<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ><generator uri="https://jekyllrb.com/" version="4.3.4">Jekyll</generator><link href="https://multiverseemployeehandbook.com/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" /><link href="https://multiverseemployeehandbook.com/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" /><updated>2026-10-27T09:12:34-04:00</updated><id>https://multiverseemployeehandbook.com/feed.xml</id><title type="html">Science Comedy Podcast: The Multiverse Employee Handbook</title><subtitle>The official website for The Multiverse Employee Handbook – a science comedy podcast about physics, quantum absurdities, and bureaucratic space exploration. Listen now.</subtitle><author><name>Robb Corrigan</name><email>podcast@multiverseemployeehandbook.com</email></author><entry><title type="html">Van Allen’s Doughnuts: A Radiation Belt Retrospective</title><link href="https://multiverseemployeehandbook.com/blog/van-allens-doughnuts-a-radiation-belt-retrospective/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Van Allen’s Doughnuts: A Radiation Belt Retrospective" /><published>2026-03-31T00:00:00-04:00</published><updated>2026-03-31T00:00:00-04:00</updated><id>https://multiverseemployeehandbook.com/blog/van-allens-doughnuts-a-radiation-belt-retrospective</id><author><name>Robb Corrigan</name><email>podcast@multiverseemployeehandbook.com</email></author><category term="Space Radiation" /><category term="Van Allen Belts" /><category term="Earth&apos;s Magnetosphere" /><category term="Cosmic Rays" /><category term="Artemis" /><category term="Space Exploration" /><category term="Particle Physics" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[In 1958, a physicist launched a satellite and discovered Earth is surrounded by invisible doughnut-shaped rings of trapped radiation. Nobody had thought to check before. The universe had been running this infrastructure for billions of years without filing a disclosure notice.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Planets We Were Fairly Sure About Until We Weren’t: A Retrospective</title><link href="https://multiverseemployeehandbook.com/blog/planets-we-were-fairly-sure-about-until-we-werent/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Planets We Were Fairly Sure About Until We Weren’t: A Retrospective" /><published>2026-03-10T00:00:00-04:00</published><updated>2026-03-10T00:00:00-04:00</updated><id>https://multiverseemployeehandbook.com/blog/planets-we-were-fairly-sure-about-until-we-werent</id><author><name>Robb Corrigan</name><email>podcast@multiverseemployeehandbook.com</email></author><category term="Uranus" /><category term="Planetary Science" /><category term="Solar System" /><category term="JWST" /><category term="Exoplanets" /><category term="Pluto" /><category term="Venus" /><category term="Scientific Method" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Science revises itself. That's not a bug — it's the entire point. A brief history of planetary confidence, and the moments the universe quietly suggested we have another look.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Gravitons: Delulu but Make It Theoretical</title><link href="https://multiverseemployeehandbook.com/blog/gravitons-delulu-but-make-it-theoretical/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Gravitons: Delulu but Make It Theoretical" /><published>2026-03-03T00:00:00-05:00</published><updated>2026-03-03T00:00:00-05:00</updated><id>https://multiverseemployeehandbook.com/blog/gravitons-delulu-but-make-it-theoretical</id><author><name>Robb Corrigan</name><email>podcast@multiverseemployeehandbook.com</email></author><category term="Gravity" /><category term="Graviton" /><category term="Quantum Mechanics" /><category term="LIGO" /><category term="General Relativity" /><category term="Particle Physics" /><category term="Quantum Gravity" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Gravity has been the main character of the universe for 13.8 billion years and still hasn't confirmed its own carrier particle. A deep dive into the most wanted, most elusive, and most theoretically inevitable particle in all of physics — and the extraordinary experiments trying to catch one.