Blue Dot

Series produced by North State Public Radio

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Conversations exploring where science and pop culture collide. Hosted by Dave Schlom with audio production by Matt Fidler.

Blue Dot, named after Carl Sagan's famous speech about our place in the universe, features interviews with guests from all over the regional, national and worldwide scientific communities. Host Dave Schlom leads discussions about the issues science is helping us address with experts who shed light on climate change, space exploration, astronomy, technology and much more. Dave asks us to remember: from deep space, we all live on a pale, blue dot.


202 Pieces

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BD - Kim Stanley Robinson and the High Sierra
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Blue Dot
Caption: Kim Stanley Robinson
Bestselling science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson joins Dave to talk about his latest book, a work of non fiction. The High Sierra: a Love St...

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  • Added: Sep 15, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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BD: Marine Biology at Cal Poly Humboldt: plus, what's in a name (change?)
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Blue Dot
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Dave visits with folks from the newly renamed Cal Poly Humboldt about the marine biology programs there. WIth a long tradition of marine sciences t...

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  • Added: Sep 29, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
BD - The Jet Stream and climate change: a conversation with UK scientist Tim Woollings
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Blue Dot
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Dave visits with Oxford University climate scientist Tim Woollings about his book, Jet Stream: a Journey through our Changing Climate. The jet stre...

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  • Added: Oct 20, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
BD - No Boundaries and restoring the Everglades: National Geographic's Clare Fieseler with marine bioengineer Kakani Katija and Orvis Company President Simon Perkins
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Series: Blue Dot
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Dave is joined by Clare Fieseler, the co author of a new National Geographic kids book, No Boundaries: 25 Women Scientists and Explorers share Adve...

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  • Added: Oct 27, 2022
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
BD - America's environmental conscience: a conversation with Bill McKibben
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Series: Blue Dot
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Dave visits with one of the true heroes of environmental activism in the U.S. and the world -- Bill McKibben. His 1989 book, The End of Nature, McK...

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  • Added: Nov 03, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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BD - Wonderdog: a conversation with author Jules Howard on canine science
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Blue Dot
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Dave gets to talk about one of his most favorite things in life: dogs. British Author Jules Howard joins the host of Blue Dot to talk about his lat...

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  • Added: Nov 10, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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BD - Profile of a legend: a look at the career of Voyager Project Scientist Edward C. Stone
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Blue Dot
Caption: Ed Stone
Blue Dot spotlights the amazing career of one of America's greatest space scientists, Ed Stone. Stone was the Project Scientist for the Voyager mis...

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  • Added: Nov 18, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
BD - Artemis Moon Pod Essay Winners!
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Blue Dot
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Dave talks to the three winners, out of 14, 000 entrants for the Young Engineers/NASA Artemis Moon Pod Essay Contest. Austin Pritts, Taia Saurer an...

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  • Added: Nov 23, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
BD - Apollo 17 at 50 Part 1
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Blue Dot
Caption: Night Launch of Apollo 17, December 7, 1972(NASA)
Blue Dot's Apollo@50 series nears its conclusion with part one of our look back at the final lunar mission, Apollo 17. The final of three spectacul...

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  • Added: Dec 08, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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BD - Apollo 17@50 Part 2: the final lunar voyage of the Apollo program
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Blue Dot
Caption: Apollo 17 image of the Earth "The Blue Marble." NASA
We conclude our Apollo@50 series of looks at the Apollo missions to the Moon with looks back and forward. With the recent success of the uncrewed A...

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  • Added: Dec 15, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
BD - Harnessing the power of cold: an interview with Fred Hogge
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Series: Blue Dot
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Dave visits with British born Thailand resident Fred Hogge about his new book, Of Ice and Men: How We've Used Cold to Transform Humanity. In it, Ho...

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  • Added: Dec 22, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
BD - The "Blue Economy" in Fort Bragg, CA (rebroadcast)
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Blue Dot
Caption: Fort Bragg
Blue Dot investigates the concept of the Blue Economy, using ocean resources in a more responsible, sustainable way as being practiced in the small...

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  • Added: Jan 05, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
BD - Between Light and Storm: a conversation with Esther Woolfson
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Series: Blue Dot
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Dave visits with Aberdeen, Scotland based author Esther Woolfson about her book, Between Light and Storm: How We Live with Other Species. A gifted ...

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  • Added: Jan 12, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
BD - Miracle Country: an interview with Eastern Sierra author Kendra Atleework and her father Robert
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Series: Blue Dot
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Dave visits with two very special people. Kendra Atleework is the author of Miracle Country: a Memoir of a Family and a Landscape and her father Ro...

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  • Added: Jan 19, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
BD - Hawks and octopuses! A conversation naturalist/writer Sy Montgomery
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Blue Dot
Caption: Sy Montgomery with Peregrine Falcon Banshee
Dave has a most enjoyable visit with kindred spirit Sy Montgomery. A naturalist, adventurer and accomplished author, Montgomery begins by discussin...

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  • Added: Jan 26, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
BD - Groundwater problems and solutions: from paleo valleys to monitoring the resource from space.
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Blue Dot
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Dave takes us into the fascinating and vitally important world of groundwater science. Journalist and author of the book Water Always Wins introduc...

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  • Added: Feb 02, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
BD - State of the Salmon: A look at the problems facing NorCal's Chinook salmon.
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Blue Dot
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Blue Dot examines the state of the Chinook salmon fishery in Northern California and the west coast from three perspectives. Dave first visits with...

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  • Added: Feb 09, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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BD - Icebergs as a resource: how floating mountains of ice can be harvested for freshwater
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Series: Blue Dot
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We delve into the world of iceberg science and the latest ideas on using them as sources of freshwater for the future as Dave interviews Ohio State...

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  • Added: Feb 16, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
BD - Water Always Wins: a conversation with Erica Gies
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Blue Dot
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Dave visits with environmental journalist Erica Gies about her new book, Water Always WIns: Thriving in an Age of Drought and Deluge. The San Franc...

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  • Added: Feb 23, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
BD - Leonardo da Vinci's gravity experiments: discoveries from Leonardo's notebooks!
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Blue Dot
Caption: Cal Tech reproduction of Leonardo's gravity experiment Courtesy of CalTech
Dave visits with California Institute of Technology Professor of Aeronautics and Medical Engineering, Mory Gharib and Chris Roh from Cornell Univer...

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  • Added: Mar 02, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1

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