Kanarien en el exilio

Highlights include:

    Ira Flatow greeting Neil deGrasse Tyson with a fist bump.

    Richard Dawkins being Richard Dawkins

    Bill Nye being Bill Nye

    Starry Night

    The importance of educating women in science

    Neil deGrasse Tyson flipping out at Lawrence Krauss and Brian Greene about the motivations behind big-budget science

    Tyson and Krauss bickering about pretty much anything (there’s a lot the two don’t see eye to eye on)

    When you should and shouldn’t respect other people’s opinion

    The role of science-/speculative fiction in communicating and understanding science (Dawkins, for one, claims he came to understand information theory through SF. Bill Nye thinks contemporary scifi cifi could stand to return to its days of intense optimism, as characterized by Star Trek.)

Why Your Brain Loves That New Song

When jazz legend John Coltrane first heard Charlie Parker play the saxophone, the music hit him “right between the eyes,” he once said. According to neuroscientists, Coltrane was exactly right. When we hear music that we like, even for the first time, a part of the brain’s reward system is activated, a new study has shown. The region, called the nucleus accumbens, determines how much we value the song—even predicting how much a person is willing to pay for the new track.

Gran Graffiti de Kim-Jong Un, encontrado en Smithfield, Londres