Big Picture Science
...is coming to SBN-KIOSC Radio
Big Picture Science is host-
ed by popular science communicator Dr Seth Shostak,
Senior Astronomer at the
SETI Institute, and science
journalist Molly Bentley.
Each episode typically includes
four to six scientist interviews,
skits, and explanatory and humorous banter between the
hosts. Big Picture Science is
produced by the SETI Institute, a non-profit research
organization in California’s
Silicon Valley. The show has
won over a large audience,
and is now broadcast on over
100 stations in the U.S.A and
Canada. It’s also available
for podcast download for
those listeners beyond the
reach of these radio stations.
You can find this week’s show,
as well as an archive of hundreds of previous episodes,
at bigpicturescience.org. The
podcast is also available on
iTunes (where it has a listener rating of five stars). Now
SBN radio is thrilled to be
able to bring you Big Picture
Science as well! Check it out
and let this show prove to
you that science isn’t just a
dry homework assignment!
Science that Scintillates
OK, what are the most exciting topics in science today?
Perhaps you want to know
what was here before the Big
Bang? Or maybe you’d like
to hear when we’re going to
build a machine that is smarter than the human brain.
Possibly your passion is to
find life in deep, deep space.
When is that going to happen?
These subjects and many more
are all a part of Big Picture
Science, a weekly, one-hour
radio show that talks about
modern science and technology in a lively and funny way.
Big Picture Science takes on
the big questions by interviewing leading researchers – from students to Nobel
Prize winners – and weaving together their stories
of discovery in a clever and
Listen to Seth’s podcast
Science that Scintilates with Dr Seth Shostak
off-kilter
et
narrative
style.
Whether it’s an audio tour
of the electromagnetic spectrum or a plunge down
into the tiny territory of a
nano-scale world, this show
will give you endless material to talk about with your
friends, family, or the guy sitting next to you on the bus!
Despite what you see in the
movies, scientists ar en’t
all serious folks, lacking a
sense of humor, and shuffling about their laboratories
in white lab coats (in fact,
very few real scientist actually wear white lab coats!)
They are people who just
want to know something
that none of the 100 billion
Homo-sapiens who have
ever existed on this planhave
known
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They want to be the first to
make a discovery, though
they’re also skeptical.
If
someone tells a scientist that
UFOs are buzzing around the
countryside, or that Bigfoot is
stomping through the forests,
or maybe that telepathy really
works – well, they’re going to
raise their eyebrows, and say
“prove it!” That’s the nature of
science; you know something
only if you can get good, hard
data that shows it to be true.
So once a month, Big Picture
Science offers Skeptic Check,
where we take on a bizarre
claim, and look at it critically.
Where’s the evidence, really, for UFOs or Bigfoot or telepathy? Tune in to find out!
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