116 Work Harder

Summary: Rob and Grant talk about volcanoes, LEGO, and planets around Tau Ceti. There’s also plankton, and image metadata issues, on the ISS. Links: Iceland is gonna blow up again. Book train tickets: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-28843968 Herschel observes planets around Tau Ceti: http://astrobites.org/2014/08/18/herschels-view-of-a-neighboring-planetary-system/ Hints of elusive early stars found: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-28885991 NASA wants to crowdsource Earth at images frm the ISS: http://www.citiesatnight.org New Zooniverse project: http://www.floatingforests.org The (female) LEGO acaemic have their own Twitter feed now: https://twitter.com/LegoAcademics Diversity and bigotry in Science Fiction: http://io9.com/star-trek-writers-defense-of-diversity-in-sci-fi-is-dam-1620002206 Bubble my Page: http://www.infocaptor.com/bubble-my-page [MP3 Link] Episode #116. 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. Credits: Audio content Copyright 2011-2014 Chris Lintott and Robert Simpson. Many thanks to Oxford Press Office for recording space. Podcast Image of lightbulb courtesy of Flickr user bazik (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bazik/395792175/).