Rob tries to cheer Chris up from a day of meetings with talk of cuddly molecules and pocket-sized ancient mechanisms. Other topics include ideas on space travel from the 18th Century, trolleyology and the now infamous FTL neutrinos.
The first ever issue of Scientific American; should Chris not cook nice food?; new Voorwerpjes data; asteroid hits and Rob being asked unanswerable questions.
Chris Lintott and Robert Simpson talk about FTL neutrinos (yet again), The Royal Society's online archive, asteroid Lutetia, Gamma ray bursts and Voorwerpies.
Chris Lintott and Robert Simpson talk about faster-than-light neutrinos (again), renaming the VLA, Virgin Galactic, planet formation, quadruple rainbows and how not to name your papers.
Chris Lintott and Robert Simpson talk about how astronomers are hunting for all sorts of things, why the JWST may not be saved, why things that are far away are also small and why stars may not form as we thought.
Podcast 2 (15.83mb, Mp3) Chris Lintott and Robert Simpson use talk about The 2011 Astrophotographer of the Year competition, exoplanets (made of diamond or not), faith healing, asteroids and other bits and bobs.