# Matthew Powell

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Drone Warfare: The New Face of Air Power

This episode forms part of STANDEASY's continuing Threats Series, examining the evolving security challenges facing Ireland, Europe, and the wider international environment. In this episode, I am joined by Dr Matthew Powell from the RAF College Cranwell to explore how drones are transforming the ch…

STARMOC

The number of objects in orbit is doubling every two years, and the systems built to keep watch still run on formats designed around 1960s punch cards. At Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a mission operations center called STARMOC is proving that the future of space operations can be built f…

NIF Diagnostics

Inside the National Ignition Facility, scientists create bursts of fusion hotter than the center of the sun that vanish in 100 trillionths of a second. The only way to trust what happened is to measure it - and Lawrence Livermore has spent decades building the instruments that can see the unseeable…

364 Road Trip 2023: La Pointe-Krebs House & Museum

The Mississippi Gulf Coast was the home of many different peoples, cultures, and empires during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. According to some historians, the Gulf Coast region may have been the most diverse region in early North America.
 Matthew Powell, a historian of slavery and …

308 Slavery and Freedom in French Louisiana

The story of freedom in colonial New Orleans and Louisiana pivoted on the choices black women made to retain control of their bodies, families, and futures. How did black women in colonial Louisiana navigate French and Spanish black and slavery codes to retain control of their bodies, families, an…

303 An Early History of the Mississippi Gulf Coast

The Mississippi Gulf Coast was the home of many different peoples, cultures, and empires during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. According to some historians, the Gulf Coast region may have been the most diverse region in early North America.
 Matthew Powell, a historian of slavery and so…

CODA Telescope

The breakthrough wasn’t a new telescope. It was a new way to build one. For decades, space telescopes were built as exquisite, one-of-a-kind instruments. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory took a different approach: design for “good enough” instead of perfect, and rethink how a telescope is man…

Rare Earth Elements

Rare-earth elements are hidden inside nearly every piece of modern technology - your phone, electric vehicles, fighter jets. They aren't scarce in number. They're scarce because pulling them apart is one of the hardest problems in chemistry, and the United States depends almost entirely on other co…

Good & Evil? w/ Matthew Powell

Why did God place the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden, and why give humanity the ability to choose something that could ultimately destroy them?In this episode, we talk about the difficult questions surrounding good, evil, free will, temptation, sin, and the nature of G…

Exoplanets

The nearest exoplanet is about 4 light-years away, but from a single speck of light, scientists can peer into their atmospheres - and recreate pieces of these distant worlds here on Earth. Exoplanets are planets that exist beyond our solar system, and some of them are so extreme that they challenge…