Podcasts about Novaya Zemlya

British explorer Henry Hudson goes searching for a new route to Asia. His first attempt it to go north - to the North Pole and over the top of the world. When that doesn't work, he goes east - over Russia and towards Novaya Zemlya.  The Explorers Podcast is part of the Airwave Media Network: www.airwavemedia.com Interested in advertising on the Explorers Podcast? Email us at advertising@airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Malik grew up in Carolina in the US and spent time studying history and social science, even living in the Middle East. His perspective on the war today is pro-Palestinian, as he favours the plight of the underdogs. His Instagram is theloniousleek. The Historical marker includes Nicholas II and the end of constitutional monarchy, The Soviets detonating Tsar Bomba over Novaya Zemlya island in the Arctic Ocean;  a fourteenth-century battle with Christians and Muslims and the War of the Worlds broadcast. Support the showThanks for listening. Please share the pod with your mates, and feel free to comment right here! Write to Bob on his email -- bobmendo@AOL.comLink to https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100078996765315 on Facebook. Bobs Your Uncle features the opinions of Bob Mendelsohn and any of his guests.To financially support the podcast, go to the Patreon site and choose Gold, Silver or Bronze levels. Thanks for that! https://www.patreon.com/BobsYourUncle To read Bob's 1999 autobiography, click this link https://bit.ly/StoryBob To see photos of any of Bob's guests, they are all on an album on his Flickr site click here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/bobmendo/albums/72177720296857670

Looks like everyone is preparing for a party.  Between Russia's potential un-signing of a nuclear test treaty, threats to test "if the United States does," and refurbishments at Novaya Zemlya, things aren't looking great for the longevity of nuclear test ban norms. China and the U.S. have been modernizing too, though the U.S. has offered to allow monitors on-site to verify U.S. lack of testing.    Jeffrey and Aaron sit down to talk about the recent developments in Russia, and the likelyhood that there will be a return to explosive nuclear testing in the future.   The Era Without Arms Control continues, and threatens to deepen.   Support us over at Patreon.com/acwpodcast!

In this eye-opening episode of TCAST, Alexander McCaig and Jason Rigby dive deep—literally—into the consequences of our insatiable thirst for groundwater. Can human activity really impact the tilt of the Earth's axis? The revelation that rampant groundwater pumping has led to measurable shifts in the planet's rotation is more than just groundbreaking—it's a testament to the scale of human influence on our planet. Join us as we explore how and why this is happening and what it means for our future. Show Notes: Introduction A quick recap of the article from Scientific American by Davide Castelvecchi. The astonishing fact: Earth has lost over 2 trillion tons of groundwater between 1993 and 2010. The Earth Wobbles Explanation of how the tilt of Earth's axis is generally stable. How significant shifts can occur when large masses relocate within and on the surface of the planet. A Deeper Dive with Ki-Weon Seo's Insights Discussing Seo's findings and his journey to understand the changes in Earth's water content. Unraveling the mystery: how groundwater was the missing piece in explaining the tilt. Gravitational Surveys & Their Revelations The link between irrigation practices, particularly in northwestern India and western North America, and depletion of underground reservoirs. How this depletion has contributed to global sea-level rise. Consequences & Future Implications Delving into the potential outcomes of the shift in Earth's axis. The direction of the shift: towards Russia's Novaya Zemlya islands. Allegra LeGrande from NASA's take on the impact of this research. Closing Thoughts The broader theme: the undeniable impact of human activities on Earth. How data and technology can help us become more aware and perhaps find solutions. Upcoming on TCAST A sneak peek into future episodes and exciting guests. Recommendations & References: Rampant Groundwater Pumping Has Changed the Tilt of Earth's Axis - Scientific American Research by Ki-Weon Seo, geophysicist at Seoul National University. Insights from Allegra LeGrande, a climate scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Connect with TCAST: Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and wherever you get your podcasts. Stay updated with the latest trends in big data, AI, and humanity. Dive deep with TCAST.

