Episodes

  • Who Imagines/Builds/Tests the Museum's Exhibits?
    Jul 8 2024

    Mike Horvath, the Director of Exhibits at the Museum of Science, details the process of imagining and creating an exhibit and how it can lead to wearing a wookiee costume on the mound at Fenway Park.

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    12 mins
  • What Should I Do with My Extra Eclipse Glasses?
    May 13 2024

    We chat about all of the options that you have for keeping, donating, or recycling eclipse glasses after April's total solar eclipse.

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    8 mins
  • When Is the Next Eclipse? 2024-2026 Edition
    May 6 2024

    With the Great American Eclipse of 2024 in the rear view mirror, we look ahead to the next three years of solar and lunar eclipses visible from Boston and around the globe.

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    23 mins
  • How Do You Tag a Great White Shark? What Does The Tag Tell Us?
    Apr 29 2024

    Dr. Greg Skomal, a shark expert with the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries, discusses the incredible data that shark tags can give us as well as the process of finding and tagging great white sharks off of Cape Cod.

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    17 mins
  • What Dinosaurs Lived in New England?
    Apr 16 2024

    Our triceratops fossil, Cliff, did not live in New England. So what kind of dinosaurs did? We ask two local experts, Mark Agostini and Dr. Mark McMenamin, to tell us what fossils have been recovered from our own backyard.

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    14 mins
  • What Is It Like to Experience a Total Solar Eclipse?
    Feb 29 2024

    With a total solar eclipse coming up on April 8th, 2024, we ask planetarium educator Talia what it feels like to actually witness the moon totally blocking the sun.

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    8 mins
  • How Was the Hubble Telescope Fixed?
    Dec 20 2023

    We celebrate the 30th anniversary of a daring Space Shuttle mission that fixed the Hubble Space Telescope by chatting about the experience with astronaut Jeff Hoffman.

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    10 mins
  • What Kind of Space Research Happens Here in Massachusetts?
    Nov 13 2023

    Dr. Supriya Chakrabarti, the Director of UMass Lowell's Center for Space Science and Technology, explains some of the exciting space research and engineering that is happening right here in our backyard.

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    13 mins