Recycled Electrons

Chris and Rob talk about sexism, Andromeda and the didjeridu. The galaxy is wobbling, Gaia is blogging and jellyfish are astronauting. [MP3 Link] Episode #92. 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: Astronaut jellyfish http://www.popsci.com/article/technology/space-born-jellyfish-hate-life-earth Jellyfish article as mentioned on the podcast: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/sep/26/jellyfish-theyre-taking-over/ Andromeda Project is back! http://andromedaproject.org/ Our galaxy wobbles: http://www.aip.de/en/news/science/rave2 Gaia has a blog: http://blogs.esa.int/gaia/ Kepler 56 is weird : http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6156/331.abstract Sexism in science and life: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/urban-scientist/2013/10/11/give-trouble-to-others-but-not-me/ and http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/at-scientific-american/2013/10/13/a-message-from-mariette-dichristina-editor-in-chief/ and http://amandabauer.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/how-not-to-deal-with-it.html and http://alicerosebell.wordpress.com/2013/10/19/everyday-sexual-harrassment-in-science/ 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/).

Chris and Rob talk about CAP2013, Chicago, living on Mars and the expansion of the Universe. With special Guest star Uncle Monty. [MP3 Link] Episode #91. 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: Rosetta and Philae, Comet 67P http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta/Europe_s_comet_chaser CAP2013 happening right now: http://www.communicatingastronomy.org/cap2013/ Curiosity meteorites: http://news.agu.org/press-release/curiosity-confirms-origins-of-martian-meteorites/ Most distant gravitational lens: http://templbto.weebly.com/lbto_lens_oct_2013.html 99% Invisible: http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-72-new-old-town/ Lectures on inference: http://videolectures.net/mackay_course_01/ 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/).

Chris and Rob talk about exoplanets, the US shutdown, cake, and the distant future. There is discussion of the mind of dog and what exactly is a planet? [MP3 Link] Episode #90. 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: Timeline of the Far Future: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future Shutdown silence: http://boingboing.net/2013/10/04/during-the-shutdown-some-scie.html Five Billion Years [of Solitude]: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/10/04/five-billion-years-of-solitude-lee-billings Are dogs people too? http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/opinion/sunday/dogs-are-people-too.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1& I installed Windows on my Mac. Why? WWT! http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/Home.aspx New free-floating planet : http://arxiv.org/abs/1310.0457 Kepler clouds on an exoplanet : http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/scientists-generate-first-map-of-clouds-on-kepler-7b-1003.html 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/).

Chris and Rob have been at lots of conferences about interesting things. We discuss the US government shutdown and its effect on science an scientists. We talk about the rumours regarding the Sky at Night, the nature of art and science, and the evolving culture of science communication. [MP3 Link] Episode #89. 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: .Astronomy 5: http://dotastronomy.com/events/five/ Evolutionary Paths In Galaxy Morphology: A Galaxy Zoo Conference: http://blog.galaxyzoo.org/2013/09/27/evolutionary-paths-galaxy-morphology-gz-conference Science, shutdown and the sequester; Who’s Been Furloughed: http://t.co/q80FJaQcAv The Daily Zooniverse (e.g. one billion blue whales on the moon) http://daily.zooniverse.org/2013/09/26/moon-zoo-live/ Astrophotographer of the Year: http://www.strudel.org.uk/blog/astro/001031.shtml (winning picture above!) I installed Windows on my Mac. Why? WWT! http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/Home.aspx Don’t Call Me Colin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFMoEpj-v7o Hipster Mash: http://hipseter-mash.herokuapp.com/ 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/).

Chris and Rob have been doing this for two years. Two long years. Thanks to everyone who has been listening for any chunk of that time. [MP3 Link] Episode #88. 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: Lessons from two years of podcasting: http://orbitingfrog.com/2013/09/03/lessons-from-two-years-of-podcasting/ Elon Musk has become Tony Stark! http://boingboing.net/2013/09/06/spacexs-futuristic-rocket-de.html Stop pretending we aren’t living in the Space Age: http://io9.com/stop-pretending-we-arent-living-in-the-space-age-1249483666 Did a flashlight light up the world’s fair?  http://www.lastwordonnothing.com/2013/09/04/guest-post-the-curious-incident-of-the-flashlight-in-the-night-time-part-2/ The mysterious smell of Moondust (Successful LADEE launch)  http://science1.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2006/30jan_smellofmoondust/ Comet ISON is becoming visible: http://io9.com/how-to-spot-comet-ison-in-the-early-morning-sky-1250301611 The coldest brown dwarfs aren’t that cold :  http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-271 Are planetary nebulae aligned?  http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1338/ Make glowing Jelly: http://orbitingfrog.com/2013/09/07/how-to-make-glowing-jelly/ 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/).

