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#49 KECKS IS MOVING TO A NEW HQ 

#49 KECKS IS MOVING TO A NEW HQ 

Valli ist Gründerin und Podcast Host von Outdoor Radio. Jede Woche interviewt sie interessante Gäste, welche in der Outdoor, Bushcraft oder Survival Szene unterwegs sind. Ob Loreena Unterwegs, Enno Seifried, Anca Outdoor oder andere Content Creator – ganz direkt und spontan stellt sie ihren Gästen Fragen und schafft so eine Möglichkeit, den Zuschauern durch die Spontanität und wenig Schnitt im Nachgang ein authentisches Bild zu verschaffen. Heute sitzt Valli selbst vor der Kamera und der Spieß wird umgedreht: Denn in dieser Folge kriegt sie ein paar Fragen zu sich, ihrem Werdegang und Projekten gestellt. Ein kleiner Einblick für euch, damit ihr auch die Person hinter der Idee ein bisschen kennenlernen könnt. So spricht sie darüber, wie sie selbst in der Outdoor Szene gelandet ist, was für Momente sie schon erleben durfte und welche Projekte noch anstehen. Ganz viel Spaß mit diesem kurzen (Selbst)Interview

‘De verdwijning van Peter Treckpoel' is de nieuwe roman van schrijver Rick de Leeuw. Het boek gaat over amateurhistoricus Hubert Thys, die zich verdiept in het verhaal van de Limburgse priester Peter Treckpoel die rond 1500 verdween. De Leeuw is bekend geworden als zanger van de rockband ‘Tröckener Kecks' en maakte albums als ‘Lieg Me De Waarheid' en ‘Beter Als'. Als schrijver maakte hij onder andere de boeken ‘Ik Jan Smeken', ‘De Laatste Held' en ‘Verbeter de wereld'. Presentatie: Frénk van der Linden

Backstage: Phil Tilli (Beat Surrender Music)Voor deze aflevering van van Brood en Spelen sprak Jasper van Vugt op het kantoor van GRAP met Phil Tilli. Phil is bekend geworden als gitarist van o.a. Tröckener Kecks en Moke. Tien jaar geleden stapte hij uit Moke en begon hij zijn eigen onderneming ‘Beat Surrender Music', een referentie naar Paul Weller. Phil is o.a. manager van Orange Skyline, Thijs Boontjes, Blaudzun, M Lucky, Red Limo Quartet en Midas. In de podcast gaat het over het werk van Phil en zijn carrière als muzikant. Over hoe hij het werk van de Tröckener Kecks opnieuw uitgebracht heeft en zijn periode bij Moke. Over de samenwerking binnen die bands en hoe grote ambities werden omgezet in succes. En hoe hij de overstap maakte van muzikant naar eerst publisher en later manager. Muziek is er van de Tröckener Kecks, Max Meser, Links uit de uitzending:https://beatsurrendermusic.nl Voor meer info over Brood en Spelen volg je ons online: Spotify (met de gedraaide tracks uit de uitzending): https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0M7pWD7Tfmx4xgkVJVAAhc?si=XHjpEQo1T96J48ng-NPvkwFacebook:https://www.facebook.com/BroodenspelenpodcastInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/broodenspelenpodcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Met ditmaal: The Umbrellas, Sprints, Lol Tolhurst, Budgie, Jacknife Lee, Empty Country, Onyon, Marika Hackman, Master Peace, Neil Young, The Lemon Twigs, Moby, The Kills, Johnny Dowd, Egyptian Blue, Dawn Brothers, plus een exclusive instore van Tröckener Kecks. Concerto Radio, aflevering 526 (12 januari 2024): The Umbrellas, Echoes: Echoes (Single) Sprints, Adore Adore Adore: Letter […]

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Live ausm Fuxbau, denken Kecks und Lenk darüber nach, wieso sie nie über das römische Reich nachdenken, zeigen sich gegenseitig TikToks und reden über Panaden. Dann erwischt Knages ein paar Züge von Lages Zaubersigi. Uiuiuiuiuiuiui

Rick de Leeuw (1960) is zanger, schrijver en presentator. Hij werd bekend als zanger van de Nederlandse groep Tröckener Kecks. Nu maakt hij al vele jaren soloplaten, zijn recentste op het moment van ons gesprek heet Lieg me de waarheid. Hij is vaak te zien op televisie, ondermeer als voetbalcommentator. In 2006 presenteerde hij zijn eigen talkshow op Canvas: De Leeuw in Vlaanderen. Rick de Leeuw schrijft ook: songteksten uiteraard, daarnaast romans en dichtbundels. Zijn debuutroman heette De laatste held, één van zijn dichtbundels was Echte mannen scheiden niet, geschreven na zijn scheiding. Rick de Leeuw nodigde mij uit bij hem thuis, in het Limburgse Heks, deelgemeente van Heers, waar hij in het centrum woont. We gingen meteen dag zeggen tegen zijn vriendin Maartje, die stond te schilderen in haar atelier in de tuin. Ze is kunstschilder. Rick en ik gingen zitten aan de tafel in de woonkamer, naast de piano; achter mij een nis met boekenkasten waarmee iets aan de hand is - in deze aflevering meer daarover - ook vòòr mij stond nog een boekenkast. Op tafel taart en boeken. Hij vertelt over het verschil tussen Heks en Amsterdam, over het boek Stoner, waaruit hij met een zekere gêne nog eens een zin wil pikken voor een songtekst, over het boek waarin hij als kind zichzelf herkende, en dat bleef zo zijn hele leven lang. Het gaat over lezen en schrijven, over Lou Reed en Jan Hautekiet. Alle boeken en auteurs uit deze aflevering vind je in de shownotes op wimoosterlinck.be Wil je de podcast steunen? Bestel je boeken dan steeds via een link op wimoosterlinck.be! Merci. De drie boeken van Rick de Leeuw zijn: 1. Victor Klemperer: Tot het bittere einde. Dagboek 1933-1945 2. Giacomo Casanova: Het verhaal van mijn leven 3. Theo Thijssen: Kees de jongen Eerdere gasten in deze podcast zijn: Roos Van Acker, Ish Ait Hamou, Imke Courtois, Wim Opbrouck, Evi Hanssen, Stijn Meuris, Michèle Cuvelier, Lara Chedraoui, Johan Braeckman, Sophie Dutordoir, Freek de Jonge en vele anderen.

Met de beste platen over 2022, van: Danger Mouse & Black Thought, Fontaines D.C., Working Men’s Club, Personal Trainer, Spiritualized, Civic, The Black Angels, The Heavy Heavy, Pip Blom, The Cure, Death Cab For Cutie, Leftfield, plus een exclusieve instore van Tröckener Kecks. Concerto Radio, aflevering 471 (23 december 2022). Danger Mouse & Black Thought, […]

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Was geht ihr Möffs und Örrfs, heute geht's vor allen Dingens um Saft. illi 9 Milli, Nicolas Gäng Gäng und Juicy Jay haben sich richtig einen rein gedamaged mit Traubensaft bei Toni dem Damager. Juicy wird von Frauenmenschen gefragt ob er was von sein Saft abzwacken kann für Kindermachung. Außerdem haben die Kecks jetzt einen Sponsor, der wo sie mit leckeren Säften versorgt. Sellout.

Wohooo! Another day, another podcast and another great guest! Today, Samwellies and Chlo Dog are joined by the gentlest of giants - Ciaran Dayaram. The trio touch on the usual wide array of topics from Ciaran's big move to Pretoria to play professional rugby for the Blue Bulls, to his transition into art and poetry. Sam even confesses to going down a deep, dark Jordan Peterson rabbit hole during the height of lockdown! It's fun, it's naughty - it's KETS babyyyyy xoxo Please go rate and review the pod here: https://podcasts.apple.com/za/podcast... Where to find Ciaran Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ciarandayar... Where to find KECKS: https://kecks.co.za/ YOU DESERVE TO HAVE NICE UNDIES ❤️ Where to find more KETS: Website: http://kets.co.za Contact: samuel@kets.co.za Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kidseatoast/ Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@kidseatoast?l... Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/za/podcast... Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0jfvdNk...

