116 Work Harder
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
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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/).
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