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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeOVh7ck3D821 Paul Hill, Ralph Wilkins and Dr. Jenifer “Dr. Dust” Millard host. Damien Phillips, John Wildridge and Dustin Ruoff produce. From Dec 28, 2021. Our chat with Dr. Chris North from our live show to ease the boredom of covid lockdowns. We ask Chris astronomy questions from our listeners: • Why are astronomers so sure that the recent interstellar comet came from outside the solar system • Which is going to be the most exciting telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope or the Square Kilometer Array? • What is the most exciting discovery we can expect from the James Webb Space Telescope and the Square Kilometer Array? • How the James Webb Space Telescope and Square Kilometer Array will work. Chris North is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Physics and Astronomy at Cardiff University and host of the Pythagorean Astronomy podcast at pythagastro.uk. Chris is Director of Recruitment and Admissions and the Head of Public Engagement. Working on public engagement in print and TV, education and data visualization for a range of projects, most notably the Gravity Exploration Institute. We've added a new way to donate to 365 Days of Astronomy to support editing, hosting, and production costs. Just visit: https://www.patreon.com/365DaysOfAstronomy and donate as much as you can! Share the podcast with your friends and send the Patreon link to them too! Every bit helps! Thank you! ------------------------------------ Do go visit http://www.redbubble.com/people/CosmoQuestX/shop for cool Astronomy Cast and CosmoQuest t-shirts, coffee mugs and other awesomeness! http://cosmoquest.org/Donate This show is made possible through your donations. Thank you! (Haven't donated? It's not too late! Just click!) ------------------------------------ The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is produced by the Planetary Science Institute. http://www.psi.edu Visit us on the web at 365DaysOfAstronomy.org or email us at info@365DaysOfAstronomy.org.
Space Nuts Episode 506: Dark Energy, Square Kilometer Array, and Baby MoonsJoin host Andrew Dunkley, astronomer Professor Fred Watson, and special guest Heidi Campo as they delve into the intriguing mysteries of the universe in this episode of Space Nuts. From the latest revelations about dark energy to the exciting developments from the Square Kilometer Array and the discovery of baby moons around baby planets, this episode is packed with cosmic insights and engaging discussions.Episode Highlights:- Dark Energy Insights: Andrew and Fred explore new research suggesting that dark energy may not be as constant as previously thought, potentially weakening over time and raising questions about the ultimate fate of the universe.- Square Kilometer Array Update: The team discusses the first images from the Square Kilometer Array, highlighting its groundbreaking capabilities and the significance of its location in Western Australia for radio astronomy.- Discovery of Baby Moons: Exciting findings from the Magellan telescopes reveal the existence of baby moons forming around young planets, providing new insights into planetary formation and the potential for life beyond our solar system.For more Space Nuts, including our continually updating newsfeed and to listen to all our episodes, visit our website. Follow us on social media at SpaceNutsPod on Facebook, X, YouTube Music Music, Tumblr, Instagram, and TikTok. We love engaging with our community, so be sure to drop us a message or comment on your favorite platform.If you'd like to help support Space Nuts and join our growing family of insiders for commercial-free episodes and more, visit spacenutspodcast.com/aboutStay curious, keep looking up, and join us next time for more stellar insights and cosmic wonders. Until then, clear skies and happy stargazing.(00:00) Andrew Dunkley welcomes Professor Fred Watson back to Space Nuts(01:48) Two astronauts successfully returned to Earth after 286 days in space(06:03) The evidence that is being presented for dark energy weakening over time is tentative(15:53) The Square Kilometer Array telescope in Western Australia has taken its first selfie(24:37) Scientists trying to mitigate effects of satellite interference on radio astronomy(27:26) Scientists have finally found baby moons forming around baby planets(32:50) Andrew Dunkley: Anything to add, Heidi, to finish off podcastBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/space-nuts-exploring-the-cosmos--2631155/support.
Would you run 2 marathons a day? Brooke McIntosh has taken up the challenge to run Perth to Perth the long way round for the Blue Tree Project. We have a great chat with her about mental health and Angie shares why the interview hit pretty hard this week. If someone you know would benefit from hearing Brooke's inspiring story, then send the pod their way. Michael also does another deep dive, this time on WA's Square Kilometer Array telescope, trying to answer the question "How can an antenna take a picture?" Don't forget to stay in touch with the Michael & Angie group on Facebook, or tune in daily on Triple M and LiSTNRSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Z Ivano Novak iz podjetja Cosylab se pogovarjamo o največjem radijskem teleskopu na svetu, katerega površina zbiranja radijske svetlobe bo velikosti kvadratnega kilometra. SKA ali Square Kilometer Array je niz radijskih teleskopov, ki bo deloval tako v Južni Afriki kot v Avstraliji. Podkast lahko podpreš na https://ko-fi.com/temnastranlune! --- Zapiski: Intervju z Ivano Novak: Square kilometer array SKA Središčni procesor signalov (Central Signal Processor, opisan v SPIE članku) mednarodno sodelovanje SKA Observatory Novice: Odkrili 62 novih Saturnovih lun Vesoljski teleskop James Webb opazuje Enkelad vesoljski telesko Euclid tik pred izstrelitvijo (intervju) Dušan Petrač Aktualno: meteorski roj Perzeidi (Mednarodna meteorska organizacija - koledar) Opazovanja: (knjiga) G. Cannat, “Glej jih, zvezde! Najlepši prizori na nebu v letu 2023” Preleti Mednarodne vesoljske postaje: na spletni strani Vesolje.net, na spletni strani Heavens-Above ---- Logo: (predelan) posnetek Lune, avtorstvo NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio Zvočni intermezzo: NASA/Hubble/SYSTEM Sounds (Matt Russo, Andrew Santaguida) Glasba: Peli (Opravičujemo se za vse nevšečnosti)
When an ambitious astrophysicist discovers a lone galaxy 9.2 billion light years away, she unravels the mystery of a fossil cluster, uncovering an unexpected twist in the evolution of carbon in the universe. In this episode, learn about astronomy topics - Quasars, Big Bang, and Carbon formation in the universe - from a conversation between Andrew and Fred about Dr. Rebecca Davis' research. They discuss how carbon started forming in the universe, which is important as we are a carbon based life form. The research found that in the early universe there was more cold carbon than warm carbon and it may be due to the first generation of stars. This research also paves the way for future investigations with the Square Kilometer Array to detect neutral hydrogen during a key phase of the universe's history. Furthermore, there is an example of extreme galactic cannibalism, with a distant galaxy called 3 C 297, which appears to be alone in space due to gobbling up all it's neighbours. "During the period when the first stars and galaxies are forming, a lot of heavy elements are forming because we never had carbon before we had stars. One possible reason for this rapid rise is just that we're seeing the products of the first generation of stars." In this episode, you will learn the following: 1. Australian astrophysicists have uncovered a crucial new development in understanding the evolution of carbon in the universe. 2. An extremely distant and old galaxy, 3C 297, is all alone in space, because it ate its friends. 3. Astronomers have discovered the earliest fossil group ever found, suggesting that galaxies gobbling up their partners and friends happened much earlier in the universe than previously thought. Connect with us: Facebook: spacenutspodcast YouTube: @spacenutspodcast Twitter: @spacenutspodcst Website: www.spacenuts.io Loved this episode? Leave us a review and rating on our HQs website at https://www.bitesz.com/show/space-nuts/reviews/new/ - Thank you.
