Episode 02: Lika Guhathakurta - Space Visionary

Show Notes: 

• STEREO (Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory) mission: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/stereo/main/index.html
• Living With a Star Program: https://lws.gsfc.nasa.gov/
• Jack Eddy: https://aas.org/obituaries/john-allen-eddy-1931-2009
  • The Jack Eddy Fellowship: https://cpaess.ucar.edu/heliophysics/jack-eddy
• What is Heliophysics? (4:45 & 38:00) https://science.nasa.gov/heliophysics
  • What is a magnetosphere? (41:45) 
    • https://science.nasa.gov/heliophysics/focus-areas/magnetosphere-ionosphere
  • What is an ionosphere? (41:45)  
    • http://solar-center.stanford.edu/SID/activities/ionosphere.html
  • What is space weather?  
    • https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/phenomena
    • My own TED talk on space weather: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOVHUo_qbgc
• Book by Nobel Laureate Dr. Amartya Sen (7:50): The Argumentative Indian (https://www.amazon.com/Argumentative-Indian-Writings-History-Identity/dp/031242602X) 
• NASA Frontier Development Laboratory Artificial Intelligence Program (15:00 & 35:05): https://frontierdevelopmentlab.org/
• Astrophysics (22:30): https://science.nasa.gov/astrophysics
• Lika spoke the following words (24:30): "Once you can talk and relate, nothing else matters.” There is a wonderful TED talk that everyone should listen to on 10 ways to have a better conversation by Celeste Headlee (https://www.ted.com/talks/celeste_headlee_10_ways_to_have_a_better_conversation/discussion) 
• Lopchu Tea - “The single malt of tea" (29:20): https://www.quora.com/What-is-Lopchu-tea
• NCAR - The National Center for Atmospheric Research (33:30): https://ncar.ucar.edu/
• HAO - The High Altitude Observatory (35:30): https://www2.hao.ucar.edu/
• The NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (36:30): https://www.nasa.gov/goddard/
• The Parker Solar Probe Mission (42:40): https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/parker-solar-probe
• LASP - Laboratory for Atmospheric and Solar Physics (43:00): http://lasp.colorado.edu/home/
• Tagore philosopher and Nobel Laureate in literature (46:21):  
  • https://www.scots-tagore.org/philosophy
  • https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Philosophy_of_Rabindranath_Tagore
  • Gitanjali (Song Offerings) book (47:00): https://www.britannica.com/topic/Gitanjali-Song-Offerings
• Lika talks much about the importance of philosophy. For a wonderful podcast on philosophy check out “Philosophize This!”: