Captain Phil is filling in at Progressive Solutions Tuesday from Noon to 2pm and then for one hour of smooth Jazz radio. His guests are C Alex Young Associate Director for Science in the Heliophysics Science Division at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. We'll be talking about last years Solar Eclipse and the Parker Solar Probe which launched on August 12, 2018.

Then welcome back Paul Levinson to talk about the politics of the day, Aretha Franklin and his novel Borrowed Tides

Dr. C. Alex Young is the Associate Director for Science in the Heliophysics Science Division at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. In this role he is responsible for overseeing and coordinating the Education and Public Outreach team for the division. He works with the EPO teams as a liason with the NASA offices of Education and Communication. In addition, he works with the division scientists to promote and support their research.

In graduate school at the University of New Hampshire, Dr. Young studied the high energy astrophysics of cosmic gamma-ray bursts and gamma-ray solar flares.

He joined the NASA/ESA SOHO mission after graduate school as a Solar Astrophysicist with the Extreme-Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT). Working in this area grew his interest in image processing, which he combined with his love of statistics and data analysis. It was this with the help of some of his colleagues that led to his establishment of the Solar Image Processing Workshops or SIPWork. Over the past 7 years, Young has helped organize and run 5 workshops and edited 3 special topic Solar Physics journal volumes on Solar Image Processing. Part of what he enjoys about data analysis topics is the sharing of knowledge with the solar and astrophysics communities. This has led to his participation with the California Harvard Astrostatisics Collaboration (CHASC).

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PAUL LEVINSON, PHD, IS PROFESSOR OF COMMUNICATION & MEDIA STUDIES AT FORDHAM UNIVERSITY IN NYC. HIS SCIENCE FICTION NOVELS INCLUDE THE SILK CODE (WINNER OF LOCUS AWARD FOR BEST FIRST SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL OF 1999), BORROWED TIDES (2001), THE CONSCIOUSNESS PLAGUE (2002), THE PIXEL EYE (2003), THE PLOT TO SAVE SOCRATES (2006), UNBURNING ALEXANDRIA (2013), AND CHRONICA (2014) – THE LAST THREE OF WHICH ARE ALSO KNOWN AS THE SIERRA WATERS TRILOGY, AND ARE HISTORICAL FICTION AS WELL AS SCIENCE FICTION. HIS STORIES AND NOVELS HAVE BEEN NOMINATED FOR HUGO, NEBULA, STURGEON, EDGAR, PROMETHEUS, AND AUDIE AWARDS. HIS NONFICTION BOOKS, INCLUDING THE SOFT EDGE (1997), DIGITAL MCLUHAN (1999), REALSPACE (2003), CELLPHONE (2004), NEW NEW MEDIA (2009; 2ND EDITION, 2012), MCLUHAN IN AN AGE OF SOCIAL MEDIA (2015), FAKE NEWS IN REAL CONTEXT (2016), AND CYBER WAR AND PEACE (2017), HAVE BEEN TRANSLATED INTO TWELVE LANGUAGES. HE CO-EDITED TOUCHING THE FACE OF THE COSMOS: ON THE INTERSECTION OF SPACE TRAVEL AND RELIGION IN 2016. HE APPEARS ON CNN, MSNBC, FOX NEWS, THE DISCOVERY CHANNEL, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, THE HISTORY CHANNEL, NPR, AND NUMEROUS TV AND RADIO PROGRAMS. HIS 1972 LP, TWICE UPON A RHYME, WAS RE-ISSUED IN 2010. HE WAS PRESIDENT OF THE SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY WRITERS OF AMERICA, 1998-2001. HE REVIEWS TELEVISION IN HIS INFINITEREGRESS.TV BLOG, AND WAS LISTED IN THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION’S “TOP 10 ACADEMIC TWITTERERS” IN 2009.

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