Charles Bergquist

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Director and senior producer at Science Friday, a public radio science program. Ask your doctor if SciFri might be right for you. Restrictions apply.

A picture of the purple Muppet Grover wearing his 'Super Grover' helmet and cape. He is on one foot in an 'up, up and away!!' pose
Mortal Kombat video game logo, a dragon head in black silhouette on a red/orange background
Micrograph of Desodesmus algae. A stack of 4 green oblongs with an X shaped filament extending from the corners.
The Trump-yells-at-lawnmower-boy meme image, with text 'its using -dvanced nanobubbler technology'
A picture of the Muppet Johnny Fiamma, a suave Sinatra-esq lounge singer. He is wearing a dapper suit and has a chunky ring. He is sitting in a dark room, perhaps backstage, in a director's chair
Trump yelling at lawnmower boy meme, with text 'hey do you do pools too?'
An old dual cassette tape player washed up on a beach. There are some kind of barnacles? attached to the speaker grilles. There is a smattering of small seashells.
Screenshot of an email subject line reading "public advisory issues from leading hair surgeon on turkey hair transplant risks"
Book cover of a 'Bancroft Classics' edition of Wuthering Heights. A dark and brooding man striding away from a house. A fancy man in top hat holds a riding crop in the background.
Screenshot of an AI slip image depicting Trump as. Healing Christ figure, curing a prone Jon Stewart looking man as a cast of weird people look on. 5 soldier types are hovering in the sky,.
Artemis capsule descending with 3 good parachutes
The crescent Earth setting in the Moon's limb, as seen by Artemis II.
Clip of Georges Méliès (1861–1938) 'A Trip to the Moon's. Moon with a face gets a rocket in the eye.
Full disk picture of Earth taken from Artemis 2.
Just touching the mars rock, NBD
An ai generated blue burst decorated with red and white striped ribbon. Text in the burst reads something like "happy enoordaiil"
Mock DUNE poster art with text 'Hormuz: Now it's even more blocked'. Two actors in silhouette against a yellow sun, one holds a knife horizontally
Anime butterfly meme, with text reading "can this be a solution?"
Screenshot of a portion of an article on color science. An embedded ad shows 3 bags of red blood, with a mention of 'high quality PBMCs'. Prices range from $14k to almost $18k.
Screenshot of a website 'cookie permission' dialog. White background with two black boxes. One reads 'yes, I am happy' and the other 'no, manage settings'
A closeup of a human torso wearing a grey-beige tshirt. The person's hands, in blue surgical gloves, are each holding a black-footed ferret around its midsection. The ferret on the right looks vaguely surprised or alarmed.
A popup from Amazon saying "You've got great taste - Transparent Acrylic Safety Lock, Universal Door is waiting for you.'There is a picture of a see-thru padlock and shiny metal key. It is extremely stylish and trend-setting.
Screenshot of a hhs email saying the announcement will be postponed 'due to a presidential announcement tomorrow afternoon.'
A screenshot of a Google image search AI result explaining that the image is a completely black square, and that no information could be extracted. It then goes on to give the tech specs of an imaginary dell laptop that could have been in the black square
A cartoon image of a bipedal creature. It is bright blue, with stumpy legs and strangely drippy-looking arms? Hands? It has 5 eyes spaced irregularly around a bright red mane. It is smiling.
Google search AI mode result for the query 'how can I honk my bingus'
As screenshot of a Google News panel labeled 'robotics.' Stories include a woman stripping to a bikini in a school board meeting, a baseball score, and a story about Scott Bessent's phone.
Screenshot of a portion of Verge article on 'vibe working.' the highlighted quote is 'Agent mode in Excel has an accuracy rate of 57.2 percent '
A store display of Christmas decorations, including hybrid garden gnome+Advent calendars. The date is Sept 7.
Clasped hands meme, text "US DOT SECRETARY <> TEAM OF FEDERAL AGENTS Frightened by Subway"
Two dishes piled high with freshly picked figs
A screenshot of a google AI overview result, reading "A 40 pound bag of topsoil typically contains around 0.75 cubic feet. This means that one cubic foot of topsoil typically weighs approximately 40 pounds."
Sarah Jessica Parker at a laptop in the evening, from Sex and the City
A stage containing 3 empty chairs, a band getting set up, and 2 dinosaur head casts
A picture of Trump in front of the White House with a red Tesla. With an embedded caption 'person in a suit exits a red electric car in front of a grand building with columns and stairs.'
Poorly translated instructions for a laptop power adapter. Highlighted: "when using the product fever is normal"
A siamang gibbon, arms raised, hooting. (Smithsonian National Zoo image)
Screenshot of the top of a phone screen, showing an X logo next to a red alarm clock image and the words 'expiring soon'
Hand holding a white card (credit card size). It is entirely white except for the boring black text "INTENTIONALLY BLANK"
Research journal image of a grid of 6 images of different sorghum grains, labeled: bazley, tiger, cracker, mr43, liberty, buster
A list of school fair ticket prices including Arm (formerly face) painting
Stage and empty theater inside Colorado Chautauqua, Boulder Colorado
A CBS News headline sent via google news. 'feds take down one of the world's largest botnets and arrest its administrator.' accompanying image is a courtroom sketch of Trump
Nautical flag chart, including flag Zulu: I require a tug
Can with label: "Oxygen is weightless, full can is very light"
Clothing tag in mangled English:"Designed for you to wear in your life. Nice clothes that can make appointments for dinner after get off work. It has the elegant taste. It both has charm and agile element..."
Engraved image of the 'supercilious owl'. Text:This curious horned-owl is a native of Guiana, in South America, and its habits agree with those of the rest of its tribe. The owls seek their prey during …" Written on border: "Aug. 10, 1833."
Photo of a shiny black hotel room mini safe with a white sticker depicting an iron with a red circle-slash
Silhouette of a person against a blue sky with clouds
A partially submerged frog by some pond plants
Christopher Nolan 'Memento' image, with the Trump mug shot in his Polaroid
A moth that looks like a piece of brown/white tree bark, perched on a fluorescent blue/green jacket, not hiding very well
A grey jeep containing a fully costumed Santa Claus, waving to parade watchers
Sarah Jessica Parker in Sex and The City 'couldnt help but wonder' scene