Podcasts about pythagoras trousers

In this podcast extra episode, Jeni teams up with our good friend Dr Chris North from the Pythagoras Trousers podcast to speak to Caltech’s Linde Professor of Physics and Nobel Laureate Barry Barish. In this interview we discuss: The early days of experimental particle physics Building the advances in technologies for today’s experiments and detectors The fear of failure creating resistance to building LIGO Wanting to collect direct detections of signals from the Big Bang The first detection of gravitational waves The pomp, circumstance & minutiae of a Nobel Prize award Post Nobel science influence Advice for people wanting a career in STEM

What would the world look like if women had had access to and been welcome in the scientific realm from the beginning? The mind boggles. This is not a question Australian scientist and science journalist, Margaret Wertheim really attempts to answer in ‘Pythagoras’ Trousers: God, Physics and the Gender Wars’ but it is a question you’ll be left with after reading. Published in 1997, ‘Pythagoras’ Trousers’ is a cultural and social history of physics—from ancient Greece to the renaissance to now, or at least now twenty years ago—that does attempt to forge links between physics and religion and the barriers this link served up to women. Join us as we discuss the connections between physics and religion, women in science and the barriers they have faced and continue to face. Plus we have a seriously great stack of recommendations just for you.

This podcast first appeared on Pythagoras Trousers episode 144 on December 12th 2013 In this podcast I explore how our noses work through the science of smell. “Follow your nose” “Stop being Nosy” I’m sure there are more phrases withThe post Science of Smell appeared first on Julie Gould » Julie Gould.

This podcast originally appeared on Pythagoras Trousers episode 135 on October 10th 2013 This is a podcast about binaural beats. Binaural beats are created when two ever-so-slightly different frequency tones are listened to in the left and right ear. ForThe post Binaural Beats appeared first on Julie Gould » Julie Gould.

This podcast originally appeared on Pythagoras Trousers episode 128 on June 20th 2013. Ever wondered what’s going on inside your gut? For this podcast I spoke several people, as the amount of research in the field of microbiomes and micrbiotaThe post What’s inside your gut? appeared first on Julie Gould » Julie Gould.

This originally appeared on Pythagoras Trousers episode 123 on May 16th 2013 For this podcast I spoke to Thomas Landrain, the founder of La Paillase, a DIY Biology lab in Paris. I wanted to share this piece on here becauseThe post DIY Biology with Thomas Landrain appeared first on Julie Gould » Julie Gould.

This podcast was originally on Pythagoras Trousers episode 144 on March 14th 2013 Ichthyostega is believed to be the first creature that first moved from the swamps onto land. In order to accomodate the higher levels of gravitational pull, itThe post Ichthyostega appeared first on Julie Gould » Julie Gould.

This podcast originally appeared on Pythagoras Trousers episode 111 on February 21st 2013 This month, I’ve been learning about synthetic biology. With one of the biggest synthetic biology conferences happening at Imperial College in the summer this year, I wantedThe post Synthetic Biology appeared first on Julie Gould » Julie Gould.

This podcast originally appeared on Pythagoras Trousers episode 106 on January 17th 2013 Predicting biodiversity is an interview with Blake Suttle about how we can watch the movements of plants and animals to be able to predict their movement inThe post Predicting Biodiversity appeared first on Julie Gould » Julie Gould.

This podcast originally appeared on Pythagoras Trousers episode 101 on December 13th 2012 This is an interview with Jenny Rhon about her research on Urinary Tract Infections. The majority of people have had a UTI, and have been to theirThe post Urinary Tract Infections appeared first on Julie Gould » Julie Gould.

This podcast originally appeared on Pythagoras Trousers episode 97 on November 15th 2012 This is an interview with PhD student Christopher Emmott about his research on different types of photovoltaic cell. Transcript: On October 22nd, Hurricane Sandy started developing fromThe post Photovoltaic cell appeared first on Julie Gould » Julie Gould.

This podcast originally appeared on Pythagoras Trousers episode 93 on October 18th 2012 Transcript: Many scientists spend their lives trying to uncover how things work. But some things are more difficult to understand than others; one of these is theThe post Anaesthetics and sleep appeared first on Julie Gould » Julie Gould.

This podcast originally appeared on Pythagoras Trousers episode 85 on June 18th 2012 In this report called Schroedinger’s Hat, I interviewed Professor Ulf Leonhart from St. Andrews University about his latest collaborative work on a device that has been dubbed Schroedinger’s Hat. AsThe post Schroedinger’s Hat appeared first on Julie Gould » Julie Gould.

This podcast originally appeared on Pythagoras Trousers episode 81 on May 21st 2012 This is an interview with Dr. Saverio Russo from Exeter University’s Centre for Graphene Science about his work on GraphExeter, a modified form of Graphene. Since 2010, when Dr.The post GraphExeter appeared first on Julie Gould » Julie Gould.

This podcast originally appeared on Pythagoras Trousers episode 73 on March 26th 2012 This is an interview with Dr. Peter Whibberley from the National Physics Laboratory, and went out on March 26th 2012. Earlier on in the year the International Telecommunication Union’sThe post Leap second appeared first on Julie Gould » Julie Gould.

This podcast originally appeared on Pythagoras Trousers episode 68 on February 20th 2012 In this report I interviewed Jessica Smith from the Alzheimers Society to take a closer look at the Whitehall II Study. The study looks at how the brain changesThe post Alzheimers appeared first on Julie Gould » Julie Gould.

This podcast first appeared on Pythagoras Trousers episode 55 on november 21st 2011 This is an interview with Dr. Helen Czerski on the BBC television program 23 Degrees. At the time of the interview the show was still being filmed. TheThe post 23 Degrees appeared first on Julie Gould » Julie Gould.

A shorter version of this podcast first appeared on Pythagoras Trousers episode 50 on October 17th 2011 I did an interview with Professor Ortwin Hess from Imperial College, London because I wanted to learn more about his involvement in the development of magneticThe post Magnetic cloaks appeared first on Julie Gould » Julie Gould.

This podcast originally appeared on Pythagoras Trousers episode 46 on September 19th 2011 This is an interview with Mark Post from Maastricht University in the Netherlands about synthetic meat that he has been developing. This was my first piece for Pythagoras Trousers.The post Synthetic meat appeared first on Julie Gould » Julie Gould.

Melvyn Bragg looks at the deep claims made for mathematics, the discipline some believe to be the soul and true key to the understanding of all life, from the petals on the sunflower to the pulse in our wrists. The notion that mathematics is akin to theology might take some taking in at first. But from the first, in the West, they were. To Pythagoras, numbers were mystical and “prove” God. To Plato, who, it is claimed, has driven mathematics for over two thousand years, the ideals beyond the reality of our lives are to be found in mathematical perfections, immutable truth, God again in numbers. Are mathematics there in the universe, waiting to be discovered as the great ocean lying before Newton - or are they constructs applied by us to the universe and imposed rather than uncovered? It’s a long way from chalky sums on the blackboard and the first careless swing of the compass. Galilei Galileo wrote, “The Universe cannot be read until we have learnt the language and become familiar with the characters in which it was written. It is written in mathematical language, and the letters are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without which means it is humanly impossible to comprehend a single word”. But is he right that mathematics is the script in which the universe was written, or is it really just one of many possible systems that humankind has invented to interpret our world? Is mathematics is a process of invention or a voyage of discovery?With Ian Stewart, Professor of Mathematics and Gresham Professor of Geometry, University of Warwick; Margaret Wertheim, science writer, journalist and author of Pythagoras’ Trousers; John D Barrow, Professor of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge.