The folks at the SETI Institute have a podcast called "Are We Alone", to which I contribute a monthly segment called Brains on Vacation. We’re trying to get an idea of audience demographics, so if you ever listen to the show, please take literally one minute of your time and fill out an online survey about it. If you do you’ll be entered to win a SETI mug, which should fit a three-pronged tentacled hand pretty well.
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The original BA site (with the Moon Hoax debunking, movie reviews, and all that) can be found here.
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September 18th, 2009 at 7:39 am
My brain is always on vacation!
September 18th, 2009 at 7:48 am
The Are We Alone podcast is the most intellectual, entertaining podcast of the 15 or so that I listen to. I love it with a passion.
When I tell my friends that SETI has a podcast, they say, “Surely SETI can’t have many results to talk about every week, right?” Ha!
September 18th, 2009 at 7:52 am
Hi all. Interesting listen. One question – Who are the two people featured in this photo, please…
September 18th, 2009 at 8:15 am
That’s Molly Bentley and Seth Shostak. Seth and Molly are the hosts of the podcast.
See http://radio.seti.org/pages/contact_us
September 18th, 2009 at 9:10 am
From another blog; LCROSS and a hollow moon
http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2009/09/17/down-to-earth
From one post: or this link about the hollow moon theory and the fact that we don’t know what impact this collision could have:
http://www.onelight.com/thei/hollowmoon.…
September 18th, 2009 at 9:51 am
XKCD wins again:
http://xkcd.com/638/
September 18th, 2009 at 10:10 am
Byron, you are right, that is a WIN!
September 18th, 2009 at 10:57 am
None of the options in the survey apply to me, which is not surprising in the circumstances. Details follow.
A while ago, you (Phil) linked to an episode, in the post “Are We Lunatics”, which I listened to and thoroughly enjoyed. I resolved that I would listen to some more episodes to see if they are all as good as that, and after (eventually) listening to a few from the archives I reached a conclusion.
My conclusion was that the best episodes are the sceptical specials, i.e. the ones with your segment in them. One reason for this judgement (apart from the fact that they contain your segment) is that the regular episodes seem relatively more focussed on recent developments that will be out of date next week, whereas the sceptical specials seem relatively more focussed on topics that are the same today as they were four years ago (because people never change), and I would rather listen to a podcast about timeless things. Certainly if I’m going to browse archives that is what I would prefer.
I have therefore been listening to the Skeptical Sunday archives in chronological order, starting from the very beginning. As for where I’m up to, the next episode on my queue is that of May 17, 2006. When I have caught up, I will give the regular episodes another go and decide whether I want to listen to them regularly as well.
(By the way, I sent an email not long ago about an unintentional but amusing bit of audio paradolia in an early episode, and got a very nice reply from Molly.)
September 18th, 2009 at 12:34 pm
Too late. Just listened to the latest episode while washing up and went to answer once it was done.
AWA is my favourite too. SGU has its highlights, but it really has a tendency to devolve into inside jokes, giggling and navelgazing. It’s all fine a dandy to get a layman’s view on some subjects, but far too often they just end up making the news more obscure than they really are. When they bother to interview experts instead the show gets really good, but, alas, they can’t seem to dig one up often enough.
September 18th, 2009 at 3:08 pm
Done. AWA is the only podcast I listen to regularly. I’ve tried all the others many times, but I found that none of them’s as witty or illuminating as this one. Having likable hosts who’re pun crazy doesn’t hurt either
September 18th, 2009 at 4:51 pm
Who’s that with Seth? And where’s the BA?