The internet's premier podcast for all things potato. We talk to people about the world's favourite snack food. What do they eat, why do they eat it and why? If things get real wild we might talk corn chips or even, dare I say, popcorn. From recipes to family traditions and favourite flavours to your desert island potato chip, Chip Off The Old Block is where you can listen to the internet's best common taters.
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Science Fiction Adventure in the year 2135! Alibi Jones, a Mediator for the Solar Alliance, is on the trail of alien kidnappers. He'll soon discover that dangers thought long-dead are still very much ALIVE! This stand-alone sequel (of sorts) to The VATICAN ASSASSIN Trilogy takes place 23 years after the events in VATICAN ABDICATOR. New readers will have no trouble jumping in, while those who enjoyed the first trilogy will meet old friends, new characters, and new alien races and civilization ...
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Creekside Church (formerly Cornerstone Community Church) is a place for you and your family to grow with us as we worship God and serve Him and others. We’re a non-denominational church meeting Sundays at 2743 82nd Place in Urbandale, IA. There’s something for you at Creekside, where you’ll find friendly faces of all ages and walks of life gathered to worship Jesus Christ and follow God’s word, the Bible. Visit our web site for directions and details.
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Welcome to the Unboxed Radio podcast, where amazing things happen. People grow, learn, laugh, experience greatness, check themselves, make friends, and all in between step out of that box, from The school of hard knocks, right off the top, a chip from the old block! This is Unboxed!
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The accidentally educational astronomy podcast, Walkabout the Galaxy provides an entertaining and easy-to-understand look at the latest fascinating news and discoveries in astronomy and space science, with a dash of trivia and rocket news.
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Steve Smith :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, June 1, 2025“And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us; and we saw His glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.” From Pastor Steve’s message on John 1:14-18 we learn three ways God’s Son coming to earth in the person of Jesus Christ revealed His Father’s glory, enabling…
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Steve Smith :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, June 8, 2025"Now this was John’s testimony... He did not fail to confess, but confessed freely, 'I am not the Messiah.' In John 1:19-34, Pastor Steve offers three pieces of the testimony of John the Baptist that provide compelling evidence of Messiah’s presence and purpose in the person of Jesus. Worship m…
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Cool Planetary Cores and Lava Fountains Galore
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40:14Original top quark Tracy Becker is back to bring us up to speed Europa Clipper's flyby of Mars, and we learn about a new way for planetary cores to form without so much heat. Join us for all this, plus lava fountain trivia, space news, and much more.By Josh Colwell, Addie Dove, Tracy Becker
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Steve Smith :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, May 25, 2025Light is an intrusion when we’re sleeping and a welcome help when we need to find our way. Just as there are varied responses to physical light, we see varied responses to the “Light of the World.” From John 1:6-13, Pastor Steve reveals three facts highlighting the priority and possibilities of…
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The End of the Universe As We Know It and We Feel Fine
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47:17A major update to the predicted end of the universe has it coming much earlier than previously anticipated. However, we still have plenty of time to get our affairs in order, and the update has to do with spaghettification, and anything with spaghettification can't be all bad. We also talk about active asteroids, your ideal night sky, and cosmologi…
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A Slurping Black Hole and a Win for the Streaming Instability
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41:55We get lucky and catch a rogue supermassive black hole in the act of slurping up a star as it meanders through a distant galaxy. Closer to home, the detection of a second trinary, or triple, system in the Kuiper Belt beyond the orbit of Neptune bolsters the streaming instability theory of planet formation. We talk about all that and what it has to …
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Vesta Chip Off the Old Block and a Nearby Dark Molecular Cloud
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49:28The asteroid Vesta may be a fragment of a much larger protoplanet, and astronomers examine old data to discover a large molecular cloud lurking right in the solar system's backyard. Get all the details, plus habitable exoplanets get another look, space news, and trivial matters with your friendly neighborhood astroquarks.…
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John Ottley :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, May 4, 2025Following a recognition of Creekside’s high school and college graduates, we welcomed back John Ottley, who served as Pastor 1998-2011 when we were known as Cornerstones Community Church. John gave an update on his chaplaincy ministry before preaching from 1 Corinthians 4, encouraging believers …
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Ultralight Dark Matter and Peanut Asteroid Hot Take
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40:47NASA's Lucy mission had a picture perfect encounter with the asteroid Donaldjohanson on its way to the first ever flybys of Trojan asteroids. Discoveries of ancient supermassive black holes challenge theories of their formation. If dark matter is composed of ultralight particles (lighter than a neutrino), that could resolve the mystery. Join us for…
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Steve Smith :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, April 27, 2025In wrath God punishes our sin, but in mercy He pardons it. As our final message in our sermon series covering 2nd Samuel, Pastor Steve preaches from chapter 24 of a firm yet forgiving God.Worship music permitted under CCLI License #264436.By CreeksideDM
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In Memory of Betty Louise (Fredregill) StangerJuly 13, 1929 ~ April 6, 2025Memorial Service3:00 P.M., Saturday, April 26, 2025Creekside ChurchUrbandale, IAWelcome: Pastor Steve SmithOfficiating: Pastor Mark Stanger"In the Garden" — C. Austin Miles - Betty’s Favorite SongSharing of Memories of Betty"I’ll Fly Away" — Reba McIntireThe Family invites y…
