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Tales from the TundraKirby H. | Full EpisodeWe’re back with another episode of Tales from theTundra! This week, Kirby joins the show to share his story. He’s aborn-and-raised Minnesotan with a love for the Green and Gold. In our conversation, we talk about how he became a die-hard Packers fan—despite having no ties to the beautiful state of Wisconsin—his collection, his trip to Green Bay, and much more. Weekly Giveaway:Enter here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeN05Dx3EMxQsG7t7-4yuw31_0q4xTUpjZl_CVkdBa5NLJqfg/viewform?usp=header ...
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theTUNDRA Enthusiast News NetworkCollege Pickleball COLLEGIATE PICKLEBALL SPIRIT: NCPA 2024 National Championships Outshine Always 72' & Sunny San DiegoIt was a weekend only the Gods could create: 200+ college students from approximately 33 colleges & universities from across the U.S. sprang on America's newest, most beautifully (and organically) designed pickleball facility - The Hub in San Diego - like the first tulips of Spring, all at the National Collegiate Pickleball Association's 2024 National Championships, kicking-off a year-long series of pickleball tournaments coming to a community near you this summer and into the Fall 2024 collegiate pickleball season. Check-out what separates collegiate sports from the pros - especially at the club level, where camaraderie is the name of the game.
2024-08-0708 min
theTUNDRA Enthusiast News NetworkEP#5 l One-on-one w/Pickleball's Foremost Paddle Scientist Tom Barnes, Chief of R&D @ Selkirk SportAs an Enthusiast News Network, theTUNDRA.com has the good fortune of interviewing 1000s of dedicated enthusiasts across the vast landscape of special interests, but never have we met as impassioned, and informed, an expert in new product development as Tom Barnes, Director of R&D and Labs at pickleball industry leader SelkirkSport the family owned and operated company that's pretty darn lucky to call Tom one-of-their-own (he's one of four brothers running the biz); because if Tom wasn't in the fam, he'd no doubt be running Microsoft, Apple or THE WORLD...(or maybe all three???). For the art and...
2024-08-0737 min
theTUNDRA Enthusiast News NetworkCollegiate Pickleball Tailgate Summer w/CEOs: EP#4 PICKLE4's President Ben Weinberger Talks Pickleball Growth, Realities & Expectations w/UMICH HostConsidered the most innovative company to emerge over the past year serving the amateur pickleball community (TAM casts a wide-net from 5MM to 52MM+), PICKLE4's CEO Ben Weinberger shares with Elliot Rothstein, Host of Collegiate Pickleball Tailgate, a few key takeaways PICKLE4 has learned while launching extraordinary, one-of-a-kind events including PICKLE4's Ballpark Series at Fenway & Oracle ballparks in 2023, and its recent acquisition of the iconic US Open Pickleball Championships, among other complementary business ventures (Pickleball Den & The Pickler). We're placing our bets on PICKLE4 for the long haul...
2024-07-1026 min
theTUNDRA Enthusiast News NetworkproPUCKERS EP9: NHL Draft Winners & Losers: Utah Rising, Maple Leafs Fallinghe NHL Draft wrapped up over the weekend and a few teams looking like they have super teams in the works. Which teams took in a great class? Who leaves us concerned? Plus, some NHL trade quick-fire at the end. Mike Fink dives into the draft and more with Blain Potvin, who covers the Montreal Canadians for The Hockey Writers, and Brooke Lofurno who covers the Chicago Blackhawks for The Hockey Writers.