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Lunar Residential Guidelines (or: Everything That Can Kill You Between Here and There)</title><link href="https://multiverseemployeehandbook.com/blog/lunar-residential-guidelines-and-everything-that-can-kill-you-between-here-and-there/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Lunar Residential Guidelines (or: Everything That Can Kill You Between Here and There)" /><published>2026-02-17T00:00:00-05:00</published><updated>2026-02-17T00:00:00-05:00</updated><id>https://multiverseemployeehandbook.com/blog/lunar-residential-guidelines-and-everything-that-can-kill-you-between-here-and-there</id><author><name>Robb Corrigan</name><email>podcast@multiverseemployeehandbook.com</email></author><category term="Moon" /><category term="Artemis" /><category term="ILRS" /><category term="Lunar Habitation" /><category term="ISRU" /><category term="Space Exploration" /><category term="Radiation" /><category term="Regolith" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[A practical examination of what it actually means to live on the Moon, why your skeleton has opinions about partial gravity, and how humanity plans to establish permanent residence on an airless rock that spent 4.5 billion years being perfectly content without tenants.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Exponential vs Gaussian: A Guide to Not Being Fooled By Dense Gas</title><link href="https://multiverseemployeehandbook.com/blog/exponential-vs-gaussian-a-guide-to-not-being-fooled-by-dense-gas/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Exponential vs Gaussian: A Guide to Not Being Fooled By Dense Gas" /><published>2026-02-10T00:00:00-05:00</published><updated>2026-02-10T00:00:00-05:00</updated><id>https://multiverseemployeehandbook.com/blog/exponential-vs-gaussian-a-guide-to-not-being-fooled-by-dense-gas</id><author><name>Robb Corrigan</name><email>podcast@multiverseemployeehandbook.com</email></author><category term="JWST" /><category term="Black Holes" /><category term="Spectroscopy" /><category term="Little Red Dots" /><category term="Electron Scattering" /><category term="Early Universe" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[How a subtle difference in spectral line shapes revealed that astronomers had been measuring the wrong thing for years, and why sometimes revolutionary discoveries hide in mathematical functions most people assume are interchangeable.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">The First Hilton Hotel In Space</title><link href="https://multiverseemployeehandbook.com/blog/the-first-hilton-hotel-in-space/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="The First Hilton Hotel In Space" /><published>2026-02-02T00:00:00-05:00</published><updated>2026-02-02T00:00:00-05:00</updated><id>https://multiverseemployeehandbook.com/blog/the-first-hilton-hotel-in-space</id><author><name>Robb Corrigan</name><email>podcast@multiverseemployeehandbook.com</email></author><category term="2001 A Space Odyssey" /><category term="Space Stations" /><category term="Space Tourism" /><category term="Science Fiction" /><category term="Corporate Futures" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[How a real hotel chain became the most believable part of a future otherwise filled with sentient computers and incomprehensible alien artifacts.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">A Manager’s Guide to Orbital Mechanics</title><link href="https://multiverseemployeehandbook.com/blog/a-managers-guide-to-orbital-mechanics/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="A Manager’s Guide to Orbital Mechanics" /><published>2026-01-20T00:00:00-05:00</published><updated>2026-01-20T00:00:00-05:00</updated><id>https://multiverseemployeehandbook.com/blog/a-managers-guide-to-orbital-mechanics</id><author><name>Robb Corrigan</name><email>podcast@multiverseemployeehandbook.com</email></author><category term="Artemis II" /><category term="NASA" /><category term="Space Exploration" /><category term="Orbital Mechanics" /><category term="Mission Planning" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[An examination of why understanding the difference between 'to' and 'on' becomes critically important when those prepositions involve the Moon and billions of dollars in government contracts.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">MapQuest: The Brief, Glorious Era of Printed Directions</title><link href="https://multiverseemployeehandbook.com/blog/mapquest-the-brief-glorious-era-of-printed-directions/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="MapQuest: The Brief, Glorious Era of Printed Directions" /><published>2026-01-16T00:00:00-05:00</published><updated>2026-01-16T00:00:00-05:00</updated><id>https://multiverseemployeehandbook.com/blog/mapquest-the-brief-glorious-era-of-printed-directions</id><author><name>Robb Corrigan</name><email>podcast@multiverseemployeehandbook.com</email></author><category term="GPS" /><category term="Navigation" /><category term="MapQuest" /><category term="Technology History" /><category term="Nostalgia" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[A nostalgic examination of the three-year period when humanity tried to bridge the gap between stationary computers and mobile humans by printing things and hoping for the best.