This week's show features Melody Federer with music from The Violent Hearts, Rowan, Wrex, The Happy Fits, Rare Americans, Ballyhoo!, Jamie Lynn Vessels, Mother Mother, The Darcys, The Wombats, Frank Carter & the Rattlesnakes, The Kecks & Wild Horse! Hosted by Aaron Zytle. replayed 10/19/2021 from 08/24/2021

Episode 4 playing 30 mins of under the radar alternative & indie bands.Line up :Shader: RunawayThe Skinner Brothers: Culture non-stopHardwicke Circus: No surrenderTiger Beach: WorthlessSwimsuit issue: Hit it with youThe Kecks: Stick in my throatThe Rosellas: Before the stormLobsterbomb: Ready to goI hope you enjoy it! Thanks for listening and subscribing!#indiemusic #newmusic #podcast #purplmac #indierockEnjoy! Thanks for listening and subscribing! Say Hi on @purplemacpodcast on insta. https://www.instagram.com/purplemacpodcast/

This week's show features Melody Federer with music from The Violent Hearts, Rowan, Wrex, The Happy Fits, Rare Americans, Ballyhoo!, Jamie Lynn Vessels, Mother Mother, The Darcys, The Wombats, Frank Carter & the Rattlesnakes, The Kecks & Wild Horse! Hosted by Aaron Zytle. 08/24/2021

UFO? UAP? Space Rock? Story about Western PA Town Spooky History and Wicked Coincidence? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Nick weiss: er ist für etwas Grosses bestimmt! Okay – für was genau, ist noch nicht ganz klar, aber Nick ist auf dem besten Weg, das herauszufinden. Er ist eben der Super-Nick mit einem Super-Glücks-Kecks! Nur blöd, dass Nick immer noch gezwungen wird, seine Zeit und sein Talent in der Schule zu vergeuden. Doch dann bekommt er diesen Glückskeks geschenkt, und auf dem Zettel steht: Heute wirst du alle anderen übertreffen. – WOW, so cool! Aber wie wird er es schaffen? Nick strengt sich an und gibt in jeder Schulstunde alles. Wirklich alles! Lust auf mehr Kinderhörspiele und Geschichten? www.srf.ch/kids/hoerspiele Autor: Lincoln Peirce Erzählerin: Fabienne Hadorn Tontechnik: Mirjam Emmenegger Musik: Sascha Lügner Rossier Mundartbearbeitung und Regie: Eleanor Rutman Eine Produktion von SRF, 2012 Empfohlen für Kinder von 8 bis 12 Jahren

In Folge 13 homma wieder mol an Stargast und zwar da Herr AKZSZ, der zum zweita mol bereits do war. Natürlich dreht sich dia Ausgabe um an Release (Leberkäs) vom BADA und AKZSZ. Welche Ausmaße des agno hat erfahranda natürlich nur beim innelosa, dazu wie immer unser Vogelexperte, Quiz, Hacks mit Kecks und vieles mehr...

Folge Nummer 8 dreht sich umd Gastronomie aba vor allem um die sogenannte Schmürbe (Sauce) zum Festmahl. Dazua gits wie immer neues vom Vogelexperten Fink, Tips mit Fibs und Hacks mit Kecks, Quiz und vieles mehr...

Folge 7 lauft unterm Motto „Schuster bleib bei deinen Leisten“ . Mir sin zruck im IKEA-Kaschta! Zum ersta Mol erfahrenda wia sich da Kecks und da Fibs kennaglernt hon! Dazua wia immer Tips mit Fibs und Hacks mit Keks, Vogelexperte Fink und vieles mehr!

In Folge 4 gibts an Eindruck, wia mir uns ufn Podcast vorbereiten.Dazua wia immer Tips mit Fibs und Hacks mit Kecks, Gschichtn aus aller Welt und a Neuheit wartet oh uf eu! Hört rein!

In da 2. Folga gots nur ungemein andersch witter wia in Folge 1. Themen diesmol: „Tipps mit Fibs und Hacks mit Kecks“, „Quidditch Weltmeisterschaft“, „Alltagsgschichtn“, und vieles mehr !

This week we hear a powerful story from the Kecks on how the power of community helped them during a very tough event that occurred in their life. And Greg wraps up our series with an important reminder to keep community a part of our lives.

Featuring Owen Denvir, The Relevant Elephants, Hollow Doors, The Kecks, Crossfire Eagles & Reardon Love.

Edición Limitada - 4 de Mayo del 2020. Producción, realización y conducción: Francisco J. Brenes. Presentando música de Ellis Jarrett, Ben Gibbard, Thom Yorke, Jonsi, Meryem Aboulouafa, Big Thief, Einsturzende Neubauten, Everything Everything, Oasis, Badly Drawn Boy, Wino, Bauhaus, Muse, The Cure, Gorillaz, Poliça, HAIM, Hinds, Chvrches, Varsity, Flume con Toro y Moi, The Killers, Razorlight, The 1975, Mourn, White Denim, The Kecks, PUP, L7, No Age, John Foxx, The Vacant Lots, Greg Puciato, Ministry, Aux Animaux, Kelly Lee Owens, Drenge, Helado Negro, Depeche Mode, Moby, Desire, Fort Romeau, Jessie Ware, Yelle, Blank & Jones con Bernard Sumner, JARV IS, Groove Armada, Duck Sauce, !!! y Nicolas Bougaïeff.

Hans en Loek over de liedjes Achter Glas van de Tröckener Kecks en Leven met een Zeven van Doe Maar.

Are you ready? In this episode, Chris interviews Frank and Rachel Keck and it’s awesome. They are longtime friends with the Bay’s and their excitement for Infinite Banking is real. This high energy interview is full of great info and we hope you enjoy it! The post Interview with the Kecks appeared first on Life Success Legacy.

Herzlich Willzommen zu dem besten Podcast den man sich hören kann! Matias war kreativ und hat sich eine Rubrik ausgedacht und Raphael gleich mal damit überrascht. Neben dem Klick-Spiel und des Cover-Rätsel wurden heute auch noch Twitter-Fragen beantwortet, und diese hatten es in sich! Gönnt euch die Gags, Kecks und Kekse! Cover von https://bit.ly/2YfptsJ Twitter: https://bit.ly/2OoESlV

Featuring Fling, Moses, Screaming Maldin, Tracy Bryant, Working Men's Club, The Kecks & an exclusive from Sons.

Kanada wird zum Ferrari Fluch! War Vettel's Strafe verdient oder ungerecht? Warum uns sein Verhalten nach dem Rennen so richtig auf den Kecks geht, Günther Steiner seinem Fahrer die Leviten liest und die Antwort auf die Frage: Wer ist eigentlich MWW Team aus unserer Fantasy League! Wir diskutieren die Highlights des Rennens. Diskutiert mit uns mit: Instagram: instagram.com/stintf1podcast Facebook: facebook.com/STINTPodcast Twitter: twitter.com/STINTPodcast STINT - Der Formel 1 Podcast von Sebastian Fenske und Florian Wolske - Ep. 76

Je hoort muziek van AC/DC, Tim Knol & The Bluegrass Boogieman, Finn Andrews, Stoney Curtis Band en Tröckener Kecks. En natuurlijk hoor je ook weer de gospel van de week!

Hans en Loek over de liedjes Achter Glas van de Tröckener Kecks en Leven met een Zeven van Doe Maar

Rob and Dan catch each other up on children updates and answer questions from listeners!  Scott had to work, so sadly, he isn't on this episode, but we crack on!

Je hoort muziek Lady Antebellum, Dionne Warwick, Tröckener Kecks, Kiki Schippers, Daniël Lohues, Peter Gabriel, Ruud Houweling, Gregory Porter. En gedichten van de_rijdende_dichter, Quien Busco en Quin Kempees

Deze week te gast in Oeverloos: Rick de Leeuw. Jarenlang was hij de huisdichter van Oeverloos, nu keert Rick de Leeuw terug als gast. Met nummers van zijn nieuwe album Zonder Omweg. Met zijn eigen favoriete muziek, van De Mens tot The Scene, van Iggy Pop tot The Pretenders. Met verhalen over zijn nieuwe woonplaats Heks, een piepklein dorpje in Vlaanderen met één café: Bij Rita. En met een volstrekt gebrek aan behoefte om mee te doen aan de reüniegolf: wie hoopt dat de Tröckener Kecks weer bij elkaar komen, is daar na deze aflevering van Oeverloos van genezen. 

