by Grania
Just a heads up that the next episode of The Infinite Monkey Cage is now available.
This was the one with astrophysicist Sean Carroll who needs no introduction on this website, comedian Joe Rogan, Eric Idle (who likewise should need no introduction here) and David X. Cohen (The Simpsons & Futurama).
You can stream or download the mp3 here.
Eric Idle recently recorded a song for TIMC*, but here’s an old favorite of mine.
* Postscript: if you watched Eric’s TIMC song and quirked a quizzical brow at the curious references by Brian Cox & Robin Ince to strawberries and actual monkey cages, the answer is Listener Email. You can listen to that episode here, also hilarious for what it’s worth.
Shrödinger’s strawberries! As goofy as it at first seems, that show made a great point, and one that bothered me as a kid, along with “pets don’t have souls, and can’t go to heaven”. I just assumed all living things had souls, despite what I was told & according to my (attempted) baptist/southern baptist indoctrination, and had trouble accepting when exactly plants die, if they lose their whole souls when parts of them die, what about when you cut down a tree but it grows shoots and suckers…
On a side note, I was sad to learn Katy Brand was a former theological student. I had a bit of a crush on her until then…she’s still funny though.
I think you are being a bit fickle. People make mistakes. It seems she’s recovered though. According to Wikipedia
it was just a little let-down, besides, it’s not like I’d ever meet her, or any of my other celebrity comedy crushes, especially the British ones like her, Miranda Hart, Josie Long, Sara Pascoe…
I was recently (pleasantly) surprised at a Joe Rogan stand-up routine I caught on Comedy Central. Given the sort of shows he’s hosted, I was a bit startled when he launched into a 10-minute routine on how crazy the bigfoot chasers and other wooey folks he has to deal with are. I guess that just goes to show you shouldn’t judge a host by his post-producting editing.
Joe is a fan of Sam Harris and Sam has appeared at least twice for lengthy stays on Joe’s podcasts. It’s Sam at his most casual, so it’s fun to watch.
(I’m a MMA fan and have been into Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, just like Sam. You’d never have guessed from Sam’s demeanor all these years that he’s been a practitioner of martial arts/self-defense for much of his life).
Chicago with PCC is next week.
Looking forward to that!
The link to the Chicago show is here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b062jy94
I’d just like to say to those who like Monty Python humour, it is a continuation of British humour of the absurd that goes back to the nonsense poet Edward Lear, but particularly The Goon Show* on BBC radio during the 50’s.
*The great Spike Milligan, actor Peter Sellers and opera singer Harry Secombe.
Yes, I remember listening to them in reruns on the radio as a child. My favorite character was the naive Bluebottle. You can definitely hear the influence.
If I recall correctly, Monty Python’s chief difference was eventually getting rid of the “punchline” gags as they thought they were often artificially inserted at the end of sketches (e.g. He’s fallen in the water) and just weren’t necessary.
~Grania
Also, Monty Python was on the telly.
Dean Swift called. He wants his priority back, to season a fresh baby fricassee.
I wish David X Coen had brought up one of my favourite Futurama jokes which is definitely sciency.
The pressure given is correct for the depth (actually 152 and a bit).
That depends rather critically on the temperature-depth profile. Even in the shallows (not even 2 km!), you’ll be getting noticeable
deviations from strict linearity between pressure and depth. Because water is compressible, despite what low-pressure armchair engineers frequently tell me to the contrary.