Obcast - Near-Earth Object
With each episode, Paul Fidalgo of the website Near-Earth Object (http://nearearthobject.net) engages in deep discussion with all manner of interesting and smart people who may or may not be famous. Yet.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 86 minutes
- Episodes
- 12
- Years Active
- 2013
Episode 11: Chuck Caruso - A Nomadic Actor with Strong Roots
Chuck Caruso was a hero of mine when I was a young actor in college, and he remains so today, for many reasons. He’s managed to make a meaningful and dynamic career of musical theatre performance, an…
01:31:34 |
Fri 15 Nov 2013
Episode 10: Apple and the Church of Whizbang, with Chris Sawyer and Matt Licata
On October 22, Apple held another big product-unveiling event, with new iPads as the main attraction, but also a lot of news about OS X, iWork, and other aspects of Apple’s arsenal. It raised myriad …
01:35:50 |
Mon 28 Oct 2013
Episode 9: "Transformers: The Movie" Discussion with Matt Licata and Ryan Koronowski
My little 8-year-old world was changed forever when I saw the behemoth mechanical beings that I loved so dearly, loudly and violently portrayed on the big screen in all their glory. Transformers: The…
02:00:57 |
Mon 14 Oct 2013
Episode 8: Lauren Milberger - How I Met My Genre
I last saw Lauren in person about 12 years ago when we were both students at the Actors Studio Drama School in New York. She stayed, I didn't. Already brilliant and funny when I knew her then, she's…
01:22:24 |
Sun 06 Oct 2013
Episode 7: Peggy Revell - Training Yourself to Tell Stories
If you take nothing else away from this episode of the Obcast with Canadian journalist Peggy Revell, let it be that it takes time and training to learn how to tell a story. A politics and writing ent…
01:02:00 |
Tue 24 Sep 2013
Episode 6: Chris Sawyer - On Being More Than Just That Weird Guy on Twitter
Chris Sawyer has a regular job in which he helps people who are languishing in unemployment. He is a conscientious and loving dad. He's also a hypernerd who talks about washing his "fat parts" on Twi…
01:21:25 |
Wed 11 Sep 2013
Episode 5: Catherine Dunphy - Escaping from Religion, Lighting a Path for Others
Catherine Dunphy might have been a nun. Luckily for the world, as she asked tough questions and opened her eyes to the dark machinery of institutional Catholicism, Catherine cast her faith aside. Now…
01:27:57 |
Fri 06 Sep 2013
Episode 4: Ken Kennedy - Recovering from Libertarianism and the Crypto Wars
Who on Earth has an encyclopedic understanding of 1990s crypto-wars, knows what it is to look into the terrifying face of the Republican primary electorate, and can tell you which open source databas…
01:21:46 |
Tue 27 Aug 2013
Episode 3: Kylie Sturgess - Being a Conduit for Science, Despite the Zombies and Judgmental Fish
Skyping in from the other side of the planet, Kylie Sturgess is a nop-notch podcaster who uses her media platform to help us get to know various figures in science and skepticism. Rarely, however, d…
01:08:07 |
Mon 19 Aug 2013
Episode 2: Ryan Koronowski - Progressive Politics, Good Books, and the Never-Ending Job Interview
Ryan Koronowski is deputy editor of Climate Progress at the Center for American Progress, and for a young guy he's had a long and grueling career in liberal politics (including time with me on the Hi…
01:06:29 |
Wed 14 Aug 2013
Episode 1: Gia Mora - Loving Science, Living on the Stage
Super-performer Gia Mora joins me for the first "official" episode of the Obcast. Gia is an actor, singer, model, writer, educator, and science communicator, now touring an original one-woman show, E…
01:36:48 |
Tue 06 Aug 2013
Episode 0: Matt Licata - Design, Glasses, and How Stuff Should Work
For our zeroth episode, our beta-test edition, I'm joined by Matt Licata. We talk about glasses, web design, how stuff should work, and preview an upcoming epic discussion of Transformers: The Movie…
01:37:47 |
Fri 02 Aug 2013
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