August 30-Guion S. Bluford Jr. and Whale Sharks

August 30-Guion S. Bluford Jr. and Whale Sharks

Fox settles into the Space Shuttle Challenger to share how the first Black American in space became an astronaut. Cat dives back into the sea to swim with the gentle giants. Reading Materials: The New Guys: The Historic Class of Astronauts That Broke Barriers and Changed the Face of Space Travel [https://bookshop.org/a/111192/9780063141988] by Meredith Bagby NASA JSC Oral History Project: [https://web.archive.org/web/20170203063335/https://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/oral_histories/BlufordGS/BlufordGS_8-2-2004.pdf] Guion S. Bluford Jr. as interviewed by Jennifer Ross-Nazzal The Real Stuff: A History of NASA's Astronaut Recruitment Program [https://archive.org/details/realstuffhistory0000atki/page/n1/mode/2up] by Joseph D. Atkinson The Beginning of The Age of Dinosaurs: Faunal Change across the Triassic-Jurassic Boundary [https://bookshop.org/a/111192/9780521367790] by Kevin Padian Whale Sharks: Biology, Ecology, and Conservation [https://bookshop.org/a/111192/9781138571297] by Alistair D.M Dove and Simon J. Pierce Follow us @CWTCelebrate Bluesky [https://bsky.app/profile/cwtcelebrate.bsky.social] Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/cwtcelebrate/] Tumblr [https://www.tumblr.com/blog/cwtcelebrate] Our Bookshop [https://bookshop.org/shop/cwtcelebrate] account Art by: Lovelyclouds [https://www.instagram.com/lovelycloudsart/] Music by: The Anonymous Zero [https://anonzeromusic.bandcamp.com/] ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

August 16-Homeless Animals and Roller Coasters

Cat gets on his little soapbox and talks about animals. Fox goes flying through the twisting history of roller coasters. Reading Materials: Animal Liberation [https://bookshop.org/a/111192/9780061711305] by Peter Singer Petfinder Animal Shelters & Rescues [https://www.petfinder.com/adopt-or-get-involved/animal-shelters-rescues/] coaster bot [https://www.youtube.com/@coasterbot/videos] Backyard Roller Coasters [https://backyardrollercoasters.org/] by Paul Gregg Follow us @CWTCelebrate Bluesky [https://bsky.app/profile/cwtcelebrate.bsky.social] Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/cwtcelebrate/] Tumblr [https://www.tumblr.com/blog/cwtcelebrate] Our Bookshop [https://bookshop.org/shop/cwtcelebrate] account Art by: Lovelyclouds [https://www.instagram.com/lovelycloudsart/] Music by: The Anonymous Zero [https://anonzeromusic.bandcamp.com/] ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

August 2-Sixth Sense and Alice in Wonderland

Fox fills in a few plot holes using trust and audience oversight. Cat galumphs into the history behind a wonder-filled land. Reading Materials: Best. Movie. Year. Ever. [https://bookshop.org/a/111192/9781501175398] by Brian Raftery Thirty Years Among the Dead [https://www.unariunwisdom.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Thirty-Years-Among-the-Dead-by-Carl-Wickland.pdf] by Dr. Carl Wickland Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [https://bookshop.org/a/111192/9780141197302] by Lewis Carroll The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland [https://bookshop.org/a/111192/9780674970762] by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst Follow us @CWTCelebrate Bluesky [https://bsky.app/profile/cwtcelebrate.bsky.social] Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/cwtcelebrate/] Tumblr [https://www.tumblr.com/blog/cwtcelebrate] Our Bookshop [https://bookshop.org/shop/cwtcelebrate] account Art by: Lovelyclouds [https://www.instagram.com/lovelycloudsart/] Music by: The Anonymous Zero [https://anonzeromusic.bandcamp.com/] ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

July 19-Dinosauria and Tour de France

Cat documents dinosaurs and their independent animator. Fox races through Lyon to announce the winner of the first edition of the Tour de France. Reading Materials: DeadSound [https://www.youtube.com/@DeadSound/videos] YouTube Channel Tour de France 100 by Peter Cossins, Isabel Best, and Chris Sidwells Aerodynamic drag in cycling pelotons: New insights by CFD simulation and wind tunnel testing [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167610518303751] by Bert Blocken, Thijs van Druenen et al. A Race for Madmen: A History of the Tour de France [https://bookshop.org/a/111192/9780007511006] by Chris Sidwells Follow us @CWTCelebrate Bluesky [https://bsky.app/profile/cwtcelebrate.bsky.social] Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/cwtcelebrate/] Tumblr [https://www.tumblr.com/blog/cwtcelebrate] Our Bookshop [https://bookshop.org/shop/cwtcelebrate] account Art by: Lovelyclouds [https://www.instagram.com/lovelycloudsart/] Music by: The Anonymous Zero [https://anonzeromusic.bandcamp.com/] ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

July 5-Dolly the Clone and Graham Crackers

Fox slides Dolly under a microscope to examine the history of SCNT cloning. Cat looks into what lust, gluttony, riots, vegetarianism, and the graham cracker have in common. Reading Materials: After Dolly [https://bookshop.org/a/111192/9780393330267] by Ian Wilmut and Roger Highfield Embryonic Development and Induction [https://archive.org/details/embryonicdevelop0000spem/page/n5/mode/2up?view=theater] by Hans Spemann The Science of Human Life [https://archive.org/details/lecturesonscien00grahgoog/page/n5/mode/2up] by Sylvester Graham Follow us @CWTCelebrate Bluesky [https://bsky.app/profile/cwtcelebrate.bsky.social] Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/cwtcelebrate/] Tumblr [https://www.tumblr.com/blog/cwtcelebrate] Our Bookshop [https://bookshop.org/shop/cwtcelebrate] account Art by: Lovelyclouds [https://www.instagram.com/lovelycloudsart/] Music by: The Anonymous Zero [https://anonzeromusic.bandcamp.com/] ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.