May 2013
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Chris T. Mas Lectures
Chris and Rob talk about supervolanoes, exoplanets and comets. We’re annoyed with the Royal Institution and happy that Curiosity is moving and drilling again.
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Episode #78. If you have anything you’d like us to look at, or any questions you’d like us to answer - use the links at the top of the web page at http://recycledelec.com. Follow us on Twitter @recycledelec...
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The Olf
Chris is mourning the loss of Kepler and Rob has been in Tenerife (for work!). There are startling predictions for the historic future of astronomy and maths makes curious leaps forward. All of this in very unusual units of measurement.
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Episode #77. If you have anything you’d like us to look at, or any questions you’d like us to answer - use the links at the top of the web page...
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Wang It
Chris has made a terribly academic error and Rob has been in Chicago. Many things are thrown at the Moon, Herschel is no more and Hubble turned 23.
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Episode #76. If you have anything you’d like us to look at, or any questions you’d like us to answer - use the links at the top of the web page at http://recycledelec.com. Follow us on Twitter @recycledelec @orbitingfrog and...
April 2013
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The Moon is Tope
Chris and Rob discuss reality shows on Mars, how to tickle rats, the state of MOND, and the lunar eclipse that is happening right now as Rob types… these… very… words (sorry).
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Episode #75. If you have anything you’d like us to look at, or any questions you’d like us to answer - use the links at the top of the web page at http://recycledelec.com. Follow us on...
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Sarkastics
Chris and Rob discuss exoplanet naming, the complexity of life, lassoing an asteroid and dark matter (again). We implore you to tweet #nobacon and to help find a way to travel that doesn’t involve flying using Chris’ University of Oxford access card.
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Episode #74. If you have anything you’d like us to look at, or any questions you’d like us to answer - use the links at...
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Fantastic Space Barnacle
Chris and Rob discuss AMS, dark matter and condoms. Curiosity is taking a rest and cows may not be able to ‘feel’ magnetic fields.
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Episode #73. If you have anything you’d like us to look at, or any questions you’d like us to answer - use the links at the top of the web page at http://recycledelec.com. Follow us on Twitter @recycledelec @orbitingfrog and @chrislintott.
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March 2013
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A Good Day for Baryons: A Planck Special
Chris and Rob talks about the Planck results that were announced today. There is controversy - or not - about whether Voyager has left the Solar System, and we have cool space facts for young children.
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Episode #72. If you have anything you’d like us to look at, or any questions you’d like us to answer - use the links at the top of the web page at http://recycledelec.com. Follow us...
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Tastes Like Mud, Geert
Chris and Rob discuss Comet PanSTARRS, what Mars would taste like and the perils and joy of Daylight Savings Time. We answer some of your questions from Twitter too. Apologies for poor sound quality on this episode.
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Episode #71. If you have anything you’d like us to look at, or any questions you’d like us to answer - use the links at the top of the web page...
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28kg of Toilet Paper
Chris and Rob talk about Mars, 3D printing, Mars, urine, and Mars! There’s lots of Mars that’s for sure! This is a blue episode of the podcast, for reasons that will be explained.
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Episode #70. If you have anything you’d like us to look at, or any questions you’d like us to answer - use the links at the top of the web page at http://recycledelec.com. Follow us on Twitter...
February 2013
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Balls of Spidery Fingers
Chris and Rob talk about Google Glass and the possible iWatch, 6- (or 19-) degrees of separation, and the various kinds of space rock. More importantly though: Bees can see electromagnetic fields!
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Episode #69. If you have anything you’d like us to look at, or any questions you’d like us to answer - use the links at the top of the web page at http://recycledelec.com. Follow us on...
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Carpark in Leicester
Chris, Rob and Rob the Alien talk about the longest running experiments in the world, the speed of light, citizen science ands Pluto’s many moon. We do all this from a room one-billionth the size of Wales.
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Episode #68. If you have anything you’d like us to look at, or any questions you’d like us to answer - use the links at the top of the web page at http://recycledelec.com....
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Tropical Paradise
Chris is on a tropical island, while Rob remains in Oxford. But the podcast must go on and we discuss prime numbers. near-Earth asteroids and space monkeys.
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Episode #67. If you have anything you’d like us to look at, or any questions you’d like us to answer - use the links at the top of the web page at http://recycledelec.com. Follow us on Twitter @recycledelec @orbitingfrog and...
January 2013
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Felicitous Tuesday
Chris and Rob waffle on about green stars, latin, birthdays, microlensing, Uranus, asteroids and other things in this 66th episode.
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Episode #66. If you have anything you’d like us to look at, or any questions you’d like us to answer - use the links at the top of the web page at http://recycledelec.com. Follow us on Twitter @recycledelec @orbitingfrog and @chrislintott.
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Your Dung Ball Is Huge
Chris and Rob feel like dung beetles as they roll around in the weeks’ news. Wait no, that’s not right. We discuss dropping steak from space, Betelgeuse, exoplanets and moar!
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Episode #65. If you have anything you’d like us to look at, or any questions you’d like us to answer - use the links at the top of the web page at http://recycledelec.com. Follow us on Twitter...
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Live!
Chris and Rob talk live(!) at Stargazing Oxford, in front an audience: an experience for them and for the audience. A marrow also participates. We answer questions and talk about some highlights from the week’s news.
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Episode #64. If you have anything you’d like us to look at, or any questions you’d like us to answer - use the links at the top of the web page at...
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People on the Tellybox
Chris and Rob talk about exoplanets, Stargazing Live and then exoplanets again. We’re not going below absolute zero but we are going to Marrsssss.
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Episode #63. If you have anything you’d like us to look at, or any questions you’d like us to answer - use the links at the top of the web page at http://recycledelec.com. Follow us on Twitter @recycledelec @orbitingfrog and...
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Comets are Like Cats
Chris and Rob find themselves stranded in the year 2013 with nothing but a scrap of paper containing scribbled news notes and a microphone. Will asteroids strike in 2040? Will comets shine bright in 2013? What exactly is inside a poop? How for how many years has WMAP operated? Answers inside…
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Episode #62. If you have anything you’d like us to look at, or any questions you’d...
December 2012
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Episode LXI: A New Dawn
Chris and Rob talk all about the Zooniverse in this special episode. It’s been a busy week at the Zooniverse and so we have also recruited special guest Brooke Simmons, as a Galaxy Zoo expert. We focus of the backstory of the past ten days of the Zooniverse, which includes the launch of the Andromeda Project and Snapshot Serengeti.
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Episode #61. If you have anything you’d like us to...
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All Hail Sir Patrick Moore
Chris and Rob talk about Sir Patrick Moore, who died yesterday at the age of 89. Chris has known Patrick for twenty years and worked with him on The Sky at Night for ten years.
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Episode #60. If you have anything you’d like us to look at, or any questions you’d like us to answer - use the links at the top of the web page at http://recycledelec.com. Follow us on Twitter @recycledelec...
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We Can See Things
Chris and Rob discuss the brand new Andromeda Project, the anniversary of Apollo 17 and NASA’s plans for Mars. We also chat about Caroline Herschel: comet chaser and how science works in sign language.
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Episode #59. If you have anything you’d like us to look at, or any questions you’d like us to answer - use the links at the top of the web page at http://recycledelec.com....
November 2012
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The Constellation Not the Disease
Chris and Rob talk about a black hole that is almost as big as it’s host galaxy. Herschel (the telescope) has been looking at dust all over the place and Mary Shelly (the person) writes about writing her most-famous book. Chris told Roger Penrose that birds can see magnetic fields.
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Episode #58. If you have anything you’d like us to look at, or any questions you’d like us to...
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Sensible People Say Uranus
Chris and Rob discuss Mercury and MESSENGER, Roger Penrose, exoplanets and supernovae.
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Episode #57. If you have anything you’d like us to look at, or any questions you’d like us to answer - use the links at the top of the web page at http://recycledelec.com. Follow us on Twitter @recycledelec @orbitingfrog and @chrislintott.
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Doradus Moving Group
Chris and Rob are back together in Oxford, discussing bosons, colliders, eclipses and rouge planets. We take questions from Twitter and try to turn up the volume.
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Episode #56. If you have anything you’d like us to look at, or any questions you’d like us to answer - use the links at the top of the web page at http://recycledelec.com. Follow us on Twitter @recycledelec @orbitingfrog...
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Chain of Belugas
Chris narrowly avoids Sandy only to await a second storm. Rob is stormless… so far. We’re talking about the lack of methane on Marrrsss, more talking animals, and how to spot a rainbow on another planet.
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Episode #54. If you have anything you’d like us to look at, or any questions you’d like us to answer - use the links at the top of the web page at...
October 2012
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Swedish Bandwidth
Chris is in Sweden, Rob is in England, Skype is… not working very well. We chat about exoplanets, Swedish coffee, Planet Hunters and beluga whales - though not all at once.
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Episode #54. If you have anything you’d like us to look at, or any questions you’d like us to answer - use the links at the top of the web page at http://recycledelec.com. Follow us on Twitter @recycledelec...
