Beer with BMSIS

Podcast: Buddhism & Training for Happiness

Our “Beer with BMSIS” podcast for August features a conversation with Dr. Ryan Hastings titled Buddhism: Training for Happiness. Although his scientific training is in meteorology, Dr. Hastings describes his lifelong interest in modern Buddhist practice through the lens of interstellar travel. In particular, Ryan points out that long-term strategies for space exploration–taking place over generations of human time–will require much more than scientific prowess, and even modest space exploration endeavors of recent time have shown the importance of human […]

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Podcast: Cross-Disciplinarity in Astrobiology Research

July’s “Beer with BMSIS” podcast features a conversation with Dr. Arsev Aydinoglu titled Cross-disciplinarity in astrobiology research: Messy or diverse?. Trained as a social scientist, Dr. Aydinoglu discusses his experiences and current research with the NASA astrobiology institute to help think critically about interdisciplinary in astrobiology and to help identify practices that promote interdisciplinary collaborations among astrobiology teams. The tools of social science allow for some quantitative measures to be made, which can be combined with qualitative data that can […]

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Podcast: Europa in our Back Yard

Our “Beer with BMSIS” podcast for June features a conversation with Dr. Britney Schmidt titled Europa in our Backyard. Dr. Schmidt discusses her field research in Antarctica and describes how this unique landscape on Earth presents an analog to icy worlds such as Europa. Scientists have been long interested in visiting Europa–and Dr. Schmidt describes some of these efforts underway–but in the meanwhile, we can learn from remote settings in our own back yard of planet Earth to learn about […]

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Podcast: Broken Crown Games

May’s edition of “Beer with BMSIS” features a conversation with Tyler Yohe, founder of Broken Crown Games, titled Broken Crown Games – the Indiana Jones of Space Outreach: Engaging & Inspiring New Audiences through Entertainment. Tyler discusses his journey as his interests shifted from a career in science to one of video game development. Recognizing that the goal of video games is to entertain, Tyler is developing a science-based game set in a futuristic world that allows players to immerse […]

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Podcast: Dr. David Grinspoon on the Anthropocene

April’s “Beer with BMSIS” podcast features a conversation with Dr. David Grinspoon on The Human Role in Earth Evolution: Will the Anthropocene be an Event, An Epoch or a Transition? Dr. Grinspoon describes how the activities of human civilization have grown to such a scale that they are beginning to have an impact on the planetary system and the geologic record. He considers the implications of this notion of the “Anthropocene” and some possible directions for the future of humanity. […]

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