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From Exoplanets to Earthly Technology: Exploring Our Fears and Dreams Through Science Fiction with Ness Brown and Chris Orwoll

What does the space history have to do with science fiction?   More than you’d think, actually! Among the many exhibitions the New Mexico Museum of Space History offers is one called Sci Fi & Sci Fact: Two Worlds Collide. As Chris Orwoll, executive director of the New Mexico Museum of Space History shares in this episode’s conversation, TV shows and movies like Star Trek and Star Wars were greatly influential to NASA employees. And that’s just one example!    “We don't think too much about an automatic defibrillator, but where did the idea come from? Or… Read More

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Prison Art as an Assertion of Humanity with Museum of International Folk Art Curators Patricia Sigala and Chloe Accardi

Museum of International Folk Art curators, Patricia Sigala and Chloe Accardi, are dedicated to co-collaborating exhibitions alongside community members—and especially those who are in some way connected to a particular exhibition’s theme. For the upcoming exhibition, Between the Lines: Prison Art & Advocacy, this commitment to community feedback and engagement is particularly strong.   “We have…Read more
June 11, 2024
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Rolling Into Rural Communities: Bookmobiles and Books by Mail Across New Mexico 

For many people who live in New Mexico the nearest library might be three hundred miles away. Luckily, the New Mexico State Library runs two excellent rural library services: Books by Mail and three bookmobiles that serve different regions of the state.   If you live 20 minutes outside of the city limits of any city…Read more
May 27, 2024
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A History of Genízaro Identity in the Heart of New Mexico with Dr. Gregorio Gonzales 

What do we lose when we don’t know ALL of our histories? Understanding our great, great, great, great grandparents' lives and how they survived, where they settled or traveled, and what languages they spoke – all of these details reveal so much about who we are and how we landed here in this place, at…Read more
May 13, 2024
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