Spherical Cows

Spherical Cows

Space provides the ultimate environment. There's no air, freezing temperatures, and constant bombardment of radiation. It's no wonder that a cow would have a tough time surviving out there! This show explores the extremes of physics of physiology needed to put living organisms into space. After teaching several courses on Space Medicine with audiences ranging from high schoolers to medical professionals, Nick and Dominic have been deemed a dynamic duo in the fields of bioastronautics and education. With NASA physicians, leading medical researchers, engaging professors, and innovative engineers, let's bring Space Medicine down to Earth!

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June 8, 2022 19 mins
Dominic and Nick chat about lessons learned in the first season, more coming soon, and solicit listener feedback!

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Imagine becoming an astronaut, and after traveling back from space, making it your life’s work to study and solve the health problems posed by deep space travel. Dr. Jay Buckey is doing just that in the Space Medicine Innovations Laboratory at Dartmouth and a professor in both the medical school and engineering college at Dartmouth.

 

In this episode we talk about deep space radiation, using virtual reality for improving mental hea...

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Dr. Ana Diaz Artiles is an engineering professor at Texas A&M University researching ways to further human space flight by designing a novel space suit. Her lab’s recent work to develop the SmartSuit concept combines soft-robotics, biometric monitoring, and advances in material sciences to bring Extravehicular Activity suits into the 21st century. 

We talk artificial gravity, problem-solving as an engineer, and working with the Eur...

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Dr. Emmanuel Urquieta is a Professor at Baylor College of Medicine, working in both the Emergency Department and the Center for Space Medicine. In the Translational Research for Space Health (TRISH), he is working with NASA and commercial astronaut crews to acquire and study health data from space travel. He also shares his incredible life story and how he found aerospace medicine.

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Dr. Christopher Mason was a leader on the pioneering NASA Twin Study. He wears many hats as he works as a professor and researcher at Weill Cornell Medical School. Just after the Inspiration4 Launch in September 2021, he sat down with us to talk about his work mapping human genomes and how space changes us. Much of our conversation is framed around his book The Next 500 Years Where he maps the scientific breakthroughs needed and et...

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