Jeffrey and his team fear no cloud. Working with Capella Space to acquire cloud-piercing synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data, the MIIS team has been monitoring eternally-cloudy Novaya Zemlya, Russia, for evidence of Burevestnik nuclear-powered cruise missile tests. Evidence pointed to the Burevestnik test site being revived after the previous failures, and the team started utilizing radar returns to obviate the satellite-imagery-frustrating weather that plagues Russia's northern nuclear test ranges.  Jeffrey and Aaron discuss remote sensing technical education, and the value of teaching practical imagery interpretation, technical processing skills, and how to evaluate imagery at a non-technical level.  Previous Episodes: Discussing the tragic accident during the previous Burevestnik test. Links of Note: Zachary Cohen's CNN article on monitoring the Burevestnik. Support us over at Patreon.com/acwpodcast!

Nommé ainsi d'après le nom russe d'un archipel situé dans l'océan Arctique, l'effet Novaya Zemlya est en réalité un mirage solaire, observé pour la première fois à la fin du XVIe siècle. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this day in Tudor history, 25th September 1525, explorer, navigator and naval administrator Stephen Borough (Burrough) was born at Borough House, Northam Burrows, Northam, in Devon.  This Arctic explorer learnt his navigational skills from first his uncle and then Spanish pilots in Seville. He discovered Novaya Zemlya and the Viagatz Strait (Kara Strait), which was named the Burrough Strait until the late 1800s. Hear an overview of Stephen Borough's life and career in today's talk from historian Claire Ridgway. You can see this podcast as a video at the following link:https://youtu.be/U0FlpynTWPU Also on this day in Tudor history, 25th September 1534, Pope Clement VII (Giulio di Giuliano de' Medici) died in Rome. It was rumoured that he died from eating death cap mushrooms or from fumes from poisoned candles placed in his room. Find out more about the pope and the rumours surrounding his death, plus what eating a death cap mushroom does to you, in last year’s video - https://youtu.be/QLjh4V1-mjI

