Recycled Electrons

Chris, Rob and special guest CAPS are in Oxford discussing Neil Armstrong. Mars Curiosity, Kickstarter and more. With musical interlude from the University of Oxford Press Office! [MP3 Link] Episode #47. 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: Neil Armstrong dies, aged 82: http://neilarmstronginfo.com/statement/ “For those who may ask what they can do to honor Neil, we have a simple request. Honor his example of service, accomplishment and modesty, and the next time you walk outside on a clear night and see the moon smiling down at you, think of Neil Armstrong and give him a wink.” A nice superbubble: http://www.chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2012/n1929/ Awesome NASA JPL mission graphic: Curiosity: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2012-269 Curiosity Descent video at 25fps: http://boingboing.net/2012/08/27/curiosity-mars-rover-descent-f.html Spectrograph : http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jywarren/public-lab-diy-spectrometry-kit Space elevator(!): http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/michaellaine/space-elevator-science-climb-to-the-sky-a-tethered?ref=category Spacetime is more like whisky than beer: http://www.mtu.edu/news/stories/2012/august/story76807.html MASCARA: the Multi-site All-Sky CAmeRA http://t.co/zgZW6kI   11-dimensional Venn diagrams: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22159-logic-blooms-with-new-11set-venn-diagram.html Ants and TCP: http://www.popehat.com/2012/08/25/whats-the-frequency-flik/     arXiv gets funded : http://news.library.cornell.edu/news/120828/arXiv Curiosity wake-up songs: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhalgren #autumnalcity            Living Earth HD for the Mac: http://www.tuaw.com/2012/08/23/living-earth-hd-brings-the-ios-favorite-to-your-mac-desktop/ 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/).

Back in the spires of Oxford, Chris seems to have forgotten he was ever away. Curiosity has performed a wheel-wiggle and is getting ready to head off into Gale Crater. There is a star that is gobbling up its planets and could neutrinos be affecting radioactivity on Earth? We also answer more of your questions, dear Listener.  [MP3 Link] Episode #46. 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: Saturn ,Mars and Spica: http://earthsky.org/tonight/waxing-crescent-moon-spica-saturn-and-mars-together-in-evening-sky Plus InSIGHT Discovery selection : http://insight.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/ A star eating a planet: http://iopscience.iop.org/2041-8205/754/1/L15/ Can we predict solar flares? : http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2012/Q3/new-system-could-predict-solar-flares,-give-advance-warning.html Happy birthday Voyager : http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-249 There are no starless massive proto-clusters in the first quadrant of the Galaxy: http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.4097 The best Hubble constant yet : http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.3281  Barnard’s star doesn’t have (large) planets : http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.2273 Aeolis Mons or Mount Sharp (@blobrana) Time Hop: http://timehop.com  Dr. Alan Allen’s Placebology: http://dralanplacebology.blogspot.co.uk 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/).

Chris is in Arizona and Rob is Oxford (but he can see into Chicago). Chris’ obsession with Curiosity continues. Rob wonders why Brian May has a badger on his arm at the Olympics. There’s debris on Mars, rings around Saturn and a distinct lack of oblateness on the Sun. [We apologise for the audio quality of some parts of this episode - there was unexpected interference on Rob’s microphone.] [MP3 Link] Episode #45. 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: Congrats to Stuart Clarke, Rebekah Higgitt, Vanessa Heggie and Dean Burnett for their new Guardian science blogs: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/across-the-universe, http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/the-h-word/ and http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/brain-flapping/ A new .Astronomy website: http://dotastronomy.com Mars Curiosity: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/images/pia16040_Sell_2_Thruster_Divots-br2.jpg and http://www.mit.edu/%7Ejfc/MER%20Soundtrack.html Why is the Sun so round?: http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/info/press-releases/RoundSun/ Gravity around a neutron star is REALLY strong: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tempolimit-lichtgeschwindigkeit.de%2Fgalerie%2Fgalerie.html&act=url Bernard Lovell gets arsey : http://etherwave.wordpress.com/2012/08/09/bernard-lovell-an-archival-anecdote/ Telepresence robots via an iPad: http://www.doublerobotics.com Brian May has a Fox/Badger patch: http://instagram.com/p/OPpciLD7Vw/ Eyjafjallajökull’s ash: http://all-geo.org/volcan01010/2012/08/ten-swimming-pools/ Filtergraph: http://delia.phy.vanderbilt.edu/tools/default/portal/23 NASA and we know it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFvNhsWMU0c 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/).

