Best Gamma Project Podcasts (2025)

A reflection on the past 4 years of the podcast. Matthew Midwood - Website Ed Charbonneau - Website Shedd Aquarium, Chicago, USA - Website Thomas Young - Bakerian Lecture, January 1, 1802, page 20 Barry B. Lee. 2008. The evolution of concepts of color vision. Neurociencias. David Witt - Colormxr color mixing tool International Colour Association - …

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Session 28: Ray's Story of Brain Change 16:50

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Session 27: Taking 100% Responsibility for Your Actions Then and Now 16:47

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Session 26: Values Clarification and Values Conflict 16:47

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Session 25: Jealousy and Insecurity 16:47

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6,000 Exoplanets and Counting 22:12

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On September 17, 2025, NASA announced that the number of exoplanets, planets outside our solar system, tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. In the three decades since the groundbreaking detection of exoplanet 51 Pegasi b, the first confirmed planet orbiting a Sun-like star, astronomers have concluded that exotic worlds are everywhere.…

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Session 24: Positive Parenting 16:47

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Session 23: Oppositionality vs. Cooperation – Training Your Brain 16:47

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NASA's Zero Gravity Research Facility 19:07

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A steel vacuum chamber 50 stories deep at NASA’s Glenn Research Center lets researchers simulate near-weightlessness by letting test hardware freefall for 5.18 seconds.By National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

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Session 22: Sex, Intimacy, and Healing from Abuse 15:50

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Session 21: Fair Fighting Do's and Don'ts 15:50

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Turning Space Data Into Sound 26:58

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From black holes to star clusters, scientists are turning space data into sound with a process called sonification. Dr. Kimberly Arcand, visual scientist with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, joins us to explore how data sonification lets more people experience the cosmos and give researchers a new way to interpret science one note …

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Session 20: Mindfulness 15:50

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Session 19: Walking in Their World 15:50

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StarBurst: Gamma-ray Hunter 19:51

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StarBurst, a satellite the size of a washing machine, aims to detect the initial blast of gamma-rays, the most powerful bursts of energy in the universe. These huge explosions can occur when dense neutron stars collide, forging metals like gold and platinum. These metals are some of the building blocks of planets — like Earth.…

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Session 18: Growing Love Through Friendship 15:50

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Session 17: Meeting the Fire – Understanding Rage 15:50

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Hubble: An Engineering Marvel 23:31

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The Hubble Space Telescope has changed humanity’s understanding of the universe. Now in orbit for 35 years, it remains a remarkable feat of engineering.By National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

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Session 16: Meeting the Truth of My Actions 15:31

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Session 15: Meeting Resentment and Hate with Compassion 15:31

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Fighting Wildland Fires with Drones 11:19

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Fighting wildland fires by air at night is especially hazardous. NASA’s ACERO Project aims to make firefighting safer, day or night, with drones and smarter airspace management.By National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

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Session 14: From Shame to Self-Confidence 15:20

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Session 13: Creating a Safe World 16:08

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A New Era of X-ray Astronomy with IXPE 26:32

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IXPE, or the Infrared X-ray Polarimetry Explorer, is NASA’s first space telescope dedicated to studying X-ray polarization from extreme objects like black holes and quasars.By National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

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Session 12: My Past Has Left Clues 16:08

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Session 11: Using Feeling and Noticing 15:00

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Risk Management at NASA 33:38

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Big or small, we all take risks nearly every day. But how does NASA manage it? Dr. Mary Skow, NASA’s first agency risk management officer, explains.By National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

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Session 10: My Past is My Teacher 16:08

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NASA's Air Traffic Management-eXploration Project 30:06

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NASA’s Air Traffic Management-eXploration Project aims to accommodate the growing demand of traditional and emerging aircraft that share the friendly skies.By National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

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The Universe in Living Color with SPHEREx 27:23

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NASA's SPHEREx mission will map 450 million galaxies like we’ve never seen before.By National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

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Session 9: Imagining Empathy 21:07

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In this 20-minute guided meditation, we explore the powerful skill of empathy—a transformative capacity that can be developed and refined by anyone. Using a gentle staircase deepening and evocative visual metaphors, you'll be guided to step into the inner world of another, suspend judgment, and become more curious, more present, and more human. Ble…

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Session 8: Walking in Her Shoes 12:37