Chris and Rob witter on about science fiction, skyscrapers and the CMZ. There’s talk of temperatures high and low, as well as talk about why the LHX hasn’t killed us all. [MP3 Link] Episode #87. 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: 9 Scientific Breakthroughs That Killed Science Fiction Subgenres - http://io9.com/9-scientific-breakthroughs-that-killed-science-fiction-1222342077 Isaac Asimov on space exploration: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/08/28/isaac-asimov-space-exploration-letter-1969/ Can a skyscraper really melt a car?  : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-23930675 Why hasn’t the LHC killed us all? http://nautil.us/issue/4/the-unlikely/outsmarting-the-cernageddon CMB in the lab : http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2013/08/28/ultracold-big-bang-experiment-successfully-simulates-evolution-early-universe Chandra and the Milky Way’s black hole :  http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/news/black-hole-rejects-food.html#.UiXHyhabjOc http://arxiv.org/abs/1307.5845 A trojan around Uranus : http://science.ubc.ca/node/724 The CMZ and massive star formation in the middle of our Galaxy: http://arxiv.org/abs/1309.0419 Van Gogh’s Starry Night recreated with Hubble images (via Jules W) http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2013/08/this-astronomer-recreated-starry-night-with-hubble-space-photos/ See your own brainwaves: http://boingboing.net/2013/08/22/see-your-own-brain-waves-in-th.html Lots of Martin Rees : http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006mk7h/clips 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/).

  Chris and Rob talk conspiracy theories, Lithium and the ageing not-twice of the Sun. It’s a bit of a paradox. We examine Croton’s Rules regarding Little h and discuss Titan’s icy shell. [MP3 Link] Episode #86. 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: 100 year starship (via Lesley Graham) http://100yss.org/initiatives/overview A really scary spacewalk: http://blogs.esa.int/luca-parmitano/2013/08/20/eva-23-exploring-the-frontier/ Damn you little h: http://arxiv.org/abs/1308.4150 On the Reading of Scientific papers : http://cen.watchglass.org/day/2013/08/16 The IAU says http://www.iau.org/static/public/naming/planets_and_satellites.pdf you can help name things :  Titan’s Ice Shell (via Blobrana) http://news.ucsc.edu/2013/08/titan-ice-shell.html Oldest Solar Twin discovered: http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1337/ An underwhelming fossil fish of the month: http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/museums/2013/08/22/a-very-important-underwhelming-fossil-fish-of-the-month-august/ 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/).

Chris and Rob talk about plotting the Perseids in 3D, Elon Musk’s ‘hyperloop’, and the Golden Age of science writing. There’s also the best paper abstract ever. [MP3 Link] Episode #85. 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: Is this the best time for science writing? :  http://inversesquare.wordpress.com/2013/08/08/the-best-of-times-good-reads-redux/ Elon Musk’s ‘Hyperloop’ and why we need more public discussion of bonkers sci-fi becoming reality. LA-SF in 35 minutes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperloop It’s not the Universe, it’s you : http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2013/08/one-physicists-thinks-the-universe-is-not-expanding-and-he-might-not-be-crazy/#.Ugpz8HMiZC4.twitter Possibly the best abstract ever : http://qix.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/07/11/1077800413489534.abstract GZ2 Paper is out: http://t.co/eIJ4ZidAtZ New Planet Hunters paper : http://arxiv.org/abs/1308.0369 Perseids: animation and path tracking: http://orbitingfrog.com/2013/08/13/amazing-perseid-meteor-animation/ and http://www.flickr.com/photos/30974264@N02/9520622404/in/photostream/ Lazarus comets : http://www.ras.org.uk/news-and-press/224-news-2013/2325-a-cometary-graveyard Aeon magazine : http://www.aeonmagazine.com/ The Odd Couple: http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1335/ 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/).

Chris and Rob discuss impostor syndrome, particle physics and spy drones. We waved a Saturn and now we’re looking for the Perseids. [MP3 Link] Episode #84. 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: Impostor Syndrome as a feature not a bug: http://sarahaskew.net/2011/12/03/feeling-stupid-doesnt-have-to-hurt/ Suggest things to us http://recycledelec.com/suggest The way forward for (American) particle physicists : http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/august-2013/physicists-chart-path-forward India ‘Chinese spy drones’: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-23455128 Did you wave at Saturn: http://orbitingfrog.com/2013/07/21/cassinis-photo-of-the-earth-seen-from-saturn/ A citizen science attempt at particle physics : http://home.web.cern.ch/about/updates/2013/08/join-dots-measure-antimatter Magellenic stream source discovered : http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2013/27/full/ Unusual stars : http://www.ras.org.uk/news-and-press/224-news-2013/2322-under-leaden-skies Gone in 60 Seconds infographic: http://socialmediatoday.com/timgrimes/1619306/what-happens-online-60-seconds-infographic (HT Jules) 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/).