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Pregnant Toads
Chris and Rob are continents apart and discussing the aurora, the Nobel prize(s) and whether or no we live in a huge computer simulation. Chris has a new book out - Rob has been reading about the Parkes Telescope. This is the first podcast in ages that we don’t mention Marrrs.
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Episode #53. If you have anything you’d like us to look at, or any questions you’d like us to answer...
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Fish Consumption
Chris and Rob are apart this week, so Rob is alone in Oxford for this very short podcast. There’s a possible new comet out in the Solar System, and Curiosity is about to dip it’s claws into the Martian soil.
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Episode #52. If you have anything you’d like us to look at, or any questions you’d like us to answer - use the links at the top of the web page at...
September 2012
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Do Aphids Wink?
Chris and Rob discuss papers and news, and express their own dubious views. There’s deep data from Hubble and sea-level trouble and a tip about cool @HorseReviews. (We also make a plea to HSBC.)
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Episode #51. If you have anything you’d like us to look at, or any questions you’d like us to answer - use the links at the top of the web page at http://recycledelec.com. Follow us on...
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Bilbo Says Molecular
Chris is ready to go nuclear and Rob is feeling ignoble. We report on a report suggesting a report about reports about reports. Astronomy Photographer of the Year was just awarded in Greenwich and the JWST may be able to see the very first supernovae in the Universe. This and more in our self-aware 50th episode!
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Episode #50. If you have anything you’d like us to look at, or any...
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A Cabbage and a Horse
Chris and Rob have a Friday feeling as they discuss the sleeping Listener, new and renewed Zooniverse projects and a doomed cloud of interstellar dust. Are Martian blueberries organic? Do you need a coffee stain to be a real paper? All this and more.
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Episode #49. If you have anything you’d like us to look at, or any questions you’d like us to answer - use the links at the top of the...
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The Heroic Toothbrush
Chris forgets and Rob remembers that it’s been a year since Recycled Electrons began! If you have suggestions for the honour of ORE (Order of Recycled Electrons) then please tweet us @recycledelec. We discuss Voyager 1, Nerdiversaries, and quantum teleportation. Chris obsesses over knots on Mars, and Rob has been learning about meringue.
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August 2012
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A Unique Event
Chris, Rob and special guest CAPS are in Oxford discussing Neil Armstrong. Mars Curiosity, Kickstarter and more. With musical interlude from the University of Oxford Press Office!
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Episode #47. If you have anything you’d like us to look at, or any questions you’d like us to answer - use the links at the top of the web page at http://recycledelec.com. Follow us on Twitter...
When Clichés Are Born
Back in the spires of Oxford, Chris seems to have forgotten he was ever away. Curiosity has performed a wheel-wiggle and is getting ready to head off into Gale Crater. There is a star that is gobbling up its planets and could neutrinos be affecting radioactivity on Earth? We also answer more of your questions, dear Listener.
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Episode #46. If you have anything you’d like us to look...
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Cows Driving Down the Motorway
Chris is in Arizona and Rob is Oxford (but he can see into Chicago). Chris’ obsession with Curiosity continues. Rob wonders why Brian May has a badger on his arm at the Olympics. There’s debris on Mars, rings around Saturn and a distinct lack of oblateness on the Sun. [We apologise for the audio quality of some parts of this episode - there was unexpected interference on Rob’s...
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There's A Song About That
This week Chris and Rob discuss Mars Curiosity: the landing coverage and the latest images. We also field questions from Twitter about Bernard Lovell, distant galaxies and more. Also: more dirty space news.
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Episode #44. If you have anything you’d like us to look at, or any questions you’d like us to answer - use the links at the top of the web page at http://recycledelec.com. Follow...
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The Title Should Be Breakfast
Chris and Rob are back together, amongst the spiders of Oxford. We’re talking breakfast, Mars, data mining, astrochemistry, cosmic rays (and Cosmic Ray), avalanches on Iapetus, WETI, gravy waves and the chirality of life. We may have the ultimate ACRONYM, we definitely have the Olympics and we discuss Rob’s bus.
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July 2012
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Apologies from the Cicada
With Chris in Chicago, and Rob back in Oxford, there are some surprising technical difficulties. We discuss Mars Curiosity, spiral galaxies far, far away and the magnetic Pipe Nebula. Is the Universe left- or right-handed; and what do you do with a thermonuclear reactor when you’re done?
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Episode #42. If you have anything you’d like us to look at, or any questions you’d like us...
