Posts Tagged ‘Brian Cox’

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…

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Heckled 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…

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