Recycled Electrons

Chris T. Mas Lectures

rob@zooniverse.org (Robert Simpson & Chris Lintott) — Wed, 22 May 2013 13:47:00 +0100

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 @orbitingfrog and @chrislintott.

Links:

And the future of the Earth and Sun system: http://arxiv.org/abs/0801.4031
Archive of Nearby Galaxies: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle - ANGRR http://archive.stsci.edu/prepds/angrrr/
Yellowstone Volcano: http://io9.com/what-will-really-happen-when-yellowstone-volcano-has-a-508274690
Richat Structure: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130519.html
Curiosity is working again:
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2013/05200926-opportunity-and-curiosity.html
Kepler’s greatest hits: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/11/kepler-telescopes-greatest-hits/?pid=5417
Hubble spies ISON: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2013/14/image/a/format/web_print/
Who invented clothes : http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/sifting-the-evidence/2013/may/20/who-invented-clothes-palaeolithic-archaeologist

Credits:

Audio content Copyright 2013 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 Olf

rob@zooniverse.org (Robert Simpson & Chris Lintott) — Thu, 16 May 2013 15:51:42 +0100

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/

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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

rob@zooniverse.org (Robert Simpson & Chris Lintott) — Tue, 07 May 2013 22:04:33 +0100

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/

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The Moon is Tope

rob@zooniverse.org (Robert Simpson & Chris Lintott) — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 21:49:25 +0100

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/

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Sarkastics

rob@zooniverse.org (Robert Simpson & Chris Lintott) — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 20:31:24 +0100

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 the top of the web page at http://recycledelec.com. Follow us on Twitter @recycledelec @orbitingfrog and @chrislintott.

Links:

Uwingu (Stuart Lowe: http://www.strudel.org.uk/blog/astro/index.shtml, IAU: http://www.iau.org/public_press/news/detail/iau1301/)
Life before Earth: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1304.3381v1.pdf
We’re happiest farther from home: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-04/12/twitter-happiness
Rodeo an asteroid: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/apr/06/nasa-lasso-asteroid-rodeo-research
Neurodome: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1100424922/neurodome-a-dome-format-film-that-explores-the-bra

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Fantastic Space Barnacle

rob@zooniverse.org (Robert Simpson & Chris Lintott) — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 14:07:30 +0100

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.

Links:

AMS: http://press.web.cern.ch/backgrounders/first-result-ams-experiment
AMS: http://profmattstrassler.com/2013/04/03/ams-presents-some-first-results/
A survey of astronomical development: http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.0657
Do cows align along magnetic fields? : http://www.nature.com/news/the-mystery-of-the-magnetic-cows-1.9350
Bill Gates and condoms: http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/03/25/175258772/gates-foundation-says-its-time-for-a-snazzier-condom
Origami condom: http://www.origamicondoms.com/

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A Good Day for Baryons: A Planck Special

rob@zooniverse.org (Robert Simpson & Chris Lintott) — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 12:58:15 +0000

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

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Tastes Like Mud, Geert

rob@zooniverse.org (Robert Simpson & Chris Lintott) — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 22:22:39 +0000

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 at http://recycledelec.com. Follow us on Twitter @recycledelec @orbitingfrog and @chrislintott.

Links:

DST: http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2013/03/why-i-like-dst
Go and sponsor @garwboy for his crowdsourced Comic Relief guardian blog http://t.co/2a9Itc3Lc1
Curiosity rover : http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/news/msl20130312.html
Space Station to host a new telescope : http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2013/03/11/space-station-host-new-cosmic-ray-telescope
The oldest star is still too old : http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2013/08/full/
Video: water appears frozen in sine wave http://t.co/POxjLTPVFM
iGeology App from the BGS

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28kg of Toilet Paper

rob@zooniverse.org (Robert Simpson & Chris Lintott) — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 22:05:35 +0000

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

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Balls of Spidery Fingers

rob@zooniverse.org (Robert Simpson & Chris Lintott) — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 20:03:37 +0000

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

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Carpark in Leicester

rob@zooniverse.org (Robert Simpson & Chris Lintott) — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 21:56:47 +0000

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

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Tropical Paradise

rob@zooniverse.org (Robert Simpson & Chris Lintott) — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 21:34:39 +0000

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

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Felicitous Tuesday

rob@zooniverse.org (Robert Simpson & Chris Lintott) — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 12:44:05 +0000

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

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Your Dung Ball Is Huge

rob@zooniverse.org (Robert Simpson & Chris Lintott) — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 16:36:01 +0000

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 @recycledelec @orbitingfrog and @chrislintott.

