Convention Chairman Greg Wright and I talk about what you’ll be experiencing at Balticon 42.
Guests of Honor:
Author Connie Willis
Artist John Jude Palencar
Filkers Urban Tapestry
The Compton Crook Award
Special Events
Opening Ceremonies
Concerts: Urban Tapestry, George Hrab
Dramatic Presentation
Stranger Things
Concerts outside the bar on the Hrab Stage
Part 2 - Dr. Michael Shermer reads from and talks about his new book The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics. Mr. Shermer discuss’ how economic and evolutionary theory speak the same language, and how our hardwired human biology affects modern economics.
www.michaelshermer.com Those of you familiar with [...]
This episode is an interview with scientist and skeptic, William T. “Tom” Bridgman.
Tom gave a science talk at Balticon titled: “The Cosmos In Your Pocket: How Cosmic science became Earth Technology”
In his day job Tom does data visualization at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Basically this means he makes movies for NASA. You may have [...]
Dr. John Cmarr and Laura Burns
He’s an infectious disease specialist and MD. She’s a rocket scientist. Together they’re The Power Couple of Science
Laura works on the James Webb Space Telescope: launching 2013
Our opinions are our own
From an intellectual perspective, infectious diseases are cool
Laura doesn’t want John to bring his work home
She can’t bring her work [...]
Dr. Mario Livio explains things so well and so completely, I’m speechless! It’s amazing to me how many times in this short interview he blows my mind. Science, made popular, is the most amazing thing.
Dr. Livio speaks about his latest book The Equation that Couldn’t Be Solved and the genius of Evariste Galois, dead at [...]
Dr. Michael Cranfield is a veterinarian from The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore. He works with Mountain Gorillas at the zoo and in Africa. He also works with African Blackfooted Penguin. His main work is with the Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project (MGVP). The MGVP take a wholistic health approach to medicine. They help to make sure [...]
Scientist and inventor Dr. Robert Fischell talks about the medical devices he has invented and how they are changing lives.
Recorded live at Balticon 40.
Inventer of several medical devices.
Invented an internal insulin pump for diabetics so they could be normal
Diabetes runs in his family.
The pump is placed in the abdomen
Recorded at:
The Maryland Regional Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention
Balticon 39: May 27 - 30, 2005
with Paul Fischer
Balticon 39 Interview with author and Executive Director of the SETI League Paul Shuch a.k.a. Dr. SETI.
From Sunday, May 29, 2005
Cheif Technology Officer of a High Tech startup doing Govt contracts
Shortest retirement ever
I owed Paul a call, and got [...]
Recorded at:
The Maryland Regional Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention
Balticon 39: May 27 - 30, 2005
with Paul Fischer
Balticon 39 Interview with author and Astrophysicist Yoji Kondo a.k.a. Eric Kotani
From Sunday, May 29, 2005
Read more about Yoji’s personal and professional life, and his Kepler project.
This was a “no edit” podcast
We talk about politics, political parties, and true [...]
Recorded at:
The Maryland Regional Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention
Balticon 39: May 27 - 30, 2005
with Paul Fischer
Balticon 39 Interview with Dr. Charles Gannon
From May 28, 2005
We discuss the need for getting release forms for TV, self publishing, and Podcasting.
We talk about the audio equipment used to record the interviews. I recorded the Podcasting panel with [...]
Recorded at:
The Maryland Regional Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention
Balticon 39: May 27 - 30, 2005
with Paul Fischer
Balticon 39 Interview and Concert with Filk Guest of Honor, Jordin Kare
From May 28, 2005
Jordin Kare - Jordin Kare Laser Launch Bibliography
Jordin has been doing music since the 1970’s
Best know for “Fire in the Sky” which was quoted by [...]
DIGG Science Feed