Deze week te gast in Oeverloos: Rick de Leeuw. Jarenlang was hij de huisdichter van Oeverloos, nu keert Rick de Leeuw terug als gast. Met nummers van zijn nieuwe album Zonder Omweg. Met zijn eigen favoriete muziek, van De Mens tot The Scene, van Iggy Pop tot The Pretenders. Met verhalen over zijn nieuwe woonplaats Heks, een piepklein dorpje in Vlaanderen met één café: Bij Rita. En met een volstrekt gebrek aan behoefte om mee te doen aan de reüniegolf: wie hoopt dat de Tröckener Kecks weer bij elkaar komen, is daar na deze aflevering van Oeverloos van genezen. 

Vandaag met muziek van U2, Bettye Lavette, Circuit des Yeux, Eerie Wanda, Jasper Steverlinck, Tröckener Kecks, Eva Cassidy en Fleetwood Mac.

He., diese tägliche Verkaufssitzung geht mir sowas auf den Kecks, die Kunden am Kundendienst sind schon wieder genervt, der Kollege hat seine Kiste schon wieder nicht gewaschen und für die Testfahren bereit gestellt. Der Hersteller hat wieder mal eine Höhenflug von kreativer Verkaufsaktionen und mein Chef meint, ich soll doch endlich mal meine Kunden anrufen und nachfassen. Warum eigentlich fällt alles auf mich? Warum sind alle um mich herum so negativ und verärgert eingestellt? Nein, das kann es nicht sein, so macht es keinen Spass. Heute wird kein guter Tag! Das fängt ja schon so mühsam an, gestern war es genau gleich.. Was denkst du? Wie wird der Tag ablaufen? Welche Kunden wird dieser Verkäufer heute bekommen? Wie wird er mit seinem Umfeld heute umgehen? Deine Einstellung kannst du einstellen. Negativ denkende Menschen ziehen negatives an. Ist ja irgendwie auch klar. Es gibt Menschen, die starten in den Tag und ärgern sich schon über alles was heute passieren kann. Und dann passiert es! Und es ist das einfachste, dann zu sagen „ich habe es ja von Anfang an gesagt“. Wow – was für eine Überraschung. Das einzige was du selber einstellen kannst, ist deine Einstellung. Die Umstände sind die Umstände. Du veränderst dich nur mit deinem Denken, deiner Motivation deinem positiven Tagesgrundsatz. Ich höre so viel, ach das ist nicht möglich, das ist bei uns nicht umsetzbar, keine Chance, dazu habe ich keine Zeit usw. Ich bin mal ganz ehrlich und direkt, dies ist dein eigener Schutz und nur deine ausreden. Schau dir mal die erfolgreichen Verkäufer oder Unternehmer an, sind die es, die jammern? Oder sind es eher die, denen es nicht läuft? Entscheide selbst. Der Tag ist nur so gut, was du daraus machst. Also mach was Gescheites draus, sei positiv und motivierend, siehe die Chancen und nicht die Probleme. Streiche aus deinem Wortschatz das Wort „Problem“ und „aber“. Entferne dich von negativ denkenden Personen, nimm an keinen Gesprächen teil wo nur über Probleme gesprochen wird und dränge dein Umfeld in Lösungen zu denken. Sei du die Person in deinem Umfeld welche die anderen positiv beeinflusst und du wirst deine Erfolge haben. Denn erfolgreiche Menschen ziehen erfolgreiche Menschen an. Sobald in deinem Kopf ein Problem auftaucht, dann suche dir zwei Lösungen und setze diese schnell um. Deine Einstellung kannst du einstellen. Es wird niemand für dich tun, denn du bist für dich selber verantwortlich. Wie motivierst du dich im Alltag? Teile diesen Artikel mit anderen Menschen um diese zu motivieren. www.beat-jenny.ch www.trepos.ch

Thema is Voetbalplaatsjes met muziek van Ronnie en de Ronnies, Tröckener Kecks, Jack Hammer, Drs. P en Perez Prado.

Muzikaal thema is Dutch Tempo. Je hoort muziek van Gorki, Herman Bekien, Tröckener Kecks, Rowen Hèze, Osdorp Possel en Boudewijn de Groot.

