Assisted Lab is an ERC-funded research group based at University of St Gallen, Switzerland which investigates the cultural production – including films, texts, and other media – that influences the legal and political processes around assisted dying. Our transnational, comparative project engages with the multilingual spaces and cultural contexts in which end-of-life accounts are elaborated. By inviting guests with different viewpoints and backgrounds, including scholars, healthcare professi ...
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The Rocketry Show is hosted by three rocket geeks, CG, Gheem, and Daniel The Rocket n00b. As a team, we strive to entertain as well as inform you on the topics of Model and High Power rocketry as well as STEM relates activities built around amateur rocketry. We will occasionally delve a little into the world of
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The show that's about how we can become a larger us rather than a them-and-us, by working at the places where our states of mind and the state of the world meet
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The Spaceport Americas Cup with Steve Taylor (ep127)
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NARCON 2024 quick review...and...why the long silence?
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A bit delayed, but here we are! In this episode, we do a quick review of NARCON 2024, and we give a look behind the curtain to tell you what has been going on...By LittleBeth Media
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Philosophical Reasoning in an Imperfect World – Daniel Weinstock on the Ethics and Politics of MAID in Canada
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Medical assistance in dying (MAID) has been legal in Canada since 2016, and is a widely accepted end-of-life procedure throughout the country. Philosopher Daniel Weinstock has been an observer of, and sometimes participant in, the consolidation and evolution of the legal framework governing MAID. In this conversation with Assisted Lab’s Vanessa Ram…
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Episode 125: The Radio Rocket Project
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On this episode, our guest is Vance Martin, an amateur radio operator who goes under the callsign N3VEM. Martin became involved in rocketry as a kid in the typical way; seeing model rockets at the local hobby shop, and discovering the hobby with a friend. As he moved into middle and high school, he discovered mid and high power rocketry through onl…
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Are you REALLY 'GO' to use your full FAA waiver?
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Are you really 'GO' to use your full FAA waiver? Greg Young shares his experiences with this topic, and what he learned is an eye opening education for all rocketeers! About our guest...Greg shares his background in rocketry... My rocketry experience started in 1961, at the ripe old age of 10years, when I ordered, built and flew rockets from Estes …
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NSL West 2023 with Matthew Abbey and Ed Lacroix
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The Rocketry Show team talk NSL West 2023 with Ed Lacroix and Matt Abbey.By LittleBeth Media
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How social media undermines activism - with Hugh Knowles
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How do we achieve social buy-in for the huge, disruptive and sustained transformation entailed in making our societies sustainable? Why is it such a problem that social media has become the 'public square' where we have big conversations about the future - and how have campaigning and activism become embroiled? Hugh Knowles is Co-Executive Director…
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Jeff Kodysz was a very talented rocketeer. His talents stretched from 3D printing, Lazer Etching, and he had a knack with making logos. He created the current logo for The Rocketry Show that you look at everytime you visit our website or listen to one of our episodes. Jeff passed away a few weeks ago after a short battle with illnesses. He will be …
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CG stops by to give a quick update on technical changes some of you may have noticed, and what that means.By LittleBeth Media
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NARCON '23 and the Launch Calendar (So Far)
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The team talk about Narcon 2023, and we review this year’s calendar of big launch events so far…By LittleBeth Media
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In the first episode of Season 9, we talk to Joe Pfeiffer of the Open rocket team, diving a bit deeper into the program’s features, and some use case items for advanced and High power rocketry.By LittleBeth Media
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Bonus: Model Rocket Show – Open Rocket Overview with Neil Weinstock
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chapAppDescJesse and Gheem give a news update for December. The next season of The Rocketey Show starts in January!By LittleBeth Media
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How dopamine makes the world go round - with Daniel Lieberman
