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Episodes

131.1 Steve's PhD Episode 1 - 24 November 2011

Here goes.

Nov 24, 2011

130. Light speed - 17 November 2011

You can't get to where you're going before you leave - not even if you try sometime.

Nov 17, 2011

129. AWAT - FTL neutrinos (or not) - 10 November 2011

A cheap shot at the Gran Sasso results.

Nov 10, 2011

128. Questions from Class 2R - 27 October 2011

Don't stop asking questions.

Oct 27, 2011

127. Why the LHC won't kill you - 13 October 2011

We've got bigger things to worry about.

Oct 13, 2011

126. Don Quijote - 6 October 2011

Tilting at windmills.

Oct 06, 2011

125. Carnival of space #215 - 22 September 2011

So many science blogs, so little time.

Sep 22, 2011

124. Astronomy outreach - 8 September 2011

Cheap Astronomy catches up with the Ordinary Guy from the Brains Matter podcast to talk about saving the world and stuff.

Sep 08, 2011

123. Fobos-Grunt - 3 September 2011

A new Russian interplanetary mission with grunt - that's Fobos-Grunt.

Sep 03, 2011

122. AWAT - Small bangs - 18 August 2011

Not your average gamma ray bursts.

Aug 18, 2011

121. Equivalence - 11 August 2011

Einstein in four dimensions.

Aug 11, 2011

120. More awesome Space Shuttle missions - 14 July 2011

A bit of reminiscing as the last Space Shuttle mission is underway.

Jul 14, 2011

119. The dark side - 30 June 2011

The whole idea of the term 'dark' is that we don't know what we are talking about. So how about we stop sounding like we do?

Jun 30, 2011

118. Wavelengths 2of2 The long and the short of it - 27 June 2011

A quick summary of what can be observed - even though we can only see a tiny bit of it.

Jun 27, 2011

117. Wavelengths 1of2 More than meets the eye - 23 June 2011

If you are convinced that seeing is believing, astronomy may not be the science for you.

Jun 23, 2011

116. AWAT - Dark statistics - 9 June 2011

Could there be even more dark stuff? Well, probably not.

Jun 09, 2011

115. Spot that planet - 2 June 2011

Here's an endeavour to reassure us that we are actually living in the 21st century.

Jun 02, 2011

114. The Moon does not spin on its axis - 19 May 2011

Heresy and controversy on the cheap.

May 19, 2011

113. Private space - 5 May 2011

It's about time we outsourced.

May 05, 2011

112. Our inferred universe - 28 April 2011

Mind you, we are pretty sure it exists.

Apr 28, 2011

111. AWAT - Brown dwarfs are magnetic too - 21 April 2011

It's the little ones you should watch out for.

Apr 21, 2011

110. Testing Einstein - 7 April 2011

It takes astronomy to really test Einstein.

Apr 07, 2011

109. Arms around the galaxy - 17 March 2011

If it wasn't for ice skaters pulling their arms in, astronomers would really struggle with this.

Mar 17, 2011

108. Carnival of space #187 - 10 March 2011

A podcast where other people write the script. Yay.

Mar 10, 2011

107. Situation cloudy - 3 March 2011

You don't always need a telescope to find an astronomical conundrum.

Mar 03, 2011

106. Forbidden planets - 24 February 2011

Exo no no.

Feb 24, 2011

105. AWAT - Time freeze - 17 February 2011

Can you really make time stand still? Nnnnnnn....

Feb 17, 2011

104. Alien biology 2of2 - The case for carbon - 3 February 2011

If we ever meet anything we can shake hands with, it will probably be carbon-based.

Feb 03, 2011

103. Alien biology 1of2 - The case for water - 27 January 2011

Life? Just add water.

Jan 27, 2011

102. Superluminal motion - 20 January 2011

Kind of, sort of, but not really faster than light.

Jan 20, 2011

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