The second podcast I listened to was an interview with David Lemberg here. He has his own radio program called Science and Society, so what we're listening to here is basically a radio interview about a scientist that does radio interviews. Not as interesting as the Wozcast. I'm personally very interested in particale physics and the work that is going on in Switzerland wth the Large Hadron Collider at CERN which is why I decided to listen to this particular podcast. All the excess material about which interviews he likes to do, and who are the most interesting subjects seem like wasted questions...the interesting part is the science of science, not the science of the interview. The LHC at CERN (atom smasher) is a project decades in the making, and the goal is to create a microcosmic reproduction of the bib bang so that theoretical physicists working in the field of string theory can actually test their hypotheses. This is a huge moment in the history of science because it will get us that much closer to understanding the origins of the universe and will allow scientists to finally look for physical evidence and proof of largely abstract theories like string theory.
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