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The Guardian's Science Weekly: Monitoring climate change in the Antarctic

From: Jason Phipps - Guardian
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We dial up researchers investigating climate change in Antarctica; plus, internet guru Clay Shirky explains his answer to this year's Edge Question Read the full description.
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From the UK, the Guardian's weekly science podcast for those who love their inner-geek.

The full series at guardian.co.uk/scienceweekly

Presented by Alok Jha and produced by Andy Duckworth. 

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We speak to Professor Chris Turney on a satellite phone from Antarctica. He's out there monitoring climate change.

Apparently cosmogenic dating is nothing like internet dating. Glad we cleared that one up.

Follow Chris' expedition on Twitter @ProfChrisTurney.

Robin McKie and Nell Boase are in the studio to discuss this year's Edge Question: What scientific concept would improve everybody's cognitive toolkit?

The founder of edge.org John Brockman tells us how they dreamed up the idea of picking the brains of the world's leading thinkers, and one of the brains, social media expert Clay Shirky, explains his answer to this year's question.

Subscribe for free via iTunes to ensure every episode gets delivered. (Here is the non-iTunes URL feed).

Follow the podcast on our Science Weekly Twitter feed and receive updates on all breaking science news stories from Guardian Science.

Email scienceweeklypodcast@gmail.com.

Guardian Science is now on Facebook. You can also join our Science Weekly Facebook group.

We're always here when you need us, listen back through our archive.

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Piece Description

From the UK, the Guardian's weekly science podcast for those who love their inner-geek.

The full series at guardian.co.uk/scienceweekly

Presented by Alok Jha and produced by Andy Duckworth. 

, , 

We speak to Professor Chris Turney on a satellite phone from Antarctica. He's out there monitoring climate change.

Apparently cosmogenic dating is nothing like internet dating. Glad we cleared that one up.

Follow Chris' expedition on Twitter @ProfChrisTurney.

Robin McKie and Nell Boase are in the studio to discuss this year's Edge Question: What scientific concept would improve everybody's cognitive toolkit?

The founder of edge.org John Brockman tells us how they dreamed up the idea of picking the brains of the world's leading thinkers, and one of the brains, social media expert Clay Shirky, explains his answer to this year's question.

Subscribe for free via iTunes to ensure every episode gets delivered. (Here is the non-iTunes URL feed).

Follow the podcast on our Science Weekly Twitter feed and receive updates on all breaking science news stories from Guardian Science.

Email scienceweeklypodcast@gmail.com.

Guardian Science is now on Facebook. You can also join our Science Weekly Facebook group.

We're always here when you need us, listen back through our archive.

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For those needing to feed their inner-geek - our regular fix of science from the UK. The award-winning Science Weekly podcast from guardian.co.uk

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