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Much More Professional Than Me
Chris and Rob chat at the Haus der Astronomie in Heidelberg, Germany. We discuss competitive crowdsourcing of data problems, recent astronomy news and the .Astronomy conference. Having recently taken part in an astronomy hack day, we talk about some cool hack ideas that have been worked on. Featuring special guest Markus Pöessel!
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Episode #41. If you have anything you’d like us to...
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Your Sixty-Second Higgs
Rob is in Cicadaland as Chris toils away back in Oxford. There’s Higgsteria in the news upon the confirmation of the discovery of the Higg’s Boson at Cern. We also discuss odd multiple star systems, leap seconds and the case of a disappearing debris disc.
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Episode #40. If you have anything you’d like us to look at, or any questions you’d like us to answer - use the links...
June 2012
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A Nice Glass of Hadrons
Chris and Rob discuss university open days, and how to attract (or not) people to science. There’s a new way to detect the atmospheres of exoplanets, and a new exoplanets-like brown dwarf. We talk about whether we should even talk about the Higgs and Teddy Ruxpin tells us about the emotional state of the Internet.
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Episode #39. If you have anything you’d like us to look at, or...
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Try Harder, Asteroids
Chris and Rob make an apology and a confession respectively. There’s a new near-miss asteroid on the block, a recursive village in the UK and a question of our detectability. We talk drugs, exoplanets and quasars in this explicit podcast.
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Episode #38. If you have anything you’d like us to look at, or any questions you’d like us to answer - use the links at the top of the web page at...
The People Inside Lintott
Chris and Rob are in Chris’ new, empty (and echoing) office. We wonder if we should finally begin naming exoplanets. The Zooniverse has been busy, and so has the Voyager 1 probe: it’s about to leave the Solar System!
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Episode #37. If you have anything you’d like us to look at, or any questions you’d like us to answer - use the links at the top of the web page at...
Transits of Venus: A Popular Account
Chris takes a break from fighting Polar Bears in Svalbard to join Rob for a podcast-recording Google Hangout. We discuss the Transit of Venus, Martian meteorites and the impending collision of the Andromeda Galaxy with our own. NASA has been given some free telescopes and North Carolina has banned sea level rises. This
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May 2012
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All My Conversation is in Bold
Chris and Rob say goodbye to UKIRT and the JCMT, marvel at the wonders of a mangled press release (space dinosaurs!) and that we can write our names in galaxies. EBEX is lost and found and you no longer need as much insurance to go into British space. Also: why is it dark when you close your eyes? This and more things that you didn’t realise you didn’t need to know.
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SpaceX: Launching the Dragon Towards the Future of...
Chris and Rob record whilst watching the live feed of SpaceX’s Dragon module as it docks with the International Space Station. We await the decision on the location of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) - will it be South Africa or Australia? Dark matter, human spaceflight and the transit of Venus also feature. We also talk about the current Queen, a former queen and a member of Queen.
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Habitability Index
Chris and Rob are both back in Oxford, while the Opportunity rover is moving again on Mars. We discuss everything from star formation to Kendal Mint Cake. We talk about the delivery of MIRI and the transfer of GALEX. Global subway systems appear to be converging, and replication studies in psychology are rife.
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Episode #33. If you have anything you’d like us to look at, or any...
In the Atwood Sphere, Cowering
Recorded in the Adler Planetarium, Chicago, after ZooCon1. Chris and Rob discuss planetaria, light from exoplanets, supermoons and Chris’ school days in Devon. There are (old) business cards up for grabs, and a sake cup. Will wonders never cease?
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Episode #32. If you have anything you’d like us to look at, or any questions you’d like us to answer - use the links at the top of...
These Pancakes Were Enormous
Chris and Rob are in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA for a meeting of the shady Citizen Science Alliance. We weclome our second ever special guest (Arfon Smith) and discuss science win the movies, Herschel images and other nonsense.
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Episode #31. If you have anything you’d like us to look at, or any questions you’d like us to answer - use the links at the top of the web page at...
April 2012
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Marmalade Stocks are Running Low
Space Cows and the remarkable Kangaroo Vagina! Chris is watching seaplanes land in Seattle, while Rob stays at home in rainy Oxford. ESA has selected its next large mission. We wonder if we’re going asteroid mining. More acronyms receive judgement and as does a contender for ‘Worst Ever Scientific Paper’.
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Episode #30. If you have anything you’d like us to look at,...
Consider the Prickle from Laptop Repair
Chris has been reading poems. Rob is concerned about dark skies.What does is take to be a Space-Faring Nation, and does it help if you put whisky in space? We talk about gravitational waves, open access journals and Chandra poetry.
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Episode #29. If you have anything you’d like us to look at, or any questions you’d like us to answer - use the links at the top of the web page at...
