By Grania Spingies

Brian Cox is Stateside at the moment, and was on The Conan Show promoting the US run of BBC 4’s The Infinite Monkey Cage, the science podcast brainchild of Robin Ince and Brian Cox that cannot be praised highly enough (it’s funny, it’s got science in and a whole lot of smart people who are passionate about their subject – what more could you possibly want?) and one which  our congenial host will be a guest on when the show reaches Chicago.

You can watch bits of the chat with Conan here.

Of course, the really important part of the discussion is Deepak Chopra’s glasses. Are they diamonds? Are they rhinestones? Will we ever really know?

Of course, it doesn’t matter because as we all know the definition of a Real Scientist is whether they take Dr Chopra seriously or not, so Brian Cox and his Ph.D. in high energy particle physics are disqualified straight out the gate.

h/t: Ant