This week Chris and Rob discuss Mars Curiosity: the landing coverage and the latest images. We also field questions from Twitter about Bernard Lovell, distant galaxies and more. Also: more dirty space news. [MP3 Link] Episode #44. 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: Do we replace our cells every 7 years? (from @bounteousbard) Did you ever meet Bernard Lovell? (from @sfgmulcahy) What was the time delay from Curiosity - 20 mins? So when did it *really* land? (from @fazer_dazliss) What is ram pressure? (from @PenguinGalaxy) GEneric cLAssification TOol (GELTAO) from @astronomyblog https://gelato.tng.iac.es/login.cgi  Mohawk guy: http://gizmodo.com/5933504/nasas-mohawk-guy-loves-mars-and-memes-in-almost-equal-measure Dirty Space news from @astropixie: http://amandabauer.blogspot.co.uk Unmanned Spaceflight: http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com What’s the Time on Mars: http://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/mars24/ Planetary Society blog: http://www.planetary.org/blogs/ Mainly Martian: http://mainlymartian.blogs.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/).

Chris and Rob are back together, amongst the spiders of Oxford. We’re talking breakfast, Mars, data mining, astrochemistry, cosmic rays (and Cosmic Ray), avalanches on Iapetus, WETI, gravy waves and the chirality of life. We may have the ultimate ACRONYM, we definitely have the Olympics and we discuss Rob’s bus. [MP3 Link] Episode #43. 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: Curiosity landing soon. Google Hangout on Monday at 8am (UK time) - watch Twitter http://twitter.com/recycledelec Data mining and stat porn from ADS http://orbitingfrog.com/post/28434621487/astrochemistry-word-matrix http://orbitingfrog.com/post/28143196783/more-astronomy-data-mining-its-word-matrix-time and http://orbitingfrog.com/post/27983055767/mining-the-astronomical-literature Happy Birthday Cosmic Rays : https://indico.desy.de/internalPage.py?pageId=9&confId=4213 A young pulsar in M83 : http://www.chandra.si.edu/photo/2012/m83sn/ HESS II sees light : http://www.mpi-hd.mpg.de/hfm/HESS/pages/press/2012/HESS_II_first_light/ The mysterious ice slides of Iapetus : https://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/24035.aspx WETI Results : http://figshare.com/articles/A_Google_based_detector_alien_detector/93964 Einstein@HOME: 25,000 CPU years = zero results. Worth it? http://arxiv.org/pdf/1207.7176v1.pdf Higgs papers out : http://telescoper.wordpress.com/2012/08/02/the-low-down-on-the-lhc-boson/ Crystallization for chirality? http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/life-turned-left.html ACRONYM : Advanced Code for Relativistic Objects, Now with Yee-Lattice & Macroparticles  Rules for avoiding people on a bus: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-08/w-soa080112.php Cycling, helmets and the Olympics: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8870773 Forecasting medal totals : http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169207009002088 Free magazine : http://bit.ly/r9NbHW (HT: Fizzpup) 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/).

With Chris in Chicago, and Rob back in Oxford, there are some surprising technical difficulties. We discuss Mars Curiosity, spiral galaxies far, far away and the magnetic Pipe Nebula. Is the Universe left- or right-handed; and what do you do with a thermonuclear reactor when you’re done? [MP3 Link] Episode #42. 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: Curiosity landing soon (Aug 6): http://twitter.com/MarsCuriosity/ Spiral galaxy at z~2.5 (BX442): http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/07/a-hot-young-spiral-galaxy-is-the-farthest-yet-seen/ Magnetism in the Pipe Nebula: http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.3310 Handedness of spirals: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1207.5464v1.pdf and http://arxiv.org/abs/0803.3247 Rob took a trip to ITER - which was cool: http://orbitingfrog.com/post/27432084271/iter-a-thermonuclear-reactor-that-scientists-will-tidy Most amazing ISS timelapse yet? https://vimeo.com/45878034 Famelab : http://andrewsteele.co.uk/famelab/ Credits: Audio content Copyright 2012 Chris Lintott and Robert Simpson. Podcast Image courtesy of Flickr user bazik (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bazik/395792175/).

