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These Vibes are Too Cosmic

Jul 6, 2022 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

With DJ AskTheQuestion

Declassify Your Minerals!!

Tell the people what you know!

These Vibes are Too Cosmic
10:00 AM
Ghulam Ali Qawwal & Party - Diwana main diwana
Ghulam Ali Qawwal & Party Diwana main diwana
Troubadours of Allah: Sufi Music from the Indus Valley V/A Wergo 1999
Pakistan
10:08 AM
Set Break: Intro to the show: We Are All Interconnected
10:10 AM
Betty Davis - Don't Call Her No Tramp
Betty Davis Don't Call Her No Tramp Betty Davis
They Say I'm Different Just Sunshine 1974
10:14 AM
Tuxedo Gleam - Object of Desire
Tuxedo Gleam Object of Desire
Planete Hurlante V/A Lentonia 2015
10:18 AM
Ani Klang - A Giant Mesz
Ani Klang A Giant Mesz N
Ani Klang New Scenery 2022
10:21 AM
Set Break: ​​What happens to other diseases as we come back from the pandemic?
Kristen Nelson and Ben Lopman, Emory University

Depends a lot on severity vs age
Small changes in behavior can change R and have big impact
Some diseases can go extinct if R is small enough for long enough; others have an advantage if they don't require person-to-person contact
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abp9316

The Flu Vanished During Covid. What Will Its Return Look Like? - The New  York Times

10:31 AM
Quix*O*Tic - Sitting in the Park
Quix*O*Tic Sitting in the Park
Mortal Mirror Kill Rock Stars 2002
10:34 AM
Annie Hayden - Wood and Glue
Annie Hayden Wood and Glue Annie Hayden
The Rub Merge Records 2001
10:37 AM
Sagan - Closest Living Relations
Sagan Closest Living Relations Sagan
Unseen Forces Vague Terrain / bLeakhouse 2009
10:44 AM
Set Break: Our visual neurons are tuned toward what helps us survive

Bird neurons have huge variety, can be fast or slow depending on species

Optical flow varies a lot! Hummingbirds like things that move real fast

10:54 AM
Desmond Dekker - You Can Get It If You Really Want
Desmond Dekker You Can Get It If You Really Want Desmond Dekker
Twenty Golden Pieces of Desmond Dekker Bulldog 1987
10:57 AM
Rhythm & Sound - Best Friend (with Love Joy)
Rhythm & Sound Best Friend (with Love Joy)
Rhythm & Sound w/the Artists Burial Mix 2003
11:04 AM
Hilkka - Multi Meat Eater
Hilkka Multi Meat Eater
The Beautiful Aesthetician Carbon Records 1999
11:06 AM
Rara Machine - Badè
Rara Machine Badè Bade
Rhythms of Rapture: Sacred Musics of Haitian Vodou V/A Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 1995
11:08 AM
Set Break: Fast Radio Bursts: Why do random, millisecond-long flashes of radio light happen in space 800 times a day?

Now we can see more than a moon-area at once by using digital processing at CHIME

The CHIME radio telescope array, pictured here, detected 535 fast radio bursts in its first year of operation.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/09/world/fast-radio-bursts-chime-scn/index.html
Maybe related to Magnetars and quantum electrodynamic pair plasmas

https://www.pppl.gov/news/2022/unraveling-perplexi...

11:18 AM
The Science Fiction Corporation - Hit Parade in the Light Year 25
The Science Fiction Corporation Hit Parade in the Light Year 25 The Science Fiction Corporation
Science Fiction Dance Party Finders Keepers Records 2009
11:20 AM
Bigg Ocean Mobb - Brothers in a Coupe Ride
Bigg Ocean Mobb Brothers in a Coupe Ride
Wrangler Tuff RCA 1990
11:23 AM
Tomato Flower - Aparecida
Tomato Flower Aparecida Tomato Flower N
Construction - EP Ramp Local 2022
11:25 AM
Glenn Lee - Joyful Sounds
Glenn Lee Joyful Sounds
Sacred Steel: Traditional Sacred African-American Steel Guitar Music in Florida V/A Arhoolie Records 1997
11:29 AM
Set Break: ​Tracing the correlation between eviction and HIV positivity

Allison Groves (Drexel University), Soc. Sci. Med. 305, 115030 (2022).

One major causal link: intimate partner violence
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953622003367
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.add6857

Evicted - By Matthew Desmond : Target


11:38 AM
Guerilla Toss - Moth Like Me
Guerilla Toss Moth Like Me Guerilla Toss
What Would the Odd Do? - EP NNA Tapes 2019
11:41 AM
Buddy Guy - I Cry and Sing the Blues
Buddy Guy I Cry and Sing the Blues Buddy Guy
The Chess 50th Anniversary Collection: Buddy's Blues Geffen* 1997
11:45 AM
Set Break: Try classifying minerals NOT by makeup, but by origin, and what can you learn?