2024-07-1028 min
theTUNDRA Enthusiast News NetworkBeyond Space EP#13: Meet Supercam Perseverance - Rover's ROVER'S SUPERHERO FOR MARS DISCOVERIESRoger Wiens is a planetary scientist and Fellow at @LosAlamosNationalLab. He is the principal investigator for both the ChemCam instrument aboard the Mars Curiosity rover and the SuperCam instrument, aboard the Perseverance rover. The SuperCam on NASA's Perseverance rover examines rocks and soils with a camera, laser and spectrometers to seek organic compounds that could be related to past life on Mars. It can identify the chemical and mineral makeup of targets as small as a pencil point from a distance of more than 20 feet (7 meters)
2024-06-2610 min
theTUNDRA Enthusiast News NetworkBeyond Space EP#12: Billionaire Space Race: Where Branson, Bezos & Musk Intersect-Space for Big EgosMehmet S. Tosun is the Barbara Smith Campbell Distinguished Professor at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR). He is also a Professor of Economics and the Director of International Programs in the College of Business. His research interests and expertise include public finance (particularly tax policy), regional economics, and economics of population and demography. The billionaires Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos have recently successfully reached the edge of space. Dr. Tosun of the College of Business at the University of Nevada, Reno, discusses the impact of these flights on the space economy.
2024-06-2607 min
theTUNDRA Enthusiast News NetworkBeyond Space EP#11: Understanding Planet Formation with Anders Johansen, Professor of AstronomyAnders Johansen is a Professor of Astronomy at Lund Observatory at Lund University in Sweden, working there on topics such as planet formation, accretion discs, turbulence, and supercomputing. He obtained his PhD in 2007 at Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg. After that he spent a bit more than two years as a postdoc at Leiden Observatory. Anders obtained his docent degree from Lund University in 2013. According to a study led by ProfessorJohansen, Earth, Venus and Mars were created from small dust particles containing ice and carbon. The discovery opens up the possibility that the Milky Way may be...
2024-06-2607 min
theTUNDRA Enthusiast News NetworkBeyond Space EP#10: SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLES: Origin Story with Hai-Bo You, Theoretical Particle Astrophysics ExpertHai-Bo Yu is an associate professor of physics and astronomy at the University of California, Riverside. His main research fields are: theoretical particle physics and astrophysics. Supermassive black holes, or SMBHs, are black holes with masses that are several million to billion times the mass of our sun. Hai-Bo Yu from the University of California, Riverside, sheds more light on the origin of these massive and mysterious objects.
2024-06-2606 min
theTUNDRA Enthusiast News NetworkBeyond Space EP#9: STELLAR X-RAY SUPER-FLARES w/Dr. Konstantin Getman, PSU Professor, Star Formation & Activity ExpertDr. Konstantin Getman received an honor master's degree in astronomy at Moscow State University in 1994 and his Ph.D. degree in physics and mathematics at Pushkov Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radiowave Propagation of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1999. Since 2001, he has been at the Pennsylvania State University where he is currently a research professor. His research is focused on star formation and stellar activity. By conducting the largest survey ever of star-forming regions in X-rays, a team of researchers led by Dr. Getman of the Pennsylvania State University (PSU) has helped outline the link between very...
2024-06-2609 min
theTUNDRA Enthusiast News NetworkBeyond Space EP#7: Neptune-sized Exoplanet: University of New Mexico's Diana DragomirDiana Dragomir is an assistant professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of New Mexico. Her research focuses on the demographics and atmospheres of exoplanets smaller than Neptune. She is particularly interested in super-Earths and sub-Neptunes, planets with radii between those of the Earth and Neptune. A team of astronomers, including Dragomir of the University of New Mexico, has recently discovered a new exoplanet orbiting a nearby star. The newfound alien world, designated TOI-1231 b, is Neptune-sized, with a radius nearly four times greater than that of the Earth.
2024-06-2609 min
theTUNDRA Enthusiast News NetworkBeyond Space EP#8: New Star Baby Boom: Dr. Charlotte Olsen on enhanced star formation in interacting galaxiesCharlotte Olsen is a doctoral student in the Department of Physics and Astronomy in the School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers University–New Brunswick. In the summer of 2016, Charlotte was granted an internship at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center to study enhanced star formation in interacting galaxies. In general, she studies how galaxies evolve by way of how they form stars. A simultaneous “baby boom” of new stars has been detected in 36 dwarf galaxies. Olsen has found that dwarf galaxies far from each other slowed down and then simultaneously accelerated their birth rate of stars.
