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What’s discussed about is the evolution of communication and technology

This interview describes how the attack on 9/11 not only affected America by causing there to be more security, but also communication with the rest of the world.

Anne Quidez interviews her father, Bernardo Quidez, about his career and research over the years. They talk about how science and data analysis have changed, becoming more accessible to students, and about Bernardo’s experiences in working for the government to...

Interview with someone that was a teenager in the 80s about how listening to music has changed since then.

We discuss how the coronavirus pandemic has affected my mother's life. As well as discuss the the media is playing in the on-going pandemic.

Dr. Claire Parkinson, senior scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center since 1978, discusses using satellite data to monitor sea ice in the Arctic and Antarctic and serving as project scientist for the NASA satellite Aqua, which makes measurements of...

Laurie Brown, Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, has been a member of AGU for 46 years. She shares her observations on the growth of paleomagnetism at AGU and its importance in helping address climate. She also discusses how...

Environmental chemist Marc Kramer, Washington State University, has spent an inordinate amount of time talking and climate and weather in the rural parts of your nation. As he says in this interview, “there isn’t a single farmer who isn't interested...

I sat down with my mother and interviewed her about how life is going.

This was a interview with my Grandmother comparing commutations from the 50s onto present day.

Jack Kaye, associate director for research at NASA's Earth Science Division, discuss his origins as a chemist and earth scientist, and how he was recruited to Goddard to be a chemist among meteorologists. "My boss would advertise me as his...

This was an interview with my father about how communication has changed throughout the years.

Putting up tall PVC pipes with pointy sensors to measure electrical fields in an approaching lightning storm may seem reckless, but it’s all part of the job for Timothy Lang. The NASA research scientist spends a lot of time in...

Clouds are among the most unpredictable components of climate models. But Norman Loeb is working hard to sort out the shape of cloud patterns in order to improve the accuracy of long-term weather predictions. As far as understanding how all...

Emiley Farnsworth talks with her father, Jeff Farnsworth, about how the media has impacted her father’s life and how media has changed over his lifetime.

A conversation with the love of my life.

Gael Cascioli is a planetary scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center where he focuses on planetary geodesy — the measuring of the gravity field and shape of a planet — and is working on the upcoming VERITAS mission which,...

Laura talked about having a complication during surgery which changed the way she communicates

Natasha Spencer (45) talks to her friend Sara Knizhnik (45) about how they met one evening in Chicago in the 1990s when N had just been mugged at gunpoint and S happened to walk past her while doing her laundry,...

Sisters Ysolde Stienon [no age given] and Audrey Stienon (30) discuss the importance of objects that make life better, such as Ysolde's Tobii tool. They also reflect on the importance of accessibility and self-advocacy for disabled people.

In this interview, I spoke with my grandmother Phyllis Swiatek about how communication and its forms have changed during her lifetime.

Colleagues Yasuharu "Haru" Okuda (49) and Phillip Wortham (39) share the experiences that led them to undertake careers in medical simulation and explain the importance of simulated medical practice for reducing patient harm and loss of life.

My dad (Brett Prettyman) talks about how his career was changed and how he it changed him

I, Danielle Tinkel (20), spoke with my grandma, Barb Tinkel (72?), about interpersonal communication. In particular, how it has changed during our lifetimes in terms of socializing and dating.

How can scientists tell the story of science so that the public listens and understands? Dwayne Brown is the Senior Communication Officer for the Science Directorate at NASA and works with hundreds of scientists to communicate their ideas on television,...