Software Engineering Radio - The Podcast for Professional Software Developers. SCIENCE-BASED PARENTING. Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 14: The Four Principles of Puppetry, with Mary Robinette Kowal. Aside from being a delightful author and a Campbell award winner, Mary Robinette Kowal is a professional puppeteer. She joined us at WorldCon 67 in Montreal, and totally schooled us in front of a live audience. I mean it. TOTALLY SCHOOLED. If you want to learn something new about writing, and I mean something really NEW you need to listen to Mary talk about puppetry. You can’t see the perpetual looks of astonishment and epiphany us jaded professionals wore during this recording, but I assure you they were there. We learned so much from Mary we decided to record two more episodes with her. Not because we felt like you, our listeners, necessarily deserved it.
Mary required us to share. This entry was posted on Sunday, August 30th, 2009 at 9:44 pm and is filed under Guest, Live, Writing Prompt. Financial News, Economic Education, Analysis & Data - FinancialSense.com. Financial Sense Newshour with Jim Puplava. No Agenda Podcast. Blueshift: The Astrophysics Science Division Podcast. February 11, 2014 at 11:27 am We have an extra-special guest blog today! Nick Howes, astronomer at the Kielder Observatory in the UK, collaborator on a range of NASA programs and Pro-Am Programme Manager for the Faulkes Telescope Project, explains the significance of the new supernova detected in nearby galaxy Messier 82.
Stars have a life cycle; they form from vast clouds of dust over millions and millions of years, eventually igniting into the nuclear furnaces that light up our skies at night. Our own Sun, which formed around 4.5 or so billion years ago, is a good example of an average sized main-sequence star, which, when it runs out of its nuclear fuels in around another 4+ billion years or so, will eventually expand outwards in to a red giant star.
It will engulf possibly even the orbit of our Earth, devouring Mercury and Venus before eventually leaving behind a beautiful shell known as a planetary nebula, and the remnants of its former life in the form of a white hot dwarf star.