Professor Lisa Harvey-Smith, Astrophysicist & Australian Government Women in STEM Ambassador at UNSW on propelling the pathways for young women in STEM, how influential family and community are when it comes to engaging children in a more gender-balanced way. Key Insights (01:55) How did she start her leadership journey? Lisa started her leadership journey through science and research. As Lisa stepped up the ranks in her field, she started to mentor students and work on large international projects such as building telescopes like the Square Kilometer Array (the world's most powerful radio telescope) involving collaboration from around the world. (10:53) How does Lisa use the role of storytelling in shifting societal biases and how is she embedding this in her Initiative, Future You? Future You is a national awareness raising initiative to help young people understand the different pathways STEM skills can take them. Future You shares the stories of role models from different backgrounds to show young people STEM really is for everyone. By showing a diverse examples of career journeys it allow kids to use their imagination when picturing a future in STEM instead of a particular career path. For example, it explores how technology can bring a unique perspective in the work of First Nations women or, how STEM could also mean getting your hands dirty as a heavy vehicle mechanic. (23:27) What tools can Lisa share to the audience to add to their Leadership Toolbox? To focus on the big picture and identify what's truly important to you and to your organization. By cutting out the dead wood and understanding the core of an issue, you can then effectively articulate a vision and course of action for your organisation. Important Resources and Links If you'd like to learn more about how CommBank is supporting the growth of women in business visit https://www.commbank.com.au/women-in-focus.html Host of the Leading Women podcast, Shivani Gopal is a serial entrepreneur, speaker and advocate on a mission to create a more equal world. She's recognised as a leading business thought leader helping professional women navigate their careers, businesses and financial success. As the Founder and CEO of ELLADEX and Co-Founder of Upstreet, Shivani was awarded the 2022 NSW Excellence in Women's Leadership Award and the Top 50 Small Business Leaders award. As a dedicated advocate for gender equality and for closing the wealth gap for everyday Australians, Shivani launched “Equality 2050”; a campaign to achieve gender equality within our lifetimes. If you're interested in learning more about Shivani visit her website: https://elladex.com/ The Leading Women podcast is proudly brought to you by Commonwealth Bank. The series is produced by Nicole Hatherly, recorded at RadioHub Studios with post production by Cooper Silk and Iain Wilson. Things you should know: Guests featured in the podcast are speaking from their personal experiences only. As this podcast has been prepared without considering your objectives, financial situation or needs, you should, before acting on the content consider its appropriateness to your circumstances. CommBank does not necessarily endorse the views of a particular individual or guarantee the accuracy of the information provided.
Suid-Afrika spog met 'n nuwe nasionale park ná die terrein van die Square Kilometer Array, SKA, die week tot 'n nasionale park geproklameer. is. Die Meerkat Nasionale Park sal die fauna en flora van die Karoo sowel as die baie versteekte San-skatte wat in die gebied voorkom, bewaar. Kosmos 94.1 Nuus se korrespondent in Kaapstad, Fritz Platt...
Construction Begins on the Square Kilometer Array. Artemis I's iconic crescent Earthrise picture. A gamma-ray burst that breaks all the rules. SpaceX launches a new service.
Construction Begins on the Square Kilometer Array. Artemis I's iconic crescent Earthrise picture. A gamma-ray burst that breaks all the rules. SpaceX launches a new service.
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Recent protests against China's strict zero-COVID policy took a lot of people by surprise. But they might have worked. The Chinese government is now taking steps to ease the rules around the pandemic lockdowns that sparked so much public frustration. And, Sudan's military government has come to an agreement with the main pro-democracy group to ease the country back into civilian-led rule. Also, the construction of 133 new radio telescopes in South Africa has begun. They are part of a project called Square Kilometer Array, which seeks to observe outer space phenomena in greater detail and in greater breadth. Plus, a new drought-resistant wheat strain has been developed. The World is committed to telling stories that might otherwise go untold, but our listener-funded newsroom can't run without your support. Will you give today to keep our newsroom running strong and help us earn a $67,000 match?
The 365 Days of Astronomy, the daily podcast of the International Year of Astronomy 2009
Hosted by Dr. Jacinta Delhaize & Dr. Daniel Cunnama. We are joined by Dr. Michelle Lochner who is a senior lecturer at the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa. Michelle is developing new machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) tools to analyze the massive astronomical datasets of next- generation telescopes. Michelle talks to us about her work on detecting and classifying galaxies and transient events. She has also developed a code to spot weird astronomical anomalies – the so-called “unknown unknowns!” She is preparing for the vast data influx of the Square Kilometer Array (www.skatelescope.org) and the optical Vera C. Rubin Observatory with its Legacy Survey of Space and Time (www.lsst.org) Michelle is also the founder of the Supernova Foundation (www.supernovafoundation.org). This is a program designed to inspire and support young women and gender minorities who are looking to pursue careers in Physics. We've added a new way to donate to 365 Days of Astronomy to support editing, hosting, and production costs. Just visit: https://www.patreon.com/365DaysOfAstronomy and donate as much as you can! Share the podcast with your friends and send the Patreon link to them too! Every bit helps! Thank you! ------------------------------------ Do go visit http://www.redbubble.com/people/CosmoQuestX/shop for cool Astronomy Cast and CosmoQuest t-shirts, coffee mugs and other awesomeness! http://cosmoquest.org/Donate This show is made possible through your donations. Thank you! (Haven't donated? It's not too late! Just click!) ------------------------------------ The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is produced by the Planetary Science Institute. http://www.psi.edu Visit us on the web at 365DaysOfAstronomy.org or email us at info@365DaysOfAstronomy.org.
In this episode, Chris is curious about a particular technique that allows building virtual radio telescopes the size of our planet, like the Event Horizon Telescope. So we invited an expert to tell us about radio interferometry and the Square Kilometer Array, the project that will push radio astronomy to new heights.
Bio Ian Spence is the Chief Scientist at Ivar Jacobson International. He spends his time coaching the teams working on some of the world's largest and most technically challenging endeavours - such as the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project, building the world's largest radio telescope to explore the Universe - and working with industry thought leaders such as Dean Leffingwell, Dr Jeff Sutherland and Dr Ivar Jacobson to improve the art of software development. He led the creation of the OMG's Essence Kernel and many of the most popular Essence Practices. He has many certifications the most prestigious of which is SAFe Fellow. Social Media/ Website: LinkedIn https://uk.linkedin.com/in/ian-spence-agile1 IJI website: ivarjacobson.com Resources/ Books Learn more about Essence https://essence.ivarjacobson.com/ Location to get the Essence game cards (and others) – pdf: http://www.ivarjacobson.com/cards To browse the cards electronically https://pex.ivarjacobson.com/sites/default/files/practice/scrum_at_scale_2020_11.html Link for ‘Better Scrum Through Essence' Nov 2021 course: https://www.ivarjacobson.com/training-courses/better-scrum-through-essence-remote-nov-2021/tue-2021-11-23-0900 Book: Training from the Back of the Room by Sharon Bowman https://www.amazon.co.uk/Training-Back-Room-Aside-Learn/dp/0787996629/ Book: Turn the Ship Around! by David Marquet https://www.amazon.co.uk/Turn-Ship-Around-Building-Breaking/dp/0241250943 Video: David Marquet on Leadership in a Submarine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYXH2XUfhfo Article: Google's 10 Traits of the Best Managers https://www.businessinsider.com/google-discovered-traits-of-the-very-best-managers-2019-6?r=US&IR=T#6-have-a-clear-vision-for-the-team-6 Interview Transcript Ula Ojiaku: My guest today is Ian Spence. He is the Chief Scientist at Ivar Jacobson International and amongst his impressive string of achievements and accomplishments, he is a SAFe Fellow and an SPCT. Ian in this episode talks about Essence in more detail. And before we move on to the conversation, Ian will be running a Better Scrum through Essence course this November, 2021. And for you, our Agile Innovation Leaders podcast listeners, they are offering a 5% discount if you use the code AILP5OFF. Just go to ivarjacobson.com and search for the training. On to my conversation with Ian Thank you so much, Ian, for joining us on the Agile Innovation Leaders podcast. Ian Spence: Thank you for having me. Ula Ojiaku: I've been looking forward to having this conversation with you. I've been to a couple of your courses, you know, the Agile Contracting course, as well as the alpha version of the Better Scrum through Essence. And each instance I had lots of aha moments and lots of learnings. But before we get to that, could you tell us a bit about yourself Ian? Ian Spence: I'm Ian Spence. (I'm an) Agile coach and consultant, I've written some books, I've done various things. I'm a SAFe Fellow. I've worked with quite a few of the main figures. Jeff Sutherland, Dean Leffingwell. And I was with David Anderson, (Kanban man) last week. And of course Ivar. Over the years, I've spent as a coach trying to help people - sharing knowledge and getting good practice into people's hands so that they can master the basics of the agile practices and then use that as a foundation to then innovate and develop, themselves and their workforce. My job is to make others successful. That's what I like to do, Ula Ojiaku: And how did you get onto this path? Ian Spence: When I got around to the age of sort of going to university, at one point I was going to be a Civil Engineer, but then I discovered that very few of them actually get to build bridges. So that took the fun out of that. So I thought I'd like to know how to build robots. And this is a long time ago and there was one course on robotics in the UK. But robots are computers and control systems. So I did a degree in Computer Science and Control Systems Engineering thinking this would be computer controlled, but they're actually two discrete subjects in different buildings. I ended up with a degree in Computer Science and Control