[Original post on the Sciblogs The Official Sciblogs Podcast site]
This week’s podcast is, as usual, filled with interesting things. Particularly Nobel-related things!
We (aimee and Elf) talk about science prizes, figures, finding life on Mars, transhumanism, the beginning of infinity, nanotechnology (what is it?), statistics, space skiing, forensic science, nature vs nurture the Nobels, the Ig nobels and World Space Week.
PODCAST HERE.
The pearltree (remember, they’re Flash-based!) for this week’s episode is here. All our pearltrees thus far are here. If you can’t access pearltrees, don’t worry - we’ve faithfully hyperlinked to everything in the list below :)
As always, please do get in touch! Your feedback is extremely valuable to us.
[UPDATE: Youtube vids available at the bottom of this post, or on our Youtube channel, here]
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Astrophysicists awarded Nobel Prize
How two Nobel Prize medals in physics were saved from being seized by the Nazis
$53.8 Million Awarded to Marsden Fund Researchers
Taurus G4: Electric plane wins biggest prize in aviation history
Full Interview: John Graham-Cumming on Building Babbage’s Computer
What if academics were as dumb as quacks with statistics?
Best skiing in space is on Saturnian ice moon Enceladus
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Sciblogs
Unanswered questions for Brent and David Tong
Nature vs. nurture: score = one all
World Space Week podcast – Episode 5: Mark Rocket
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Other interesting things
Plasmonic Nanoparticle Chain in a Light Field: A Resonant Optical Sail
Optically and Biologically Active Mussel Protein-Coated Double-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
Statistical physics: Self-aware particles
Materials: A maglev construction kit
Implementing the Quantum von Neumann Architecture with Superconducting Circuits
Extrasolar planets: Homing in on another Earth
Nanopore-based detection of circulating microRNAs in lung cancer patients
Using Polymer Conformation to Control Architecture in Semiconducting Polymer/Viral Capsid Assemblies
Fermi Bubbles Are Burps from a Star-Eating Black Hole
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