Chris and Rob chat at the Haus der Astronomie in Heidelberg, Germany. We discuss competitive crowdsourcing of data problems, recent astronomy news and the .Astronomy conference. Having recently taken part in an astronomy hack day, we talk about some cool hack ideas that have been worked on. Featuring special guest Markus Pöessel!    [MP3 Link] Episode #41. 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: http://dotastronomy.com The Haus der Astronomie http://www.haus-der-astronomie.de/ Kaggle: http://www.kaggle.com AstroBetter: http://astrobetter.com  Credits: Audio content Copyright 2012 Chris Lintott and Robert Simpson. Special thanks to Markus and the Haus der Astronomie for helping us record this episode. Podcast Image courtesy of Flickr user bazik (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bazik/395792175/).

Rob is in Cicadaland as Chris toils away back in Oxford. There’s Higgsteria in the news upon the confirmation of the discovery of the Higg’s Boson at Cern. We also discuss odd multiple star systems, leap seconds and the case of a disappearing debris disc. [MP3 Link] Episode #40. 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: A disappearing disk: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v487/n7405/full/nature11210.html and http://www.gemini.edu/node/11836 (Note silly headline) Impossible binary stars: http://www.ras.org.uk/news-and-press/219-news-2012/2143-ukirt-discovers-impossible-binary-stars 65 UMa - a sextuple star system: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1207.0651v1.pdf Sloan Low-mass Wide Pairs of Kinematically Equivalent Systems: http://astro.phy.vanderbilt.edu/~dhitals/slowpokes/ Higgs: Comic Cerns: http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/microsoft-corporation-rename-the-font-comic-sans-to-comic-cerns-in-the-windows-8-os Higgs: Is it disappointing? http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/07/why-the-higgs-boson-discovery-is-disappointing-according-to-the-smartest-man-in-the-world/259468/ Higgs: Who deserves the credit? http://blog.oup.com/2012/07/frank-close-new-boson-particle-higgs-find/ Higgs: A smoking duck : http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4056 Of Particular Significance : http://profmattstrassler.com/ Credits: Audio content Copyright 2012 Chris Lintott and Robert Simpson. Special thanks to the Oxford University Press Office for recording space. Podcast Image courtesy of Flickr user bazik (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bazik/395792175/).

Chris and Rob discuss university open days, and how to attract (or not) people to science. There’s a new way to detect the atmospheres of exoplanets, and a new exoplanets-like brown dwarf. We talk about whether we should even talk about the Higgs and Teddy Ruxpin tells us about the emotional state of the Internet. [MP3 Link] Episode #39. 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: A new way of detecting a planet’s atmosphere: http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1227/ Curiosity adjusts itself: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/news/msl20120626.html Plus awesome video : http://go.nasa.gov/Q4b35n Mars in 2012 : Damian Peach: http://www.damianpeach.com/mars1112/mars2012dp.wmv (image above too) .Astronomy 4: http://orbitingfrog.com/post/25801253070/astronomy-4 and http://dotastronomy.com Science: It’s a Girl Thing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFvh9zbjYeE What happens every 60 million years? http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.1804 William Herschel’s star-gages: http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.3635 A brown dwarf that resembles a giant exoplanet: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1206.5519v2.pdf Should we shut up about the Higgs?: http://inversesquare.wordpress.com/2012/06/24/the-higgs-boson-is-a-liberal-conspiracy-to-get-the-government-more-involved-in-mass/ The emotional state of the Internet, Teddy Ruxpin style: http://boingboing.net/2012/06/26/80-teddy-ruxpins-with-robot-vo.html Sky at Night: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006mk7h Satellite Eyes: http://satelliteeyes.tomtaylor.co.uk/ Credits: Audio content Copyright 2012 Chris Lintott and Robert Simpson. Special thanks to the Oxford University Press Office for recording space. Podcast Image courtesy of Flickr user bazik (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bazik/395792175/).

Chris and Rob make an apology and a confession respectively. There’s a new near-miss asteroid on the block, a recursive village in the UK and a question of our detectability. We talk drugs, exoplanets and quasars in this explicit podcast. [MP3 Link] Episode #38. 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  2011AG5 won’t kill us (probably): http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-178 The VO in the era of big data: http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.4076 (Bruce Berriman) Quasars snack: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-180 Are we detectable? http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=23057 Bourton-on-the-Water is recursive LEGUE: LAMOST Experiment for Galactic Understanding and Exploration arxiv.org/abs/1206.3578 David Nutt’s new book: Drugs - Without the Hot Air, chat about Equasy and Ecstasy. xkcd’s exoplanets image: http://xkcd.com/1071/ Credits: Audio content Copyright 2012 Chris Lintott and Robert Simpson. Special thanks to the Oxford University Press Office for recording space. Podcast Image courtesy of Flickr user bazik (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bazik/395792175/).

Chris and Rob are in Chris’ new, empty (and echoing) office. We wonder if we should finally begin naming exoplanets. The Zooniverse has been busy, and so has the Voyager 1 probe: it’s about to leave the Solar System! [MP3 Link] Episode #37. 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: New release about NGC3314: http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1208/ Solar Stormwatch and Old Weather join forces to learn more about sunspots: http://blogs.zooniverse.org/solarstormwatch/2012/06/sunspots-ahoy/ Teacup : http://blog.galaxyzoo.org/2012/06/14/hubble-spies-the-teacup-and-i-spy-hubble/ New curiosity landing site: http://www.sen.com/news/revised-landing-site-for-curiosity.html NuSTAR launch : http://news.stanford.edu/pr/2012/pr-nustar-slac-telescope-061412.html Voyager 1 is about to leave the Solar System: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/06/get-ready-because-voyager-i-is-this-close-to-leaving-our-solar-system/258456/ No Bow Shock: McComas et al. (Science) : http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ibex/news/nobowshock.html Supernova Zoo: http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.7040 Taste twitter: http://www.fastcodesign.com/1669969/machine-scans-twitter-for-mentions-of-fruit-then-turns-them-into-smoothies Credits: Audio content Copyright 2012 Chris Lintott and Robert Simpson. Special thanks to the Oxford University Press Office for recording space. Podcast Image courtesy of Flickr user bazik (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bazik/395792175/).

Chris takes a break from fighting Polar Bears in Svalbard to join Rob for a podcast-recording Google Hangout. We discuss the Transit of Venus, Martian meteorites and the impending collision of the Andromeda Galaxy with our own. NASA has been given some free telescopes and North Carolina has banned sea level rises. This MP3 Link Episode #36. 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: Hinode’s Venus Transit images (above): http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hinode/venus_transit_hinode.html Mars methane in a meteorite: http://www.astrobio.net/pressrelease/4791/mars-methane-lessons-in-a-meteorite Collision with Andromeda: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2012/20/full/ North Carolina makes sea rise illegal : http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/plugged-in/2012/05/30/nc-makes-sea-level-rise-illegal/ Free telescopes for NASA? http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/06/free-spy-telescopes-come-to-nasa-with-a-cost.html Data journalism awards : http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/may/31/data-journalism-awards-winners How does the Internet work? http://boingboing.net/2012/06/06/fing-internet-how-does-it.html Credits: Audio content Copyright 2012 Chris Lintott and Robert Simpson. Special thanks to the Oxford University Press Office for recording space. Podcast Image courtesy of Flickr user bazik (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bazik/395792175/).