Engineering and I got a job as a COBOL programmer in Sheffield. My job existed to fund my musical endeavors at that time. And then I got too old for musical endeavors. So I wondered what would happen if I actually paid some attention to my career. And since then I've had some books published, become a conference speaker, worked on some of the largest, most complex projects in the world. I mean the Square Kilometer Array. I like to talk about them because one I'm allowed to. Most of the exciting things I work on - some of them nano medical technology I was involved in. I can't even talk up. I don't understand what it did and I'm not allowed to tell you, but the Square Kilometer Array is the world's biggest science facility ever built. It's a big radio telescope. It's in Wikipedia. They have a lovely public website and I'd been coaching them probably for three years now. So they're developing the software for that using the Scaled Agile Framework and agile techniques. And that's the kind of software you build super computers for. Ula Ojiaku: I wouldn't have guessed you had, any musical endeavors. And I'd love to know more about it. If that's something you're comfortable with sharing. Ian Spence: Oh! That's all in the shady past now. The keyboard player in my band has gone on to be quite a successful electronic musician and producer, but it's all very niche market stuff. So, it was fun for a bit, but that's oh, years ago now. Ula Ojiaku: So, am I right in the understanding you were part of a band and did it involve, lots of tours and did you release any records? Ian Spence: If anyone wants to do some archeology on the internet, you may possibly be able to find out the name of the band, but there's no music available. We were okay , we were pretty good, but we didn't have that magic ingredient you need to be successful. Ula Ojiaku: And what sort of instrument did you play Ian or were you the lead vocalist? Ian Spence: Oh no. I was the guitarist - that's what I played Ula Ojiaku: So how did you, arrive at IJI (Ivar Jacobson International) as the Chief Scientist? Ian Spence: Well, I was a software engineer for many years, and I was one of the first people in the UK to learn Java. I wrote the first commercially available Java course in the UK. I was doing small talk programming. Got a job with a, consultancy, started doing a little bit of consulting and then unfortunately that company – the owner decided to shut it down. So we went and had some interviews and I had job offers to go and be a serious Java programmer, or to join Rational as a consultant. So I started doing a lot of work or consulting around the Rational Unified Process. Met people like Dean Leffingwell when I was working at, Rational Software. Rational was a good place, but that got purchased by IBM. So, me and some of my colleagues decided this was an opportunity to leave. And then we sort of merged. Ivar was also leaving Rational and setting up a consultancy at the same time. So we came together then. So I ended up as Chief Scientist at IJI. Ula Ojiaku: So let's go on to, Better Scrum with Essence. Could you tell us about the course and your involvement with the Essence standard? Ian Spence: So a long, long time ago in a land far, far away, a group of people had started a new company and they had been doing a lot of work with the rational unified process. Not surprising as Ivar was one of them. And we were looking at how can we, what can we do to make this more agile? So we started looking at, is there any way we can have the practice be the first class citizen? So if you look at, Practices say like use cases as a practice, Ivar came up with that. It was the foundation for the Objectory process. It was in the Rational Unified Process. It was in lots of other processes. Most of those have gone, but use cases is still one of the most popular ways for people to capture requirements. I mean, the term use cases actually entered the English language. So practices last a lot longer. Many of the agile practices, people think they're discovering as shiny new things have been around 50 years or more. What we wanted to do was free the practices. So we did, something we called the essential unified process, which actually was made out of practices. And he thought this is a good idea, how can we make this more popular? So Ivar founded this organization CEMA, other luminaries, Tom Gilb, Hollister Coburn was there. They had set some introductory meetings. They were quite successful and, donated the underlying language. Right? So maybe more people could do practices. Ivar loves to talk about the method, prisons and method wars, but (Essence is a way to) basically free the practices. So the owners, the people who come up with a practice don't have to see their work rewritten, rebranded, recast every time someone built a method. So that teams can put together and plug their own way of working. And we've just been working on that ever since, so we've been trying to get a healthy, vibrant practice community. And one of the biggest things that's happened for Essence in the last few years is Jeff Sutherland's involvement. So scrum is described in the scrum guide as you know, 19 pages or something, maybe a few (pages) less in the last version, very succinct, very accessible, very good. Lots of good scrum training. And Scrum is in SAFe. Scrum is in LeSS, Scrum is in Scrum at Scale. People use Scrum in software, they use it everywhere. But if you look at the numbers over 50% of the people who say they're doing scrum are failing or doing it badly. So Jeff is very keen to find any way that can help people do better Scrum. Ivar and I went out to Amsterdam, met Jeff introduced him to the idea of Essence and he got the idea very quickly. He liked the idea. And I worked with him to create the first set of scrum essential cards. And these have been around; they've escaped into the ether. Lots of people have them and use them. But Jeff really liked the cards. He started using them in his training courses and he found that just as a simple, an active glossary, you can engage with, you can do lots of exercises. He likes to play a game he calls build your own Scrum. So he gives people the cards, but no context, and they have to assemble Scrum and a lot of the time, somebody on one of Jeff's course that he learned more in the hour, they spent doing that than he had in the last three years doing scrum. The idea is to bring practices to life and make them more accessible and actionable to people. You know, having things on cards, isn't a new idea. People have done that for years, but there's a language and semantics behind these cards that allow you to compose practices together. You can actually execute the language so you can generate the task. It's possible to generate the tasks from the Essence definition. If you want it to go down that route, there are checklists to help with quality. There's also the other thing we have, which we call the kernel, which is… ( holding a little card up to the camera). This defines what it entails to do software engineering, not how to do it, just the what, and that defines the methods space for software engineering. So when you load up practices into the kernel, you can see where you haven't got anything where there's things missing. You can use it to try and get balanced between the seven key aspects identified in the kernel. So, you know, as you're building your solution, are you keeping your stakeholders on board? Do you know what the requirements are? Have you got a healthy team? So much can be done with it. The Scrum Essentials are literally a hundred percent aligned with the Scrum guide, but they bring it to life. You can interact, you can play games and you can say which bits you like, and you don't like. You can look at the connection. So a really good aid for teams starting out, or just to refresh the Scrum - revisit what you're doing. A lot of people are using them and coming up with new games and ways to play them. And the, the goal is there to be a viable set of practices. And then, you can pull them together. You know, a lot of teams mix Scrum and Kanban together. Wouldn't it be great if you could take David Anderson's Kanban practice and Jeff's scum practice and have the pieces there. so you could, you could see how they fit together, where they reflect, you could merge items together. You know, I don't really care what you call the person who facilitates the agile team. You call it a scrum master. Do you call it a flow master? Do you call it a team coach, an agile coach? I don't care. What's important is that someone is playing that- has those accountabilities. Agile teams really benefit from someone who's looking, being the conscience of the team, helping them to improve. Recently I ran some workshops at the SKA. Like I say, they're very nice, cause I'm allowed to talk about them. We used Scrum Essentials - one of the scrum practices we've developed with Jeff called the scrum accelerator to help their scrum teams within a safe environment, get better at Scrum. Right? So you can take things from different places and mix them together and benefit from that knowledge. And that's, that's really what it's all about. It's a kind of Ivar's 'change the world' mission. We don't make a lot of money from the cards - we give them away for free, but hopefully it's helping people get better. And that the idea of Essence will spread and every team will be able to pick up and play with the right practices and organizations will be able to establish the kind of common operating model they need. So they have a local vocabulary within their organization, but the teams can then pick up whatever practices are going to help them the most. And even organizations, if they want to, they could mandate some practices. Most companies mandate some financial and accounting practices, because if you don't, you might well not be a legal entity and things like that. Safety critical you have standards. So we can do all kinds of great stuff. Quality checks, checklists, build life cycles. But the idea is to stop having these big descriptions of everything, which will never last because you know, which practices are improving change in new ideas all the time and have something where the way of working for the organization is as agile and as flexible and learning as much as the people in the organization as a whole. And that's the end game. It fits very well with scrum, because to use a scrum practice, you've got to pick a load of other practices. You don't have to do user stories, you could do use cases or other stuff. And it works really well with Kanban because it's all based on the idea of evolution. Ula Ojiaku: I'd have to say, having used the scrum cards that you've talked about, they are really very helpful and it does, I can testify in the sessions I've run, you know, with the teams, I support. It kind of brings things to life and it just helps. They're not wondering, 'oh, what's a daily stand up. Oh, what's a retrospective', because the definition is there you know, it's clear for them to just read and do the exercises. And one of the things I'm also in the process of trying out is designing an exercise for a team that wants to maybe start adopting some scrum practices, but they are Kanban. kind of build