Robert Hazen at Carnegie Institute of Science
What minerals could be made on the newborn earth?
If some combination of minerals exists on a planet, can we pin down the events that have happened there?
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/earth-mineral-kingdom-classification-crystal-search-life

Minerals in Traditional Ceramics

11:54 AM
Zazou Bikaye and Cyl - M'pamba
Zazou Bikaye and Cyl M'pamba
Noir et Blanc Crammed Discs 1983
11:56 AM
Grief - I Won't Come Back
Grief I Won't Come Back
... And Man Will Become the Hunted Pessimer 2002
11:57 AM
Set Break: The annulment of Roe v Wade impacts science a lot!
Chat is archived.
Brian (host) 10:01:09 AM
Denizens unite! <3
GueloLove 10:13:33 AM
<3 Unite! Playing the heat so far! Hi
Brian (host) 10:15:30 AM
Hot inside hot outside hot in the radio frequencies!
ROFFLESTOMP 10:25:11 AM
If it wasn't for science we would not have all these diseases & conditions. :) Just sayin'
ROFFLESTOMP 10:26:18 AM
Humidity is getting bad. Just was out side. arg...
ROFFLESTOMP 10:31:24 AM
Interesting how how masking and distancing put the kibosh on the yearly flu.
Brian (host) 10:33:05 AM
Science lets us know what is out there! So yes, we wouldn't have names for all the magical curses ailing us if we couldn't sequence their DNA so nicely
Brian (host) 10:33:18 AM
Lower R a bit and boom, exponential decay!
ROFFLESTOMP 10:35:32 AM
I hear that. My girlfriend was a genetic engineer at UPENN for a few years. I must say I am not fearful of it these days. But anything can be a weapon. Sad.
ROFFLESTOMP 10:37:14 AM
Decay at CERN was a thing this weekend!
Brian (host) 10:41:06 AM
Fundamental understanding can be surprisingly morally agnostic. but I think in the scope of history learning is a net good!
ROFFLESTOMP 10:42:46 AM
Agreed, it putting it's the all together. That is a timeless task with an extreem future ahead of it if we are lucky. :)
ROFFLESTOMP 10:45:53 AM
Declassify Your Minerals is so trespassing on Area 51. Cool.
ROFFLESTOMP 10:52:10 AM
I so wanted the job aligning and servicing the Interferometer on the Forestall Campus Tokamak.Missed the open window a few years back. Would have loved that.
ROFFLESTOMP 10:55:08 AM
Some people can fell 60 htz. Hummingbirds are amazing on another level. Whales and dolphins too.
ROFFLESTOMP 10:56:07 AM
Pardon my blabbing.
ROFFLESTOMP 10:56:59 AM
Love science. Nice to see a focus.
Brian D 10:57:25 AM
Cool to hear the Desmond version. Love the Jimmy Cliff too. So similar both approaches
Brian (host) 10:58:16 AM
Blabbing is 100% welcome here! Science is all encompassing
Brian (host) 10:58:34 AM
We'll declassify our minerals soon enough but let's do fast radio bursts next because Brian is here!
ROFFLESTOMP 10:59:56 AM
More up stroke reggae! I really think Brian D should be Brain D sometimes. :)
Brian (host) 11:00:08 AM
The Forrestal Tokamak is in a bit of a rough patch, the interferometer always measures density zero these days :'(
ROFFLESTOMP 11:02:43 AM
Holy shit! You get that! Wow! It's just fast. Pressure and speed. They don't get on well.
ROFFLESTOMP 11:04:16 AM
Turn it on again. :)
GueloLove 11:04:35 AM
DUB
ROFFLESTOMP 11:16:26 AM
Okay, fast radio bursts. Supernova and Galactic Lasers thru galactic lensing give me the creeps.
Krista 11:16:52 AM
A still more glorious dawn awaits
Krista 11:17:22 AM
Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise. Love hearing this.
ROFFLESTOMP 11:17:47 AM
@Krista - I wanna ticket onboard your space ship.
ROFFLESTOMP 11:18:17 AM
This spaceship is fine for now though.
Brian (host) 11:23:32 AM
All the dawns are glorious! And the parts we see, the nice purples and oranges in the clouds, are obscuring a whole lot more!
ROFFLESTOMP 11:25:36 AM
It's volcanism or Beijing, but it it lovely.
ROFFLESTOMP 11:25:58 AM
*is*
ROFFLESTOMP 11:36:03 AM
Thanks DJ AskTheQuestion, appreciate the science focus. Glad to hear the recognition of the troubles. It's insane in this over the top rich nation that anyone is on the streets. We can do so very much better.
ROFFLESTOMP 11:37:19 AM
Gotta go, but thanks much. Laterly.
Brian (host) 11:38:44 AM
It's been a pleasure, Rofflestomp! Thank you for joining and commenting, it means a lot.
Tomi Tyrrell 11:50:00 AM
SCIENCE
DSM 11:52:21 AM
Great show today Brian! Thanks so much for all the knowledge, love this show.
Brian (host) 11:54:56 AM
Thanks Tomi and DSM :) Glad to have you listening!
Tomi Tyrrell 11:56:05 AM
Brian, do you cover math topics or do you focus on hard sciences?
Brian (host) 11:56:30 AM
I love it all! Do you have a math topic in mind?
Tomi Tyrrell 11:57:28 AM
Well the Fields Medal was just awarded in 4 areas of mathematics
Tomi Tyrrell 11:57:45 AM
I'm biased towards number theory but I'm open
Li Maria 11:59:30 AM
Thanks for all the cool info and music, DJ ATQ!
Brian (host) 12:00:59 PM
You're right! I considered talking about those field medalists but there's always a lot to consider
Brian (host) 12:01:16 PM
Thanks to everyone for listening! I got just slightly cut off but I promise you didn't miss much
Brian (host) 12:01:22 PM
Enjoy the rest of your Wednesdays!