Steven Hoefer's Reader's Room Podcast

Reader's Room ponders the best speculative fiction and and science for the week. This week we talk about why they brought a pistol along when going on the first spacewalk, and The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. Show links: Two Sides of the Moon by Astronaut Dave Scott and Cosmonaut Alexi Leonov (Excerpt about the first spacewalk  at Air & Space Magazine . Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.by Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland Podcast: Big Picture Science on Science Fiction. Linkdump: Neural networks to name Guinea Pigs The History of 16th-Century Narcoleptic Walruses Carbon Capture plant growing veggies in Switzerland. Suggestions, comments, or subscribe to the newsletter at ReadSteven.com