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How does a single chemical in our brains drive love, sex, consumerism and creativity? Why are some people more 'dopmaninergic' than others, why is that such a big deal for politics, and what does it mean for change-makers? Daniel Lieberman is a clinical professor of psychiatry and behavioural sciences at George Washington University, co-author of t…
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How to build cultures of belonging - with Michelle Barsa
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How can we build inclusive belonging in conditions of acute polarisation - for example when members of a historically privileged group feel that more power and status for a historically marginalised group means less power and status for them? What do the recent US mid-terms mean for American democratic health, and what lessons do they offer for oth…
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How the world is making our children mad - with Louis Weinstock
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How can we raise children in a world that appears to have gone so wrong? How are our children’s minds affected by that world, and how can we as parents and caregivers help them through it in ways that give them agency and the power to make the world better without placing the weight of the world on their shoulders? Louis Weinstock is the author of …
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The full Rocketry Show team assemble to drop the latest news updates from the hobby AeroTech/Quest News AeroTech RMS K750ST-PS Rocket Motor Reload Kit New Product Information Release 7/11/22 AeroTech/Quest is pleased to announce the Tripoli certification and immediate availability of our new RMS Reloadable Motor System K750ST-PS rocket motor reload…
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How to build a larger us - with Alex Evans
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A special edition of our podcast to talk about Building a larger us, our new guide to how to change the world in ways that bring people together rather than dividing them - not as a them-and-us, but as a larger us. Alex Evans (founder of Larger Us and our usual host) switches sides to be guest this time, and we're delighted that Elizabeth Oldfield …
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Items in this news podcast: SMT Designs releases all of their rocketry designs to public domain Steve Thatcher: "With my upcoming LDRS 40 trip and TRA Tech session there on "3D Printed Modular Avionics Bays", I wanted to make an announcement, so here it is..." Steve Thatcher says “I am in the process of releasing all of my rocketry designs to the p…
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Bonus: Conway Stevens answers your questions, and ...where are the show hosts?
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Conway Stevens answers your questions from Episode 115.By LittleBeth Media
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Mike Crupe of Mack Performance Rocketry!
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Sorry for the delay. Lots going on in our worlds, and we talk about it later in the show...BUT more importantly: Mike Crupe joins us from Mac Performance rocketry! We've learned about a new (to us) way to do rocketry! CG gets pulled in big time, and you'll find out why when you listen! Enjoy!By LittleBeth Media
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How to have curious conversations - with Mónica Guzmán
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What does it take to have conversations across deep divides? What's required of us - and what's required of the person we're talking to? What can happen when we have these kinds of curious conversations, and how can change-makers use them? Mónica Guzmán is the author of the new book I Never Thought Of It That Way - How to have fearlessly curious co…
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Join our guests, Bill and Rachel Daigle, who are known as father and daughter rocketeers from our neighbors up North in New Brunswick CA! Bill talks to us about his tenure as an officer of the Canadian Rocketry Association and his career as a hobby rocketeer! He even has graced the cover of Sport Rocketry. Rachel tells us about how she was involved…
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How to become citizens not consumers - with Jon Alexander
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What are we doing to ourselves when we tell ourselves we're Consumers 3,000 times a day? What would it look like to put the same creativity and energy into involving people as Citizens? What would you do in this time, if you truly believed in yourself and those around you? Jon Alexander spent the first decade of his career in the advertising indust…
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118: Gary Rosenfield of Aerotech Returns!
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Gary Rosenfield joins us to update us on some of the latest going on at Aerotech as well as: - Tips and tricks for selecting an appropriate motor for your high power certifcations. - What he is up to for Hampster Dance 2022. - Gary's project of digitizing a bunch of old super-8 footage of some historic & interesting high power launches from the ear…
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117: End of the year updates; Your questions.
