For this week’s show, Brian Kraus subs in to do a New Years’ special of These Vibes Are Too Cosmic. He highlights some of the best science and music of this last year. He began in our solar system with an overview of successful space flights of 2015, from the New Horizons Pluto mission to Dawn. Then he covered developments in materials science, first explaining superconductors, then the new super-hard phases of carbon. Finally, he hits health science and medicine with the successes combating the Ebola virus, even as we learn more about the disease’s prolonged effects on humans.
Further, Brian discusses the “most shared” scientific articles of the year on social media.
Playlist:
| Artist | Song | Album | Label |
| Miss Kitten and the Hacker | Loving the Alien | Lost Tracks, Vol. 1 | Dark Entries |
| Intro to 2015 science highlights show! | |||
| Encarnita Polo | Hava Naguila | Chicas! Spanish Female Singers 1962-1974 | Vamp Soul |
| The Dils | Class War | Dils Dils Dils | Dionysus |
| 10th Letter | Fishermen | Portals and Compasses | S/R |
| Eternal Summers | Girls in the City | Correct Behavior | Kanine Records |
| Spacecraft in 2015 | |||
| War on Drugs | Under the Pressure | Lost in the Dream | Secretly Canadian |
| The Crownhate Ruin | Transit from Mars | 7″ | Art Monk Construction |
| Niobe | Sanoukiki | Tse Tse | Sonia |
| Gems | Tangled Memories | Kill the One You Love | 4AD |
| Carbon and superconductors | |||
| Enum Claw | Third Prime | Opening of the Dawn | Honeymoon Music |
| Let’s Wrestle | In the Suburbs | Nursing Home | Merge |
| Boytronic | Trigger Track | Bryllyant | Dark Entries |
| Popular articles this year | |||
| Swirlies | Upstairs | Park the Car 7″ | Pop Narcotic |
| Jack White | Would You Fight for My Love? | Lazaretto | Third Man Records |
| Lena Platonos | Romanian Immigrants | Gallop | Dark Entries |
| Ebola and global warming | |||
| Stalins of Sound | Monkeys Attack | Tank Tracks | Slovenly |
These Vibes Are Too Cosmic 