![]() “I had no idea that the human eye could see the Milky Way.”Ī valuable lesson about learning from your mistakes comes as she recounts working on the Juno spacecraft mission to Jupiter. One of the most emotional parts of the episode comes when Drain is moved to tears upon reflecting on the first time she was able to see stars clearly at night. to help finish homework assignments due the next day) shaped her career aspirations. “It’s an oversight on my part.”ĭrain is a fascinating guest who details how her mom’s influence and frequent assistance (she would stay up with her until 3 a.m. “She’s the Monica.” Jacobs agrees, although she admits that she’s never actually seen Friends. Reasonover fittingly compares Drain’s job description to the character Monica from Friends, due to her being so organized and basically functioning as the glue-of-the-group. Unlike many podcasts that have a usual intro, interview, and closing segment, If/Then presents the interview, but jumps back to the hosts sporadically to get their reactions to what the interviewee just said. She says the most important part of the job is having “problem solving skills” and being able to “spot a problem and work with a team of experts to figure out what to do about it.” Drain is responsible for making sure that the many different systems and components of a spacecraft all function properly together, troubleshooting and honing in on any issues as they arise. The episode then moves into Jacobs’s interview with NASA engineer Tracy Drain. But he did spark some curiosity in me,” she says. “We never understood what he was talking about ever. ![]() ![]() Reasonover’s dad was a pilot and taught her, maybe at too young of an age, the inner-workings of an airplane. Jacobs says because her mother worked in a natural history museum when she was very little she became “obsessed with dinosaurs” and went so far as to dress a T-Rex for Halloween in kindergarten. We begin with Jacobs and Reasonover recounting their mutual interest in science growing up. As Jacobs says in the show’s premiere episode, the show presents “STEM for those of us who lost our graphing calculators a long time ago.” But on their new podcast, the duo step off set to go on tangents with innovative, interesting and exciting personalities in science, tech, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). You probably know Jacobs from her starring roles in hit TV shows like Community and Love, and Reasonover as forensic scientist Kasie Hines from NCIS. But that’s the main goal of the new Stitcher podcast, If/Then, where hosts Gillian Jacobs and Diona Reasonover aim to restore your childlike curiosity and remind listeners that learning is a lifelong adventure if you want it to be. Can you still remember the wonder or excitement that learning brought you as a kid? For most of us the answer is probably no.
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