Books and Ideas Podcast #14: Dr. Pamela Gay from Astronomy Cast

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Show Notes for Books and Ideas Podcast #14
This episode is a conversation with Dr. Pamela Gay from the Astronomy Cast. Dr. Gay teaches astronomy and physics at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Before the Astronomy Cast she was one of the hosts of one of the first science podcasts, Slacker Astronomy. I think her [...]

Books and Ideas Podcast #14: Dr. Pamela Gay from Astronomy Cast

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Show Notes for Books and Ideas Podcast #14
This episode is a conversation with Dr. Pamela Gay from the Astronomy Cast. Dr. Gay teaches astronomy and physics at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Before the Astronomy Cast she was one of the hosts of one of the first science podcasts, Slacker Astronomy. I think her [...]

Julie Foudy gets my vote for the next coach of the US Women’s Soccer Team

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When Greg Ryan benched Hope Solo to play Briana Scurry in Women’s World Cup semi-final game against Brazil, he showed that he is clueless about coaching women. In a way he was lucky that Hope Solo diverted attention from his coaching with her blow-up after the loss, but yesterday the US Soccer powers announced [...]

Brain Science Podcast #23: Interview with Sandra Blakeslee

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This episode is an interview with Sandra Blakeslee, co-author (with her son Matthew) of The Body Has a Mind of Its Own: How Body Maps Help You Do (almost) Everything Better, which we discussed in episode 21.
I asked Blakeslee to tell me a little bit of her background as [...]

Please let me know if you find a bad audio link

The audio files for both of my podcasts are hosted on Libsyn and they have recently changed the addresses for people’s podcast audio files. Unfortunately this means that I probably have a lot of bad links floating around not just on this site, but in numerous other locations around the internet. I intend to try [...]

Let me know if you find bad audio links

The audio files for both of my podcasts are hosted on Libsyn and they have recently changed the addresses for people’s podcast audio files. Unfortunately this means that I probably have a lot of bad links floating around not just on this site, but in numerous other locations around the internet. I intend to try [...]

Review: Buffy Between the Lines is a must listen for Buffy fans

Although I am a huge fan of Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Firefly/Serenity, I have never really gotten into fan fiction, but I am making an exception for the new audio drama, Buffy Between the Lines, which debuted earlier this month. The story is set between the end of season 5 and the [...]

Review: Buffy Between the Lines is a must listen for Buffy fans

Although I am a huge fan of Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Firefly/Serenity, I have never really gotten into fan fiction, but I am making an exception for the new audio drama, Buffy Between the Lines, which debuted earlier this month. The story is set between the end of season 5 and [...]

Nature Relaunches its neuroscience podcast

I am happy to report that Nature has relaunched its neuroscience podcast under the new name NeuroPod. If you like the Nature podcast but would rather hear a show devoted to the latest Nature articles on neuroscience, you will want to check this out at http://www.nature.com/neurosci/neuropod.
If you prefer blogs, you might want to check out [...]

Brain Science Podcast #22: Christof Koch discusses Consciousness

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Brain Science Podcast #22 is an interview with Dr. Christof Koch of Cal Tech, one of the pioneers in the neurobiological study of consciousness. About two decades ago when Koch and Francis Crick began looking for what they called the neural correlates of consciousness (NCC), such a [...]