2024-06-2620 min
theTUNDRA Enthusiast News NetworkBeyond Space EP#6: CLIMATE CHANGE & MARS: CNRS Research Scientist William Rapin, Planet Surface Geochemistry ExpertWilliam Rapin is a CNRS Research Scientist at IRAP (Research Institute in Astrophysics and Planetology) in Toulouse, France, collaborating with IMPMC (Institute of Mineralogy, Materials Physics and Cosmochemistry) in Paris, France. His research investigates the surface geochemistry of planets to improve our understanding of their origin, evolution, and habitability. Rapin of the Research Institute in Astrophysics and Planetology (IRAP) in Toulouse, France, sheds more light on climate changes that occured on Mars. By analyzing the data from NASA’s Curiosity rover, he found how climate on the Red Planet alternated between dry and wetter periods, before drying up completely ab...
2024-06-2610 min
theTUNDRA Enthusiast News NetworkBeyond Space EP#5: The Sun's Twisted Magnetic Field: New Ways of Measuring Sun's Magnetic Field with Christopher PriorChristopher Prior is an Addison-Wheeler fellow in the Mathematical sciences department at Durham University. His general interests lie in mathematical modelling and the mathematical issues on the borderline between geometry and topology. He has a particular interest in physical systems for which the conservation of topology of inter-twined bundles or tubular structures is a key consideration. Prior and colleagues have come up with a new way to measure the entanglement of the magnetic field of the Sun. These twisted magnetic fields rise to the convection zone of the Sun and cause solar flares.
2024-06-2617 min
theTUNDRA Enthusiast News NetworkBeyond Space EP#2: MYSTERIOUS FAST RADIO BURSTS: FRBs WITH ZIGGY PLEUNIS, McGill UniversityZiggy Pleunis is a postdoctoral researcher at the McGill Space Institute of the McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He studies fast radio bursts (FRBs) and pulsars using observations with radio telescopes and (sometimes) the Fermi gamma-ray space telescope. Ziggy is a member of the CHIME/FRB Collaboration and he wrote a PhD thesis on the detection and morphology of FRBs with the CHIME telescope. Pleunis tries to uncover the nature of the so-called fast radio bursts (FRBs). FRBs are transient radio pulses of length ranging from a fraction of a millisecond to a few milliseconds, caused by some high-energy...
2024-06-2609 min
theTUNDRA Enthusiast News NetworkBeyond Space EP#4: Timeless Insights: Former NASA Chief Admin Jim Bridenstine Talks Farming on Mars @ World Ag ExpoUp Close & Personal Never Gets Old: Former Chief NASA Administrator (2018-2021) Jim Bridenstine was the keynote speaker for the World Ag Expo's opening ceremony a few years back, providing an overview of the ways NASA is supporting agriculture. What an inspiration - foresight in 2019 is alive and thriving today in NASA, as applicable today as it was then.
2024-06-2642 min
theTUNDRA Enthusiast News NetworkBeyond Space EP#3: Seismically Active Mars: Detecting Marsquakes & Curating Planet's Seismicity with Dr. Savas CeylanDr. Savas Ceylan is a researcher at the Institute of Geophysics of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zürich, Switzerland. Dr. Ceylan is part of the Marsquake Service - the InSight ground team that detects marsquakes and curates the planet's seismicity catalog.The SEIS seismometer package from NASA's Mars InSight lander has collected its first continuous Martian year of data, revealing some surprises among the more than 500 marsquakes detected so far. Dr. Ceylan of Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zürich, Switzerland, discusses some of the findings from The Marsquake Service, the part of th...
