# Standing on the Edge of Discovery with Dr. Melodie Kao

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Podcast: [The LIUniverse with Dr. Charles Liu](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-liuniverse-with-dr-charles-liu-6053340)
Published: 2025-04-05T17:44:25+00:00
Episode link: https://theliuniverse.podbean.com/e/standing-on-the-edge-of-discovery-with-dr-melodie-kao/
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Duration seconds: 2623

## Resource

What’s it like to stand at the edge of human knowledge, where we don’t know what leap forward in understanding the next technological innovation will herald? To find out, Dr. Charles Liu and co-host Allen Liu welcome Dr. Melodie Kao, the resident radio astronomer at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, AZ, the place where Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto back in 1930.

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