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Episode Title: Session 8 – Walking in Her Shoes: The Felt Practice of Empathy This guided meditation invites listeners to take one of the most vital—and vulnerable—steps in the change process: imagining the experience of the person they hurt. In alignment with Session 8’s focus on reconstructing the scene and building empathy, “Walking in Her Shoes…

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Session 7: Facing the Mirror 12:37

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Episode Title: Session 7 – Facing the Mirror: The Beginning of Doing Better This meditation invites you into stillness—not to escape—but to gently face what you’ve avoided. In step with Session 7’s work on cognitive interventions, “Facing the Mirror” guides you through a felt process of honest reflection. You won’t be asked to relive past harm, but…

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Yoga Nidra Style Body Scan Sleep Aid Meditation 20:01

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Session 6: The River of Your Thoughts 12:37

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Episode Title: Session 6 – The River of Your Thoughts With soft river sounds and foglike focus, this guided meditation invites you to step back from the noise of your thoughts and sit—quietly—on the riverbank. In harmony with Session 6, which introduces stress management and cognitive awareness, you’ll practice the foundational skill of observing y…

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Session 5: Cooling the System 12:37

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Session 5 – Cooling the System: HALT and Nervous-System Reset Sink into slow ambient tones and let shoulders drop as we guide you through the Milton-Erickson–style “Cooling the System” meditation. The script uses a simple flame-turning metaphor to embody Session 5’s lesson: stress heats the nervous system degree by degree until we boil over—unless …

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Episode 152: EZIE Does It 15:49

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What can the auroras tell us about our planet’s relationship with the Sun? NASA’s EZIE mission looks into it.By National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

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Session 4: Brain Change Prep: "I Am Rewiring" 12:37

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Episode Title: Session 4 – Brain Change Prep: "I Am Rewiring" With ambient tones drifting from alpha into theta, this meditation guides you straight into the electrical heart of Session 4—brain change by deliberate practice. Eyes soft, breath slow, you’ll visualize two trails inside your mind’s landscape. One is the familiar track of reflex—anger →…

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A Sherlock Holmes Color Theory Odyssey 1:22:10

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More background on competing histories of color harmony, and a reprise of episodes from Season 1, Color Theory Wars parts 1 and 2. Emily Noyes Vanderpoel, Color Problems: A Practical Manual for the Lay Student of Color, Sacred Bones Records publisher Newton's Optiks, 1704, Project Gutenberg ebook Goethe's Theory of Colors, 1810 (1840 translated by …

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Session 3: Changing What you Do 12:37

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Episode Title: Session 3 – Changing What you Do Description Sink the shoulders, loosen the jaw, let breathing find its own tempo—then picture a fork in the road. One track is the worn‑in route of old reactions; the other is an unmapped trail that begins with a single, different move. This meditation embodies Session 3’s theme: lasting change is beh…

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Episode 151: Designing Missions 16:55

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NASA’s design labs are where engineers develop concepts for missions and scientific instruments.By National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

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Session 2: Taking 100% Responsibility for What You Did and Are Doing Now 12:37

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Episode Title: Session 2 – Taking 100% Responsibility for What You Did and Are Doing Now Description This session invites you into a slow‑tide breath and a mirror that shows only one thing: your own behavior. With eyes closed or softly focused, you’ll notice there’s nothing to fix, no one else to blame—just the honest image of your choices. The pur…

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Session 1: Series Introduction and Orientation 10:13

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Episode 1: Orientation – What Is DV Brain Change? Welcome to the DV Brain Change Meditation Podcast Series. In this special orientation episode, therapist and creator Glenn Ostlund introduces the purpose, structure, and personal philosophy behind this unique fusion of neuroscience, sound therapy, and guided meditation. Drawing from the Brain Change…

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Episode 150: Urban Air Taxis 18:40

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Flying taxis? NASA is working on it.By National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

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Turquoise and Yellow: Measuring the Gap in My Knowledge in Parsecs 40:27

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Guardian website: Do you see blue or green? This viral test plays with color perception Colour Literacy Project: Resources Science How Stuff Works: Earth's Oldest Color was Pink Martin Bricelj Baraga (cyanometer art installation): Cyanometer Color categories in thought and language, edited by C. L. Hardin and Luisa Maffi. Cambridge University Press…

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Episode 149: Spacecraft Thermal Blankets 13:14

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Originally a fashion designer, Paula Cain is a NASA thermal blanket technician, working to protect spacecraft from the extremes of space.By National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)