Identity VS Image
Identity VS Image
Podcast Description
Identity vs Image - Real stories behind assumptions, legacies, and labels.Each week, hosts Michelle Gatchell and Ric Moore, sit down with people whose lives have been touched, shaped or skewed—by the weight of a family name, a predecessor’s reputation, the ripple of a rumor, or the spotlight of someone else’s fame. Join us and hear these amazing stories.
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The podcast focuses on themes like personal identity, family legacies, and the impact of public perception. Example episodes include discussions with guests about their experiences with societal assumptions and explorations of historical narratives, such as May Pang's reflections on her life with John Lennon, which reveal a deeper emotional landscape and challenge stereotypes surrounding famous figures.
Identity vs Image – Real stories behind assumptions, legacies, and labels.
Each week, hosts Michelle Gatchell and Ric Moore, sit down with people whose lives have been touched, shaped or skewed—by the weight of a family name, a predecessor’s reputation, the ripple of a rumor, or the spotlight of someone else’s fame. Join us and hear these amazing stories.
A massive interstellar visitor named 3I/Atlas is currently traveling through our solar system, and it's unlike anything astronomers have ever seen. Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb joins us to unravel the scientific mystery behind this extraordinary object that might be twice the size of the asteroid that eliminated the dinosaurs.
What makes 3I/Atlas so peculiar? Its trajectory perfectly aligns with Earth's orbital plane—a statistical anomaly with only a 0.2% chance of occurring naturally. It will pass remarkably close to Jupiter, Mars, and Venus before reaching its closest approach to the sun when Earth is conveniently positioned on the opposite side. These coincidences have led Professor Loeb to consider whether this object might be technological rather than natural in origin.
As the founding director of Harvard University's Black Hole Initiative and head of the Galileo Project, Loeb brings exceptional credentials to this cosmic detective story. He shares his proposal to intercept 3I/Atlas in March of 2026 using NASA's Juno spacecraft, potentially offering humanity an unprecedented close-up view of an object that has traveled through interstellar space for billions of years. By August or September of this year, we should know whether 3I/Atlas behaves like a conventional comet or asteroid or continues to defy conventional explanations.
Beyond the scientific implications, we explore how discovering extraterrestrial technology might impact a divided humanity. Could an interstellar visitor provide the perspective shift we need to transcend our earthly conflicts? As Loeb poetically suggests, we're preparing for ”a blind date of astronomical proportions,” and the universe may soon reveal answers to questions we've been asking for generations.
Join us for this fascinating conversation about the boundaries between science and speculation, and what might happen when humanity confronts evidence that we're not alone in the cosmos. Subscribe now to catch our future episodes exploring identity, assumptions, and the stories that shape our understanding of reality.
More Information can be found on Professor Avi Loeb's Harvard page
https://lweb.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/
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