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chapAppDescHappy Holidays, and Welcome to the latest episode of The Rocketry Show for the week of December 19, 2021! This time around, we close out the year catching up on your voice and emails, and what we have been up to, and what's next for our shows. One of our listeners mentions wanting to hear from John Beans and Joe Barnard. We talked to bot…
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chapAppDescIn this episode, Steve Thatcher returns to talk about what is new from SMT Designs. He has been busy innovating new options for your rocket AV Bay needs for almost all rockets –including ones up to eight inches in diameter! We think you should check these out! We think you’ll enjoy this information, and Steve’s rocket stories as well.…
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chapAppDescWelcome to the first episode of Season 8 of The Rocketry Show! We open this new season with a wonderful guest appearance from Conway Stevens. We talk about some history of High Power rocketry, focusing a bit on the changes brought on after the 9/11 attacks. We cover other rocketry history related stories as well. Mr. Stevens also disusse…
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How to build a coalition that transforms - with Nisha Anand
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How did progressive campaigners in the US manage to win bipartisan legislation ending the 'lock-em-up and throw away the key' era in criminal justice - and persuade 87 out of 100 Senators to vote for it, and Donald Trump to sign it? Answer: by building a hugely diverse coalition that brought together everyone from the American Civil Liberties Union…
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114: Jenna Kay Foertsch on this year's HotNozzleSummer event
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chapAppDescWelcome to Episode 114 of The Rocketry Show! In this Episode, we'll be talking about The Hot Nozzle Summer 2021 event! Jenna Kay Foertsch joins us from the Johnson Space Center in Houston, where she works, to talk about it! On July 23rd of this year at the FAR launch site in the desert of California, Tim Dodd, AKA The everyday Astronaut,…
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113: Jesse’s NSL / LDRS 2021 reports
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Welcome to Season 7, Episode 113! In this episode: Jesse joins us with his interviews & wrap-up reporting of NSL 2021 and LDRS. He managed to get some interviews from NSL as well! Gheem was on vacation during this production, and CG talks about what to expect the next few weeks while The Rocketry Show is in “summertime rocket season” mode.…
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How to be a good ancestor - with Roman Krznaric
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We live in the age of the tyranny of the now, driven by 24/7 news, the latest tweet, and the buy-now button. With such frenetic short-termism at the root of contemporary crises – from the threats of climate change to the lack of planning for a global pandemic – the call for long-term thinking grows every day. But what is it, has it ever worked, and…
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112: LOC Precision and Skin Walker Ranch
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Jason Turicick, Dave Barber, and Stanton Ewert of LOC Precision join us to talk about what's new at LOC, and their appearance on Season 2, Episode 9 of The Secret of Skin Walker Ranch! Dave Barber Jason Turicick Stanton EwertBy LittleBeth Media
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How to put our societies back together again - with Jon Yates
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Jon Yates is the author of "Fractured: Why our societies are coming apart and how to put them back together again". He's uniquely well placed to explore these issues, having both served as a government adviser and co-founded a series of charities that are designed to bring people together. For years, our societies have been becoming more disconnect…
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Joe Hill joins the crew as we discus our rocketry projects, high power, rocketry music, and more!By LittleBeth Media
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110: Workshop Talk with Xyla Foxlin
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We start up this workshop talk episode with another member of the next generation of rocketeers, Xyla Foxlin. Xyla has a degree in Engineering, an aircraft pilot, and loves partaking in any craft that involves building things. Gheem ran across her while looking at Joe Barnard's latest adventures at F.A.R (Friends of Amateur Rocketry) in the deserts…
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109: OSU's Space Cowboys rocket team and Bob Brown of Kloudbusters
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The Oklahoma State University rocket team “The Space Cowboys” join us to talk about their first place placement in the Argonia Cup contest. They talk about their rocket, the payload, and some of their greatest challenges in making it all happen. Also Bob Brown joins us to talk about The Argonia Cup, The Argonia Kansas rocket club Kloudbusters, and …
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How to change people's minds - with Dave Fleischer
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Dave Fleischer runs the team at the Los Angeles LGBT Center's Leadership Lab that created deep canvassing - a groundbreaking approach to political campaigning that uses doorstep conversations to change people's minds about potentially polarising issues and which helped to win the US equal marriage campaign. Deep canvassing avoids pelting voters wit…
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Matt Steele has been busy, and Northcoast Rocketry has new kits and more as a result! Matt joins us to discuss. We also dive into the mailbag to answer your questions, including a really good question from one of you on the LEUP regulations. Enjoy!By LittleBeth Media
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107: Workshop Talk with Tyler Palmer!