your own scrum, you know, pull what practices you want and don't take anything else - no more, no unnecessary overheads. I know that you have a (Better Scrum with Essence) course coming up. Do you want to tell us about this and what the, audience might expect to experience on your course? Ian Spence: Well, as you mentioned, you went on the alpha course. Ula Ojiaku: I was and I thoroughly enjoyed it Ian Spence: So it's covers quite a lot, but I did one with Jeff Sutherland on Better Scrum with Essence. You (Ula) are one of the very select few who got to go on the course and the course is, basically it doesn't teach you Scrum and it's not an alternative scrum master course. It teaches you how to use the scrum practices to play games. It covers sort of learning games, things you could use just to learn about Scrum. It covers, uh, how you can use the kernel to understand where you are. It covers the scrum accelerator and other games you can play to improve Scrum and it does cover some scaling stuff, how you can use some of Jeff's Scrum at Scale ideas, just to assess and play around with things. , you can use Scrum Essentials, you can use this with teams using SAFe -anyone, any scrum team, whether they're doing software can benefit. One of my colleagues is working at the Royal Navy, 30,000 people learning about Scrum and he's been using the cards an awful lot too. And they're not doing software development. And a lot of it is hands-on because you start playing the games. Actually, the one we're going to deliver in November is going to be a bit longer so it's very much playing games, exploring things in your groups rather than being lectured. And a lot of the games are transferable to any practice, but it's particularly useful, given that we have the access to the Scrum practices that Jeff helped us develop. So a great course for any coach, any scrum master, or any, we used to call people, call them process freaks. So if you're really interested in the ideas of Essence, this is a great way to, to learn the practicalities and how Essence would help you before you start going into the language and how to write things in Essence, but you know, people can produce their own practices. There are companies out there who are using these ideas to document their own ways of working. And it's interesting because the course would have been so much better if we'd been able to be face-to-face we'd have had so much fun playing the game. There would have been things stuck on the walls everywhere. It would have been great, but it works well online. We use Mural boards and stuff. So when people leave the course, they've got the cards, they've got the templates. You can literally, the next day I've known people go and start using the stuff that they've learned so that that's great, but you can sit down and very simple in an unobtrusive way with a team, find out which bits of scrum they like which bits they don't like, which bits they're doing, which bits they're not doing and get those conversations started. Um, I did it with a team recently. They didn't have any Sprint goals. And they didn't know anything about product goal, which was introduced in the latest scrum guide. So that uncovered that in a way that was sort of non-judgmental. And then we could talk about, well, you know, how do you think it would be useful? Well, why don't you try having some things like that? You know? And if, if we say daily, stand up, we hate it. Well, there you go. There's a, there's a, that's straight away. You've got something to think about how to improve and it gets you away from all of the ‘mad, sad, glad' and all of that. And you could be proactive. One of my favorite things is just, uh, in a retro pick a card and say, ‘well, how's this one going?' So you don't have to look at everything just randomly pick one and have a discussion about it and see if we're doing it well, if we could improve. If you were a new team, and you're coming together for the first time, Scrum is a great way to start building that team working. Right. But scrum does not give you all the processes and practices you need, but some of them you'll have in your heads. Some of them, you can pull it and as you go forward, you might move away from Scrum that's fine. But if you start, if you don't do all of the essential things, then you're not doing Scrum - we're doing something else, but that's fine. It's Scrum-like as opposed to Scrum but at least everyone will know you've got this different. We can start to share those values and we can start to have stuff to build, to build out on that. And it's the same with, with other practices. Essence is quite big in the academic community. There's a whole community of university lecturers, building courses, based on essence to teach software engineering and to be able to teach software engineering in a way that's independent of the practices, some of the management practices. So they can teach software engineering and they can use scrum as a tool, but they get that nice separation so that people know what's going on. Ula Ojiaku: There's something you said earlier on about, teams being able to choose their practices and evolve. And you said something that some people might find heretic, which is that, you know, as they evolve they might move away from scrum practices. Could you expand on that? Ian Spence: Uh, well, there's two sides to this. If you, if you're doing scrum, you should be doing scrum. Well, there's a lot of people out there blaming scrum and saying it's not working and they're not, they've never done it properly. They've always done some spray, you know… water, scrum, fall, or whatever. so it's nice if we can actually have meaning behind the words we use and the practices. A lot of the time people say they're doing one thing as an excuse not to do another, right? But software development should be a profession. People should be professional. We should maintain certain standards. And if we say we're doing X, we should be doing X. But a lot of agile coaches are familiar with Shu Ha Ri. . This comes from martial arts and in martial arts Shu - you are studying the standard forms and you're doing them by the letter. And that's how you build your muscle memory. That's how you build your basics. And then when you get to Ri - you start to be able to mix and match the forms and adapt them a bit. When you get to Ri - you have transcended. If you're starting out as agile, basic forms, you need to learn as a team, Scrum and Kanban. I think every Agile coach should have their Scrum and Kanban experience. They should have the experience of doing it. Right? And, um, the cards are to help the teams get that, get that muscle memory. And then when you go up the levels, at some point, you might get to the Ri level and transcend that's when you, uh, that's when you can really invent new forms, that's when you can pick up the existing forms and put a twist on them, but it takes many years to get there. And seriously, I don't believe there are any, any shortcuts. Right. And a lot of people seem to forget how they got where they are. Practices and frameworks are where you start even things like the Scaled Agile Framework. But for me, that's not an end point it's a starting point because if you're Agile, you're inspecting and adapting. So you have to inspect and adapt your way of working, right? Now, the problem is with anything that's popular, many people have inspected and adapted it and broken it. One of my SAFe training courses, I did, someone came along from this major company and they said, well, the team have told me they're doing SAFe and she listened and she enjoyed the course and she went back and said, ‘you're not doing SAFe but you ought to be doing SAFe. So we're going to get these people to come in and help us.' So I went in to do some coaching. Now, let's say I was told that there were eight agile teams . Now, the person who was like the lead agile person in the technical side of the organization. ‘What teams have you got?' By the time they've got to team number 15, which is two testers working alone. They, they were so agile. They had self organized themselves out of agility. to get them go back again, they got put back into scrum teams and then we did the PI planning and they went and they actually delivered the MVP that they'd missed a date for three times before. So it was a very successful adoption. But what the practices do is they keep you on the straight and narrow. So master the form and then as you go up from Shu to Ha to Ri, you will be able to start adapting and inventing new practices. But you don't get to that state without going through the hard work of learning, the basic forms and the basics. I have delivered, SAFe training with Dean Leffingwell. And I delivered Scrum at Scale training with Jeff Sutherland. And I've had some very, uh, interesting experiences where people on Scrum at Scale are trying to bash SAFe; they're more similar than they are different. Your job, as a coach, isn't to rip the foundation out and say to people ‘you're not agile, you're doing SAFe. You're not Agile, you're doing that.' What your job is, is to say, ‘Ah, you're doing great. What could we do better?' And if we bring some ideas, what are the other frameworks in… Lots of great ideas in SAFe, lots of great ideas in Scrum at Scale, lots of great ideas in LeSS - you're looking to improve. And, you know, if you are still doing those essential things from that framework from that practice at least you've got the commonality that people need to work as a large organization. You can start to evolve and play around and then practices can move about . I see all the frameworks as a starting point. SAFe is brilliant for lifting and shifting large numbers of traditional people and making them all agile. Ula Ojiaku: This brings me to a question really. You mentioned earlier on, , that organizations, potentially can build their own Agile framework from the ground. Ian Spence: Um, well we have to be careful when we say Agile framework. An agile framework is a pre-constructed set of practices and a reference model to help organizations create their own operating model. So every organization needs, their own operating model and that could include mandating frameworks and practices, but everyone, you know, you get your competitive advantage by having your own way of working. All right. So as organizations evolve from that standard model, that's useful in many contexts and create the one that's working specifically, uh, you know, optimized for ourselves. And reflects our learning and our skills and our recruitment policies and all those things that are part of a healthy organization. Ula Ojiaku: Thank you for clarifying Ian, however, would I be right in the understanding that what you're saying is for it to work, that has to be a shared language across the board as a fundamental… Ian Spence: I'm going to do a conference talk in Russia called, um, Agile Horror Stories. About how things go wrong. And one of the ways things go wrong is people take a challenge and blow it up and they start blaming other parts of the organizational structure. They'd start blaming all kinds of things for their inability to achieve the goals and outcomes that they had, you know. You don't have to change HR to go agile, but