Sunday, 8 January 2012

The Infinite Monkey Cage

Robin Ince: Brian, where does science meet art? what kind of equation would that be?
Brian Cox: I would say that if you represent them both as vectors, then their scalar product would be non zero.
Robin Ince: Ah, and of course for listeners at home, that means that they'd be not orthogonal... So, 350 years ago, the first members of the Royal society, including Boyle, Ren and Newton, stood around a workbench tampering with the laws of nature, and finding out things that were never meant to be known.
Brian Cox: *chuckles* He's learnt nothing.

That's from The Infinite Monkey Cage - an awesome radio show, where Professor Brian Cox and comedian Robin Ince discuss science in the context of popular culture. Subjects cover: evidence, science fiction, homeopathy and 'alternative medicine', conspiracies...etc.
Check out the Science Fiction episode, in 3 parts here:

Part 1:


Part 2:


Part 3:



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