You can (and should) listen to my first ever podcast, at "365 Days of Astronomy", which is either about a) why we put telescopes on mountains and in space or b) why science in Antarctica rocks!  From the 365DOA site:

Ever wonder why astronomers loft telescopes higher and higher, to mountains and via balloons and satellites? Astrophysicist Sandy Antunes explains, and in the process gets an accidental lesson from a Linda Banish, a rock-climbing colleague, on why Antarctica is the best place in the world for science.

What made this fun was when my co-host, Linda, got onto a wonderful bit about how awesome Antarctica is for doing science, the caliber of scientist they get, and why every scientist should drop everything and go to Antarctica.

Alex, the Daytime Astronomer

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