if you go agile, you can change HR to benefit things. So you've got to look across what, you know, what's the scope, what, what's the challenge, what commonality you need. No organization needs to have everything defined in the same way, but there are, if you want to do, you know, effectively portfolio management across the piece, you need some things that roll up and down across the backlogs and stuff like that. Then if you're going to go and talk to people, you need some consistent positions in the organization. So you know who you should be talking to, right? You shouldn't have to redefine the positions every time you changed the practice right. I did a talk at the SAFe summit a few weeks ago on the idea of the dual operating system. Now, a lot of agile people - I've seen a lot of articles - they said, ‘oh, we don't need any dual operating systems.' And what their people are showing is they haven't understood what it is. We want the agile, the value streams, which flow across our organization to work like a dynamic network. Self-organizing, self-determining we want that right now. Every organization, every human social structure will have a hierarchy in it. If you don't have a dual operating system where you separate the functional hierarchy or position in the organization, from the value streams on the network, the value is never going to have that beautiful unimpeded flow. Ula Ojiaku: Yes Ian Spence: What people are doing is they are not creating a network. They're creating a new hierarchy, right? And again, all these opposition are in pointless fights about stuff right. Now in the latest scrum guide they deliberately said, Scrum Master is not a role. It's a set of accountabilities. Basically, it's a card that someone picks up and goes, oh, I'm going to be the scrum master. I know people who act as scrum masters, who are, very senior in an organization because they run their leadership team. They run their lean portfolio management group as a Scrum. I worked at the, Gibraltar financial services commission where they did scrum all across. This is the business of regulations. They're not software. The first scrum team was the leadership team. And they were great. Every day, you'd see the CEO running to the daily stand up. It was brilliant. All right. And they were leading from the front, but you know, the person who was the, Product Owner for that group was the CEO and that's their position and that's their title. And they took on the accountability of Product Owner for the leadership team. And they had someone who was a senior coach who took on the role of the scrum master for that. But she was mainly coaching all the other people in Scrum. She was a scrum master for that particular group. So, you know, no, no changes of job titles. No, disenfranchising of people to start with, but yes, as you become more agile, you will improve everything, including the hierarchy. So yes, a lean hierarchy is better, but the big mistake too many people make is they create these sort of agile hierarchies and they do it and they haven't even dislodged the old one. So now they've got two hierarchies. So it's like, we don't need a dual operating system. We've got four hierarchies already. It's just crazy stuff. Ula Ojiaku: Some of the pitfalls you've mentioned, most recently being the one about agile hierarchy and multiple hierarchies instead of adopting the concept of dual operating systems in the spirit that it's meant to be, how can leaders in organizations, that have gone through transformations, recognize this sort of pitfalls and avoid them or remedy them if they've already kind of fallen into a rut. Ian Spence: I mean, the whole leadership question is an interesting one, particularly with some of the political leadership we're seeing in the world today. Um, but the, the idea of the leader that serves , of, uh, leaders who are empowering and delegating and stuff like that, um, is incredibly, incredibly powerful. So what leaders need is the agile mindset. Now, when you're looking at practices, right, there are millions of scrum teams in the world. So the higher up as a leader, the more it's about your mindset, your personal skill, you're not following practices. You're not doing routine type work in the same way. So what you've got to do is have that lean and agile mindset. Now, if you are leading a change, symbolic leadership is incredibly important. So you've got to lead by example. Um, you've got to understand the, the mindset and the principles. You've got to focus on outcomes, the real business outcomes, not output. You've got to learn how to use metrics and stuff like that, but you've got to go on a journey with your teams. You've got to do that kind of stuff. Um, And, you know, I've coached quite a lot of that. The biggest challenge I find when teaching, you know, leadership is something that you see at all levels of an organization as well. So every agile team will benefit from some agile leadership. Coaching is not something that's only done by coaches. Every good leader will… certainly a good agile leader will have coaching capabilities… will be developing their people. So you've got to learn about, about that kind of stuff. But the biggest problem I found when teaching, when coaching senior people say portfolio managers and stuff was basically just never turn up. they're too busy and that's not good. Don't be so busy that you haven't got time to get better. So take time to learn, take time to do experiments, do new practices. You've got to get into that. I mean, delegating authority is doing that. Doesn't mean I'm neglecting your own accountability and responsibility. So transparency and empowerment. Agility is there to empower leaders as much as the people being, led. And that's important. So all of these things can help you as an agile leader in agile, organization, you can be a better leader because you can really decrease the decision latency. You can spend much more of your time. Um, looking forwards, planning, forecasting, steering, creating the buzz, the vision and less time looking backwards. If you're learning to be an agile leader, don't get caught up in all the framework wars and all of that. It's about the mindset and about empowerment, autonomy, purpose, and all those, all those good things. I highly recommend... there's a video they use in the Scaled Agile course. David Marquee, a model of leadership, the nuclear submarine. Yeah. Yeah. So if you don't mind, um, all male or military type examples. It's a great about that leadership by intent and serves the those things. So as a leader, let's become about leading rather than chastising and administering. And management is incredibly important. Um, Google did some experiments where they tried to take a, we don't need no managers. They tried to get rid of the managers. Nobody was happy. So they bought them back. What they discovered was people like good managers. And I would assert, and I'm probably not the first person to assert this, but I can't attribute other assert anyway. Um, it's better to work for a good manager in a bad organization than a bad manager in a good one. And if you've ever worked there, I know people who have their whole career has just been moving, following a good manager anywhere. They went, wherever I go and stuff like that. And often they've gone to a bad company, but you know, you will be looked after because they have a good manager. So good managers develop the people and skills for sustainable organizations. They set the vision, they make the decisions quickly. Um, they involve more people in that decision making, but they keep their accountability, they keep their responsibilities. They don't pass the buck… Ula Ojiaku: If it goes well, it's the team. If it goes badly, the manager takes the bullets. Ian Spence: Yeah. The best managers to work for barely take that much credit. they get the credit because they've created that environment for everyone else to thrive. And, and, you know, the agile mindset, if you look at the qualities that Google said, a good manager needs, and if you compare it to the, you know, agile mindset, agile values, stuff like that, very closely aligned, they haven't normalized the vocabulary. People use the sport analogy and I'm a big arsenal fan. And I'm a big Arsene Venga fan. He would empower his players and send them out to play. He didn't have rigid systems. Jose Marino was the opposite kind of manager, right. The opposite kind of coach. But they were both fairly successful. Agile leadership is not the only style of leadership. Right? Many, many big things have been achieved by bad leaders, doing things I personally would consider unethical and stuff like that. Ula Ojiaku: But the question is how sustainable is it? People don't remember what you do per se, but they will always remember how you made them feel when they worked with you. Ian Spence: Yeah. There's stuff like that. But, um, I talked to David last week and he said that the, um, the longest living successful organization is the Roman Catholic church. Right. They go back thousands of years, and this is still the same organization and they have changed, changed considerably. But I wouldn't say necessarily of a particularly agile organization, they have quite rigid rules, but their leadership has, has, has learned and developed and listened to people and changed markets and all kinds of stuff over the years. So lean and agile leadership… it's what a lot of our organizations benefit from and need. So in basic learn about it and hopefully you're going to very successful. Ula Ojiaku: Where can the audience reach you if they want to get in touch with you? Ian Spence: well, I'm on LinkedIn. And that's the best way to contact me personally. If you want to investigate the Essence stuff, or get a hold of the scrum cards or the other cards. Then the Ivar Jacobson website. is the place to go. You can freely download that stuff and has articles about that, um, as well… Ula Ojiaku: Okay. All right, many thanks. And could you remind us the date of your Better Scrum through Essence course? Ian Spence: Possibly it's, uh, the 23rd of November. And it's a online course and it will start at nine o'clock each day, UK time. Ula Ojiaku: Okay. We'll have the Beatles and the show notes. So thank you so much again, Ian, for this. Do you have any final words of advice for the audience before we close this out? Ian Spence: The only final word of advice is stay be a lifelong learner, relentless improvement. That's something you should be looking at. So be, be curious, explore new things. Don't get you to let yourself get trapped in any of these, any of these boxes. And, uh, my other bit for the agile leaders is. If you are investigating agile, don't just allow it to clutter up what you say with more meaningless management speak. Okay. Keep it, think about it's about getting good outcomes, creating healthy, sustainable team environments, getting the flow of value, watch out for the buzzword bingo. Ula Ojiaku: Thank you so much, Ian. I've really enjoyed this conversation and I hope we'll get, to have you back on this, show some other time. That's all we have for now. Thanks for listening. I'd love to hear from you so please drop me an email at ula@agileinnovationleaders.com. Take care and God bless!
