SoT 291: Orbital Mechanics Are So Cool
Channel: Science on Top
Date: 07/04/2018

SoT 291: Orbital Mechanics Are So Cool
http://scienceontop.com/291

The Draw-A-Scientist test has been a regular investigation of children's ideas about science. The proportion of women being drawn has risen sharply since the test was first done in the 1960s.
70,000 years ago a small red dwarf star hurtling through space came within a light-year of our sun. Scholtz's star is now about 20 light years away but it's likely responsible for the orbits of a lot of comets and asteroids in our solar system.
Newspapers are dying, especially local newspapers. But the decline in local news outlets has a big effect on epidemiology, as researchers try to track the spread of diseases that aren't recorded anywhere else.

This episode contains traces of CBS News correspondent Anna Werner describing a new Californian requirement for a cancer warning on coffee.

http://scienceontop.com/291

Chapters:
00:01:06 What We Learn From 50 Years of Kids Drawing Scientists https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/03/what-we-learn-from-50-years-of-asking-children-to-draw-scientists/556025/
00:09:09 70,000 Years Ago a Nearby Star Messed With the Orbits Of Comets and Asteroids in our Solar System https://www.universetoday.com/138844/70000-years-ago-nearby-star-messed-orbits-comets-asteroids-solar-system/
00:20:52 When towns lose their newspapers, disease detectives are left flying blind https://www.statnews.com/2018/03/20/news-deserts-infectious-disease/
00:26:19 Science on Top http://scienceontop.com/