Jim al-Khalili talks to the astronomer Jocelyn Bell Burnell about missing out a Nobel Prize, sexism in science and a strange smudge in the data from a radio telescope. While others dismissed this smudge as insignificant, Jocelyn revealed a series of strange flashing signals. They might have been evidence of faulty radio telescope or even messages from a little green man; but Jocelyn thought otherwise and her determination to get to the bottom of it all, led to one of the most exciting discoveries in 20th century astronomy, the discovery of pulsars, those dense cores of collapsed stars.
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The Life Scientific: Jocelyn Bell-Burnell
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Will robots take all the jobs? - Boing Boing
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Workflows with Merlin Mann
In our first “Workflows” episode we talk with Merlin Mann, or as David calls him, the “Hero of Nerds.” Merlin discussed how he uses his Mac for his work and the applications he uses to be more productive. This extra long episode is packed with geeky goodness. This is a new type of episode for us
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Neal Stephenson on Stranger Than Fiction
Welcome to Stranger Than Fiction, a new six-episode podcast from Slate, the New America Foundation, and Arizona State University. Each week, Tim Wu—a Future Tense fellow at New America, the author of The Master Switch, and a professor at Columbia Law School—talks to a contemporary science fiction writer about whether we’re living in the future.
In the debut episode, Wu talks to Neal Stephenson, the award-winning science fiction author of Snow Crash, The Diamond Age, Cryptonomicon, and more. They discuss the purpose of science fiction, geek culture, and whether—contrary to our constant hand-wringing about “everything changing so fast”—innovation has really slowed down.
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Water Trapped For 1.5 Billion Years Could Hold Ancient Life
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30 Minutes With Ryan Singer on Jobs-to-be-Done | Jobs-to-be-Done
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EP26: Amy Hoy sells her My Little Ponies
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Merlin Mann on Inbox Zero, Getting Things Done, Opportunity Cost and Sunk Cost Fallacy – BTTDL032
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Margaret Atwood on Stranger Than Fiction
In the third episode, Wu talks to Margaret Atwood, author of science-flavored dystopian fiction like Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood. In 2012, she published In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination, in which she explored science fiction as an author and as a reader.
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5by5 | Founders Talk #41: Garrett Dimon / Sifter
Garrett Dimon the Founder of Sifter and writer of Starting + Sustaining joins Adam Stacoviak to share his history with becoming a founder and the wisdom he’s gained by bloodying his knuckles over the years with lessons learned.
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