2024-06-2607 min
theTUNDRA Enthusiast News NetworkBeyond Space EP#1: Perseverance Rover's Little Device Producing Oxygen with MIT Michael H. Hecht MITHaystackMichael H. Hecht is a research scientist, the associate director for research management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Haystack Observatory, and the deputy project director for the Event Horizon Telescope. He served as the lead scientist for the Microscopy, Electrochemistry, and Conductivity Analyzer instrument on the Phoenix Mars lander, and as the principal investigator for the Mars Oxygen ISRU Experiment (MOXIE) instrument. The Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment onboard NASA's Perseverance rover is better known as MOXIE. The tool is designed to produce oxygen from the Martian carbon-dioxide atmosphere.
2024-06-2611 min
theTUNDRA Enthusiast News Network2ND SHOTS Series 2 Beyond-the-Court EP#1: Kyle Yates & Building Pickleball's Founder Brian LimIt's the age of Pickleball -- do you know where your Theory of Reinvestment is? Jump-in on this uniquely insightful conversation between World Pickleball Champ/GOAT Kyle Yates & BUILDING PICKLEBALL Founder Brian Lim, as they explore Lim's prolific application of principles not typically related to sport applied inside the arena - a POV that can only be derived through the curious prism of a pro whose career has included professional MMA fighter, UIUX designer & Pastry Chef.
2024-06-2648 min
theTUNDRA Enthusiast News NetworkproPUCKERS EP#8: Stanley Cup Final Pre-game Watch Preview: 2 Most Exciting Words in Sports: GAME 7 - What Pros SayIt all comes down to this: Game 7 between Edmonton Oilers and the Florida Panthers, deciding tonight who wins the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs. WATCH 3 of the NHL's most popular writers talk: What are the key matchups? Who wins & why? Host Mike Fink is joined by fellow writers Jim Parsons & Connor Hrabchak to dive in to ALL THINGS Game 7!!!
2024-06-2635 min
theTUNDRA Enthusiast News NetworkCollegiate Pickleball Tailgate w/CEOs: EP#3 Pat Rolfes, CEO/PickleballSuperstore.com & The Hub PickleballYou don't need to play pickleball to LOVE TUNDRA's Collegiate Pickleball Tailgate Summer Edition's EP#3, featuring in-the-know entrepreneurial insights through the informed POV of Pat Rolfes, CEO of PickleballSuperstore.com and The Hub Pickleball. Join Host Elliot Rothstein and Pat for this memorable interview, filled with straight-forward talk about the roller-coaster ride otherwise known as entrepreneurship, and, in the end, how exciting that ride can be, especially when applied to businesses supporting America's fastest growing sport otherwise known as pickleball.
2024-06-2644 min
theTUNDRA Enthusiast News NetworkproPUCKERS EP#7: 2024 STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS: O Canada!!! If Oilers Comeback to win Friday/Game 6, Game 7 will be EPICproPUCKERS EP#7: Oilers were down 3-0 the Florida Panthers but are back in it with consecutive victories. How did they flip momentum? Will they reverse sweep the Florida Panthers? Here's what a couple of the best NHL pro writer have to say, with Edmontons own Jim Parsons joining Mike Fink to discuss all things Stanley Cup Final.
2024-06-2631 min
theTUNDRA Enthusiast News NetworkCollegiate Pickleball Tailgate Summer w/CEOs: EP#2 MEET Pickleball's Collegiate Disruptor: Noah Suemnick, NCPA's Founder & CEOIn his own words: Suemnick founded NCPA, one of the leading collegiate pickleball tournaments in the U.S., in his dorm room in January 2023. Watch this incredible interview hosted by University of Michigan Boy Wonder Elliot Rothstein, with guest co-host top-ranked collegiate pickleball player Averee Beck of Utah Tech. LOADS of fun here but even more insights about the future of America's favorite sport.
