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As an Enthusiast News Network, theTUNDRA.com has the good fortune of interviewing 1000s of dedicated enthusiasts across the vast landscape of special interests, but never have we met as impassioned, and informed, an expert in new product development as Tom Barnes, Director of R&D and Labs at pickleball industry leader ‪SelkirkSport‬ the family owned and operated company that's pretty darn luck...

Considered the most innovative company to emerge over the past year serving the amateur pickleball community (TAM casts a wide-net from 5MM to 52MM+), PICKLE4's CEO Ben Weinberger shares with Elliot Rothstein, Host of Collegiate Pickleball Tailgate, a few key takeaways PICKLE4 has learned while launching extraordinary, one-of-a-kind events including PICKLE4's Ballpark Series at Fenway & Oracle...

he NHL Draft wrapped up over the weekend and a few teams looking like they have super teams in the works. Which teams took in a great class? Who leaves us concerned? Plus, some NHL trade quick-fire at the end. Mike Fink dives into the draft and more with Blain Potvin, who covers the Montreal Canadians for The Hockey Writers, and Brooke Lofurno who covers the Chicago Blackhawks for The Hockey Write...

Roger Wiens is a planetary scientist and Fellow at ‪@LosAlamosNationalLab‬ . He is the principal investigator for both the ChemCam instrument aboard the Mars Curiosity rover and the SuperCam instrument, aboard the Perseverance rover. The SuperCam on NASA's Perseverance rover examines rocks and soils with a camera, laser and spectrometers to seek organic compounds that could be related to past life...

Mehmet S. Tosun is the Barbara Smith Campbell Distinguished Professor at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR). He is also a Professor of Economics and the Director of International Programs in the College of Business. His research interests and expertise include public finance (particularly tax policy), regional economics, and economics of population and demography. The billionaires Richard Branso...

Anders Johansen is a Professor of Astronomy at Lund Observatory at Lund University in Sweden, working there on topics such as planet formation, accretion discs, turbulence, and supercomputing. He obtained his PhD in 2007 at Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg. After that he spent a bit more than two years as a postdoc at Leiden Observatory. Anders obtained his docent degree from Lund...

Hai-Bo Yu is an associate professor of physics and astronomy at the University of California, Riverside. His main research fields are: theoretical particle physics and astrophysics. Supermassive black holes, or SMBHs, are black holes with masses that are several million to billion times the mass of our sun. Hai-Bo Yu from the ‪University of California‬, Riverside, sheds more light on the origin of...

Dr. Konstantin Getman received an honor master's degree in astronomy at Moscow State University in 1994 and his Ph. D. degree in physics and mathematics at Pushkov Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radiowave Propagation of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1999. Since 2001, he has been at the Pennsylvania State University where he is currently a research professor. His research i...

Diana Dragomir is an assistant professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of New Mexico. Her research focuses on the demographics and atmospheres of exoplanets smaller than Neptune. She is particularly interested in super-Earths and sub-Neptunes, planets with radii between those of the Earth and Neptune. A team of astronomers, including Dragomir of the University of New...

Charlotte Olsen is a doctoral student in the Department of Physics and Astronomy in the School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers University–New Brunswick. In the summer of 2016, Charlotte was granted an internship at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center to study enhanced star formation in interacting galaxies. In general, she studies how galaxies evolve by way of how they form stars. A simultaneous “bab...

William Rapin is a CNRS Research Scientist at IRAP (Research Institute in Astrophysics and Planetology) in Toulouse, France, collaborating with IMPMC (Institute of Mineralogy, Materials Physics and Cosmochemistry) in Paris, France. His research investigates the surface geochemistry of planets to improve our understanding of their origin, evolution, and habitability. Rapin of the Research Institute...

Christopher Prior is an Addison-Wheeler fellow in the Mathematical sciences department at Durham University. His general interests lie in mathematical modelling and the mathematical issues on the borderline between geometry and topology. He has a particular interest in physical systems for which the conservation of topology of inter-twined bundles or tubular structures is a key consideration. Prio...

Ziggy Pleunis is a postdoctoral researcher at the McGill Space Institute of the McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He studies fast radio bursts (FRBs) and pulsars using observations with radio telescopes and (sometimes) the Fermi gamma-ray space telescope. Ziggy is a member of the CHIME/FRB Collaboration and he wrote a PhD thesis on the detection and morphology of FRBs with the CHIME telescope...

