podcast – geek pop
Summary: The concept is this: every month, Geek Pop crew members Hayley and Jim sift through your suggestions and pick a bunch of songs that are in some way linked (often tenuously) to science. Then we stick them in a podcast and talk about them. Sometimes we get a little bit off track.
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Click here to subscribe (free) via iTunes and other podcatchers In Desert Island Scientist episode four, Jim and molecular virologist Dr David Hawkes from The Florey Institute at the University of Melbourne somehow manage to squeeze hoverboards and Rage Against the Machine into a discussion of viral vectors and post-traumatic stress disorder. Here’s Dave’s playlist […]
Click here to subscribe (free) via iTunes and other podcatchers Desert Island Scientist number three is Dr Jon Winfield from the Bristol Robotics Lab at UWE. Jon’s research is on microbial fuel cells – basically, it involves turning poo into power. He joins Hayley to talk about the sweet smell of waste water treatment, […]
Click here to subscribe (free) via iTunes and other podcatchers It’s episode two of Desert Island Scientist and we’ve invited another real life researcher to join us on our imaginary island. Suzi Gage is the lady choosing the tunes… and eating pudding, in our feature Des(S)ert Island Scientist. She talks to Jim about her […]
Click here to subscribe (free) via iTunes and other podcatchers We’re kicking off 2013 with the first podcast in a new series that we’ve been banging on about for months… Yes, Desert Island Scientist is finally here! Every month for the next six months, we’ll be welcoming a bone fide scientist to the podcast. […]
Happy Christmas and bye bye to @jimothybell for now. He’ll be experiencing Christmas upside down in a hot place, which is just wrong. Anyway, as has become tradition here at Geek Pop, for the festive period we’re bringing you a selection of the most niche songs ever – Christmas science songs. Extra props to Jonny […]
Nyawww, ickle wickle cutey wutey spider… In honour of Jim, ahead of his imminent departure to the southern hemisphere, this month’s episode is themed entirely (well, almost – when did we ever stick to a theme?) around the things he loves best: ANIMALS… And, perhaps predictably, there’s a considerable amount of spider chat. Jim does, […]
THE SONG: The Nature of Things by Helen Arney Hello! We’re back again with another live session from friend of the podcast, Helen Arney. Here’s one she wrote for the Bright Club Bristol event “The Nature of Things”. And here’s another big ol’ plug for the Festival of the Spoken Nerd tour, featuring Helen, which […]
Vote for our local science centre’s hold music! When you ring your bank or internet provider or washing machine helpline you know you’re going to get stuck listening to some crappy hold music that’s going to make you want to chew your own arm off before anybody anwers. But NOT when you ring Bristol’s local [...]
As it’s nearly Halloween, we’ve gone for the slightly morbid theme of Dead Scientists. And you’ve all done a grand job of bringing the best Dead Scientist songs to our attention. EXCELLENT WORK, TEAM GEEK! We’ve compiled an extended Spotify list including some of the suggestions we had to leave out. So. Along the twisty […]
We experience the best and worst of science songwriting, barely avoid comparing Usher to Stevie Wonder, learn why we should be more afraid of cows than spiders and find ourselves doing some live and unprogrammed sports commentary on the man practicing sprint starts behind Hayley’s house. Oh and there’s some real Mars-based science stuff. Some […]
From drum and bass to Mama Cass, from the Higgs boson to supervolcanoes via Ghostbusters, it’s all here in the Geek Pop Podcast. There’s a sort of impending doom theme this month… so that there in the photo is Mount St Helens, a sleeping beauty before her famous blowout in 1980. Don’t forget to vote […]
May 18th was Fascination of Plants Day. Okay, so we missed it… but we’re making up for it now. With sunflowers, aubergines and a tree-based Skype jam. Plus, Stevie Wonder’s secret plant songs and Jimothybell‘s new poll, celebrating Fascination of Plants Day AND the jubilee. This month’s Spotify list is here and your download links […]
Inspired by some Barenaked Ladies lyrics, Hayley presents her top five crazy theories for dinosaur extinction. And Jim does some back-of-an-envelope calculations in an attempt at answering the question posed by Oxford popsters Alphabet Backwards: "If we all threw an ice cube in the sea, could we save the polar bears?"
So, things look up bit different round here don’t they? *Nodding wildly at shiny new website* Geometry turned out to be a lot more interesting than we thought, what with fourth dimensions, hypercubes and wotnot. We even managed an enthusiastic explanation of how to make a dodecahedron out of bubbles. Better with bubbles than with […]
This month, we take a trip down memory lane as we wander through Geek Pop festivals past. You can download all the songs from this podcast on our new ‘Music‘ page, which lists every song that has ever been played at the festival. We’ll be back with a session cast, as well as the regular […]