Good morning, RVA! It’s 73 °F, and we’ve got another day ahead of us with highs in the 80s and a decent opportunity for rain. The weekend ahead of us looks pretty hot and pretty dry. Get after it, and remember to hydrate.Water coolerAs of this morning, the Virginia Department of Health reports 818↘️ new positive cases of the coronavirus in the Commonwealthand 25↗️ new deaths as a result of the virus. VDH reports 148↗️ new cases in and around Richmond (Chesterfield: 46, Henrico: 69, and Richmond: 33). Since this pandemic began, 300 people have died in the Richmond region. Yesterday’s trend of sub-1,000 new reported cases in Virginia continues as does a similar national trend of declining new reported cases. However, given some of the recent inconsistencies in states posting accurate data in a timely way, the COVID Tracking Project has some nice graphs looking at weekly numbers instead of daily numbers. Whatever the national, state, and local trends, we’ve now passed 300 deaths in Chesterfield, Henrico, and Richmond. That’s a lot of people.Have you put the COVIDWISE app on your phone yet? You should. It takes three total minutes! The Virginia Department of Health has a pretty exhaustive FAQ if you have any questions about the details of how this exposure notification app works.If you got a pre-filled absentee ballot application from The Center for Voter Information, it might have the wrong return address on it. Folks over in the GMRVA slack reported getting applications with a Richmond County address, which, as Virginians, we all know is not the same as Richmond City. Graham Moomaw at the Virginia Mercury confirms that the ol' city-county switcheroo accounted for 587,638 incorrectly addressed applications. Richmond, Roanoke, Fairfax, and Franklin are all names for both a city and a county. I feel intense anxiety transfer for the person who made this mostly honest mistake. However! If you’ve already sent off a wrongly-addressed application, don’t worry too much about it, they “will be forwarded immediately to the correct office for processing.” You can check your voter registration status and apply for a true and good absentee ballot through the Virginia Department of Elections website right now, today.I keep seeing candidate events pop up, and I want to let folks know about them, but, like, who wants a giant list of events taking up space in an already-too-long email every single day? Not this guy. So I went ahead and made this Google Doc to track all of the candidate events that I’m aware of from now until November. This is a stupid task I’ve given myself, but, especially in these coronatimes, I think it’s critical that people know as much about the candidates for School Board, City Council, and Mayor as possible. The next set of elected officials are tasked with building a new and better Richmond after we emerge from the pandemic, and we should have the best folks in those jobs as possible. So! If you know of a candidate event, please holler at me (ross@gmrva.com). I’m looking for public, informational events, not fundraisers or canvassing events—those are cool, too, but that’s not what I’m after.Venture Richmond (who you may remember from the cool LEGO-style parklet designsthat passed the Urban Design Committee earlier this week) together with the City’s Public Art Commission won a $25,000 grant from the Bloomberg Philanthropies' Asphalt Art Initiative. They’ll use the funds to remake the intersection right in front of Gallery5 at W. Marshall Street and Brook Road with a pedestrian plaza, an intersection mural, and a parklet. Lots of folks from that part of town are involved, and community members can weigh in by taking this survey. That’s probably you, because community members is defined broadly: The first question the survey asks is “How often do you pass through this intersection?” I’m definitely a community member, because, back in the beforetimes, I’d roll through there a couple times a week on my way to Saison Market (sigh).RVAH20, an initiative out of the City’s Department of Public Utilities, put together a 39-tweet thread about Richmond’s combined sewer system. I think this is amazing, and they should be celebrated—it’s like a PDF but in Twitter form! Plus, who isn’t fascinated by our sewers??For some reason I don’t entirely understand, the weekly unemployment insurance claims reported by the Virginia Employment Commission dropped by over 32,000—that’s a massive 9.1% change. These numbers do reflect the week ending on August 1st, and I don’t know if “August” is a magical month for unemployment insurance. Unless there’s something weird or seasonal going on here, this seems like good news. Total claims still top 350,000, so it’s a ton of folks, but still! And, because I just update spreadsheet as my job now, here’s my updated (and still pretty lazy) unemployment insurance claims graph.Via /r/rva, an overlay of the explosion in Beirut on downtown Richmond. Basically all of Downtown—from Chamberlayne, to I-95, to 17th Street, to the River—is in the severe damage zone. Since the City is only 8mi x 8mi blob, the larger six mile “max damage range” circle encompasses almost the entire city. Whoa.Today, the Henrico and Richmond City Health Districts will host a free COVID-19 testing event at Hotchkiss Field Community Center (701 E. Brookland Park Boulevard) from 9:00–11:00 AM. As always, if you have questions—any questions at all!—call the COVID-19 hotline: 804.205.3501.This morning’s longreadMy Midlife Crisis as a Russian SailorIntrospective travel writing just really hits the spot for me since I’m trapped in my house.I’ve come to Russia at age 51 to re-create parts of William Barents’s third voyage to the Arctic from 400 years ago. Crossing and recrossing the sea northeast of Scandinavia, Barents, a Dutch navigator, went looking for a passage to China, but he and 16 men were trapped by sea ice during the summer of 1596. For nearly a year, they were stranded hundreds of miles above the mainland on Novaya Zemlya, a pair of large islands extending all the way to 77 degrees north. Five sailors died, including Barents himself, who perished at sea after they abandoned their ship and he and the remaining crew tried to get home on small boats. His quest to find the lucrative route to China was a brave but dismal failure.If you’d like your longread to show up here, go chip in a couple bucks on the ol’ Patreon.

