Caption: Seth's Garage, Credit: Seth Shostak
Image by: Seth Shostak 
Seth's Garage 

Seth's Garage

From: Big Picture Science
Length: 00:54:03

From our galaxy's big black hole to the genes for milk production, a mélange of surprising subjects. Read the full description.
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Piece Description

 It’s always a surprise to go digging in Seth’s garage – who knows what we’ll find! In this impressive heap of paraphernalia, tucked between boxes of old radio tubes and hydraulic jacks, we stumble upon the secrets to our galaxy’s central black hole… witness the dance of the PhD theses… uncover the genome of milk (while moo-ving boxes) and … hey? Who’s that crunching numbers in the corner? It’s astrophysicist Mario Livio addressing the mathematical mysteries of universe.

Guests:

                  Andrea Ghez – Astronomer at University of California, Los Angeles

                  Kathryn Denning – Professor of Anthropology at York University

                  Mario Livio – Senior Astronomer at the Hubble Space Telescope Science Institute and author of Is God a Mathematician?

                  John Bohannon – Gonzo Scientist and Contributing Correspondent for Science

                  Katrien Kolenberg – Astrophysicist, University of Vienna

                        Danielle Lemay – Nutrition Scientist at the University of California, Davis

Broadcast History

first aired 4/27/09

Additional Files

Additional Credits

Seth Shostak - Host and Producer
Molly Bentley - Co-Host and Executive Producer
Gary Niederhoff - Assistant Producer
Barbara Vance - Production Assistant

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