Nicholas McConnell, PhD candidate in Astrophysics at UCB summer 2012, and Jeff Silverman, PhD of Astrophysics from UCB in 2011, part one of three, talk about their work with supernovae and black holes. To help analyze astronomy data go to www.galaxyzoo.org or www.planethunters.orgTranscriptSpeaker 1: Spectrum's next Speaker 2: [inaudible].Speaker 1: Welcome to spectrum the science and technology [00:00:30] show on k a l x Berkeley, a biweekly 30 minute program bringing you interviews featuring bay area scientists and technologists as well as a calendar of local events and news. Speaker 3: Good afternoon. My name is Brad Swift. I'm joined today by a spectrum of contributors, Rick Karnofsky and Lisa Katovich. Our interview is with Jeff Silverman, a recent phd in astrophysics from UC Berkeley and Nicholas McConnell, a phd [00:01:00] candidate unscheduled to be awarded a phd in astrophysics by UC Berkeley this summer. Jeff and Nicholas have generously agreed to help spectrum present a three part astronomy survey explaining the big ideas, recent experiments, collaborations and improvements in observation technology that are transforming astronomy. This is part two of three and in it we discussed Super Novi and black holes. Jeff, would you please start part two explaining Super Novi [inaudible] Speaker 4: observations [00:01:30] of exploding stars. These supernovae have been going on for thousands of years. Whether or not we knew what we were looking at for most of that time, we now know that those were exploding stars. Something that I did my phd thesis work on as well. I want to talk about a two exploding stars in particular that were found in 2011. The first one I'll talk about was found in late May, early June last year. It was founded by a handful of amateur astronomers, which is they find maybe hundred supernova per year. This has been going on for about a decade [00:02:00] or so. Uh, this one in particular, however, was so young and knew that somebody had emailed somebody who had emailed somebody who had actually tweeted about this new supernova. And so I got forwarded a tweet that said there's a new supernova in this very nearby galaxy and I happen to be using the Keck telescope, one of the biggest optical telescopes in the world, controlling it from UC Berkeley. Speaker 4: Saw this in my inbox. And we pointed at this supernova. We were the first ones to classify what kind of exploding start was confirmed that it was indeed [00:02:30] an exploding star and not some other, uh, asteroid that was just along the line of sight in the way or something else. Uh, and so that was as far as I know, the first time that a supernova was ever classified based on a tweet. The other Supernova, I want to talk about sort of the opposite end of having amateurs looking at a handful of galaxies. I'm part of a large international collaboration known as the Palomar transient factory PTF. And this collaboration uses a telescope down in San Diego to automatically monitor a bunch of these galaxies, [00:03:00] run these big computer programs to try and find if there is a new supernova, new bright spot in any of the images. Speaker 4: And this has been running for about two years now and we've been tweaking the algorithms to get faster and faster detections of these new spots. And so in August of last year there was some images taken in San Diego. Dr Peter Nugent, a professor in the astronomy department, was going through some of the newest candidates of what the computer program spit out and saw what looked like a very good supernova candidate and another very nearby galaxy, [00:03:30] a different one, but about the same distance, 20 or so million light years. We had an image from the night before that was very good and there was absolutely nothing at that position. So this clearly looked like a brand new spot. It couldn't be that old. So he immediately gets on the email list for this international collaboration. This was sort of the afternoon in California, but it was already nighttime in the eastern hemisphere. And we have collaborators who use telescopes in the Canary Islands. Speaker 4: So they point to it. They got not a great observation, but an observation that confirmed there was something there. And it was probably one of these [00:04:00] exploding stars by the time that they had worked on their data and emailed us. It was already nighttime in California and Hawaii. So we had the lick observatory telescopes out in San Jose as well as the Kecks in Hawaii pointing at this and absolutely confirming that it, it was a supernova. And within a few weeks we had already written a bunch of papers looking at the data very carefully. And we had actually found this supernova 11 hours after it exploded. So one of the earliest detections of an exploding star ever. People had speculated what you might [00:04:30] see that early and we actually got to throw out a lot of people's models saying we didn't see these things that you predicted possibly confirming some other predictions at this early time. Speaker 4: And this thing is still bright at its brightest. You could see it in a small backyard telescope are good binoculars from the Oakland hills. Uh, I saw it with my own eyes through a telescope, which was awesome. I think just an amazing, amazing proof of concept or success story of this huge collaboration without the the algorithms to, to run this quickly, we wouldn't have realized it was there until [00:05:00] days later without an international collaboration of friends expanding the globe. We wouldn't have been able to track it and confirm that it was the supernovas so quickly and so early and easily. So if I can ask, what's the biggest mystery about the way stars explode that you help solve by knowing about a supernova? Just a few hours after an explosion is actually happened. We'll solve as a strong word in science, but we can at least help get towards the truth. Speaker 4: As my advisor likes to say, this one that was discovered by the Palomar transient [00:05:30] factory in August is a specific kind of supernova that should have very consistent amount of energy. Sort of, you can think of it as a a hundred watt light bulb. It has the same amount of energy output always basically. So if you see it's very, very faint, it must be very, very far away. If you see it's very, very bright, it must be very, very close because it's sort of each of these objects has the same amount of light coming out of it and so we can measure very accurately how bright they are. We can compare to what we know they should be, how bright they should be, and we get a very accurate distance measurement to [00:06:00] all of these different supernova and figure out very accurate distances. How that distance has changed with time, and this is in fact how the accelerating expansion of the universe was discovered in the late nineties using these types of supernovae, which I will plug did win the Nobel Prize last year for physics and we're all very proud of that. Speaker 4: Saul Perlmutter up at the Berkeley lab was one of the winners and many of our group here at Berkeley and other places have collaborated on those projects over the years. So one thing that we aren't quite sure of, even though these are very, very consistent [00:06:30] explosions, we've observed them for a long time. We don't actually know the details of what stars are involved in the original explosion. We have some idea that a very dense star called a white dwarf made of mostly carbon and oxygen is blowing up. What exactly is around that star that's helping it blow up by actually feeding it some extra material and then pushing it over a limit to explode? We're a little bit unclear and so since this star that is feeding the mass to the white dwarf should be very close by. [00:07:00] They should be right near each other. One of the best ways you're going to observe it is right after the explosion, the explosion goes off. Speaker 4: The light and energy from that explosion could interact with the donor star that's right next door and then very quickly the explosion has expanded much further beyond that neighboring star and then it's sort of just hidden until either much, much later or perhaps never. And so by observing this supernova back in August 11 hours after the explosion and then taking subsequent observations sort of for the following few days, [00:07:30] we could rule out certain ideas of what that other star could be. There are very strong predictions. You should see some extra light in certain ways. If you had a certain type of star sitting there and we didn't see that, so it must be a very small star. Maybe something like the sun, maybe something like two times the mass of the sun. Speaker 2: Nope. This is spectrum k l x Berkeley. And you boys have been talking with Jeff Silverman [00:08:00] and Nicholas McConnell about supernova and black holes. So the Supernova is an issue. Speaker 4: Delusion of carbon and oxygen. You were saying that's great. What's the relationship of those explosions? Supernova to the black holes that were now discovered to be at the heart of every galaxy. So black holes come in a few different flavors, a certain kinds of supernovae uh, not the, the white [00:08:30] door of carbon oxygen ones. I was talking about a different flavor of Supernova that come from very massive stars that have 10 times the mass of the center bigger. They do explode as the different kinds of supernova collapse on themselves and can create black holes. The black holes end up weighing something like a few times the mass of the sun, maybe up to 20, 30 times the mass of the sun at the most. But those are sort of just kind of peppered throughout galaxies. What we've found over the past few decades and did a lot of work on lately is the supermassive black holes that can get up to hundreds of [00:09:00] millions or billions of times as massive as the sun. And those are found in the cores of galaxies as opposed to kind of peppered throughout them. And so there probably is a different formation mechanism that's still a very open question, how you make these giant black holes. But there are many, many orders of magnitude bigger than the ones that come from supernovae. Uh, and, and I'd actually say this is possibly a good segue that some interesting observation, right? Speaker 5: Progress is being made on which the most likely mechanisms are for forming these so-called seed [00:09:30] black holes that eventually grew into the monsters that we now observe at the senators of most galaxies in our own universe, in our current universe. Speaker 4: So was that a big shift then the, the idea of these supermassive black holes, Speaker 5: there's possibly a, a complicated relationship between the black hole at the center of the Galaxy and the galaxy itself, the black holes. Gravity is not sufficient to hold the entire galaxy together even though it is an extremely massive object and very near [00:10:00] to it. There's extremely powerful gravitational forces. Galaxies are so large and so extended that out in the the normal regions of the galaxy out near where the sun orbits in the Milky Way Galaxy. The fact that our Milky Way has a central black hole doesn't have any direct impact on our lives as the sun orbiting in the galaxy. On the other hand, if you consider the life cycle of a black hole starting from when it is formed from some seed object or birth process relatively early in the universe and evolving all the way toward [00:10:30] our present day universe over more than 10 billion years, black holes have very interesting variations in what they're doing over the course of their lifetimes. Speaker 5: In particular, when a black hole comes into proximity with a lot of gas, the gas spirals down and is funnel basically into the black hole and whereas some of the gas goes into the black hole and has never heard from again and increases the mass of the black hole. A lot of the guests on its way down heats up and releases tremendous amounts of light [00:11:00] because it takes time for light to