A most pleasant day to you today, my word worms! Welcome to another joyous episode of An Assemblage of Grandiose and Bombastic Grandiloquents. Now to examine today’s word, we need to first get something out of the way. ‘Serendipity’ is the seminal classic 2001 film starring Kate Beckinsale and John Cusack, which follows the romance between a New Yorker and a British woman as they let fate determine if they are meant to be together. Years later, they hope that destiny reunites them. Today, however, we are not talking about that ‘Serendipity’, dear listener, but I can confirm for you, that today’s word is: serendipity.‘Serendipity’ is a word meaning ‘the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way’. The first recorded use in the English language comes from Horace Walpole in 1754, who wrote to his friend, also named Horace, go figure, to explain an unexpected discovery he made about a lost painting by Giorgio Vasari that references a Persian fairy tale, ‘The Three Princes of Serendip’. According to Walpole, the prices were ‘always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of.’ ‘Serendip’ is an old name for Sri Lanka, also known as ‘Sarandib’ by Arab traders. It’s derived from the Sanskrit ‘Siṃhaladvīpaḥ’.One might also refer to a serendipitous invention; that is, one that is caused by chance rather than intent. Examples of serendipitous inventions include the Post-It, silly putty, velcro, and the popsicle. Now I ask you, how could we ever survive a piping hot summer without the popsicle? Thank goodness for serendipity!Serendipity’s antonym is ‘zemblanity’, which means’ making unhappy, unlucky and expected discoveries occurring by design’, or, put simply, ‘an unpleasant surprise’. William Boyd coined this term in the late twentieth century, deriving the term from Novaya Zemlya a cold, barren land with many features opposite to the lush Sri Lanka that serendipity takes its name from.Isn’t language wonderful?Written by Taylor Davidson, Read by Zane C WeberSubscribe to us on ITUNES, STITCHER, SPOTIFY, or your podcatcher of choice.Find us on FACEBOOK or TWITTERBecome a Patron of That’s Not Canon Productions at Patreon!Email us at Grandiloquentspodcast@gmail.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week we join Lyra in the fish shed as the full weight of what the Gobblers are doing to the children hits her. She takes poor ‘half-child' Tony Mackarios back to the Gyptian camp on Iorek's back, towards help, hot food and sleep.Join us as we both get very distracted by lots of rabbit holes, get over-excited about fencing with Iorek and find another link to Iain's favourite talking point: Tsar bomba! Again!------To find out more about the little-understood phenomenon of takotsubo cardiomyopathy (or ‘broken heart syndrome'), start here!If you want to learn more about Svalbard in our world, start by travelling here and then we certainly recommend Dark Matter by Michelle Paver (available here or as a brilliantly performed audiobook) - it's not for the faint-hearted!We talk more about Novaya Zemlya and Tsar Bomba this episode - we don't know why you expected anything less.We highly recommend you check out the astounding town coat of arms for Zheleznogorsk, here…it has to be seen to be believed!Do you also have an urge to use random objects as a size-reference? This site has a number of wierd and wonderful suggestions.------Music by: Jaymen Persaudwww.thedarkmaterialpodcast.comPatreon: www.patreon.com/darkmaterialpodcastTwitter: @darkmaterialpodInstagram: @thedarkmaterialpodcastFacebook: www.facebook.com/thedarkmaterialpodcast

Türkiye’de Ağır Müziğin Geçmişi’nin altıncı podcastinde Türkiye’de Punk ve Yeraltı Kaynaklarının Kesintili Tarihi kitabından gruplar var: Headbangers, Novaya Zemlya, LSD, Noisy Mob, Ask It Why, Tampon, Radical Noise, Rashit ve Tünay Akdeniz (Grup Çığrışım). İyi dinlemeler... Facebook sayfamız: https://www.facebook.com/turkiyedeagirmuzigingecmisi Twitter sayfamız: https://twitter.com/trde_agir_muzik YouTube Kanalımız: http://youtube.com/c/turkiyedeagirmuzigingecmisi

The United States intelligence community, or a portion of it, has concluded that Russia is conducting very low-yield nuclear tests. Aaron and Jeffrey discuss past allegations of nuclear testing, open source monitoring of Russia's nuclear test site at Novaya Zemlya and how the Trump Administration might change its mind on the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Support us over at Patreon.com/acwpodcast!

