Foothill College, located near San Francisco, has this great series of regular talks called the Silicon Valley Astronomy Lecture Series. They invite all manners of astronomer there to give the public-level talks, and the topics are wide ranging.
Some of these talks are now online as audio (and some video) podcasts! You can hear professional astronomers at the tops of their games, talking about Jupiter, asteroids, dark energy, and even alien life.
They’ll be adding more talks as time goes on, too. I gave a lecture there years ago, but it wouldn’t translate well into audio; I put too many sight gags in my slides. But maybe they’ll have more video with time, too…
December 15th, 2007 at 8:12 pm
what, no rss?
December 16th, 2007 at 2:15 am
did he say no rss?
December 16th, 2007 at 5:24 am
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December 17th, 2007 at 9:09 am
Prof Richard Pogge of Ohio State University podcasts his entire ‘Astronomy 161′ and ‘162′ series of lectures. 161 concerns the Solar System and all within, while 162 concerns astrophysics beyond the solar system. I learned a lot. It’s free.
Bob(Big)
December 17th, 2007 at 1:33 pm
And let us not forget U.C. Berkeley and the Astronomy Department’s Dr. Alex Fillipenko, a renowned teacher and lecturer, seeker of dark holes, supernovae, dark energy, etc. For an example of his expertise hear a podcast of his talk given in Nov. ‘06 at the Univ. of Hawaii (go to AstroTalk).
January 29th, 2008 at 12:59 am
@ Bob(Big) – I just ran across the 161 and 162 podcasts via a link to a link to a link etc. on iTunes and am DLing them even as we speak (write? type?). Alas, I won’t have time to listen to them before the 100,000-mile-wide asteroid takes us all out in the next hour or so.
There’s also (supposedly) an ASTR 1010 and ASTR 1020 set of video podcasts, but I keep getting a message that the connection isn’t working. Oh well…….. I can’t keep up with all my subscriptions anyway.
p.s. @ BA – I’m waiting for yours to resume. They’re the greatest. I watched the first batch one right after the other.