Links:

Dung Beetles and the Milky Way: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21150721
Spiders at Mars’ North Pole : http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-034
More planets for HAT-P-7 : http://subarutelescope.org/Pressrelease/2013/01/24/index.html
Ten hundred words of science: http://www.strudel.org.uk/blog/astro/001022.shtml
Siding Spring fires: astropixie - http://orbitingfrog.com/post/40594495841/bush-fires-at-siding-spring-observatories-by
Steak drop: http://what-if.xkcd.com/28/
Herschel observes Betelgeuse : http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Betelgeuse_braces_for_a_collision
Is asteroid mining the new black : http://deepspaceindustries.com/ (‘If you can Dream it, you can Be it’)
Is that a manatee in space? https://www.nrao.edu/pr/2013/w50/
What If? http://what-if.xkcd.com/

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Live!

rob@zooniverse.org (Robert Simpson & Chris Lintott) — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 15:13:56 +0000

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

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People on the Tellybox

rob@zooniverse.org (Robert Simpson & Chris Lintott) — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 10:31:32 +0000

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 @chrislintott.

Links:

CBeebies ‘Get Well Soon’ and the anti-vaccination crowd: http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/get-well-soon
Formalhaut b does exist: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/01/fomalhaut-b-confirmed/
Below absolute zero? http://www.livescience.com/25959-atoms-colder-than-absolute-zero.html
PH2b and the others: http://blog.planethunters.org/2013/01/07/a-newly-confirmed-planet-and-42-additional-planet-candidates/
Stargazing Live: http://bbc.co.uk/stargazing
Planet Four: http://www.planetfour.org

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Comets are Like Cats

rob@zooniverse.org (Robert Simpson & Chris Lintott) — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 16:04:06 +0000

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 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:

Tau Ceti: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20770103
Darkened cities by Thierry Cohen: http://orbitingfrog.com/post/38615406507/staceythinx-darkened-cities-by-thierry-cohen
No asteroid impact in 2040 : http://www.gemini.edu/node/11922
What’s inside a poop? http://www.plosntds.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pntd.0001969
Final WMAP papers released : http://releases.jhu.edu/2012/12/21/wmap-team-releases-final-results-based-on-nine-years-of-observations/
Source of CM asteroids : http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/news/releases/2012/12-93AR.html
Clouds on MWP launches: http://www.milkywayproject.org
Comet PANSTARRS : March/April, southern sky: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2011_L4
The Explorer: http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Explorer-James-Smythe/dp/0007456751

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Episode LXI: A New Dawn

rob@zooniverse.org (Robert Simpson & Chris Lintott) — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 08:01:19 +0000

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 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:

The Zooniverse: http://www.zooniverse.org
The Andromeda Project: http://www.andromedaproject.org
Snapshot Serengeti: http://www.snapshotserengeti.org
The Milky Way Project: http://www.milkywayproject.org
Galaxy Zoo: http://www.galaxyzoo.org
Planet Hunters: http://www.planethunters.org
Zooniverse Advent Calendar: http://www.zooniverse.org/advent
Brooke Simmons: http://twitter.com/vrooje

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All Hail Sir Patrick Moore

rob@zooniverse.org (Robert Simpson & Chris Lintott) — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 17:18:54 +0000

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 @orbitingfrog and @chrislintott.

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We Can See Things

rob@zooniverse.org (Robert Simpson & Chris Lintott) — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 21:42:10 +0000

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. Follow us on Twitter @recycledelec @orbitingfrog and @chrislintott.

Links:

Andromeda Project launches: andromedaproject.org
Moon Zoo goes to Apollo 17: moonzoo.org
GRAIL results : http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2012-385
NASA’s plans to go back to Mars : http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/news/whatsnew/index.cfm?FuseAction=ShowNews&NewsID=1401
Curiosity’s first chemistry - perchlorate : http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/news/whatsnew/index.cfm?FuseAction=ShowNews&NewsID=1399
.Astro 5 and Hack Day: http://dotastronomy.com/blog/2012/12/hack-day-in-new-york/
Comets of Caroline Herschel: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1212.0809v1.pdf
The infamous Time paragraph : http://profmattstrassler.com/2012/12/05/my-version-of-the-higgs-time-paragraph/
Sign language for science : http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/04/science/sign-language-researchers-broaden-science-lexicon.html?smid=tw-nytimeshealth&seid=auto&_r=0&pagewanted=all
Zooniverse advent calendar: https://zooniverse.org/advent

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