A polar bear invasion on some Russian islands had resulted in a state of emergency. The bears appeared in towns on Russia's Novaya Zemlya [noh-VUH-yuh ZEM-lee-ah] islands. These animals invaded the towns because vast areas of sea ice where they hunt melted due to climate change. The disappearance of ice forced the creatures to travel to a wide area of land to search for food. This area of land included places where people live and work. Upon invading the towns, the bears disrupted the residents' daily routines by forcing their way into homes, buildings, and even a military base. Some of the bears also attacked people, causing fear of more attacks in the future. In spite of the attacks, the people in the affected areas are forbidden from shooting the bears because these animals are considered a threatened species. Because of this, the towns' residents came up with some safety measures. These include barricading themselves in their homes, building additional fences near kindergartens, using more secure transportation to travel to workplaces, and getting dogs for security. However, these added security measures proved futile against the bears. The creatures refused to be driven away even with the use of police patrol vehicles, dogs, and other means of warding them off. To resolve the crisis, the Russian government sent experts to capture the bears and take them out of the islands. If preventing more bear attacks is not possible at the moment, a plan of eliminating them through selective killing will be implemented.

This is Scott Amyx with today’s Climate Change Flash Briefing. Happy Valentine’s Day! Who doesn’t love polar bears, right? But what happens when dozens of hungry polar bears come to your town looking for food? About 50 Arctic polar bears have invaded the little town of Belushya Guba, located on the Novaya Zemlya archipelago stretching in the Arctic Ocean. The Russian officials in the region have declared a state of emergency. One local official commented, “I have been in Novaya Zemlya since 1983, but there have never been so many polar bears in this area.” Polar bears have entered homes and businesses. Some have chased local residents, taken over playgrounds and feasted on garbage. The local residents are scared to leave their homes or let their children go to school. So why are the polar bears invading this remote Arctic town when they should be hunting seals on sea ice? According to the World Wildlife Fund, it’s because of ongoing loss of their sea ice habitat resulting from climate change. According to a study in the journal Nature, the Arctic is warming more than twice as fast as the rest of the planet. Arctic sea ice is declining at a rate of nearly 13 percent per decade. The U.S. Geological Survey warned that two-thirds of the global population of polar bears could be wiped out by 2050 because of thinning sea ice. Polar bears are literally dying from starvation. Keep listening to this Climate Change series to find out how you can make a difference. Stay tuned next time to find out why we shouldn’t rejoice about bugs going extinct. And to learn more, visit https://ScottAmyx.com/.

Pete Hegseth of Fox and Friends told everyone he hasn't washed his hands in 10 years, and then walked that back, basically explaining that it was a joke to try and own the Purell-inclined libs… nice one, Pete! Polar bears have taken over the Novaya Zemlya archipelago in Russia, eating all the trash and trying to break into everyone's house to find food. A batch of deadly homemade booze in India has killed at least 105 people and counting; and a lightning round of other headlines, including Tesla roadster may crash back down to earth one day, Barney's getting in on weed paraphernalia, dueling rallies in El Paso, and new McDonald's donut sticks. 

