Science chat with physicist Brian Cox and comedian Robin Ince. This week they are joined by author and documentary maker Jon Ronson and Seth Shostak from the SETI Institute in California, to discuss science conspiracy theories, UFOs and the search for ET.
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Utter Shambles: Free Primates
Robin Ince, Brian Cox, Helen Keen, PZ Myers and Jon Ronson record an episode of Robin’s ‘Utter Shambles’ at Cheltenham Science Festival. Recorded about a month ago.
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Robin Ince’s Bad Book Club
Robin Ince is a comedian and writer. For the last two years he has been the host of Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People. His Radio 4 show with Professor Brian Cox, The Infinite Monkey Cage, has just finished it’s second series. Robin has recently written a book, Robin Ince’s Bad Book Club, which casts a critical eye over Don Estelle’s autobiography, tales of giant killer crabs, and romance novels set in the Antarctic.
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Singularity University Lectures: Science Searches for ET by Seth Shostak
Seth is the Senior Astronomer at the SETI Institute, in Mountain View, California. He has an undergraduate degree in physics from Princeton University, and a doctorate in astronomy from the California Institute of Technology. For much of his career, Seth conducted radio astronomy research on galaxies, and has published approximately sixty papers in professional journals.
He has written several hundred popular magazine and Web articles on various topics in astronomy, technology, film and television. He lectures on astronomy and other subjects at Stanford and other venues in the Bay Area, and for the last six years, has been a Distinquished Speaker for the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He is also Chair of the International Academy of Astronautics’ SETI Permanent Study Group. Every week he hosts the SETI Institute’s science radio show, “Are We Alone?”
Seth has edited and contributed to a half dozen books. His most recent tome is Confessions of an Alien Hunter: A Scientist’s Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.