Up Close & Personal Never Gets Old: Former Chief NASA Administrator (2018-2021) Jim Bridenstine was the keynote speaker for the World Ag Expo's opening ceremony a few years back, providing an overview of the ways NASA is supporting agriculture. What an inspiration - foresight in 2019 is alive and thriving today in NASA, as applicable today as it was then.

Dr. Savas Ceylan is a researcher at the Institute of Geophysics of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zürich, Switzerland. Dr. Ceylan is part of the Marsquake Service - the InSight ground team that detects marsquakes and curates the planet's seismicity catalog. The SEIS seismometer package from NASA's Mars InSight lander has collected its first continuous Martian year of data, reve...

Michael H. Hecht is a research scientist, the associate director for research management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Haystack Observatory, and the deputy project director for the Event Horizon Telescope. He served as the lead scientist for the Microscopy, Electrochemistry, and Conductivity Analyzer instrument on the Phoenix Mars lander, and as the principal investigator for the...

It's the age of Pickleball -- do you know where your Theory of Reinvestment is? Jump-in on this uniquely insightful conversation between World Pickleball Champ/GOAT Kyle Yates & BUILDING PICKLEBALL Founder Brian Lim, as they explore Lim's prolific application of principles not typically related to sport applied inside the arena - a POV that can only be derived through the curious prism of a pr...

It all comes down to this: Game 7 between Edmonton Oilers and the Florida Panthers, deciding tonight who wins the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs. WATCH 3 of the NHL's most popular writers talk: What are the key matchups? Who wins & why? Host Mike Fink is joined by fellow writers Jim Parsons & Connor Hrabchak to dive in to ALL THINGS Game 7!!!

You don't need to play pickleball to LOVE TUNDRA's Collegiate Pickleball Tailgate Summer Edition's EP#3, featuring in-the-know entrepreneurial insights through the informed POV of Pat Rolfes, CEO of PickleballSuperstore.com and The Hub Pickleball. Join Host Elliot Rothstein and Pat for this memorable interview, filled with straight-forward talk about the roller-coaster ride otherwise known as entr...

proPUCKERS EP#7: Oilers were down 3-0 the Florida Panthers but are back in it with consecutive victories. How did they flip momentum? Will they reverse sweep the Florida Panthers? Here's what a couple of the best NHL pro writer have to say, with Edmontons own Jim Parsons joining Mike Fink to discuss all things Stanley Cup Final.

In his own words: Suemnick founded NCPA, one of the leading collegiate pickleball tournaments in the U.S., in his dorm room in January 2023. Watch this incredible interview hosted by University of Michigan Boy Wonder Elliot Rothstein, with guest co-host top-ranked collegiate pickleball player Averee Beck of Utah Tech. LOADS of fun here but even more insights about the future of America's favorite...

Ain't it great??? Don't miss theTUNDRA's proPUCKERS EP6 featuring the inside scoop firsthand from a couple of the NHL's greatest, most impassioned writers on TUNDRA's proPUCKERS, hosted by Mike Fink with special guest Chase Beardsley, both popular writers with the esteemed NHL-focused news source: The Hockey Writers.

Before Jorge Barragan founded America's leading franchisor of indoor pickleball court facilities, the entrepreneur already had two successful exits from startups he launched, and that's not the best part of his story! In EP#1 of our Collegiate Tailgate: Summer w/CEOs Series, University of Michigan sophomore Elliot Rothstein interviews Barragan, Founder & CEO of The PICKLR, in one of the most f...

This week is the time that obsessively dedicated HOCKEY enthusiasts LIVE for!!! The 2024 Stanley Cup Final is here with the Edmonton Oilers facing the Florida Panthers for the right to hoist the greatest trophy in sports. Today, on proPUCKERS EP#5, host Mike Fink is joined by Jim Parsons, who covers the Oilers and the NHL for The Hockey Writers and NHL Trade Talk; together Mike and Jim are breakin...

TUNDRA is thrilled to launch its WOMEN & POWER docu-series with WOMEN & CARS, featuring three of the motorsports industry’s boldest & brightest high performance racers, who lift the veil on how they achieved setting global records on a unisex playing field. (Thumbnail credit: Speedqueens.blogspot.com )