The September 2008 episode of Orthopedic Horseshoes, entitled “Beyond Our Solar System”, has been posted in dialup and broadband at: http://www.thinktwiceradio.com/kauderer/kauderer.html. The sf talk radio program features an interview/discussion with Alfred University Astronomy Department Chairman Dr. David DeGraff, marking his return to the program. DeGraff teaches Science in Science Fiction, Living in Space, and Time Travel. His research often focuses on Earth-crossing asteroids. His essay “To Boldly Teach What No One Has Taught Before” appeared in BenBella Books’s Boarding the Enterprise. DeGraff has appeared on the Art Bell Show.
DeGraff joins hosts Herb Kauderer and Alan Katerinsky to talk about big moons, icy bodies, easy ways to find life, habitable zones, organic gases, detecting life on Mars and Europa, the problem with naming exo-planets, making science sexy and profitable, the new Battlestar Galactica, and the internet as vehicle for email, music, and porn.
Kauderer also writes that the August 2008 episode, “Growing Up as Part of Losing Your Originality”, has now been archived at http://orthohorseshoes.mypodcast.com. That show features a discussion with sf writer James Alan Gardner, two-time Aurora Award winner.