Brains Matter

Part 1 of an introduction and setup to understanding Regge Calculus - a mathematics that is used to describe space-time.
Dr Gentle’s web page is at: http://www.usi.edu/science/math/apgentle/ and his papers can be found at arxiv.org
Wikipedia link on Regge calculus:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regge_Calculus
The next episode will go into the detail of Regge Calculus.
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A brief introduction to physicist Max Planck, the Brain Teaser, Pin of the Episode, and some listener feedback.
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Sun not responsible for recent warming
Study of climate sceptics
The Great Global Warming Swindle
Hack interview with David Karoly
Some say that the ABC shouldnt be airing it. Others say it’s truth. Hack caught up with David Karoly, a scientist who appears in the debate airing after the documentary

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Sun not responsible for recent warming
Study of climate sceptics
The Great Global Warming Swindle
Hack interview with David Karoly
Some say that the ABC shouldnt be airing it. Others say it’s truth. Hack caught up with David Karoly, a scientist who appears in the debate airing after the documentary

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Today I talk with Dr Adrian Gentle, formerly of the Los Alamos National Laboratories, and currently at the University of Southern Indiana, on Einstein’s General Relativity. I would advise you to listen to last week’s episode on Special Relativity as a precursor to this show.
Dr Gentle’s web page is at: http://www.usi.edu/science/math/apgentle/ and his [...]

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The Australian Broadcasting Corporation is showing the mockumentary, masquerading as a documentary, called “The Great Global Warming Swindle”. Unfortunately, it’s being pitched as a documentary, and those who do not have an understanding of science, climatology, or plain logic, may be fooled into believing it.
There have been many deconstructions of it, and it includes [...]

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Mercury probe swings by Venus (Discovery channel)
Future universe will ’stop expanding’ (National Geographic)
Lava microbes lived on early earth (Discovery channel)
Meditator’s brains seem alert (ABC Australia science news)
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