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Hot Takes on Water on Earth and Black Hole Singularities
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42:40The astroquarks discover hot takes and explore the nature of ice, the origin of Earth's water, and the trouble with the singularities at the hearts of black holes. Plus, we have a stumper, astronomical trivia, and much more.By Josh Colwell, Addie Dove, Jim Cooney, Audrey Martin
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Steve Smith :: Creekside Church :: Easter Sunday, April 20, 2025The apostle Paul stressed that if Christ had not been raised from the dead, Christianity would be useless. “But the fact is, Christ has been raised.” This Easter Sunday, Pastor Steve presents a message from 1st Corinthians 15:20-34 and both the comfort and challenge the reality of a ri…
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Steve Smith :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, April 13, 2025In Pastor Steve's Palm Sunday message from 2 Samuel 23:8-39, we learn several lessons from David’s mighty men who protected and perpetuated God’s kingdom. From this story we see God's victory that involves us, genuine loyalty that humbles us, great notoriety that encourages us, and grievous f…
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Weird Convection on Venus and a Wrinkle in the Lambda Cold Dark Matter Model
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43:37Venus's extra-thick crust may be extra chewy, allowing convection to occur and helping power volcanoes into the current era. New observations of the distant universe, meanwhile, show that dark energy may not have behaved as expected in the standard cosmological model. We'll break it all down for you together with space news and trivia with your fri…
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Steve Smith :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, April 6, 2025What we get a taste of now will become a feast in heaven. From “the last words of David” in 2 Samuel 23:1-7, Scripture provides us with good reason for confidence and comfort in the coming kingdom, especially in contrast to our present world. From Pastor Steve’s message, we are convinced by th…
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A survey of nearby stars establishes the rate of supernovas in our general neighborhood. Evidence indicates we had nearby stellar explosions at the times of two mass extinctions. Those supernovas may have decimated the ozone layer and contributed to extinctions and climate changes. Plus, we recorded on April 1 and take a look at silly April 1 scien…
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Steve Smith :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, March 30, 2025“I call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised, And I am saved from my enemies.” David, whose song of praise is recorded both in 2nd Samuel 22 and Psalm 18, was an expert at being rescued. From Pastor Steve’s message we find 3 aspects of God’s deliverance that inform, improve, and instruc…
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Life on Hycean Worlds, Interstellar Debris, and Dark Matter Survey
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43:38If there are Hycean worlds and if they have a certain kind of microbial life and if there is enough of it, JWST might be able to see the chemical products of that in the planet's atmosphere. We take a look at that, debris from neighboring stars entering our solar system, and the first results from the Euclid space telescope. Join us for all this pl…
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The Way God Uses Storms: Music and Message by Travis Lee Band
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1:16:17Travis Lee :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, March 23, 2025Worship led by Travis Lee Band (travisleeband.com)Message: "That Way God Uses Storms" (Jonah 1:10-16) by Travis LeeWorship music permitted under CCLI License #264436. Travis Lee Band music property of Travis Lee Band.By CreeksideDM
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There are exciting new observations from recent lunar missions, a possible chunk of the Moon keeping us company, and an intriguing observation supporting the theory that the entire universe is inside a black hole! Get inside the event horizon with the astroquarks for all the space updates, trivia, and more.…
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1. Four Battles Fought, and Four Giant Enemies Slain a. Who killed the giant named Goliath, David or Elhanan? i. 1 Samuel 17; 1 Chronicles 20:5; 2 Samuel 23:24 b. Who are these giant warriors and what is their significance? i. Genesis 14:5; Deuteronomy 2:10-11, 20; 3:2,11; Joshua 11:21-22 ii. Numbers 13:33; Genesis 6:1-4 c. How are the promises of …
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2 Samuel 21:1-14 - The Cost of Corruption
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50:19Steve Smith :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, March 9, 2025Corruption always has a cost. In a challenging passage (2 Samuel 21:1-14), Pastor Steve walks through 4 concepts to grasp in understanding the painful reality—and the remedy—for God’s wrath against sin to help us in living rightly. Steve’s message follows brief announcements.Worship music perm…
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Oort Cloud Spiral, the Color of Mars, and a New Dwarf Galaxy
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41:15We take a look at the formation and structure of the Oort cloud of comets which is spherical at large distances but has a spiral structure in its inner regions. And, after all this time, there's a surprising twist on the nature of the iron mineral that gives Mars its reddish hue. Also hiding in plain sight is a dwarf galaxy in the neighborhood of t…
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Steve Smith :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, March 2, 2025Rebellion, remorse, ruthlessness, reason and reassurance—The characters in 2nd Samuel chapter 20 inform us of and inspire us to face some sobering realities of kingdom living. Pastor Steve's message follows brief announcements. Worship music permitted under CCLI License #264436.…
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Lunar exploration continues to accelerate, and there's a new longest "structure" in the universe. Quipu is a quasi-alignment of clusters of galaxies stretching over 1 billion light years. Structure is in cynical quotation marks because these objects are not bound or connected to each other in any way, but their arrangement is a natural consequence …
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