B-SCI Turns 2!

3:09, Polar Vortex and Texas

• Miller, R.W. 2021. ‘Massive failure’: Why are millions of people in Texas still without power?. USA Today News. Retrieved from https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/nation/2021/02/16/texas-weather-power-outage-rolling-blackouts-leave-millions-dark/6764764002/

3:21, Mars Perseverance

• The Planetary Society. 2021. Perseverance, NASA's Newest Mars Rover. The Planetary Society. Retrieved from https://www.planetary.org/space-missions/perseverance  

4:06, Texas has own power grid

• Price, A. 2021. ‘An electrical island’: Texas has dodged federal regulation for years by having its own power grid. USA Today. Retrieved from https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/02/17/texas-power-grid-why-state-has-its-own-operated-ercot/6782380002/

6:37,  Aging power grid

• U.S Department of Energy. N.d. Grid Modernization and the Smart Grid. U.S. Department of Energy. Retrieved from https://www.energy.gov/oe/activities/technology-development/grid-modernization-and-smart-grid

8:10, The Green New Deal

• Roberts, D. 2021. 2019. The Green New Deal, explained. Vox News. https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/12/21/18144138/green-new-deal-alexandria-ocasio-cortez

9:27, Solar Flares

• Kurzgesagt -In a Nutshell. 2015. Could Solar Storms Destroy Civilization? Solar Flares and Coronal Mass Ejections. YouTube. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHHSSJDJ4oo&ab_channel=Kurzgesagt%E2%80%93InaNutshell

13:50, Moments away from Power Outages

• Marfin, C., Torralava, K.M., and Steele, T. 2021. Texas power grid was ‘seconds or minutes’ from a total blackout that could have lasted months, ERCOT says. The Dallas Morning News. Retrieved from https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/18/texas-power-outages-ercot/

14:43, Mars Perseverance lands on Mars

• https://www.npr.org/2021/02/19/969351669/nasas-rover-perseverance-safely-lands-on-mars

16:58, NASA Artemis

• https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis/

17: 41, What’s on Perseverance

• https://www.planetary.org/space-missions/perseverance

18: 34, NASA Dragonfly launches in 2026 and lands in 2034

• https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasas-dragonfly-will-fly-around-titan-looking-for-origins-signs-of-life

20:54, Mars Helicopter

• https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/

21:47, Swati Mohan, an Indian American Woman at Face of NASA Landing (Jordan mistakenly said Nativer American Woman)

• Kaur, H. 2021. The face of the Perseverance landing was an Indian American Woman. CNN. Retrieved from https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/19/world/swati-mohan-nasa-perseverance-landing-scn-trnd/index.html

23:02, Dr. Shenell Tolson on B-Scientists

• https://www.b-sci.org/b-scientists/episode/889daab2/scicomm-and-public-health-with-dr-shenell-tolson

33:22, Science for Georgia

• https://scienceforgeorgia.org/

33:28, National Science Policy Network

• https://scipolnetwork.org/

33:58, BlackinX

• Langin, K. “‘A time of reckoning.’ How scientists confronted anti-Black racism and built community in 2020.” Science Magazine Careers. Retrieved from: https://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2020/12/time-reckoning-how-scientists-confronted-anti-black-racism-and-built-community-2020?utm_source=sc-tw&utm_medium=social

34:08, BlackinBioAnth

• https://blackinbioanth.org/

34:13, Society of Black Archaeologists

• https://www.societyofblackarchaeologists.com/

34:27, BlackinGeo

• https://blackingeoscience.org/

34:30, NABG

• http://www.nabg-us.org/

36:34, Crash Course and Crash Course Chemistry

• https://thecrashcourse.com/

38:17, Kurzegasgt

• https://kurzgesagt.org/

48:59, The Square Round Table

• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq7ryHlGOXFK-gwPO1WDw8g