Big Picture Science Show | 5-13-13

 

You can remember yesterday, but not tomorrow. But why? We consider the arrow of time and why its direction was set by the Big Bang. Also, artificial blood cells and life in a deep Antarctic lake.

You’ll hear how Stephen King thinks that humankind is metaphorically living under a big dome, and why we really want to go into space, according to Neil Tyson.

And … skeptical takes on faces in cheese sandwiches and the supposedly special powers of psychics.

All this and more on this special Big Picture Science podcast.

Guests:

• Jeremy Bailenson – Director of the Virtual Human Interaction Lab at Stanford University and co-author ofInfinite Reality: The Hidden Blueprint of Our Virtual Lives
• Sean Carroll – Theoretical physicist at the California Institute of Technology, author of The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World
  
• Helen Amanda Fricker – Glaciologist, Scripps Institution of Oceanography at University of California, San Diego
• Jill Mikucki – Microbiologist at the University of Tennessee
• Jennifer Heldmann – Research scientist at NASA Ames Research Center
• Jonathan Coulton – Singer and songwriter
• Joseph DeSimone – Professor of chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and chemical engineering at North Carolina State University
• Stephen King – Novelist, author of Under the Dome: A Novel
  
• Phil Plait – Astronomer, Skeptic, and author of Slate Magazine’s blog Bad Astronomy
• Benjamin Radford – Deputy editor, Skeptical Inquirermagazine
• Steven Novella – Physician at Yale University, host of the podcast, “Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe”
• Neil deGrasse Tyson – Astrophysicst, American Museum of Natural History, and author of Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier
  
• William Anders – Astronaut on Apollo 8, and photographer of “Earth Rise”
• Jim Underdown – Executive Director, Center for Inquiry, Los Angeles

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