Episodi

  • Blue Dot: The "earthquake gate" in Southern California between the San Andreas and San Jacinto faults
    Jul 10 2026
    Host Dave Schlom is joined by Liliane Burkhard, a geophysicist and planetary scientist at the University of Bern in Switzerland, to discuss a recent study linking earthquakes on two of Southern California's major faults.
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    50 min
  • Blue Dot: The Big One times two? The link between Cascadia and the San Andreas Fault with Chris Goldfinger
    Aug 14 2026
    Host Dave Schlom is joined by Oregon State marine geologist Chris Goldfinger to take an in-depth look at the West Coast's two most dangerous faults, the San Andreas and Cascadia.
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    52 min
  • Blue Dot: All things El Niño with NASA's Josh Willis
    Aug 28 2026
    Host Dave Schlom is joined by a longtime friend of Blue Dot, Josh Willis from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. Josh is an oceanographer who uses NASA's armada of Earth monitoring satellites to study ocean heights, temperatures and currents.
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    52 min
  • Blue Dot: A new look at Freud and neuroscience with Dr. Mark Solms
    Sep 4 2026
    Host Dave Schlom is joined by world renowned neuropsychologist and psychoanalyst Mark Solms. Dr. Solms is the author of the new book, The Only Cure: Freud and the Science of Mental Healing.
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    52 min
  • Best of Blue Dot: Understanding the basic science of spaceflight with Trisha Muro
    Sep 11 2026
    Host Dave Schlom is joined by science educator and author Trisha Muro to discuss her book, It's (Just) Rocket Science: Exploring Physics Through Spaceflight Missions.
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    58 min
  • Best of Blue Dot: The International Geophysical Year 1957-58 with Mark O'Connell
    Sep 18 2026
    Host Dave Schlom is joined by Mark O'Connell, whose screenwriting credits include Star Trek: The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine, to talk about his non-fiction book, The Year Science Changed Everything: 1957's International Geophysical Year and the Future of Our Planet.
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    52 min
  • Best of Blue Dot: California's wild and scenic Eel River and California Fly Fisher magazine
    Oct 2 2026
    Host Dave Schlom is joined by Charles Schneider, a Connectivity Program Manager for California Trout, to discuss the human and natural history of California's third-largest watershed, the Eel River.
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    52 min
  • Blue Dot: Can the human body survive the long trip to Mars?
    Oct 9 2026
    Host Dave Schlom is joined by Mark Shelhamer, former Chief Scientist of the Human Research Program at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston and current director of the Johns Hopkins Human Spaceflight Laboratory in Maryland.
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    52 min