Last Show Until New York – Luck, Chance and Bird Shit
For the first time in its recording history, we have finished recording the final episode of The Infinite Monkey Cage before the first of the series has even been broadcast. Let’s hope all the paradigms of science don’t change in the fortnight before we begin. It would be embarrassing for Brian if the standard model…
Read MoreThe Monkeys Found Themselves in Many States
Tonight’s Monkey Cage recording was about Quantum woo. What is woo? When does woo get quantum? When does quantum get woo? In the afternoon, we sat in the office being frivolous and facetious and and acting tomfools. As sometimes happens in those situations, with much of the tomfool out of our system, the show was…
Read MoreThose Spooky Actions – Getting Quantum Entangled In Language
We are still recording the last few episodes of our UK series before we come to America in March. Tomorrow night is a night of Quantum woo. Have the remarkable discoveries of quantum theory also opened the door for a new language of quackery? I have been immersed in the delightful and the grotesque in…
Read MoreThe quandary of time, variety and space – our night in Hammersmith
On the day, I went through many running orders trying to balance the technical side and balance of art, science and comedy, but this is roughly what I remember of what went on at Hammersmith. Thursday 7.04pm Laser harps and jazz from Steve Pretty and the Origin of Pieces. The laser harp has to be…
Read MoreHeckled by Equations – the perils of being a renaissance fool
During a recent radio interview, I was asked why I did shows about science. What was the point? This wasn’t asked acerbically, just a plain question of “why?” Why, after becoming intrigued by science in my twenties, did I feel that it was a subject for comedy? And why should an idiot like me take…
Read MoreEverything We Learned from the Reddit AMA with Brian Cox and Robin Ince
“There is no shame in not knowing about science, but there is in not wanting to know. “ We learned a little about who they are… How they met…. “We met years ago in a cafe in London where Brian was playing the song of Bon Jovi on a keyboard to entertain diner’s in…
Read More“It Only Adds, It Doesn’t Subtract” – Our Monkey Aims
When I have told people that Professor Brian Cox and I are taking our science show, The Infinite Monkey Cage, to the USA, some have raised their eyebrows and, with a wry smile, said, “well that should be interesting”. Despite being a country of great science communicators, Nobel prize winning scientists, and home of the…
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