travel. The distance between the object of meeting the light and us some of the furthest and therefore youngest things that we see of corresponding to very early times in the universe are in fact black holes that are swallowing tremendous amounts of gas. And some interesting discoveries that have happened recently is astronomers have been using different observational techniques to push further and further back into the universe's past, finding more and more distant black holes, swallowing [00:11:30] gas and learning about the universe at earlier and earlier times based on these observations. Speaker 5: And I think the current record holder now is a black hole that lived about 800 million years after the big bang, which translates to almost 13 billion years, 13,000 million years before our present day now. So looking that far back in time, we can no, first of all that these tremendous black holes exist that early in the universe. And we [00:12:00] can actually using techniques that follow up on the initial discovery and try to get more detailed analysis of them, we can make estimates of how massive they are. And in the case of the one that occurred when the universe was only 800 million years old, we learned that that black hole is far more massive than the black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy bowed as massive as some of the most massive black holes that we've observed today. Um, so at least in some cases, black holes appear to have been seated by things that were relatively small, bigger than the tens of solar [00:12:30] masses that Jeff mentioned, but maybe a few thousand solar masses. And yet in the very earliest stage of the universe, they were able to grow tremendously fast and actually gain a ton of mass early in the universe. And then may have lived more peacefully throughout most of the duration of the universe. Speaker 2: You're listening to spectrum on k a l x, Berkeley, 90.7 FM. Today we're talking with Jeff Silverman and [00:13:00] Nicholas McConnell, both astrophysicists. We're discussing supernova. I am black homes. This is part two of a series three. Speaker 5: Another interesting outcome of looking at supermassive black holes early in the universe is it's often easier to see them far away than it is nearby because when they're far away and we see them, that's because they're swallowing a lot of gas. Many of the galaxies in today's universe [00:13:30] don't have gas near their black holes of the black holes are quiet. Uh, and in fact, you have to make very, very precise measurements of stars orbiting in their gravitational field to even know that a black hole is there. So one of the mysteries that had been going around for awhile is if you believe the masses of black holes very early in the universe, and you see these tremendously early things, but you want to know where are they now? They've had 13 billion years to evolve. What kind of galaxy is do these black holes live in today? Speaker 5: [00:14:00] Then you need to look in the nearby universe and try to find their quiet, ancient remnants. And recently, along with a couple other researchers at UC Berkeley, some other researchers around the country, my team discovered the two most massive black holes that we know about in today's universe. Black holes more than 10 billion times the mass of our sun, more than 2000 times the mass of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way. And because these are the most massive black holes that we know about in today's universe, [00:14:30] and they're roughly correspond to the estimated masses of the most massive black holes that we observe very, very early in the universe. We think we're beginning to answer the question of what kind of environment do these very young black holes actually end up in after the entire history of the universe between them. If I could ask a question, do you other properties of the galaxies that are now hosting these most massive black holes that are different than other nearby galaxies [00:15:00] that may have less massive black holes, something like the Milky Way size. Speaker 5: One interesting thing about the galaxies that we looked at is that they're also anchoring large galaxy clusters. And so specifically we found the most massive black holes at the centers of galaxy clusters. Now that's not a perfectly robust result because to be perfectly honest, we started by looking in the centers of galaxy clusters. And so we haven't done a wide sample of other galaxies and other environments, but it's possible that there is an environmental effect [00:15:30] based on not only the galaxy that the black hole resides in, but the overall neighborhood of how many galaxies are around that central object that may have something to do with the final massive its black hole. And where do you go with this research now, Nicholas, are there specific experiments? Are you relying on certain data? Where are you drawing this information from? And so we use data from a few different telescopes because these galaxies are distant and we're trying to look at stars in a very [00:16:00] small region of space. Speaker 5: We rely on very large telescopes to give us good light collecting power and good spatial resolution. So we use the Keck telescopes in Hawaii. We also use the Gemini telescopes in Hawaii and Sheila and there is a telescope in Texas that we've done some work with and we are trying to use these telescopes to find black holes in as many galaxies as the telescope committees will allow us to look at. Uh, so each semester with the generosity of, of getting, observing time, we're able to look at [00:16:30] two or three more galaxies and hopefully over a few years we'll have a good dozen or so objects that we can search directly for the most massive black holes in addition to a few dozen that have been discovered by other teams throughout the world over the last 10 years or so. And that really is one of the big limiting factors, isn't it? Speaker 5: The access to the equipment because there's so much going on in astronomy. Everybody's in the queue. Yeah, that's right. A, just like most scientists apply for amounts of funding from [00:17:00] various organizations, astronomers do that. In addition to applying for telescope time, the oversubscription rates for many of the biggest telescopes, the Hubble space telescope, the Keck telescopes is something like eight to one 10 to one. So the total number of requested hours is something like eight or 10 times the number of nighttime hours. There are in a semester or in a year, so it's, it's very much like a funding situation and there is so many nighttime hours and there's so many telescopes in the world. It's very competitive and we're very lucky when we do get access to [00:17:30] these huge telescopes with amazing instruments and computing power. How does that allocated time work when you want to make observations within a couple of hours of something that you've just heard about? So that's a great question. There's been something that has been used by astronomers over sort of the last decade but really a lot in the last five years called target of observations Speaker 4: too is as we call them and it's sort of in addition to or separate from your standard classically scheduled nights where you will use the telescope on this night. You can [00:18:00] also apply if you have a good science case, which many of us do, especially for these kinds of exploding stars that go off and we want to look at it very quickly, you can apply for time that is allocated through this t o program. And basically what it is is the telescope committees have said, okay, you get so many times to interrupt any observer and say you have to go look at this. And as an observer at that observatory, you know that that's part of the program and that at any point somebody could call you and say, drop what you're doing and go move over to [00:18:30] this. And many times people want to do the best science and are very happy to help out. And oftentimes there'll be offered co-authorship or at least acknowledged to, you know, thanking them for their help. Uh, certainly for these two Supernova I spoke about earlier, we definitely used our target of opportunity and they did turn out to be these very interesting supernovae Speaker 6: [inaudible]. That concludes part two of our astronomy series. Be sure to join us in two weeks [00:19:00] when we discuss dark energy or dark matter. Part three a regular feature of spectrum is to mention a few of the science and technology events happening in the bay area over the next few weeks. Rick Karnofsky and Lisa Kovich join me for the calendar. Speaker 7: The fix-it clinic will be held on Sunday, March 25th at the Lawrence Hall of science in Berkeley from one to 4:00 PM bring your broken non-functioning [00:19:30] things, electronics, appliances, computers, toys, and so on. For assessment, disassembly and possible repair. We'll provide workspace specialty tools and guidance to help you take apart and troubleshoot your item. Whether we fix it or not, you'll learn more about how it was manufactured and how it worked. This is a family friendly event. Children are hardly invited. This event is included in admission to the Lawrence Hall of Science. Speaker 3: The Mount Diablo Astronomical Society [00:20:00] holds its general monthly meetings the fourth Tuesday of each month, except for November and December. At the March 27th meeting, UC Berkeley Professor Jeff Marcy will speak about the future directions in extra solar planet investigations. The meeting begins at 7:15 PM and lasts until 9:30 PM the event will be held at the Concord Police Association facility. Five zero six zero Avi Law road in Concord. The society website is m [00:20:30] d a s. Dot. N. E. T. The computer history museums Speaker for March 28th will be New York Times magazine writer John Gardner who will talk about his book, the idea factory bell labs and the great age of American innovation to cake. Speaker 8: You edis Dave Iverson Bell labs was the most innovative production and research institution from the 1920s to the 1980s at its peak, bell labs employed nearly 15,000 people. [00:21:00] 1200 had PhDs. 13 would go on to win Nobel prizes. These ingenious, often eccentric men would become revolutionaries and sometimes legends, whether for inventing radio astronomy in their spare time and on the company's dime, riding unicycles through the corridors or pioneering the principles that propelled today's technology. Bell labs combined the best aspects of academic and corporate worlds, hiring the brightest and usually the youngest minds creating a culture and even architecture that [00:21:30] forced employees in different fields to work together in virtually complete intellectual freedom with little pressure to create moneymaking innovations in Gartner's portrait. We come to understand why both researchers and business leaders look to bell labs as a model and long to incorporate its magic into their own work. The talk starts at seven at the Computer History Museum, 14 Zero One north shoreline boulevard and mountain view. Visit www.computer history.org to register Speaker 7: [00:22:00] Thursday April 4th from three to 4:00 PM Andy Grove, Co founder and former CEO of Intel will speak on the UC Berkeley campus. His talk is titled of microchips and Men Tales from the translational medicine front. Andy Grove had a major influence on the ascent of micro electronics. Can a similar technological advance be achieved in medicine? He will discuss how we might open the pipeline to get life changing technologies to market without increasing the cost of care. [00:22:30] This event will be at the Sibley auditorium in the Bechdel engineering center. On the UC Berkeley campus. Speaker 8: The Marine Science seminar brings local engineers, physicians, computer programmers, and research scientists to speak to high school students and other interested people. It happens six Wednesdays per semester, seven 30 to 8:30 PM at the Terra Linda High School in San Rafael in the