For more Space Nuts, visit our websites. Links: https://linktr.ee/biteszHQ Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.Space Nuts Episode 259 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley ●Some good news about the Square Kilometer Array. Fred has the details.●The Pentagon's official report into UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon) is released. So what are the findings?●Our listeners have questions…Ashley hits the guys up with a massive five-part one. Answers are forthcoming… For more Space Nuts, supporter links, visit the shop, buy a book, leave us your questions, and stream podcast episodes on-demand, visit our website at https://spacenutspodcast.com or the brand new bitesz.com site https://www.bitesz.com/show/space-nuts/ (mobile friendly).Find all of our show links at https://linktr.ee/biteszHQ
Paul and Bill interviewed Timothy Dolch, Ph.D., assistant professor of physics at Hillsdale College. Dr. Dolch is a member of the Society of Catholic Scientists, and he spoke in June at the Society's 2021 conference, titled, “Extraterrestrials, AI, and Minds Beyond the Human.” His talk, “The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence: An Overview,” offered his perspectives as an astrophysicist with expertise in radio astronomy. The talk, alongside others from the conference's Saturday session, can be viewed here. Here are some links to terms used during the conversation. What is a parsec? What are the transient luminous events known as red sprites and blue jets? What is the Low-Frequency All-Sky Monitor operated at Hillsdale? What are SETI and the Arecibo Message? What is the Square Kilometer Array telescope now being built? As Dr. Dolch mentioned, part of the discussion at the conference dealt with differing expectations about the process of evolution as it might happen in extraterrestrial life. He referred to another speaker, Simon Conway Morris, Ph.D., an earth scientist studying evolution at the University of Cambridge. Dolch mentioned Solaris, a science fiction novel later made into a film. You can view the film here. This classic work imagines an alternative kind of conscious extraterrestrial life form—other than what human beings might call a person. Our discussion with Dr. Dolch about the Hillsdale community included a mention of the college's Center for Constructive Alternatives.
For just on a decade, Dr Sarah Pearce has been leading the Space Science division at the CSIRO – Australia's science agency. Now she's moving over to the Australian arm of the international Square Kilometer Array. The post Dr Sarah Pearce on Leading Australia's Contribution to the Square Kilometer Array appeared first on Trekzone.
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The third episode of the Urban Astronomer Podcast's second season is an interview with Dr. Daniel Cunama, co-host of the Cosmic Savannah Podcast. Daniel is the Science Engagement officer at the South African Astronomical Observatory. He has a background in computational physics and has worked for the Square Kilometer Array and the South African Astronomical Observatory. Brief bio of the podcaster: Allen Versfeld is an amateur astronomer, an IT professional, a podcaster, a father of five beautiful kids and a barely competent chess player. He is also the director of the Citizen Science Section of the Astronomical Society of South Africa, where he promotes the uptake of Citizen Science among South African amateur astronomers. We've added a new way to donate to 365 Days of Astronomy to support editing, hosting, and production costs. Just visit: https://www.patreon.com/365DaysOfAstronomy and donate as much as you can! Share the podcast with your friends and send the Patreon link to them too! Every bit helps! Thank you! ------------------------------------ Do go visit http://astrogear.spreadshirt.com/ for cool Astronomy Cast and CosmoQuest t-shirts, coffee mugs and other awesomeness! http://cosmoquest.org/Donate This show is made possible through your donations. Thank you! (Haven't donated? It's not too late! Just click!) The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is produced by Astrosphere New Media. http://www.astrosphere.org/ Visit us on the web at 365DaysOfAstronomy.org or email us at info@365DaysOfAstronomy.org.
In this episode, we interview Nicole Thomas, a PhD student at the University of the Western Cape with an interest in the evolution of galaxies, and the super-massive black holes that lie within. We recorded this conversation only a week ago, and I really enjoyed speaking to her. I found her childhood interest in how the universe worked very relatable, and especially her need to understand what's going on underneath it all. Sadly, this is the final interview with a real astronomer of this season of the Urban Astronomer podcast, but I'm especially happy with this one so I hope you'll enjoy it. Nicole Thomas Nicole is a PhD student at the University of the Western Cape, and the Square Kilometer Array. She recently completed a stint at the department of Astrophysics as Oxford university, thanks to the UK-SA Newton Exchange Fund Links Nicole on Twitter Astro Molo Mhlaba Cosmic Soundscapes - a website containing audio recordings derived by NASA scientists, from radio signals detected by Solar System objects
Welcome to the 3rd episode of the Urban Astronomer Podcast, season 2, featuring Dr Daniel Cunnama. We almost didn't make it this week, thanks to a major technical hitch, but we worked around it and here we are. If you listened to the last episode, then you're probably expecting this to be an interview episode, featuring Dr Rosalind Skelton of the South African Astronomical Observatory. I spoke to her in June last year and we recorded an interview specifically for this episode. But when I came to actually produce the thing, the recording was gone! The gods of technology turned their back on me and gremlins ate it. So, no Ros today. Instead, I was lucky enough to get Dr Daniel Cunama to stand in for her. Daniel also works at the South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO), although in a different role, and I'm very lucky that his recording was still intact! So that's what we'll be playing in this episode, and Dr Skelton will appear in a few weeks in a later episode after we've re-recorded her interview. Dr Daniel Cunnama Daniel is the Science Engagement Astronomer at the SAAO. Daniel has a background in computational physics and physics simulations, who has worked for the Square Kilometer Array and SAAO. He is also a co-host of The Cosmic Savannah podcast. If your favourite part of Urban Astronomer is astronomer interviews, then I'd definitely recommend their show! Links Daniel on Twitter The South African Astronomical Observatory The Cosmic Savannah Podcast
Astronomy, Space, Science, Astrophysics, News PodcastStream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com/spacenuts (mobile friendly).In Episode 153 of Space Nuts - *Moon quakes….why they happen..*NASA’s asteroid strike simulation...it isn’t pretty..*The Square Kilometer Array’s new supercomputers and listener questions...The orbit of the ISS and life in our galaxy...Fred has the answers.Help support Space Nuts and gain access to the special commercial-free version of Space Nuts. Simply sign on via our new Patreon page… https://www.patreon.com/spacenuts Would you like to help support the show and get yourself one of our new T-Shirts? Details here: www.bitesz.com/shop (They make a great present…)If you like to get your hands on a copy of Dr. Fred Watson’s book ‘ ‘Why Is Uranus Upside Down? And other questions about the Universe’ it’s available as a Kindle edition from Amazon - https://www.amazon.com/Why-Uranus-Upside-Down-questions-ebook/dp/B0042P6A8K/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1536834846&sr=8-1&keywords=why+is+uranus+upside+downAndrew Dunkley has his new Sci-Fi Novel out now. Parallax - a new science fiction story about a man who is thrust back to his birth and starts his life again carrying over 50 years of future knowledge, but he's not the only one. A strange corporation called Parallax wants what he knows! Full details and where to buy a copy at https://www.andrewdunkley.com/ Subscribe, rate and review Space Nuts via all good podcatcher apps, including Apple Podcasts (formerly iTunes) (featured in New & Noteworthy), Google Podcasts (now available via the Google Play store), Stitcher, Pocket Casts, Podbean, Overcast, TuneIn Radio, CastBox.FM, iHeartRadio, Spotify, etc.RSS feed: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/BIT6774874752 To receive the free Astronomy Daily Newsletter, just join our mailing list at http://www.bitesz.com/join-our-mailing-listEmail us at spacenuts@bitesz.comWebsite: www.bitesz.com/spacenuts (mobile friendly)For more, follow Space Nuts on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Spreaker:Facebook - @spacenutspodcasttwitter - @spacenutspodcstNEW! YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC73ZXxUgxb3oi9X5bIsgY_Q Spreaker - https://www.spreaker.com/show/space-nuts Enjoying what we do? Then please share with and tell your friends. Your recommendation is the best we could possibly get. Thank you...#astronomy #space #science #technology #news #aao #drfredwatson #stargazerfred Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