Welcome to what is yet another episode full of fun and laughter from those nut job nerds you all hate to love or love to hate? First up we have the Professor telling us about how Tencent Games is planning to use police databases to restrict access to video games; which angers Buck due to breach of privacy issues and the reality that information will be flowing both ways. Professor is excited to see who is going to be the first criminal located by the police using video games to track him down. Ahhh, China, wanting to be the world’s number 1 in everything is now tackling the obstacle of behaving with extreme stupidity on an international level.This week the DJ brings us a story about the Deadwood tele-movie. Then the discussion delves into the range of movies and does Netflix and other streaming services spell the end of cinemas? Trust me, this is when you want to sit back with a cup of tea and watch the sparks fly. Best news is that apparently most of the original cast is back for this, including Ian McShane. Also some other movies in the works are Braking Bad, a new Super Mario movie (please, please, please don’t be a crappy as the last one) and also Steven Universe. So we will get to enjoy more from Dakota, check in on the crystal meth scene and hope the DJ stops doing weird accents.Buck brings us news of a real life working tractor beam that has been developed in Oz! A team working at the University of Adelaide has made science-fiction a reality for us, although on a reduced scale. But it is a start and now we have lasers and a tractor beam, now we need force fields and shields, please. Buck and the Professor geek out about the possibilities that this tractor beam represents for the future; which in reality is pretty darn sweet, right?Also we hope everyone who attended Supanova Brisabne had as much fun as we did. It was awesome meeting so many fantastic people, check the Facebook page to see some of them, and that is only a tiny sample of how incredible it was. Until next time stay safe, stay nerdy and we hope you enjoy.EPISODE NOTES:Tencent Games’ unique approach to gaming- https://www.engadget.com/2018/11/05/tencent-games-to-verify-ids-for-children/Deadwood TV movie starts shooting- https://www.empireonline.com/movies/news/deadwood-movie-starts-shooting/Tractor beams- http://www.sci-news.com/physics/tractor-beam-atoms-06569.htmlGames currently playingBuck- Mafia - https://store.steampowered.com/app/40990/Mafia/Professor- FAR: Lone Sails - https://store.steampowered.com/app/609320/FAR_Lone_Sails/DJ- Guns of Icarus - https://store.steampowered.com/app/209080/Guns_of_Icarus_Online/Other topics discussedEquifax data breach- https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-08/smiley-credit-check-australians-financial-information-at-risk/8887198My Health Record government website- https://www.myhealthrecord.gov.au/Oldpeoplefacebook reddit page- https://www.reddit.com/r/oldpeoplefacebook/PUBG Lawsuit- https://www.pcgamer.com/pubg-corp-has-filed-a-lawsuit-against-epic-games/Days of Our Lives- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Days_of_Our_LivesBreaking Bad TV movie in the works- https://thenewdaily.com.au/entertainment/movies/2018/11/08/breaking-bad-movie/Fear the Walking Dead- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_the_Walking_DeadWalking dead TV movies in the works- https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2018/11/rick-grimes-walking-dead-adventures-will-continue-in-movies/A new Super Mario movie- https://variety.com/2018/film/news/super-mario-bros-animated-movie-illumination-1203021006/Steven Universe TV movie- https://www.polygon.com/2018/7/21/17597892/steven-universe-the-movie-trailer-sdcc-2018Netflix vs Hollywood- https://newrepublic.com/article/148102/can-netflix-take-hollywoodPeter Cushing – Star Wars Actor- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_CushingThe Crow – 1994 movie- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crow_(1994_film)Deepfakes- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeepfakeMore info about Tractor beams- https://journals.aps.org/prapplied/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.10.044034Boaty McBoatface- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boaty_McBoatfaceFirst object to be teleported from Earth to the Moon- https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608252/first-object-teleported-from-earth-to-orbit/The Jaunt – A Stephen King short story- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_JauntGun of Icarus – Mobula ship- http://gunsoficarusonline.wikia.com/wiki/MobulaFirst voyage of James Cook- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_voyage_of_James_CookRichard Feynman – American theoretical physicist- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_FeynmanMargret Hamilton - American computer scientist, systems engineer, and business owner- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Hamilton_(scientist)Hedy Lamarr - Austrian-born American film actress and inventor.- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_LamarrSatan 2 – The Super Nuke- https://metro.co.uk/2018/03/15/russia-set-test-super-nuke-satan-2-missile-capable-wiping-britain-twice-7390285/Melbourne Cup 2018 winner – First British trained horse- https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/nov/06/melbourne-cup-won-by-british-horse-and-british-trainer-for-the-first-timeThe Story of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid- https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2013/jul/11/butch-cassidy-sundance-kid-reel-historyShoutoutsFamous Birthdays6 Nov 1946 – Sally Field, American actress (Forrest Gump, Gidget, Flying Nun), born in Pasadena, California - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Field6 Nov 1948 –Glenn Frey, American rock vocalist (Eagles-Take it Easy), born in Detroit, Michigan - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Frey6 Nov 1988 – Emma Stone, American actress who has been the recipient of such accolades as an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Golden Globe, she was the highest-paid actress in the world in 2017. She appeared in Forbes Celebrity 100 in 2013, and in 2017, she was featured by Time as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Born in Scottsdale, Arizona - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Stone7 Nov 1728 – Capt James Cook, was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy. Cook made detailed maps of Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific Ocean, during which he achieved the first recorded European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands, and the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cook7 Nov 1867 - Marie Curie, Polish-French scientist who discovered radium and the 1st woman to win a Nobel Prize (1903, 1911), born in Warsaw, Poland - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_curie8 Nov 1431 - Vlad III also known as Vlad the Impaler or Vlad Dracula , Wallachian prince, born in Sighișoara, Transylvania, Romania - https://www.onthisday.com/people/vlad-the-impaler8 Nov [O.S. 29 October] 1656 - Edmond Halley, English mathematician and astronomer (Halley's comet), born in Haggerston, Middlesex - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmond_Halley8 Nov 1847 - Bram Stoker, Irish theatre manager and author (Dracula), born in Dublin, Ireland (d. 1912) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_StokerEvents of Interest30 Oct 1961 – Tsar bomba was tested over the Mityushikha Bay nuclear testing range, north of the Arctic Circle over the Novaya Zemlya archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. The bomb was the most powerful nuclear weapon ever created. It also remains the most powerful explosive ever detonated. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba5 Nov 1605 - The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, in earlier centuries often called the Gunpowder Treason Plot or the Jesuit Treason, was a failed assassination attempt against King James I by a group of provincial English Catholics led by Robert Catesby. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpowder_Plot6 Nov 1935 – First Flight of the Hawker Hurricane, a British single-seat fighter aircraft of the 1930s–40s that was designed and predominantly built by Hawker Aircraft Ltd. for service with the Royal Air Force (RAF). It was overshadowed in the public consciousness by the Supermarine Spitfire's role during Battle of Britain in 1940, but the Hurricane actually inflicted 60 percent of the losses sustained by the Luftwaffe in the engagement, and it went on to fight in all the major theatres of the Second World War. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawker_Hurricane7 Nov 1861 – The first Melbourne Cup, Australia's most well-known annual Thoroughbred horse race. It is a 3,200 metre race, conducted by the Victoria Racing Club on the Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne,Victoria as part of the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival. It is the richest "two-mile" handicap in the world, and one of the richest turf races. The event starts at 3pm on the first Tuesday in November and is known locally as "the race that stops a nation". - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne_Cup7 Nov 1908 – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid were supposedly killed in a shootout with police in San Vincente, Bolivia ; the exact circumstances of their fate continue to be disputed. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butch_CassidyIntroArtist – Goblins from MarsSong Title – Super Mario - Overworld Theme (GFM Trap Remix)Song Link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GNMe6kF0j0&index=4&list=PLHmTsVREU3Ar1AJWkimkl6Pux3R5PB-QJFollow us on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/NerdsAmalgamated/Email - Nerds.Amalgamated@gmail.comTwitter - https://twitter.com/NAmalgamatedSpotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/6Nux69rftdBeeEXwD8GXrSiTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/top-shelf-nerds/id1347661094RSS - http://www.thatsnotcanonproductions.com/topshelfnerdspodcast?format=rss