2024-06-2619 min
theTUNDRA Enthusiast News NetworkproPUCKERS EP6: Stanley Cup Final Game 2 in Review & What To Look Forward To with Oilers v. PanthersAin't it great??? Don't miss theTUNDRA's proPUCKERS EP6 featuring the inside scoop firsthand from a couple of the NHL's greatest, most impassioned writers on TUNDRA's proPUCKERS, hosted by Mike Fink with special guest Chase Beardsley, both popular writers with the esteemed NHL-focused news source: The Hockey Writers.
2024-06-2627 min
theTUNDRA Enthusiast News NetworkCollegiate Pickleball Tailgate Summer w/CEOs: EP#1 w/Jorge Barragan, Founder & CEO/The PICKLRBefore Jorge Barragan founded America's leading franchisor of indoor pickleball court facilities, the entrepreneur already had two successful exits from startups he launched, and that's not the best part of his story! In EP#1 of our Collegiate Tailgate: Summer w/CEOs Series, University of Michigan sophomore Elliot Rothstein interviews Barragan, Founder & CEO of The PICKLR, in one of the most forthcoming, inspirational and insightful exchanges theTUNDRA has had the good fortune of producing. Viewers: This is a rare gem of an interview, guided by Rothstein's fresh and artful curiosity, that leaves you feeling changed in the way one does...
2024-06-1036 min
theTUNDRA Enthusiast News NetworkproPUCKERS EP5: 2024 Stanley Cup Final Preview - Key Matchups, Star Power & Who Wins & WhyThis week is the time that obsessively dedicated HOCKEY enthusiasts LIVE for!!! The 2024 Stanley Cup Final is here with the Edmonton Oilers facing the Florida Panthers for the right to hoist the greatest trophy in sports. Today, on proPUCKERS EP#5, host Mike Fink is joined by Jim Parsons, who covers the Oilers and the NHL for The Hockey Writers and NHL Trade Talk; together Mike and Jim are breaking down the matchups and the players who will define the series, and the winner. Who do you think will win?
2024-06-1034 min
theTUNDRA Enthusiast News NetworkMotorsports: Performance Race Car Drivers Burning RubberTUNDRA is thrilled to launch its WOMEN & POWER docu-series with WOMEN & CARS, featuring three of the motorsports industry’s boldest & brightest high performance racers, who lift the veil on how they achieved setting global records on a unisex playing field. (Thumbnail credit: Speedqueens.blogspot.com)
2024-06-0559 min
theTUNDRA Enthusiast News NetworkProPuckers EP3: Western Conference Final Preview! Dallas Stars vs Edmonton Oilers @NHL @fihockeyThe Dallas Stars and Edmonton Oilers start the Western Conference Final and the winner will play in the Stanley Cup Final. Emma Lingan joins Mike Fink on ProPuckers Episode 3 to break down the key matchups, the elite players who will take over this series & who wins (and why). Who do you think will win this series? Let us know in the comments section below!!! #westernconferencefinals #stanleycup #dallasstars #edmontonoilers #nhl #hockey #stanleycupfinal #stanleycupplayoffs
2024-06-0532 min
theTUNDRA Enthusiast News NetworkproPUCKERS EP4: NHL 2024 STANLEY CUP: Watch Where Greatness Knows No BoundsProlific NHL writer Mike Fink (The Hockey Writer) reviews with guests key takeaways from Stanley Cup Playoffs so far. Experience the crazy, deep-passion and informed and fun opinions of established Hockey news junkies/professional writers (aka fans LIKE YOU) during Stanley Cup season and beyond. #nhl #hockey #stanleycup #stanleycupplayoffs
2024-06-0529 min
theTUNDRA Enthusiast News NetworkproPUCKERS EP1: 2024 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs - Shocks & Surprises Broken-down!!!Prolific NHL writers Mike Fink & Brian Finlayson (both of The Hockey Writers) review the key takeaways from Stanley Cup Playoffs so far, with the Vancouver Canucks, despite significant goal tending injuries, continuously churning out wins, contrary to what the majority of fans predicted. @NHL Experience the crazy, deep-passion and informed and fun opinions of established Hockey news junkies/professional writers (aka fans LIKE YOU) during Stanley Cup season and beyond. Introducing weekly HOCKEY PUCKERS LIVESTREAM, weekly roundtable featuring 2-3 panelists and hosted by HOCKEY opinion leader and established Hockey writer/columnist Mayer "Mike" Fink emerging on the pop scene...