INDONESIAJakarta is sinking fast. Indonesia's capital is built on ground that is subsiding as a result of flooding and sea-level rise, and about 95 percent of North Jakarta could be underwater by 2050. The government is now building a 32-kilometer seawall to protect the city.U.S.Scientists mapped one of the world's fastest-moving underwater faults in Alaska, which has a slip rate of five centimeters a year. These data could help coastal communities in Alaska and Canada prepare for earthquakes and tsunamis.THE NETHERLANDSThe world's first offshore dairy farm is expected to open near the port of Rotterdam by the end of the year. The idea is to produce food closer to urban areas, where two thirds of people will live by 2050, and to reduce pollution caused by transporting food over long distances.SOUTH AFRICASouth Africa has completed MeerKAT, the largest and most powerful radio telescope in the Southern Hemisphere. The telescope—part of the multicontinent Square Kilometer Array—will study how hydrogen gas moves into galaxies to fuel star formation.JAPANThe Japanese government has lifted its ban on juvenile use of the flu drug Tamiflu. The ban was imposed following reports of patients jumping off houses after taking the drug, but scientists have found no direct link between Tamiflu use and this behavior. NIGERIANigeria has launched its first renewable energy association, with the goal of generating about 40 percent of the country's total energy from green sources by 2030. More than 50 percent of the population currently lacks access to any energy sources.印度尼西亚雅加达快速下沉。印度尼西亚的首都建在地面上，由于洪水和海平面上升而下沉，到2050年，约有95％的雅加达北部可能在水下。政府现在正在建造一个32公里长的海堤来保护这座城市。美国科学家绘制了阿拉斯加世界上发展最快的水下断层之一，其断层滑动率为每年5厘米。这些数据可以帮助阿拉斯加和加拿大的沿海社区为地震和海啸做好准备。荷兰人预计世界上第一个离岸奶牛场将在今年年底前在鹿特丹港附近开放。这个想法是在靠近城市地区生产粮食，到2050年，三分之二的人口将生活，并减少长途运输食物造成的污染。南非南非已经完成了MeerKAT，这是南半球最大，最强大的射电望远镜。多媒体广场公里阵列的望远镜部分将研究氢气如何进入星系以加速恒星形成。日本日本政府取消了少年使用流感药物达菲的禁令。该禁令是在有关患者服用药物后跳楼房屋的报道后实施的，但科学家们发现使用达菲的这种行为没有直接联系。尼日利亚尼日利亚已经启动了第一个可再生能源协会，其目标是到2030年从绿色能源中产生该国总能源的约40％。目前，超过50％的人口无法获得任何能源。
INDONESIAJakarta is sinking fast. Indonesia's capital is built on ground that is subsiding as a result of flooding and sea-level rise, and about 95 percent of North Jakarta could be underwater by 2050. The government is now building a 32-kilometer seawall to protect the city.U.S.Scientists mapped one of the world's fastest-moving underwater faults in Alaska, which has a slip rate of five centimeters a year. These data could help coastal communities in Alaska and Canada prepare for earthquakes and tsunamis.THE NETHERLANDSThe world's first offshore dairy farm is expected to open near the port of Rotterdam by the end of the year. The idea is to produce food closer to urban areas, where two thirds of people will live by 2050, and to reduce pollution caused by transporting food over long distances.SOUTH AFRICASouth Africa has completed MeerKAT, the largest and most powerful radio telescope in the Southern Hemisphere. The telescope—part of the multicontinent Square Kilometer Array—will study how hydrogen gas moves into galaxies to fuel star formation.JAPANThe Japanese government has lifted its ban on juvenile use of the flu drug Tamiflu. The ban was imposed following reports of patients jumping off houses after taking the drug, but scientists have found no direct link between Tamiflu use and this behavior. NIGERIANigeria has launched its first renewable energy association, with the goal of generating about 40 percent of the country's total energy from green sources by 2030. More than 50 percent of the population currently lacks access to any energy sources.印度尼西亚雅加达快速下沉。印度尼西亚的首都建在地面上，由于洪水和海平面上升而下沉，到2050年，约有95％的雅加达北部可能在水下。政府现在正在建造一个32公里长的海堤来保护这座城市。美国科学家绘制了阿拉斯加世界上发展最快的水下断层之一，其断层滑动率为每年5厘米。这些数据可以帮助阿拉斯加和加拿大的沿海社区为地震和海啸做好准备。荷兰人预计世界上第一个离岸奶牛场将在今年年底前在鹿特丹港附近开放。这个想法是在靠近城市地区生产粮食，到2050年，三分之二的人口将生活，并减少长途运输食物造成的污染。南非南非已经完成了MeerKAT，这是南半球最大，最强大的射电望远镜。多媒体广场公里阵列的望远镜部分将研究氢气如何进入星系以加速恒星形成。日本日本政府取消了少年使用流感药物达菲的禁令。该禁令是在有关患者服用药物后跳楼房屋的报道后实施的，但科学家们发现使用达菲的这种行为没有直接联系。尼日利亚尼日利亚已经启动了第一个可再生能源协会，其目标是到2030年从绿色能源中产生该国总能源的约40％。目前，超过50％的人口无法获得任何能源。
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FUTURE MARTIANS PODCAST Episode 12: Dianne Meets Divashen Duration: 25:07 “Imagine an era in which we are a multi-planet species” In episode 12 of the Future Martians podcast, co-host Dianne McGrath introduces fellow Mars One astronaut candidate, Divashen Govender. Divashen is from Durban, South Africa; and is a software engineer and physicist. Dianne speaks with Divashen about the Mars One mission, his motivations for applying for this one-way mission to Mars, and his philosophy on life before Mars. EPISODE TOPICS 00:00 Introduction 02:05 The history of Divashen’s name; and the history of Indians in South Africa 06:25 A lifetime love of space and developing competitive curiosity 07:17 The ultimate dream of going to space 09:04 Parents confusing Mars One for a summer camp 10:48 From physics to software engineering and science outreach 13:35 The unique challenges of software engineering in rocketry 14:47 Bit-switching from space radiation 15:34 Mars One reigniting a space race and technology from war/space 19:50 Having an “Earth list” before going to Mars 22:29 Divashen’s final thoughts, and how to follow Divashen’s journey 24:16 Closing announcements. Links to topics mentioned in the podcast - Divashen’s social media profile: Twitter: https://twitter.com/divasheng Instagram: https://instagram.com/divasheng - Taking radiation hardened electronics to new heights https://www.intelligent-aerospace.com/articles/2017/04/taking-rad-hardened-electronics-to-new-heights.html - War driving technological advancement https://science.howstuffworks.com/war-drive-technological-advancement.htm - 20 Things We Wouldn’t Have Without Space Travel https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/infographics/infographic.view.php?id=11358 - Square Kilometer Array https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_Kilometre_Array - “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness” - Mark Twain https://zenpencils.com/comic/journey/ Acknowledgements - The Future Martians 12-episode podcast series is part of National Science Week 2018. To find out what is happening for National Science Week in your area, go to: www.scienceweek.net.au - Thanks to Population of Mars for the fantastic soundtrack used for the Future Martians podcast. Hear more of Population of Mars’ music at: @popofmars - Images sources Mars One and Bryan Versteeg. To learn more about the Mars One project, go to: www.mars-one.com. Closing stuff Catch up on earlier Future Martians podcast episodes: - SoundCloud: @future_martians - iTunes: itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/futur…d1422572196?mt=2 - Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/future-m…with-the-mars100, - Blubrry: www.blubrry.com/futuremartians/, - Castbox: castbox.fm/vc/1392988 - Listen Notes: www.listennotes.com/c/1240e6029cc94…hosted-by-josh/ - Overcast: overcast.fm/itunes1422572196/future-martians - Podbean: www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/f7…-Martians-Podcast - Podtail: podtail.com/en/podcast/future-martians/ - TuneIn: tunein.com/podcasts/Science-Po…-Martians-p1147440/, and more! Follow hosts Josh and Dianne on social media and on their websites: JOSH RICHARDS Facebook: www.facebook.com/joshrichardsspacepirate/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/mighty_ginge/ Twitter: twitter.com/mighty_ginge Website: joshrichards.space DIANNE MCGRATH Facebook: www.facebook.com/Dianne.McGrath.A…onaut.Candidate/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/damcgrath/ Twitter: twitter.com/liteandportable Website: www.diannemcgrath.com.au. Thanks for listening to the Future Martians podcast! We hope you have enjoyed getting to know some of the remarkable people in the Mars 100.
Our guest today is Dr. Mario Lassnig, a software engineer working on the ATLAS Experiment at CERN! Melanie and Mark put on their physics hats as they learn all about what it takes to manage the petabytes of data involved in such a large research project. Dr. Mario Lassnig Dr. Mario Lassnig has been working as a Software Engineer at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) since 2006. Within the ATLAS Experiment, he is responsible for all aspects of its large-scale distributed data, including management, storage, network, and access. He is also one of the principal developers of the Rucio system for scientific data management. In his previous life, he developed mobile navigation software for multi-modal transportation in Vienna at Seibersdorf Research, as well as cryptographic smart-card applications for access control at the University of Klagenfurt. He holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Klagenfurt, and a doctoral degree in Computer Science from the University of Innsbruck. Cool things of the week The Machines Can Do the Work, a Story of Kubernetes Testing, CI, and Automating the Contributor Experience blog Google Cloud grants $9M in credits for the operation of the Kubernetes project blog Improving job searches for veterans with Google Cloud’s Talent Solution blog Unity For Beginners… From a Beginner blog GCP Podcast Episode 134: Connected Games with Unity and Google Cloud with Brett Bibby and Micah Baker podcast Neural Information Processing Systems Conference site Interview Rucio - Scientific Data Management site CERN site ATLAS site Google Cloud Storage site Google Compute Engine site G Suite site GKE On-Prem site Rucio on GitHub site University of Oslo site University of Innsbruck site Brookhaven National Laboratory site University of Texas at Arlington site Square Kilometer Array site DUNE site LIGO Lab site Scientific Computing with Google Cloud Platform: Experiences from the Trenches in Particle Physics and Earth Sciences video GCP Podcast Episode 122: Project Jupyter with Jessica Forde, Yuvi Panda and Chris Holdgraf podcast Rucio Workshop site ACM/IEEE Supercomputing 2018 site Question of the week I am not familiar with Docker or Kubernetes - where can I get started? Docker Docker’s official “Getting Started” guide Katacoda’s free, interactive Docker course Kubernetes You should totally read this comic and interactive tutorial Katacoda’s free, interactive Kubernetes course Where can you find us next? Melanie will be at Deep Learning Indaba. Mark will be at Tokyo NEXT. We’ll both be at Strange Loop.