physiology lab. Two zero seven the guests for April 4th to meeting is the lead [00:23:00] of Pixars research and future spectrum guest, Tony rose. He will present on math in the movies. Film making is undergoing a digital revolution brought on by advances in areas such as computer technology, computational physics, geometry, and approximation theory. Using numerous examples drawn from Pixars feature films. This talk will provide a behind the scenes look at the role that math plays in the revolution. Visit www.marinescienceseminar.com [00:23:30] now news with Rick, Lisa and myself last September, the opera experiment located under the Grand Sazo Mountain in central Italy reported measuring neutrinos moving at faster than the speed of light from cern in Switzerland. Speaker 8: The Icarus experiment located in meters away from opera has published a preprint on the archive on March 15th showing that neutrinos move at speeds close to the speed of light, but that there is no evidence that they exceeded [00:24:00] opera is measurement was conducted with 10 microsecond pulses while Icarus was conducted with pulses that were only four nanoseconds, 2,500 times shorter. This led to far more accurate timing measurements. Opera head claim neutrinos arrived 60 nanoseconds before it would be predicted, but scientists had remained skeptical in part due to issues with timing [inaudible], Icarus, LVD, and opera. We'll all be making new measurements with pulse beams from cern in May to give us the final verdict Speaker 7: [00:24:30] according to technology review.com and the I a. E. A website. The disaster at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi plant a year ago prompted nations that generate atomic power to reexamine the safety of their reactors and even reevaluate their nuclear ambitions. Several countries have completely changed course. Japan has taken offline 52 of its 54 reactors and the future of nuclear power there is extremely uncertain. Germany shutdown seven reactors, [00:25:00] also elected not to restart another that had been down for maintenance and plans to decommission its remaining nine reactors by 2022 Italy, Switzerland and Mexico have each retreated from plans to build new nuclear plants and Belgium's government which took over in 2011 wants to make the country nuclear free by 2025 several other economically developed countries including the u s the United Kingdom and France are still generating roughly the same amount as they were before the Fukushima disaster and maintain [00:25:30] modest plans for future construction of additional reactors. But the future of nuclear power in the developing world is a different story. According to the International Atomic Energy Agency or I, a 45 countries are now considering embarking on nuclear power programs as Vietnam, Bangladesh, United Arab Emirates, Turkey and Belarus are likely to start building this year and Jordan and Saudi Arabia following in 2013 as of this week, the I a report [00:26:00] 63 new reactors under construction in 15 countries. The top constructors are China with 26 Russia with 10 India with seven and South Korea with three. The remaining 11 countries are building one or two reactors. Speaker 3: Technology review.com reports that researchers at Microsoft have made software that can learn the sound of your voice and then use it to speak a language that you don't. The system could be used to make language tutoring software more [00:26:30] personal or to make tools for travelers. In a demonstration at Microsoft's Redmond, Washington campus in early March, Microsoft research scientist Frank soon showed how his software could read out text in Spanish using the voice of his boss, Rick Rashid, who leads Microsoft's research efforts in a second demonstration soon used his software to grant Craig Mundie, Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer, the ability to speak Mandarin. [00:27:00] Frank soon created the system with his colleagues at Microsoft Research Asia, the company's research lab in Beijing, China. The system needs around an hour of training to develop a model, able to read out any text in a person's own voice. That model is converted into one able to read out text in another language by comparing it with a stock text to speech model for the target language. Individual sounds used by the first model to build up words using a [00:27:30] person's voice and his or her own language are carefully tweaked to give the new texts to speech model, a full ability to sound out phrases. In the second language, someone says that this approach can convert between any pair of 26 languages including Mandarin Chinese, Spanish and Italian Speaker 8: nature. News reports that researchers from the University of California, San Francisco and the Howard Hughes Medical Institutions Janelia Farm Research Center [00:28:00] near Ashburn, Virginia. I found that male fruit players are more likely to choose to consume alcohol if they have been sexually rejected by females. The key seems to be in Neuropeptide F, which is generated as a reward for either sex or alcohol consumption. When fly's denied of sex are given neuropeptide f they avoid alcohol and mammals. No transmitter y might act similarly for more information. 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Nicholas McConnell, PhD candidate in Astrophysics at UCB summer 2012, and Jeff Silverman, PhD of Astrophysics from UCB in 2011, part one of three, talk about their work with supernovae and black holes. To help analyze astronomy data go to www.galaxyzoo.org or www.planethunters.orgTranscriptSpeaker 1: Spectrum's next Speaker 2: [inaudible].Speaker 1: Welcome to spectrum the science and technology [00:00:30] show on k a l x Berkeley, a biweekly 30 minute program bringing you interviews featuring bay area scientists and technologists as well as a calendar of local events and news. Speaker 3: Good afternoon. My name is Brad Swift. I'm joined today by a spectrum of contributors, Rick Karnofsky and Lisa Katovich. Our interview is with Jeff Silverman, a recent phd in astrophysics from UC Berkeley and Nicholas McConnell, a phd [00:01:00] candidate unscheduled to be awarded a phd in astrophysics by UC Berkeley this summer. Jeff and Nicholas have generously agreed to help spectrum present a three part astronomy survey explaining the big ideas, recent experiments, collaborations and improvements in observation technology that are transforming astronomy. This is part two of three and in it we discussed Super Novi and black holes. Jeff, would you please start part two explaining Super Novi [inaudible] Speaker 4: observations [00:01:30] of exploding stars. These supernovae have been going on for thousands of years. Whether or not we knew what we were looking at for most of that time, we now know that those were exploding stars. Something that I did my phd thesis work on as well. I want to talk about a two exploding stars in particular that were found in 2011. The first one I'll talk about was found in late May, early June last year. It was founded by a handful of amateur astronomers, which is they find maybe hundred supernova per year. This has been going on for about a decade [00:02:00] or so. Uh, this one in particular, however, was so young and knew that somebody had emailed somebody who had emailed somebody who had actually tweeted about this new supernova. And so I got forwarded a tweet that said there's a new supernova in this very nearby galaxy and I happen to be using the Keck telescope, one of the biggest optical telescopes in the world, controlling it from UC Berkeley. Speaker 4: Saw this in my inbox. And we pointed at this supernova. We were the first ones to classify what kind of exploding start was confirmed that it was indeed [00:02:30] an exploding star and not some other, uh, asteroid that was just along the line of sight in the way or something else. Uh, and so that was as far as I know, the first time that a supernova was ever classified based on a tweet. The other Supernova, I want to talk about sort of the opposite end of having amateurs looking at a handful of galaxies. I'm part of a large international collaboration known as the Palomar transient factory PTF. And this collaboration uses a telescope down in San Diego to automatically monitor a bunch of these galaxies, [00:03:00] run these big computer programs to try and find if there is a new supernova, new bright spot in any of the images. Speaker 4: And this has been running for about two years now and we've been tweaking the algorithms to get faster and faster detections of these new spots. And so in August of last year there was some images taken in San Diego. Dr Peter Nugent, a professor in the astronomy department, was going through some of the newest candidates of what the computer program spit out and saw what looked like a very good supernova candidate and another very nearby galaxy, [00:03:30] a different one, but about the same distance, 20 or so million light years. We had an image from the night before that was very good and there was absolutely nothing at that position. So this clearly looked like a brand new spot. It couldn't be that old. So he immediately gets on the email list for this international collaboration. This was sort of the afternoon in California, but it was already nighttime in the eastern hemisphere. And we have collaborators who use telescopes in the Canary Islands. Speaker 4: So they point to it. They got not a great observation, but an observation that confirmed there was something there. And it was probably one of these [00:04:00] exploding stars by the time that they had worked on their data and emailed us. It was already nighttime in California and Hawaii. So we had the lick observatory telescopes out in San Jose as well as the Kecks in Hawaii pointing at this and absolutely confirming that it, it was a supernova. And within a few weeks we had already written a bunch of papers looking at the data very carefully. And we had actually found this supernova 11 hours after it exploded. So one of the earliest detections of an exploding star ever. People had speculated what you might [00:04:30] see that early and we actually got to throw out a lot of people's models saying we didn't see these things that you predicted possibly confirming some other predictions at this early time. Speaker 4: And this thing is still bright at its brightest. You could see it in a small backyard telescope are good binoculars from the Oakland hills. Uh, I saw it with my own eyes through a telescope, which was awesome. I think just an amazing, amazing proof of concept or success story of this huge collaboration without the the algorithms to, to run this quickly, we wouldn't have realized it was there until [00:05:00] days later without an international collaboration of friends expanding the globe. We wouldn't have been able to track it and confirm that it was the supernovas so quickly and so early and easily. So if I can ask, what's the biggest mystery about the way stars explode that you help solve by knowing about a supernova? Just a few hours after an explosion is actually happened. We'll solve as a strong word in science, but we can at least help get towards the truth. Speaker 4: As my advisor likes to say, this one that was discovered by the Palomar transient [00:05:30] factory in August is a specific kind of supernova that should have very consistent amount of energy. Sort of, you can think of it as a a hundred watt light bulb. It has the same amount of energy output always basically. So if you see it's very, very faint, it must be very, very far away. If you see it's very, very bright, it must be very, very close because it's sort of each of these objects has the same amount of light coming out of it and so we can measure very accurately how bright they are. We can compare to what we know they should be, how bright they should be, and we get a very accurate distance measurement to [00:06:00] all of these different supernova and figure out very accurate distances. How that distance has changed with