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">The Great Filter: A Survival Guide for Civilizations That Want to Stay Interesting</title><link href="https://multiverseemployeehandbook.com/blog/the-great-filter-a-survival-guide-for-civilizations-that-want-to-stay-interesting/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="The Great Filter: A Survival Guide for Civilizations That Want to Stay Interesting" /><published>2026-01-06T00:00:00-05:00</published><updated>2026-01-06T00:00:00-05:00</updated><id>https://multiverseemployeehandbook.com/blog/the-great-filter-a-survival-guide-for-civilizations-that-want-to-stay-interesting</id><author><name>Robb Corrigan</name><email>podcast@multiverseemployeehandbook.com</email></author><category term="Fermi Paradox" /><category term="Great Filter" /><category term="SETI" /><category term="Alien Life" /><category term="Science Comedy" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[A practical guide to avoiding cosmic irrelevance through strategic inefficiency and the calculated preservation of drama.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Point Nemo: A Retirement Community for Things That Served Their Purpose</title><link href="https://multiverseemployeehandbook.com/blog/point-nemo-a-retirement-community-for-things-that-served-their-purpose/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Point Nemo: A Retirement Community for Things That Served Their Purpose" /><published>2025-12-23T00:00:00-05:00</published><updated>2025-12-23T00:00:00-05:00</updated><id>https://multiverseemployeehandbook.com/blog/point-nemo-a-retirement-community-for-things-that-served-their-purpose</id><author><name>Robb Corrigan</name><email>podcast@multiverseemployeehandbook.com</email></author><category term="Space Exploration" /><category term="Point Nemo" /><category term="Spacecraft Cemetery" /><category term="ISS" /><category term="Science Comedy" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[A practical guide to humanity's most exclusive underwater graveyard, where spacecraft go to rest and nobody can hear you splash.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Prime Numbers and Public Relations: How to Market Your Species Responsibly</title><link href="https://multiverseemployeehandbook.com/blog/prime-numbers-and-public-relations-how-to-market-your-species-responsibly/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Prime Numbers and Public Relations: How to Market Your Species Responsibly" /><published>2025-11-18T00:00:00-05:00</published><updated>2025-11-18T00:00:00-05:00</updated><id>https://multiverseemployeehandbook.com/blog/prime-numbers-and-public-relations-how-to-market-your-species-responsibly</id><author><name>Robb Corrigan</name><email>podcast@multiverseemployeehandbook.com</email></author><category term="SETI" /><category term="METI" /><category term="Arecibo Message" /><category term="Science Comedy" /><category term="Cosmic Bureaucracy" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[A practical guide to broadcasting existence, composing coherent messages, and avoiding the cosmic equivalent of reply-all disasters.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Why Does The Interstellar Insist On Throwing Rocks At Us?</title><link href="https://multiverseemployeehandbook.com/blog/why-does-the-interstellar-insist-on-throwing-rocks-at-us/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Why Does The Interstellar Insist On Throwing Rocks At Us?" /><published>2025-11-04T00:00:00-05:00</published><updated>2025-11-04T00:00:00-05:00</updated><id>https://multiverseemployeehandbook.com/blog/why-does-the-interstellar-insist-on-throwing-rocks-at-us</id><author><name>Robb Corrigan</name><email>podcast@multiverseemployeehandbook.com</email></author><category term="Astronomy" /><category term="Interstellar Objects" /><category term="JWST" /><category term="Science Comedy" /><category term="Cosmic Bureaucracy" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[A short guide to the universe’s habit of flinging debris into our solar system, and humanity’s equally strange habit of taking it personally.]]></summary></entry></feed>