The Oppenheimer security hearing was a 1954 proceeding by the United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) that explored the background, actions, and associations of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American scientist who had headed the Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II, where he played a key part in the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb. The hearing resulted in Oppenheimer's Q clearance being revoked. This marked the end of his formal relationship with the government of the United States, and generated considerable controversy regarding whether the treatment of Oppenheimer was fair, or whether it was an expression of anti-Communist McCarthyism. I.L( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppenheimer_security_hearing) The Strategic Air Command, or SAC 1946-1992, was the air command in the United States Air Force that was chiefly responsible for the deployment and maintenance of nuclear armed bombers and missiles during the Cold War.May Tsar Bomba was the Western nickname for the Soviet RDS-220 hydrogen bomb, code name Ivan or Vanya, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated. Its test on 30 October 1961 remains the most powerful man-made explosion in history. It was also referred to as Kuzkina mat , possibly referring to Nikita Khrushchev's promise to show the United States a Kuzkina mat, an idiom roughly translating to "We'll show you!”, at a 1960 session of United Nations General Assembly. The bomb had a yield of 50 megaton TNT. In theory, it had a maximum yield of 100 megatons if it were to have included a U-238 tamper, but because only one bomb was built, this was never demonstrated. The single bomb was detonated at the Sukhoy Nos cape of Severny Island, part of Novaya Zemlya. The remaining bomb casings are located at the Russian Atomic Weapon Museum in Sarov and the Museum of Nuclear Weapons, All-Russian Research Institute of Technical Physics, at Snezhinsk. I.L (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba) The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis, the Caribbean Crisis , or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day (October 16–28, 1962) confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. The confrontation is often considered the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war. I.L (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis)

