Bonus: AI Shakespeare vs. AI Trump, call for Listener Questions
Bonus midweek edition, coming to you as close to LIVE as is humanly possible... Inspired by last week's episode, Seduced By A Robot, I downloaded a neural network and started to play around with it. ...
8 Aug 201715min
Seduced By A Robot
OK Computer, seduce me. What happens when Japanese scientists try to programme an AI to give love advice? Are we going to be able to talk to robots in our lifetimes and have them say anything that ma...
5 Aug 201731min
Unusually Hot: The Radiation Episode
What is radiation, and why won't it give you superpowers? How can we shield future generations from nuclear waste? What's the Oh-My-God particle? And, most crucially of all, how many bananas does it...
29 Jul 201723min
Good Vibrations
Can you really explain a huge chunk of what we know about physics with a single equation? What does this equation look like, and how does it behave? And - most importantly - what happens when a platoo...
22 Jul 201719min
Physics Gets Hot and Heavy II
Physics gets hot and heavy, part two. This episode we'll be looking at what happens to stars after they join the main sequence - one of the most beautiful theories in astrophysics. Neutron stars, blac...
15 Jul 201719min
Physics Gets Hot and Heavy I
Our inaugural episode! Explaining physics, one chat-up line at a time. This episode, I'm going to explain some of my motivations behind creating the show, and then we're going to be looking at how sta...
8 Jul 201723min
Physical Attraction: Trailer
The show that explains physics, one chat-up line at a time. Coming soon to an internet near you.
28 Jun 201758s