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Tyler Palmer joins us to cover a wide range of topics and interests. We all found this session to be fun and informative! Enjoy!By LittleBeth Media
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Why some people are primed to be authoritarians - with Karen Stenner
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Karen Stenner has spent years researching why some people seem to have a psychological predisposition towards authoritarianism in the right conditions. With her co-author Jonathan Haidt, Karen has explored how about a third of people across dozens of liberal democracies share this trait to some degree - a key factor in understanding why, for instan…
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How to challenge hate - with Hadiya Masieh
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Hadiya Masieh has over two decades' experience in countering violent extremism and understanding how to challenge hate - and a unique perspective given her own experience as a former member of an extremist political organisation. Today, Hadiya runs Groundswell Project, a pioneering initiative that works in communities to map both extremist and pro-…
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The rocketry show gang gather to review their plans for the 2021 rocketry season, and we crack open the mailbag, and take a deep dive into some listener feedback. Loading new motors into Open Rocket tutorial: https://youtu.be/dsppUGQULJA Jesse posing with his The Rocketry Show mug. Patrons of the rocketry show can up their membership level for thre…
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105: Tim Van Milligan of Apogee Components
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Welcome to Episode 105 of The Rocketry Show! This time around, we are joined by Tim Van Milligan of Apogee Components! Tim hangs with us to talk about some new projects from Apogee, including some insights into the direction of RockSim! We also find time to talk rocket shop too!By LittleBeth Media
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104: Workshop Talk With Toby Vanderbeek
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In Episode 104, we are joined by Toby Vanderbeek in our second workshop show in the new format! We talk rockets, and a little about what toby has done with his work on rocketry with his Vander Burn-rocketry project, including the Vander-burn Estes Goblin fin upgrades. Listen to the episode to find out why you might want those! The gang talk about t…
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103: The Continuing Adventures of Joe Barnard
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Joe Barnard joins us to fill us in on his continuing adventures in thrust vector rocketry, including his latest twist: Landing under rocket thrust -- not parachutes! You can dig deeper into his adventures by visiting his site, BPS.space. Also: -Jesse talks about his home paint booth, and the gang talk about what they are up to. - Listener feedback …
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102: Update from the University of Akron "Akronauts" go to F.A.R., and Listener Feedback
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In this episode, the University of Akron Akronauts high power rocket team traveled to theFriends of Amateur Rocketry (FAR) site for a two staged High Power rocket launch attempt. Unfortunately, they had issues with their second stage, and the flight did not go as planned. They share with us what they learned as of when we recorded this episode. The…
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101: Workshop Talk: Shear pins and the Marco Polo tracker with Andrew Kleinhenz
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The Rocketry Show gang try a slightly new format for the workshop shows. We are now inviting fellow rocketeers to the workshop to teach us some of their tips and tricks, and to just talk rockets. Our first guest is Andrew Kleinhenz, friend to both CG and Gheem, Andrew taught us many of the tricks we have built our rocketry tricks around. He with us…
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The entire Rocketry Show team gather for Episode 100 to look back on some of their fond memories, and talk about their projects, and more!By LittleBeth Media
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99: Season 7 Premiere! - Cris Erving of Eggtimer Rocketry
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HomeThe Rocketry Show Podcast99: Season 7 Premiere! – Cris Erving of Eggtimer Rocketry 99: Season 7 Premiere! – Cris Erving of Eggtimer Rocketry The Eggtimer Quantum We are pleased to have Cris Erving, founder of Eggtimer Rocketry with us on this episode! We discus the Eggtimer products, and also give lots of tips and tricks to help you figure out …
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