We venture out into Python country only to discover a healthy, diverse and growing community. This episode is brought to you by OfferZen, a South African recruitment startup for developers. OfferZen inverts the normal recruitment process. Instead of applying for jobs, 350 tech companies in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Pretoria, send developers interview requests with upfront salary info. For developers it’s completely free to signup and use. In fact, you get R5000 if you take a job through them. Visit offerzen.com to sign up. Chantal, Kenneth & Kevin are joined by Simon Cross, Neil Muller and David Sharpe to talk about the popular PyCon ZA conference and the local Python community in general. Together this experienced, yet humble trio organize PyCon and are involved in various other local Python communities. Simon has a decade of Python under his belt, worked on the Square Kilometer Array and is currently based at Praekelt. Neil is the organizer of the Cape Town Python User Group (CTPUG) and works on medical image processing systems. David started off as an electrical engineer and embedded C programmer and has since "crossed over to the dark side" (his words) as he started using Python more and more. Despite the technical difficulties of recording this show, it is packed with amazing content and well worth your time. Follow Simon online: * https://twitter.com/hodgestar * http://hodgestar.za.net * https://github.com/hodgestar Follow Neil online: * https://github.com/drnlm Follow PyCon ZA online: * https://za.pycon.org/ * https://twitter.com/pyconza Here are some of the other great community projects listed in the show: * Cape Town Python User Group - https://ctpug.org.za/ * Gauteng Python User Group - https://www.meetup.com/Gauteng-Python-Users-Group/ * Software Carpentry - https://software-carpentry.org/ * Django Girls - https://djangogirls.org/ And finally our picks Kevin: * 144Hz monitors for gaming * Ubuntu Desktop Linux - http://www.ubuntu.com Chantal: * TYCHO - http://tychomusic.com/ Kenneth: * The Hundred-Foot Journey - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2980648/ * FOKOFPOLISIEKAR - http://www.fokofpolisiekar.co.za/ * Rokoff CD+DVD * MK Hoordosis Simon: * Conflict-free Replicated Data Type, or CRDT - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict-free_replicated_data_type Simon & Neil: * Sphinx documentation - http://www.sphinx-doc.org/ * Read the Docs - https://readthedocs.org/ David: * Radiooooo - http://radiooooo.com/ Thanks for listening! Stay in touch: * Website & newsletter - https://zadevchat.io * Socialize - https://twitter.com/zadevchat & http://facebook.com/ZADevChat/ * Suggestions and feedback - https://github.com/zadevchat/ping * Subscribe and rate in iTunes - http://bit.ly/zadevchat-itunes
SpaceTime with Stuart Gary | Astronomy, Space & Science News
Stream on demand from www.bitesz.com Stuart here with the Show Notes for Series 19 Episode 15. *A spinning gas halo discovered around the Milky Way Astronomers have been surprised to discover that a halo of hot gas surrounding the Milky Way galaxy is spinning in the same direction and at a comparable speed to the galaxy’s disk. Scientists had thought this enormous reservoir of hot gas remained stationary while the Milky Way spins inside it. *The Square Kilometer Array reaches another milestone Scientists have completed another key step in their efforts to build what will be the world’s largest radio telescope, the SKA or Square Kilometer Array. Researchers have successfully tested astronomical verification of a critical sub-system for the giant telescope known as the frequency synchronisation system. *Farewell to Rosetta’s Philae lander European Space Agency mission managers have formally switched off the system on the Rosetta spacecraft which provides communications links between the orbiter and its tiny Philae lander. Switching off the system is part of the preparations for Rosetta's end of mission which is slated for September 30. Scientists figured out last common ancestor of all living things *Scientists think they’ve worked out the genetic make-up of the last common ancestor of all living things. Researchers found our earliest common ancestor probably consisted of just 355 genes and made its living around superheated deep sea hydrothermal vents about four billion years ago. *The annual Delta Aquariid Meteor shower underway The annual Delta Aquariid Meteor shower is at its peak with the best viewing about now because it coincides with a new moon providing darker skies. The shower is best for observed from the Southern hemisphere. Subscribe, rate and review SpaceTime at iTunes, audioBoom, Stitcher, Pocketcasts, Podbean, Bluebrry, Tunein Radio or any good podcatcher app. Email: SpaceTime@bitesz.com For enhanced Show Notes, includig photos to accompany this episode... http://www.bitesz.com/spacetime-show-notes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/spacetime. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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Thread(s): SETI Host: Paul Carr We talk to UC Berkeley’s Andrew P.V Simeon, lead author of a recent paper on what will change about SETI when the Square Kilometer Array comes online Intro Announcement and music (“Dark Skies” by DJ Spooky) Host intro to show topic Interview with Andrew P.V. Siemion on SETI at the SKA Andrew Siemion answers questions on SETI@Home Host wrapup Promo for Under the Microscope Begging, nagging and announcements Music - “Stratum 3” by Jason Robinson Outro announcement The Episode’s Content Siemion, et. al., Searching for Extraterrestrial Intelligence with the Square Kilometre Array The Square Kilometer Array SETI@Home boinc The Wow! Signal Podcast The Wow! Signal podcast team The Wow! Signal podcast Episode Plan You should be on the Podcast Support the Podcast at Patreon Join our Google+ Community Subscribe to our subreddit Subscribe to the Podcast - never miss an episode Buy a T-shirt Follow Paul on Twitter Follow the Podcast on Twitter The Dream of the Open Channel Blog The Music DJ Spooky Erika Lloyd Jason Robinson
El Radioscopio 83 - Fri, 28/03/2014 Invitado: Lourdes Verdes-Montenegro - Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC) Contenido:SKA, un proyecto global para mirar el Universo SKA, son las siglas de Square Kilometer Array, un proyecto titánico a caballo entre dos continentes para lograr el radiotelescopio más sensible del mundo.
In this episode of the Weekly Space Hangout, we're joined by special guest Robert Nemiroff from Astronomy Picture of the Day. We also talked about the return of the SpaceX Dragon capsule, a manned mission to Venus, nomadic planets and the announcement of the Square Kilometer Array. Our team included: Amy Shira Tietel, Jason Major, Alan Boyle, Nicole Gugliucci and Robert Nemiroff
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This week, we go back down under to explore the latest science from the land of kangaroos, bandicoots and the world's largest radio telescope - the square kilometer array. Chris goes on a tour of the universe from the comfort of the SciTech Planetarium, meets Nobel Prize-winning scientist Barry Marshall and the fluffy marsupials under protection at Project Eden. We find out why Australia is the perfect place to look further in to space than ever before, witness the battles between bee sperm and examine how tempting sharks with the scent of food can change their behaviour. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
This week, we go back down under to explore the latest science from the land of kangaroos, bandicoots and the world's largest radio telescope - the square kilometer array. Chris goes on a tour of the universe from the comfort of the SciTech Planetarium, meets Nobel Prize-winning scientist Barry Marshall and the fluffy marsupials under protection at Project Eden. We find out why Australia is the perfect place to look further in to space than ever before, witness the battles between bee sperm and examine how tempting sharks with the scent of food can change their behaviour. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Carl and Richard talk to professors Andreas Wicenec and Kevin Vinsen of the ICRAR and SKA project. SKA is the Square Kilometer Array for radio astronomy. The concept is to build a really huge array of radio telescopes that work together to provide far deeper resolution into space. SKA plans on a first phase of 1,000 12 meter radio telescopes. Andreas and Kevin work in the Data Intensive Research Group at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research in Western Australia and specialise in the research require to handle the massive amounts of data that will be generated SKA.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations
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