time, and this is in fact how the accelerating expansion of the universe was discovered in the late nineties using these types of supernovae, which I will plug did win the Nobel Prize last year for physics and we're all very proud of that. Speaker 4: Saul Perlmutter up at the Berkeley lab was one of the winners and many of our group here at Berkeley and other places have collaborated on those projects over the years. So one thing that we aren't quite sure of, even though these are very, very consistent [00:06:30] explosions, we've observed them for a long time. We don't actually know the details of what stars are involved in the original explosion. We have some idea that a very dense star called a white dwarf made of mostly carbon and oxygen is blowing up. What exactly is around that star that's helping it blow up by actually feeding it some extra material and then pushing it over a limit to explode? We're a little bit unclear and so since this star that is feeding the mass to the white dwarf should be very close by. [00:07:00] They should be right near each other. One of the best ways you're going to observe it is right after the explosion, the explosion goes off. Speaker 4: The light and energy from that explosion could interact with the donor star that's right next door and then very quickly the explosion has expanded much further beyond that neighboring star and then it's sort of just hidden until either much, much later or perhaps never. And so by observing this supernova back in August 11 hours after the explosion and then taking subsequent observations sort of for the following few days, [00:07:30] we could rule out certain ideas of what that other star could be. There are very strong predictions. You should see some extra light in certain ways. If you had a certain type of star sitting there and we didn't see that, so it must be a very small star. Maybe something like the sun, maybe something like two times the mass of the sun. Speaker 2: Nope. This is spectrum k l x Berkeley. And you boys have been talking with Jeff Silverman [00:08:00] and Nicholas McConnell about supernova and black holes. So the Supernova is an issue. Speaker 4: Delusion of carbon and oxygen. You were saying that's great. What's the relationship of those explosions? Supernova to the black holes that were now discovered to be at the heart of every galaxy. So black holes come in a few different flavors, a certain kinds of supernovae uh, not the, the white [00:08:30] door of carbon oxygen ones. I was talking about a different flavor of Supernova that come from very massive stars that have 10 times the mass of the center bigger. They do explode as the different kinds of supernova collapse on themselves and can create black holes. The black holes end up weighing something like a few times the mass of the sun, maybe up to 20, 30 times the mass of the sun at the most. But those are sort of just kind of peppered throughout galaxies. What we've found over the past few decades and did a lot of work on lately is the supermassive black holes that can get up to hundreds of [00:09:00] millions or billions of times as massive as the sun. And those are found in the cores of galaxies as opposed to kind of peppered throughout them. And so there probably is a different formation mechanism that's still a very open question, how you make these giant black holes. But there are many, many orders of magnitude bigger than the ones that come from supernovae. Uh, and, and I'd actually say this is possibly a good segue that some interesting observation, right? Speaker 5: Progress is being made on which the most likely mechanisms are for forming these so-called seed [00:09:30] black holes that eventually grew into the monsters that we now observe at the senators of most galaxies in our own universe, in our current universe. Speaker 4: So was that a big shift then the, the idea of these supermassive black holes, Speaker 5: there's possibly a, a complicated relationship between the black hole at the center of the Galaxy and the galaxy itself, the black holes. Gravity is not sufficient to hold the entire galaxy together even though it is an extremely massive object and very near [00:10:00] to it. There's extremely powerful gravitational forces. Galaxies are so large and so extended that out in the the normal regions of the galaxy out near where the sun orbits in the Milky Way Galaxy. The fact that our Milky Way has a central black hole doesn't have any direct impact on our lives as the sun orbiting in the galaxy. On the other hand, if you consider the life cycle of a black hole starting from when it is formed from some seed object or birth process relatively early in the universe and evolving all the way toward [00:10:30] our present day universe over more than 10 billion years, black holes have very interesting variations in what they're doing over the course of their lifetimes. Speaker 5: In particular, when a black hole comes into proximity with a lot of gas, the gas spirals down and is funnel basically into the black hole and whereas some of the gas goes into the black hole and has never heard from again and increases the mass of the black hole. A lot of the guests on its way down heats up and releases tremendous amounts of light [00:11:00] because it takes time for light to travel. The distance between the object of meeting the light and us some of the furthest and therefore youngest things that we see of corresponding to very early times in the universe are in fact black holes that are swallowing tremendous amounts of gas. And some interesting discoveries that have happened recently is astronomers have been using different observational techniques to push further and further back into the universe's past, finding more and more distant black holes, swallowing [00:11:30] gas and learning about the universe at earlier and earlier times based on these observations. Speaker 5: And I think the current record holder now is a black hole that lived about 800 million years after the big bang, which translates to almost 13 billion years, 13,000 million years before our present day now. So looking that far back in time, we can no, first of all that these tremendous black holes exist that early in the universe. And we [00:12:00] can actually using techniques that follow up on the initial discovery and try to get more detailed analysis of them, we can make estimates of how massive they are. And in the case of the one that occurred when the universe was only 800 million years old, we learned that that black hole is far more massive than the black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy bowed as massive as some of the most massive black holes that we've observed today. Um, so at least in some cases, black holes appear to have been seated by things that were relatively small, bigger than the tens of solar [00:12:30] masses that Jeff mentioned, but maybe a few thousand solar masses. And yet in the very earliest stage of the universe, they were able to grow tremendously fast and actually gain a ton of mass early in the universe. And then may have lived more peacefully throughout most of the duration of the universe. Speaker 2: You're listening to spectrum on k a l x, Berkeley, 90.7 FM. Today we're talking with Jeff Silverman and [00:13:00] Nicholas McConnell, both astrophysicists. We're discussing supernova. I am black homes. This is part two of a series three. Speaker 5: Another interesting outcome of looking at supermassive black holes early in the universe is it's often easier to see them far away than it is nearby because when they're far away and we see them, that's because they're swallowing a lot of gas. Many of the galaxies in today's universe [00:13:30] don't have gas near their black holes of the black holes are quiet. Uh, and in fact, you have to make very, very precise measurements of stars orbiting in their gravitational field to even know that a black hole is there. So one of the mysteries that had been going around for awhile is if you believe the masses of black holes very early in the universe, and you see these tremendously early things, but you want to know where are they now? They've had 13 billion years to evolve. What kind of galaxy is do these black holes live in today? Speaker 5: [00:14:00] Then you need to look in the nearby universe and try to find their quiet, ancient remnants. And recently, along with a couple other researchers at UC Berkeley, some other researchers around the country, my team discovered the two most massive black holes that we know about in today's universe. Black holes more than 10 billion times the mass of our sun, more than 2000 times the mass of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way. And because these are the most massive black holes that we know about in today's universe, [00:14:30] and they're roughly correspond to the estimated masses of the most massive black holes that we observe very, very early in the universe. We think we're beginning to answer the question of what kind of environment do these very young black holes actually end up in after the entire history of the universe between them. If I could ask a question, do you other properties of the galaxies that are now hosting these most massive black holes that are different than other nearby galaxies [00:15:00] that may have less massive black holes, something like the Milky Way size. Speaker 5: One interesting thing about the galaxies that we looked at is that they're also anchoring large galaxy clusters. And so specifically we found the most massive black holes at the centers of galaxy clusters. Now that's not a perfectly robust result because to be perfectly honest, we started by looking in the centers of galaxy clusters. And so we haven't done a wide sample of other galaxies and other environments, but it's possible that there is an environmental effect [00:15:30] based on not only the galaxy that the black hole resides in, but the overall neighborhood of how many galaxies are around that central object that may have something to do with the final massive its black hole. And where do you go with this research now, Nicholas, are there specific experiments? Are you relying on certain data? Where are you drawing this information from? And so we use data from a few different telescopes because these galaxies are distant and we're trying to look at stars in a very [00:16:00] small region of space. Speaker 5: We rely on very large telescopes to give us good light collecting power and good spatial resolution. So we use the Keck telescopes in Hawaii. We also use the Gemini telescopes in Hawaii and Sheila and there is a telescope in Texas that we've done some work with and we are trying to use these telescopes to find black holes in as many galaxies as the telescope committees will allow us to look at. Uh, so each semester with the generosity of, of getting, observing time, we're able to look at [00:16:30] two or three more galaxies and hopefully over a few years we'll have a good dozen or so objects that we can search directly for the most massive black holes in addition to a few dozen that have been discovered by other teams throughout the world over the last 10 years or so. And that really is one of the big limiting factors, isn't it? Speaker 5: The access to the equipment because there's so much going on in astronomy. Everybody's in the queue. Yeah, that's right. A, just like most scientists apply for amounts of funding from [00:17:00] various organizations, astronomers do that. In addition to applying for telescope time, the oversubscription rates for many of the biggest telescopes, the Hubble space telescope, the Keck telescopes is something like eight to one 10 to one. So the total number of requested hours is something like eight or 10 times the number of nighttime hours. There are in a semester or in a year, so it's, it's very much like a funding situation and there is so many nighttime hours and there's so many telescopes in the world. It's very competitive and we're very lucky when we do get access to [00:17:30] these