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 at http://recycledelec.com. Follow us on Twitter @recycledelec @orbitingfrog and @chrislintott.
Links:
- Rob’s been in Tenerife: http://orbitingfrog.com
- Space Warps: http://www.spacewarps.org
- A prediction for the future of astronomy:
- https://twitter.com/MTMurphy77/status/334262258077147136/photo/1
- Kepler is down! http://blog.planethunters.org/2013/05/15/thoughts-on-the-possible-death-of-kepler/
- http://www.nasa.gov/offices/oce/appel/ask/issues/47/47s_kepler_prt.htm
- Maths discoveries that are exciting:
- http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23535-proof-that-an-infinite-number-of-primes-are-paired.html?full=true&print=true
- http://www.nature.com/news/first-proof-that-infinitely-many-prime-numbers-come-in-pairs-1.12989
- Mental Floss: http://mentalfloss.com/
Credits:
Audio content Copyright 2012 Chris Lintott and Robert Simpson. Many thanks to Oxford Press Office for recording space. Podcast Image courtesy of Flickr user bazik (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bazik/395792175/).
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 @chrislintott.
Links:
- Perils of translation and open source: http://blog.galaxyzoo.org/2013/05/02/how-to-translate-galaxy-zoo/
- Kepler-62 most Earth-like planet yet? http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/multimedia/images/kepler-62-diagram.html
- Horsehead with Hubble: http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1307/
- xkcd’s ‘is it worth the time?’ http://xkcd.com/1205/
Credits:
Audio content Copyright 2012 Chris Lintott and Robert Simpson. Many thanks to Oxford Press Office for recording space. Podcast Image courtesy of Flickr user bazik (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bazik/395792175/).
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 Twitter @recycledelec @orbitingfrog and @chrislintott.
Links:
- Tonight’s lunar eclipse? http://earthsky.org/tonight/lunar-eclipse-for-eastern-hemisphere-on-night-of-april-2526
- Tickling rats for science: “For the “tickling treatment”, rats were tickled once daily, in two sessions of two minutes each, for two weeks”: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/scicurious-brain/2013/04/22/to-calm-a-rat-with-tickling/
- You can sign up for our online course: http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/F990-1
- Vibrating pants (thanks Arfon!): http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2013/apr/19/durex-fundawear-vibrating-pants-foreplay-future
- Notes from Nature: http://www.notesfromnature.org/
Credits:
Audio content Copyright 2012 Chris Lintott and Robert Simpson. Many thanks to Oxford Press Office for recording space. Podcast Image courtesy of Flickr user bazik (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bazik/395792175/).
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 on Twitter @recycledelec @orbitingfrog and @chrislintott.
Links:
- Planck Background : http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/across-the-universe/2013/mar/21/planck-unveils-earliest-map-of-universe?CMP=twt_fd
- ESA press for Planck: http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Planck/Planck_reveals_an_almost_perfect_Universe
- Planck Papers:
- http://www.sciops.esa.int/index.php?project=PLANCK&page=Planck_Published_Papers
- Has Voyager 1 left the Solar System?
- Yes : http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/grl.50383/abstract
- No : http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-107
- Most obscene paper title in peer-reviewed journal :
- http://io9.com/5987715/and-the-award-for-most-obscene-title-of-a-peer+reviewed-scientific-article-goes-to
- Use Wolfram alpha for technical measurements : http://younglandis.wordpress.com/2013/03/11/how-to-describe-obscure-technical-measurements/
- Cool space facts for young children: http://orbitingfrog.com/post/45418127352/cool-space-facts-for-young-children
Credits:
Audio content Copyright 2012 Chris Lintott and Robert Simpson. Many thanks to Oxford Press Office for recording space. Podcast Image courtesy of Flickr user bazik (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bazik/395792175/).
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 @recycledelec @orbitingfrog and @chrislintott.
Links:
- Coding is a skill like any other. Think of it like playig an intrument, for example: http://www.code.org
- A 3D printed car: http://laughingsquid.com/urbee-2-a-1200-pound-3d-printed-car/
- uCheck, an iPhone urine sampler: http://www.tuaw.com/2013/02/26/uchek-raises-the-stakes-in-smartphone-health-care-with-camera-ba/
- Mars to be hit by a comet in 2014? http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/02/28/mars_impact_the_red_planet_may_get_hit_by_a_comet_in_october_2014.html
- Couples on Mars: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21603490
- MSL : http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2013/curiosity-update-sol-193.html
Credits:
Audio content Copyright 2012 Chris Lintott and Robert Simpson. Many thanks to Oxford Press Office for recording space. Podcast Image courtesy of Flickr user bazik (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bazik/395792175/).