In this episode, hear stories about a particularly special manifestation of the unclean force: those water-bound spirits who are also said to be spirits of the unquiet dead; human spirits who perhaps committed suicide or died an untimely or tragic death. Perhaps because of the terrible nature of their deaths, they have been transformed, their spirits manifesting into sometimes terrifying, sometimes beautiful forms. Despite their appearances, the beings in this episode are nearly always deadly. So from the glacier-covered Russian island of Novaya Zemlya to the coniferous forests and fecund lake basins of Poland; from the great heights of the Ukrainian Carpathians to the dark waters of the Slovakian Danube, you will hear tales of water-bound beings who are dangerous to mere frail humans. While in Russia and Poland, we will encounter the Rusalka, the water-bound spirit of a woman who has ended her own life. While in the Ukraine, we will encounter the Rusalka’s sister-lore - the Mavka, the spirit of a woman who has died a tragic and/or untimely death. Lastly, while touring the Slovakian Danube, we will meet the Vodnik, the male counterpart of the Rusalka All music by Co-Ag Music (Available on Youtube) To support Mythos financially, see www.patreon.com/mythospodcast

Kick back and relax while Swedish electronic music and noise maker Erik Levander selects and presents atmospheric music for the Lake Radio. Tracklist: AGF - Breathing in Lines (AGF Producktion 2008) Luva - Do Melt the Sun (Oscillatone 2010) Ralph Lundsten & Leo Nilsson - It (Andromeda 1968) The Conet Project - 4-29 (XF) Faders (Irdial Discs 1997) Oneohtrix Point Never - Russian Mind (No Fun Productions 2009) Jarl - Withdrawn Symptones (Rev/Vega Rec. 2011) Thomas Köner - Novaya Zemlya 2 (Touch 2012) Stephane Leonard - Gloomy Monday (Serein 2005) The Conet project - 1-15 (E17) English Lady / 00000 Ending (Irdial Discs 1997) Ildfrost - Hearts perturbe (Cold Meat Industries 1997) The Conet Project - 1-01 (G2A) The Swedish Rhapsody (Irdial Discs 1997) Ganesha Ernstad Rajadaum - Onbiritoria (Rev/Vega Rec. 2006) Bernard Parmegiani - Étude Élastique (INA-GRM 1976) Derek Bailey - Tap 4 A-B (Cortical Foundation 1973,1996) Luc Ferrari - Tautologos 2, Part 3 (Electronic Music Foundation 1961, 2003) Arbete & Fritid - Fylke Airport (Sonet 1971) Anton Lennartsson - Protopterus (Komplott 2007) The Conet Project - 1-07 (G3) Gong Station / Chimes (Irdial Discs 1997) The Syncopated Elevators Legacy - The Siamese Level, Fat Collage Mix (Elf Cut 2000) Tsukimono - If We Move Apart We Fall Apart (Kalligrammofon 2006) Ljudbilden & Piloten - N. Vaerlinge (Nosordo 2008) Janek Schaefer - C1 Unfolding Honey (Crónica 2011)

See where the first person to fly an aeroplane in the Arctic took off from on his pioneering flights in the fifty-first edition.