastro.com
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Science Cliff Notes is your go-to podcast for breaking down the latest scientific research into easy-to-understand, bite-sized episodes. In just 10-15 minutes, we simplify complex topics from physics, biology, astronomy, and more, so you can stay informed without the jargon. Perfect for curious minds looking for a quick, clear dive into today's cutting-edge science.
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On "Science Cliff Notes," we discuss Quanta Magazine's article "Even a Single Bacterial Cell Can Sense the Seasons Changing" by Elizabeth Landau. This episode covers groundbreaking research showing that cyanobacteria, single-celled organisms, can sense and adapt to seasonal changes by adjusting their physiology. This discovery suggests that the abi…
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Welcome to Science Cliff Notes! In this episode, we’re diving into an exciting discovery covered in Popular Science by Lauren Leffer. Her article, "World’s Oldest Cheese Found in Necklaces on Mummies in China," explores how archaeologists have unearthed the world’s oldest known cheese, dating back around 3,500 years. This ancient cheese, discovered…
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In which we learn about ESA's planned Lagrange mission to send a spacecraft to monitor the Sun's activity so as to give us warning of potentially threatening spaceweather events; why laser beams shine over Sussex skies; how the Royal Astronomical Society will celebrate its 200th anniversary in 2020; and how to observe meteor showers, particularly t…
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We hear how a new European space mission will explore exoplanets remotely, and find out what the ExoMars satellite is hoping to discover about life on Mars. There are strange results from the GAIA survey of a billion stars in the Milky Way, so what could be the reason? And we look at the prospects for the total lunar eclipse of 27 July 2018, which …
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The latest in a series of astronomy magazines in sound that began in 1966 for three episodes and was resumed in 2018 after a gap. In this issue, we find out what professional astronomers are interested in planetary photos from amateurs, how to observe from a city, what the 'Soniverse' sounds like, and why the man who sent a space probe to Pluto bel…
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This episode is the beginning of what I hope to be a graduated lesson plan of how to begin looking up into the night-sky with more confidence and knowledge! It is created by researching many sources, largely the book Star Watch by Philip S. Harrington that Mark Anderson from the Fort Wayne Astronomical Society recommended in our previous episode.Th…
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Star*Quest Radio is a space podcast produced in collaboration with the Fort Wayne Astronomical Society, that aims to inspire people to look up at their local night-sky with a new understanding.This episode is about humans colonizing Mars and the obstacles that future astronauts will have to face while inhabiting the red planet. I talk with Tirthak …
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Star*Quest Radio is a space podcast produced in collaboration with the Fort Wayne Astronomical Society, that aims to inspire people to look up at their local night-sky with a new understanding.This episode is about Halloween's history and how it is directly tied to the night sky. We also cover upcoming observations you can make in this midwest regi…
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Star*Quest Radio is a space podcast produced in collaboration with the Fort Wayne Astronomical Society, that aims to inspire people to look up at their local night-sky with a new understanding. This first episode is being released the night before Cassini takes its final plunge into Saturn's surface, so we decided to use it to deliver an overview o…
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