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 Twitter @recycledelec @orbitingfrog and @chrislintott.
Links:
- Asteroid and the Meteorite: http://orbitingfrog.com/post/43156325860/at-about-09-20-this-morning-a-meteor-exploded-over
- 19 clicks of speration: http://laughingsquid.com/any-2-web-pages-are-no-more-than-19-clicks-apart-according-to-hungarian-physicist/
- Redshirt statistics : http://www.significancemagazine.org/details/webexclusive/4381371/Keep-your-redshirt-on-a-bayesian-exploration-of-character-deaths-in-Star-Trek.html
- NanoLight (12W > 100W): http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/619878070/nanolight-the-worlds-most-energy-efficient-lightbu
- I-Love-Q : http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.4499
- From @bitfield (John Arundel) - Bees can see magnetic fields: http://boingboing.net/2013/02/20/google-glass-demo-video.html
- Google Glass is coming http://boingboing.net/2013/02/20/google-glass-demo-video.html
Credits:
Audio content Copyright 2012 Chris Lintott and Robert Simpson. Many thanks to Oxford Press Office for recording space. Podcast Image courtesy of Flickr user bazik (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bazik/395792175/).
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. Follow us on Twitter @recycledelec @orbitingfrog and @chrislintott.
Links:
- 3Rs of Citizen Science in the classroomn: http://www.britishscienceassociation.org/blog/3rs-citizen-science-classroom
- The speed of light is approximately 1 foot per nanosecond and a nanoWales in an area 4.5m by 4.5m (roughly)
- The electric bell : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_Electric_Bell
- A Valentine rose : http://www.noao.edu/news/2013/pr1301.php
- Name Pluto’s moons : http://www.plutorocks.com
- Mars bedrock sample collected : http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-052
- No aliens yet : http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.0845
- S&T Jupiter’s moons : http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/objects/planets/3307071.html
Credits:
Audio content Copyright 2012 Chris Lintott and Robert Simpson. Many thanks to Oxford Press Office for recording space. Podcast Image courtesy of Flickr user bazik (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bazik/395792175/).
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 @chrislintott.
Links:
- Twitter statistics: http://www.beevolve.com/twitter-statistics/
- Supertasters: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/01/the-lab-accident-that-led-to-the-discovery-of-supertasters/272522/
- Iranian Space Monkey: http://boingboing.net/2013/02/04/mystery-iranian-space-monkey.html
- Moon Illusion: http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.2715
- Asteroid 2012 DA14 http://www.sen.com/news/asteroid-heads-for-closest-predicted-approach-to-earth.html
- Stargazing Oxford talks are online: http://www.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/stargazing
- iOS game: Spaceteam https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/spaceteam/id570510529?mt=8
Credits:
Audio content Copyright 2012 Chris Lintott and Robert Simpson. Many thanks to Oxford Press Office for recording space. Podcast Image courtesy of Flickr user bazik (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bazik/395792175/).
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.
Links:
- Microlensing for asteroids: http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.6165
- Ikea Hackers: http://www.ikeahackers.net
- Kepler resting: http://kepler.nasa.gov/news/nasakeplernews/index.cfm?FuseAction=ShowNews&NewsID=248
- Darwin Correspondance Project: http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk
- NASA joins Euclid: http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=51316
Credits:
Audio content Copyright 2012 Chris Lintott and Robert Simpson. Many thanks to Oxford Press Office for recording space. Podcast Image courtesy of Flickr user bazik (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bazik/395792175/).
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 http://recycledelec.com. Follow us on Twitter @recycledelec @orbitingfrog and @chrislintott.
Links:
- Astronomers: Gangnam style: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgwaJdik6eI
- It’s really big and it shouldn’t exist : http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.6256
- A cloudy mystery in the Galactic Centre : http://www.caltech.edu/content/cloudy-mystery
- The supernova that cried wolf : http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.6320
- Iridium flares and http://www.heavens-above.com
- Gorgeous 47 Tuc : http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1302/
- Stargazing Live: http://bbc.co.uk/stargazing
- Planet Four: http://www.planetfour.org
Credits:
Audio content Copyright 2012 Chris Lintott and Robert Simpson. Many thanks to Oxford Press Office for recording space. Podcast Image courtesy of Flickr user bazik (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bazik/395792175/).