Chris and Rob talk transatlantically about Mars, a doomed gas cloud, goings-on in Heidelberg and the most aerial photo ever taken. [MP3 Link] Episode #83. 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: Galaxy Zoo Quench http://quench.galaxyzoo.org (Rob) PPVI - ALMA observes ‘The Brick’: http://csirouniverseblog.com/2013/04/17/wormhole-wednesday-alma-first-results-punching-through-a-brick-wall/ PPVI - Hubble making movies of HH objects: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8az1020zDM Amazing image of Phobos from Mars Express : http://lightsinthedark.wordpress.com/2010/11/26/fear-a-flying/ Fallen Astronaut : Art on the Moon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallen_Astronaut)  Another pitch drop has dropped: http://t.co/A5dZdLfD87 GZ A&G vote: http://blog.galaxyzoo.org/2013/07/17/vote-for-the-cover-image-of-october-astronomy-and-geophysics/ Martian atmosphere results : http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-226 Neptune has a new moon : http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2013/30/full/ Wave at spacecraft : http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-225 Doomed gas cloud gets more doomed : http://www.mpe.mpg.de/2189104/News_20130717 Photoshope Memes that never caught on: http://www.sadanduseless.com/2013/07/photoshop-memes-that-never-caught-on/ Amateur processing of images : http://www.planetary.org/explore/space-topics/space-imaging/amateur.html 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/).

Chris and Rob talk transatlantically about cats, exoplanets, cats, citizen science, cats, science and cats. [MP3 Link] Episode #82. 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: Galaxy Zoo Quench http://blog.galaxyzoo.org/2013/07/10/galaxy-zoo-quench-experience-the-full-scientific-process/ Randomize.me http://www.randomizeme.org F.D.C. Willard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.D.C._Willard Pluto moons Styx and Kerberos http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23797-vulcan-not-pluto-moon-despite-star-trek-actors-push.html (from Blobrana) A planet where apparently it rains glass… http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23275607 (from Lesley the ichthyosaur) Big Sunspots http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130710.html Planck CMB simulator http://www.strudel.org.uk/planck/ The littlest Voorwerpje http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?topic=280989.0 Cosmography of the Local Universe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrMubFvV-VU&feature=player_embedded 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/).

Chris and Rob discuss surfing on Mars, ZooCon 2013 and the prospect of a new Longitude Prize. Is the Solar System broken? Are LEGO going to release a Mars Curiosity set? One of those is correct… [MP3 Link] Episode #81. 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: 52 Years for the Zooniverse: http://blog.zooniverse.org/2013/06/27/52-years-of-human-effort/ Astronomy and Computing: http://orbitingfrog.com/2013/06/26/astronomy-and-computing-a-new-journal/ Not So Supermoon: http://orbitingfrog.com/2013/06/24/thats-no-supermoon/ DNA from three ‘parents’ http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/jun/28/uk-government-ivf-dna-three-people Asteroid Zoo? http://blog.zooniverse.org/2013/06/27/anyone-fancy-an-asteroid/ a planet far from its parent star http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2013/20/ Simulating mealtime on Maaars (from @bitfield) http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/06/in-space-no-one-can-hear-your-takeout-order.html Overview: short film about the emotional and spiritual experience of astronauts: http://vimeo.com/55073825 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/).

Chris and Rob discuss surfing on Mars, ZooCon 2013 and the prospect of a new Longitude Prize. Is the Solar System broken? Are LEGO going to release a Mars Curiosity set? One of those is correct… [MP3 Link] Episode #80. 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: ZooCon 2013 in Oxford on Saturday June 22nd: http://zoocon2013-estw.eventbrite.co.uk/ New ‘longitude prize’ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-22892443 Is the solar system broken?http://muddycolors.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/todd-lockwood-curvilinear-perspective.html?m=1 are there hovercraft on Mars? http://uanews.org/story/marks-on-martian-dunes-may-reveal-tracks-of-dry-ice-sleds Asteroids in the Service of humanity: http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.2678  LEGO to release Mars Curisoity set: http://laughingsquid.com/lego-announces-mars-curiosity-rover-set) Uranus is being followed : http://www.agenciasinc.es/en/News/Three-centaurs-follow-Uranus-through-the-solar-system 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/).

Chris and Rob talk about the Big Bang, copyright in space, and LEGO. We also get parts of the periodic table wrong. With studio guest Freya Pentz. [MP3 Link] Episode #79. 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: Noctilucent Clouds: http://www.strudel.org.uk/blog/astro/001027.shtml (see image) Professional/amateur images. Centaurus A Extreme deep field: http://www.rolfolsenastrophotography.com/Astrophotography/Centaurus-A-Extreme-Deep-Field/29643205_8ZwvgW#!i=2536914799&k=mNgSprP&lb=1&s=XL Turn the Moon into a telescope http://arxiv.org/pdf/1306.0350v2.pdf How does copyright work in space? http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/05/economist-explains-12/print New observations with the Keck telescope potentially resolve the Lithium abundance issue in the early Universe: http://www.keckobservatory.org/news/international_team_on_keck_observatory_strengthens_big_bang_theory Vote now for female LEGO professionals: http://amandabauer.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/professional-female-lego-figures.html Sungrazing Comet Lovejoy: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22803592 Opportunity discovers locations where neutral water was present on Mars: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/across-the-universe/2013/jun/07/nasa-mars Curiosity got zapped with radiation http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013EGUGA..15.5859Z http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=curiosity-reveals-mars-astronaut-ra-13-05-31 How does this work?: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KM3NeT Custom/ purchace 3D printing: http://www.shapeways.com Every Noise At Once: music networking http://www.furia.com/misc/genremaps/engenremap.html Aurora Borealis timelapse from APOD: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130609.html 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/).

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. [MP3 Link] 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/).