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How do astronomers photograph a black hole? How often do planes get hit by lightning? What does the EPA actually do? Science is all around us and transforming our world at a rapid pace. Extragalactic astrophysicist Sabrina Stierwalt is here to guide you through it. She'll help you make sense of the everyday and the once-in-a-lifetime. Rights of Albert Einstein are used with permission of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Represented exclusively by Greenlight.

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  • The Age Of Resilience
    Jun 20 2026

    Encore Episode: This episode originally aired in October of 2022.


    The viruses keep coming, the climate is warming, and the Earth is rewilding. Our human family has no playbook to address the mayhem unfolding around us. If there is a change to reckon with, argues the renowned economic and social theorist Jeremy Rifkin, it’s that we are beginning to realize that the human race never had dominion over the Earth and that nature is far more formidable than we thought, while our species seems much smaller and less significant in the bigger picture of life on Earth, undermining our long-cherished worldview. The Age of Progress, once considered sacrosanct, is on a deathwatch while a powerful new narrative, the Age of Resilience, is ascending.


    At a moment when the human family is deeply despairing of the future, Rifkin gives us a window into a promising new world and a radically different future that can bring us back into nature’s fold, giving life a second chance to flourish on Earth.


    Purchase The Age of Resilience at Amazon, Audible, Bookshop.org, or your favorite bookstore.


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    22 mins
  • Could we have domesticated a T-Rex?
    Jun 13 2026

    Hello, Ask Science listeners! Enjoy this episode of Curious State, another podcast from Quick and Dirty Tips.


    Encore Episode: This episode originally aired in April of 2022.


    Could we have domesticated a T-Rex? Is the mafia really that violent? Haven't all the possible songs been written by now? Unexpected gems of knowledge are hidden all around us. Let’s dig them up, one offbeat question at a time.

    A few of the curiosities you’ll uncover in this episode:

    • The 3 questions to ask yourself before domesticating a T-Rex
    • How much it would cost to feed a T-Rex over its lifetime
    • What a T-Rex’s personality might have been like
    • Could we have made a teacup T-Rex? *fingers crossed*


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    16 mins
  • The Age Of Resilience
    Nov 1 2022

    The viruses keep coming, the climate is warming, and the Earth is rewilding. Our human family has no playbook to address the mayhem unfolding around us. If there is a change to reckon with, argues the renowned economic and social theorist Jeremy Rifkin, it’s that we are beginning to realize that the human race never had dominion over the Earth and that nature is far more formidable than we thought, while our species seems much smaller and less significant in the bigger picture of life on Earth, undermining our long-cherished worldview. The Age of Progress, once considered sacrosanct, is on a deathwatch while a powerful new narrative, the Age of Resilience, is ascending.

    At a moment when the human family is deeply despairing of the future, Rifkin gives us a window into a promising new world and a radically different future that can bring us back into nature’s fold, giving life a second chance to flourish on Earth.

    Purchase The Age of Resilience at Amazon, Audible, Bookshop.org, or your favorite bookstore.

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    22 mins
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