Science Fact, Science Fiction and Everything Inbetween
Episodes
Oct 13, 2016
Oct 13, 2016
25 min
Matin Durrani and Liz Kalaugher join Andrew in the Cosmic Shed to talk about the way animals use Physics and their new book Furry Logic - The Physics of Animal Life
We hear about turtles using the magnetic field to navigate the world and find their way back to the very beach they were born on, why an octopus will change its colour in the dark depths of the oceans and how a grown man can never have seen Star Wars...No, seriously!
Oct 12, 2016
Oct 12, 2016
55 min
Close Encounters in the Cosmic Shed as we consider what turns out to be one of Ti and Andrew's favourite films of all time...and left Steve, Maddy and Ben a bit less enthralled.
We are delighted to be joined by NASA's Lynn Rothschild, an evolutionary biologist and astrobiologist. Lynn spoke to Andrew about astrobiology, synthetic biology and life in the universe...and at NASA.
Ben pops in for a poem, Steve brings us news of the new Space Race and Maddy find parallels between the work she is doing on proto-life and the work taking place at NASA.
In other words, it's our first full, not live, proper Cosmic Shed episode since June. We're back!
show notes
In the show we chat about Yuri Milner, having misheard Lynn Rothschild when she was talking about Urey-Miller experiments. Fortunately, over on our Facebook page, one of our listeners pointed out our error. Thanks Rusty.