No matter how bad your day has been, how noisy your neighbours are, how petty your boss has been at work, how badly your team are doing in your sport of choice, the Astronomy Cast puts everything in perspective.The Earth is just a speck in an infinite universe and we are just specks on that speck, and there are more amazing and mind-blowing things going on "out there" than our petty squabbles "down here".
In weekly half-hour slices astronomy professor Dr Pamela Gay and publisher Fraser Cain tackle the mysteries of the universe, one enigma at a time. With Fraser as the "everyman" asking the questions and challenging Pamela on any jargon, this educational, entertaining and informative podcast walks the fine line between dull, dry science and frivolous, pop culture, pseudo-science.
Even so, sometimes the math can get a bit overwhelming, but when you are trying to describe the shape of the universe in 30 minutes, it's not suprising! It's probably a doughnut, by the way ... Homer Simpson will be pleased ... mmmmmmm.
And there's already nearly a year's worth of archive material, so you can cherry pick topics that interest you (be they the more 'fringe' subjects, such as "where are all the aliens" and "is time travel possible", or hard science, like asteroids, neutron stars, black holes etc) while you wait patiently for the next, new episode to drop into your podcatching softwear.
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