huge telescopes with amazing instruments and computing power. How does that allocated time work when you want to make observations within a couple of hours of something that you've just heard about? So that's a great question. There's been something that has been used by astronomers over sort of the last decade but really a lot in the last five years called target of observations Speaker 4: too is as we call them and it's sort of in addition to or separate from your standard classically scheduled nights where you will use the telescope on this night. You can [00:18:00] also apply if you have a good science case, which many of us do, especially for these kinds of exploding stars that go off and we want to look at it very quickly, you can apply for time that is allocated through this t o program. And basically what it is is the telescope committees have said, okay, you get so many times to interrupt any observer and say you have to go look at this. And as an observer at that observatory, you know that that's part of the program and that at any point somebody could call you and say, drop what you're doing and go move over to [00:18:30] this. And many times people want to do the best science and are very happy to help out. And oftentimes there'll be offered co-authorship or at least acknowledged to, you know, thanking them for their help. Uh, certainly for these two Supernova I spoke about earlier, we definitely used our target of opportunity and they did turn out to be these very interesting supernovae Speaker 6: [inaudible]. That concludes part two of our astronomy series. Be sure to join us in two weeks [00:19:00] when we discuss dark energy or dark matter. Part three a regular feature of spectrum is to mention a few of the science and technology events happening in the bay area over the next few weeks. Rick Karnofsky and Lisa Kovich join me for the calendar. Speaker 7: The fix-it clinic will be held on Sunday, March 25th at the Lawrence Hall of science in Berkeley from one to 4:00 PM bring your broken non-functioning [00:19:30] things, electronics, appliances, computers, toys, and so on. For assessment, disassembly and possible repair. We'll provide workspace specialty tools and guidance to help you take apart and troubleshoot your item. Whether we fix it or not, you'll learn more about how it was manufactured and how it worked. This is a family friendly event. Children are hardly invited. This event is included in admission to the Lawrence Hall of Science. Speaker 3: The Mount Diablo Astronomical Society [00:20:00] holds its general monthly meetings the fourth Tuesday of each month, except for November and December. At the March 27th meeting, UC Berkeley Professor Jeff Marcy will speak about the future directions in extra solar planet investigations. The meeting begins at 7:15 PM and lasts until 9:30 PM the event will be held at the Concord Police Association facility. Five zero six zero Avi Law road in Concord. The society website is m [00:20:30] d a s. Dot. N. E. T. The computer history museums Speaker for March 28th will be New York Times magazine writer John Gardner who will talk about his book, the idea factory bell labs and the great age of American innovation to cake. Speaker 8: You edis Dave Iverson Bell labs was the most innovative production and research institution from the 1920s to the 1980s at its peak, bell labs employed nearly 15,000 people. [00:21:00] 1200 had PhDs. 13 would go on to win Nobel prizes. These ingenious, often eccentric men would become revolutionaries and sometimes legends, whether for inventing radio astronomy in their spare time and on the company's dime, riding unicycles through the corridors or pioneering the principles that propelled today's technology. Bell labs combined the best aspects of academic and corporate worlds, hiring the brightest and usually the youngest minds creating a culture and even architecture that [00:21:30] forced employees in different fields to work together in virtually complete intellectual freedom with little pressure to create moneymaking innovations in Gartner's portrait. We come to understand why both researchers and business leaders look to bell labs as a model and long to incorporate its magic into their own work. The talk starts at seven at the Computer History Museum, 14 Zero One north shoreline boulevard and mountain view. Visit www.computer history.org to register Speaker 7: [00:22:00] Thursday April 4th from three to 4:00 PM Andy Grove, Co founder and former CEO of Intel will speak on the UC Berkeley campus. His talk is titled of microchips and Men Tales from the translational medicine front. Andy Grove had a major influence on the ascent of micro electronics. Can a similar technological advance be achieved in medicine? He will discuss how we might open the pipeline to get life changing technologies to market without increasing the cost of care. [00:22:30] This event will be at the Sibley auditorium in the Bechdel engineering center. On the UC Berkeley campus. Speaker 8: The Marine Science seminar brings local engineers, physicians, computer programmers, and research scientists to speak to high school students and other interested people. It happens six Wednesdays per semester, seven 30 to 8:30 PM at the Terra Linda High School in San Rafael in the physiology lab. Two zero seven the guests for April 4th to meeting is the lead [00:23:00] of Pixars research and future spectrum guest, Tony rose. He will present on math in the movies. Film making is undergoing a digital revolution brought on by advances in areas such as computer technology, computational physics, geometry, and approximation theory. Using numerous examples drawn from Pixars feature films. This talk will provide a behind the scenes look at the role that math plays in the revolution. Visit www.marinescienceseminar.com [00:23:30] now news with Rick, Lisa and myself last September, the opera experiment located under the Grand Sazo Mountain in central Italy reported measuring neutrinos moving at faster than the speed of light from cern in Switzerland. Speaker 8: The Icarus experiment located in meters away from opera has published a preprint on the archive on March 15th showing that neutrinos move at speeds close to the speed of light, but that there is no evidence that they exceeded [00:24:00] opera is measurement was conducted with 10 microsecond pulses while Icarus was conducted with pulses that were only four nanoseconds, 2,500 times shorter. This led to far more accurate timing measurements. Opera head claim neutrinos arrived 60 nanoseconds before it would be predicted, but scientists had remained skeptical in part due to issues with timing [inaudible], Icarus, LVD, and opera. We'll all be making new measurements with pulse beams from cern in May to give us the final verdict Speaker 7: [00:24:30] according to technology review.com and the I a. E. A website. The disaster at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi plant a year ago prompted nations that generate atomic power to reexamine the safety of their reactors and even reevaluate their nuclear ambitions. Several countries have completely changed course. Japan has taken offline 52 of its 54 reactors and the future of nuclear power there is extremely uncertain. Germany shutdown seven reactors, [00:25:00] also elected not to restart another that had been down for maintenance and plans to decommission its remaining nine reactors by 2022 Italy, Switzerland and Mexico have each retreated from plans to build new nuclear plants and Belgium's government which took over in 2011 wants to make the country nuclear free by 2025 several other economically developed countries including the u s the United Kingdom and France are still generating roughly the same amount as they were before the Fukushima disaster and maintain [00:25:30] modest plans for future construction of additional reactors. But the future of nuclear power in the developing world is a different story. According to the International Atomic Energy Agency or I, a 45 countries are now considering embarking on nuclear power programs as Vietnam, Bangladesh, United Arab Emirates, Turkey and Belarus are likely to start building this year and Jordan and Saudi Arabia following in 2013 as of this week, the I a report [00:26:00] 63 new reactors under construction in 15 countries. The top constructors are China with 26 Russia with 10 India with seven and South Korea with three. The remaining 11 countries are building one or two reactors. Speaker 3: Technology review.com reports that researchers at Microsoft have made software that can learn the sound of your voice and then use it to speak a language that you don't. The system could be used to make language tutoring software more [00:26:30] personal or to make tools for travelers. In a demonstration at Microsoft's Redmond, Washington campus in early March, Microsoft research scientist Frank soon showed how his software could read out text in Spanish using the voice of his boss, Rick Rashid, who leads Microsoft's research efforts in a second demonstration soon used his software to grant Craig Mundie, Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer, the ability to speak Mandarin. [00:27:00] Frank soon created the system with his colleagues at Microsoft Research Asia, the company's research lab in Beijing, China. The system needs around an hour of training to develop a model, able to read out any text in a person's own voice. That model is converted into one able to read out text in another language by comparing it with a stock text to speech model for the target language. Individual sounds used by the first model to build up words using a [00:27:30] person's voice and his or her own language are carefully tweaked to give the new texts to speech model, a full ability to sound out phrases. In the second language, someone says that this approach can convert between any pair of 26 languages including Mandarin Chinese, Spanish and Italian Speaker 8: nature. News reports that researchers from the University of California, San Francisco and the Howard Hughes Medical Institutions Janelia Farm Research Center [00:28:00] near Ashburn, Virginia. I found that male fruit players are more likely to choose to consume alcohol if they have been sexually rejected by females. The key seems to be in Neuropeptide F, which is generated as a reward for either sex or alcohol consumption. When fly's denied of sex are given neuropeptide f they avoid alcohol and mammals. No transmitter y might act similarly for more information. You can see their article in the March 15th issue of Science Speaker 6: [00:28:30] [inaudible] [inaudible] spectrum shirts are gradually being made available online at iTunes university. Go to itunes.berkeley.edu and click through to Berkeley on iTunes. Then search for Calex 99.7 FM to finer the spectrum podcasts. [inaudible] [00:29:00] music heard during the show is from a low stone at David's album titled the Folk in Houston made available by creative Commons license 3.0 attribution. [inaudible]. Thank you for listening to spectrum. If you have comments about the show, please send them to us via email. Our email address is spectrum [00:29:30] dot k a l s@yahoo.com join us in two weeks at this same time. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Datum: 885 april 1985/550 februari 1986/1060 oktober 1984 (855 april foutief) Gasten: Kunstenaar en tuinarchitect Louis LeRoy (telefoon), televisiemakers Daan en Willem Ekkel (studio) en zanger Rick de Leeuw van de Tröckener Kecks (studio) Met ondermeer en onder andere: St. John- He ha ho, wat moet ik poepen. Rff-tune. Country Joe and the Fish- [...]

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 In deze uitzending o.a.: -begin uitzending, tune en inleiding; -in de rubriek ‘Nieuwe platen vliegen om mijn oren’ ‘Tröckener Kecks’ met ‘Naar de top’ en ‘I’m a Gambler ‘ van Madonna; -Bredduvang, de filmrubriek van Jaap Knasterhuis, met de platentip en de filmtip van Jaap Knasterhuis. Zijn platenkeus is ‘Corrina Corrina’ van  Bob Dylan; [...]