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StarTalk Radio tackles the physics of football

Are you ready for some football?

August 8, 2012 9:50 pm Published by Admin Comments Off

Football season starts tomorrow night. Well, okay, preseason, if you want to split hairs. Either way, it’s finally time to... View Article

Tweet from NASA's Curiosity Rover when it landed on Mars

Sharing Our Curiosity

August 6, 2012 10:45 pm Published by Admin Comments Off

In the summer of 1969 I was 7 years old. The only thing I remember doing from July 16th to... View Article

Mars Curiosity Rover Landing and Descent Diagram

Where to Watch the Mars Curiosity Rover Landing Online

August 3, 2012 4:12 pm Published by Admin Comments Off

NASA launched the Mars Science Laboratory on Nov. 26, 2011… and now, just days away, it’s about to reach its... View Article

NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover

Mars Rising

August 1, 2012 9:32 pm Published by Admin Comments Off

If you thought the transit of Venus across the Sun was a big deal, then strap yourself in because the... View Article

Janeane Garafolo, co-host of When Science Crashes the Party on StarTalk Radio

Have you heard the most argumentative StarTalk Radio podcast ever?

July 30, 2012 10:07 pm Published by Admin Comments Off

Contentious debates about science funding. Ideological political posturing. Partisan bickering. It may sound like Sunday morning news shows, or any... View Article

Did You Thank Your System Administrator Today?

July 27, 2012 5:53 pm Published by Admin Comments Off

Behind every website, every company’s computer network, every server farm, in fact, behind every “cloud” on the Internet, is a... View Article

Photo of John Hodgman, "An Interview with John Hodgman" on StarTalk Radio, hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson exposes John Hodgman, “PC” in the “Mac vs. PC” ads.

July 25, 2012 4:47 pm Published by Admin Comments Off

Have you ever seen the “Mac vs PC” commercials? Then you know John Hodgman, who plays PC. But he has... View Article

Show Preview: The Science of Video Games with Jeffrey Ryan and Will Wright

July 23, 2012 3:42 pm Published by Admin Comments Off

Did you know that the first video game was Space War, a crowd-sourced game created at MIT in 1961? Video... View Article

Image of astronomical clock from StarTalk Radio episode “Time Lords: The Science of Keeping Time” with Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-host Chris Hardwick

Time-Telling Oysters and Leap Seconds: Neil and the Nerdist Meet the Time Lords

July 20, 2012 8:27 pm Published by Admin Comments Off

When I found out that StarTalk was going to be one of the shows on Chris Hardwick’s new Nerdist Channel... View Article

Head and Brain image from "Are You Out of Your Mind" with Oliver Sacks, Neil deGrasse Tyson

Delving into “Are You Out of Your Mind?”

July 18, 2012 9:40 pm Published by Admin Comments Off

I was a fan of the Robin Williams movie, “Awakenings,” so when I found out that Neil deGrasse Tyson had... View Article