A Nice Glass of Hadrons

Summary: 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/).