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Star Warsologies: A Podcast About Science and Star Wars

Dec 21, 2022

NASA climate scientist Dr. Kimberley Miner and her Star Wars-loving husband Walter Beckwith, a science writer at Science Magazine, chat with us about how the Empire affects the planets and environments in a galaxy far, far away. We tackle Bespin, Hoth, Dagobah, and other favorite locales.

 

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Dec 13, 2022

In the latest episode of Star Warsologies, Melissa joins the LA Comic Con panel "The Living Force: Evolution in the Star Wars Galaxy"!

 

Gabe Santos of Cosplay for Science moderates this great panel about Star Wars. Panelists include Melissa Miller (Nerdist, Star Warsologies), Michaela , Phil , Rick O'Connor

 

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Nov 22, 2022

In this latest episode of Star Warsologies, we talk about all molecular and cellular biology in Star Wars!

 

Let's look at the DNA of Star Wars! You might not expect Star Wars to connect to the world of molecular and cellular biology (the field of biology looking at things at the cellular level and smaller), but it...


Oct 28, 2022

In this latest episode of Star Warsologies, we talk about all adoption in Star Wars!

 

Breha and Bail Organa holding the infant Leia at the end of Revenge of the Sith

 

From the Skywalker twins going to separate homes as children, to Mandalorian Din Djarin taking on baby Grogu as a foundling, Star Wars is full of adoption tales and styles. In honor of November being National Adoption...


Oct 5, 2022

In the latest episode of Star Warsologies we talk about the holograms in Star Wars!

 

From Leia's iconic plea to Darth Vader Force-choking someone over Zoom, our guest expert Thomas Conner breaks down what's a hologram and what we just call holograms. And how Star Wars really changed the game in 1977.

 

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