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First Aired - 06/28/2010 12:00PM
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This week on The Naturalist Bernie hosted astronomy expert Michael Hamburg for a return to last week's topic: misconceptions and notes of interest concerning the cosmos. Michael explains why stars aren't really white, why the days are getting longer, how a wobbly earth affects us, and how to read by the light of Venus. Tune in for another illuminating journey into space: the final frontier.
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The Naturalist Introduction (21:11)
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dispelling myths, is Bernie an iconoclast?, the true color of stars, most starts are red; NOT white, red dwarfs, squeezing hydrogen into helium, color is an indication of energy, red is the lowest form of energy like glowing embers, blue is the hottest, our eyes are suited best for bright light, you can see color with a telescope, Alberio, Cygnus the Swan, light years, this refers to distance not time, stars are different colors because of their heat, Polaris, The North Store, adaptive optics, telescopes, the sun is an average star, well behaved, pseudo science, junk science, popular media is guilty of keeping myths going, sometimes it would be easier to do the real thing than orchestrate the conspiracy,Michael Hamburg Dispels More Myths (17:11)
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Planet X, nemesis, a creature from mythology that is the original hound from hell, there is no death star, civilization on Mars, 1989, alien invasion, we now have a slightly upgraded view of mars, the face of Mars, Pareidolia, patterns and illusion, constellations are a visual literary device, UFO's, alien visitation, when Bernie was a kid he would read alien stories, Unidentified Flying Object, most UFO's get identified, most UFO's can be explained in normal terms, as a species we want to have neighbors, the Drake equation,More with Michael Hamburg (15:13)
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tides, harmonic convergence, vibrations heralding or creating changes in behavior, religious overtones with no scientific basis, non-traditional religious beliefs, people believing celestial events influence day-to-day life, astrology, Zodiac, a lot of preachers talk about the end of days, Book of Revelations, keep religion and science separate!, The Ecliptic, horoscopes, astrologists are using very old charts, there is no morality in the universe from a scientific standpoint, meteors only fall they never rise, Natural History Museum events, Journey To The Stars,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 06/21/2010 12:00PM
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This week on The Naturalist Bernie spoke to Mike Hamburg, docent at the Natural History Museum and Bernie's resident astronomy expert, about some popular misconceptions people hold about the Earth and the universe.
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The Naturalist Introduction: Misconceptions of Seasons (18:36)
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Bernie Wides, The Naturalist, Mike Hamburg, Fairway Market, Heritage Radio Network, today is the summer solstice, during the solstice the Earth is the furthest from the sun, if the Earth wasn't on an angle we wouldn't have seasons the way we do, the angle is probably because the Earth was hit by something a long time ago, the Earth is not a perfect sphere, misconceptions about seasons, balancing an egg on the vernal equinox, sunlight is made up of many colors, nature of the movement of the universe, shifting colors, predicting earthquakes by looking at clouds?,The Coriolis Effect & Other Misconceptions (17:59)
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Coriolis effect, the coriolis force is a real force, when you witness water spinning down the drain it goes down the drain counter clockwise in the northern hemisphere, the opposite is believed to be true for the southern hemisphere, it's a trick, constellations on the ceiling of Grand Central Terminal, in 1957 the United States displayed a red stone missile in that room, there was a Gibbous Moon last night, some people think the phases of the moon are caused by the Earths shadow, that is not true, lunar eclipse, solar eclipse, The Dark Side of the Moon doesn't exist, the unseen side of the moon, why do we only see one side from Earth?,Moon Myths & Tide Trends (13:00)
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moon coloring, blue moon, due to various particles in the Earths atmosphere, only the sun creates its own light, tides, anybody who lives near the shoreline is familiar with tides, caused by the moons gravity affecting the Earth, the world lunatic comes from lunar, the so called moon illusion, Natural History Museum Events, Night at the Museum, they build a new museum for that movie, great new exhibits, Race to the End of the Earth,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 12/14/2009 12:00PM
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This week on The Naturalist, Bernie Wides continues his discussion on astronomy with fellow Natural History Museum docent Mike Hamburg.
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The Naturalist Introduction (12:36)
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Bernie Wides, The Naturalist, 2001: A Space Odyssey, the Earth is 4.6 billion years old, the solar system formed from the same body of material, life started approximately a billion years after the formation of Earth, conditions used to be very different, there was no breathable oxygen, black smokers, deep sea volcanoes, thermal vents, we don't need direct sunshine, lightning storms, carbon based proteins and enzymes, we need water carbon hydrogen oxygen and nitrogen for life on earth, those are very common elements, out gassing of the cooling earth produced hydrogen and oxygen, the impact of hundreds of thousands of comets, early cooling periods of the earth, comets are frozen water and dust, they create bodies of water, some people believe that life traveled from another origin, viruses, panspermia, transpermia, Gaia hypothesis,Life On Earth (7:34)
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early life on Earth was very simple, when the Earth was 2 billion years old the atmosphere changed drastically, methane, carbon dioxide, little one celled organisms gave off oxygen during photosynthesis, carbon dioxide changed and free oxygen was released, life became more complex, some lifeforms got wiped out by cosmic impacts, life seems to want to be on Earth, evolution, there is not a straight line from bacteria to humans, dinosaurs, Galapagos, Mars, liquid water, Europa, Jupiter, Cambrian explosion, Darwin finches, astronomer, The Museum Of Natural History,Planets & The Night Sky (9:21)
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Hayden Planetarium Space Theater, virtual universe, Tuesday night shows, Celestial Highlights, night sky lecture, meteor showers, planets are bright enough to shine through light pollution, the word planet means wanderer, they wander compared to stars, fixed stars, stars are very far away, Jupiter,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