2024-06-0522 min
theTUNDRA Enthusiast News NetworkproPUCKERS EP2: Canucks-Oilers Game 7 & Eastern Conference Final Preview (Rangers v Panthers)!THE TWO MOST EXCITING WORDS IN SPORTS: GAME SEVEN! It all comes down to one game between the Edmonton Oilers and Vancouver Canucks and the winner will punch their ticket to the Western Conference Final. Plus, the Eastern Conference Final is here! the New York Rangers will battle the Florida Panthers for the right to play in the Stanley Cup Final. What are the Keys to This Series? Which stars will show up? Who wins and why? Find out as Mike Fink is joined by Jacob Billington and Jesse Corville-Lynch to dive into all the nitty gritty of this...
2024-06-0525 min
theTUNDRA Enthusiast News NetworkWHAT DO CARNEGIE MELLON, ASU & SAMFORD UNIVERSITIES HAVE IN COMMON: PICKLEBALL, OF COURSE!!!WHAT THEY'RE DOING AT THE REVOLUTION: Check-out EP2 of the AWE-INSPIRING PANELISTS of COLLEGIATE PICKLEBALL TAILGATE. Hosted by the unflappable brilliance of Carnegie Mellon Pickleball Club President Tristan Ohler, EP 2 panelists Nathan Tang (ASU PICKLEBALL CLUB PREZ) & Jake Wilson (SAMFORD PICKLEBALL CLUB FOUNDER/PREZ) drill-down on what it's like to be a collegiate entrepreneur launching a movement at their schools across the country. With more than 40 million players in the U.S. alone - with majority of those players joining the sport since 2021 - Pickleball is nothing short of a movement - it's a revolution, actually. xxoo TT For...
2024-06-0542 min
theTUNDRA Enthusiast News NetworkCollegiate Pickleball Tailgate Premiere w/theTUNDRA News Crash this tailgate! Launching new weekly COLLEGIATE PICKLEBALL TAILGATE Episode 1 featuring collegiate pickleball club PHENOMS: @umichathletics Suzanne Chuparkoff, @IUAthletics Sam Hutner, & @OhioStAthletics Jayce Fitzpatrick. Check-out the conversation that'll get your adrenaline pumping like the heat-seeking missile Pickleball is throughout the U.S. - it' a Pickleball world, folks. We're just living in it.For MORE AMAZING pickleball content, be sure to hit-up: theTUNDRA's Pickleball USA Network: https://thetundra.com/interests/pickl... theTUNDA's Pickleball TV: https://thetundra.com/interests/pickl... For more Pickleball OG content & enthusiast news that's fit-to-print: https://thetundra.com/ Enthusiast short-form documentaries: https://thetundra.com...
2024-06-0442 min
Board Gaming with EducationEpisode 94- Biology Teacher Talks Game Design For Ecologies Card Game feat. Matt MontroseDustin has the privilege to talk to game-based science teacher, Matt Montrose, and asks him about his experiences with integrating games in the classroom and his design process for Ecologies the Card Game. His company, Montrose Biology, specializes in gamifying biological concepts for students, educators, and gamers alike. His first card game, Ecologies, has players compete to build food webs in 7 different biomes around the world. Be sure to check out Ecologies: https://www.etsy.com/listing/781597126 Episode Topics and Interviews Board Gaming with Education Updates- Facebook group, newsletter, theTUNDRA- 00:28 Who is Matt Montrose? - 3:03 Learning...
2020-04-2727 min