120 The Planck Results Are Out

Rob and Chris talk about today’s Planck results and their impact
on BICEP2’s measurement of cosmic inflation. There’s also a new
orbiter around Mars, the Ig Nobles, and a way to spy on penguins…
for science.


Links:




Penguin Watch: http://www.penguinwatch.org




Planck vs BICEP2: http://arxiv.org/abs/1409.5738




The Ig Nobles
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/sep/19/ig-nobel-prize-british-researchers-win




Boarding aeroplanes faster/better:
http://flightclub.jalopnik.com/mythbusters-proves-most-airlines-board-planes-all-wrong-1636981904/+laurendavis




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Credits:


Audio content Copyright 2011-2014 Chris Lintott and Robert
Simpson. Many thanks to Oxford Press Office for recording space.
Podcast Image of lightbulb courtesy of Flickr user bazik
(http://www.flickr.com/photos/bazik/395792175/).