Chris and Rob say goodbye to UKIRT and the JCMT, marvel at the wonders of a mangled press release (space dinosaurs!) and that we can write our names in galaxies. EBEX is lost and found and you no longer need as much insurance to go into British space. Also: why is it dark when you close your eyes? This and more things that you didn’t realise you didn’t need to know. [MP3 Link] Episode #35. 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: Goodbye to UKIRT and the JCMT: http://andyxl.wordpress.com/2012/05/31/farewell-ukirt/ and http://www.stfc.ac.uk/News+and+Events/39092.aspx Transit of Venus: http://www.ras.org.uk/education-and-careers/for-everyone/125 and http://www.planethunters.org/transit and http://gloria-project.eu/venus-transit/ 100 Followers: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-05/30/wired-100-twitter-list Space dinosaurs : http://gawker.com/5901246/new-thing-to-worry-about-monstrous-cunning-space-dinosaurs Telescope lost and then found again: http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/NASA-Balloon-Telescope-Goes-Missing-Near-Dallas-155773895.html Reforming the outerspace act 1986: http://www.bis.gov.uk/ukspaceagency/news-and-events/2012/May/reform-of-the-outer-space-act-1986-consultation Planet Hunters short-period planets papers http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.6769 Galaxy Zoo paper from Karen Masters: http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.5271 (& youtube!) Monitoring Of Jets in Active galactic nuclei with VLBA Experiments (MOJAVE) #Doingitwrong Why is it dark inside your eyeballs?: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2012/05/25/quantum-mechanics-when-you-close-your-eyes/ The weirdest lede ever: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/22/science/dogs-genetic-roots-remain-obscure.html?_r=1 Write in Galaxies: http://mygalaxies.co.uk/ Andrea Wulf : Chasing Venus.  Credits: Audio content Copyright 2012 Chris Lintott and Robert Simpson. Special thanks to the Oxford University Press Office for recording space. Podcast Image courtesy of Flickr user bazik (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bazik/395792175/).

Chris and Rob record whilst watching the live feed of SpaceX’s Dragon module as it docks with the International Space Station. We await the decision on the location of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) - will it be South Africa or Australia? Dark matter, human spaceflight and the transit of Venus also feature. We also talk about the current Queen, a former queen and a member of Queen. [MP3 Link] Episode #34. 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 dark matter debate: http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/michael-brooks/2012/05/does-dark-matter-exist See also : http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.4033 Dragon approaches the ISS: http://www.spacex.com/ SKA Decision deu: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18194984 Transit of Venus: http://orbitingfrog.com/post/23547707244/transit-of-venus-2012 The RAS’s address to Queen Victoria : http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalarchives/7250108692/sizes/l/in/photostream/ Measuring the Yarkovski effect : http://uanews.org/node/47370 Lunar protection guidelines : http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2012/may/HQ_12-168_Lunar_Protection_Guidelines.html Why do bubbles in Guiness sink? http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.5233 DAWN’s GRaND instrument - Gamma Ray and Neutron Detector http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/technology/GRaND_inter.asp  AMIGA (Analysis of the interstellar Medium of Isolated GAlaxies) http://arxiv.org/abs/1108.2130 Heaven’s Above: http://heavens-above.com and @twisst http://twitter.com/twisst Our updated website! http://recycledelec.com The Cumberland pencil museum is actually fabulous http://www.pencilmuseum.co.uk Credits: Audio content Copyright 2012 Chris Lintott and Robert Simpson. Special thanks to the Oxford University Press Office for recording space. Podcast Image courtesy of Flickr user bazik (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bazik/395792175/).

Chris and Rob are both back in Oxford, while the Opportunity rover is moving again on Mars. We discuss everything from star formation to Kendal Mint Cake. We talk about the delivery of MIRI and the transfer of GALEX. Global subway systems appear to be converging, and replication studies in psychology are rife. [MP3 Link] Episode #33. 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: Bad infographics and the Planetary Habitability Index: http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-04/new-planetary-habitability-index Global subway systems are converging on a standard form: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/05/subway-convergence/ Herschel’s Cygnus-X image: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120517.html Replication studies: psychology is feeling the heat? http://www.nature.com/news/replication-studies-bad-copy-1.10634 Opportunity’s moving again: https://roadtoendeavour.wordpress.com/ and http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/newsroom/pressreleases/20120509a.html GALEX: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-137 Delivery of MIRI: http://www.esa.int/export/esaSC/SEMIU8TWT1H_index_0.html The Starlight Finder: http://starlightfinder.com/index.php/finder-starlight Eye Wire: http://eyewire.org Credits: Audio content Copyright 2012 Chris Lintott and Robert Simpson. Special thanks to the Oxford University Press Office for recording space. Podcast Image courtesy of Flickr user bazik (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bazik/395792175/).