[Original post on the Sciblogs The Official Sciblogs Podcast site] And we’re back with another new episode of TOSP! This week, aimee and Elf talk of many things, including the winners of this year’s top NZ science award(s), the world’s lightest material, stem cell research, sexism in science (‘womanspace’), a nanocar, still-faster-than-light neutrinos, the casimir […]
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TOSP Episode 9: November 7th 2011
[Original post on the Sciblogs The Official Sciblogs Podcast site] Greetings, dear listeners! This week, aimee was joined once again by Chelfyn Baxter, co-host of the g33k show, to talk through some of the science stories of the last week. They included using lasers to rip the universe a new one, Boeing building spacecraft, the […]
Ig Nobel banter
Last night, I got to engage in something of a treat. At 10:30pm (my time*) I sat down with Skype and three lovely Australians to chat about this year’s Ig Nobel prize winners. The Ig Nobels, started in 1991, are designed to lampoon (quite sweetly, I think) their more serious counterpart, the Nobels. However, as […]
TOSP Episode 3: September 26th 2011
[Original post on the Sciblogs The Official Sciblogs Podcast site] UPDATE: Youtube vids now up (and at bottom of post) Including fallen angels satellites, post-doc jobs in NZ, Foldit, HIV, nanotubes, Chinese space programme, neutrinos, intuition, suing geologists, Otzi, poetry. And a bunch of other stuff! This week’s episode is a little longer than usual. […]
TOSP Episode 2: September 19th 2011
[Original post on the Sciblogs The Official Sciblogs Podcast site] UPDATE: Youtube now at bottom of page. Including glow-in-the-dark kittehs, wisdom of the crowds, polio, jellyfish, robots and SO MUCH MORE. * Ahem * This week, aimee and Elf continue our roundup of things which made us go ‘squeee’ in the preceding week. We’d like […]