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What is consciousness? Professor Brian Cox and an expert panel explore the elusive science of consciousness – what it is, how it arises, whether it can be observed in the brain, and the most compelling theories explaining i...

Entertaining and wide-ranging panel discussion on consciousness at the @crick.ac.uk hosted by @profbriancox.bsky.social and featuring me, @anilseth.bsky.social @kathaschmack.bsky.social and @cosmicskeptic.bsky.social

Check it out, let us know what you think!

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Loeb’s 3I/ATLAS “Anomalies” Explained Avi Loeb continues to claim that 3I/ATLAS has many anomalous behaviors that lead to the conclusion that it “might” be an alien spacecraft.  He carefully hedges the probability that it is a spacecraft ...

I've summarized the truth about Loeb's 10 "anomalies" about 3I/ATLAS in one post.

Thanks to @deschscoveries.bsky.social @michael-w-busch.bsky.social @cometary.org and @marshall-eubanks.bsky.social for contributing their expertise!

Who Owns Space? Professor Brian Cox and an expert panel tackle the technology, politics and ethics of space exploration.   From space tourism to the search for life on Mars, space is a rapidly expanding, multi-trill...

Hey space fans! The podcast I recorded with @profbriancox.bsky.social and other fab folks is out now! www.lnk.to/AQOSSpacePA

It’s all about who owns space - increasingly important as we rely on it for so much of our communication.

Bonus photos here too: crick.chorus.thirdlight.com/link/5r04kyg...

Yes! You must have recorded it on a TDK AD-C90 or something!

This was a great gig - if I remember right, Scott Gorham played the encore with us - Don’t Believe a Word and The Boys Are Back In Town.

This was great fun to record and challenging and fascinating, but honestly I still don’t know what conscious is - beyond an emergent property of a network - and I’m not even sure @anilseth.bsky.social agrees with that :-)

Those were the days …. brains in buckets ….

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Yes indeed - 20 years ago …. I don’t think we’ve changed much :-)

I think we should go for both - sort of like the 12 days of Christmas. A 2 week-long Feast of Astronomy.

Huge congratulations - I agree that completing a PhD is both tremendously difficult and tremendously rewarding.

It does doesn’t it! Total bollocks.

:-)

I could not agree more. I think most people vote optimistically - for the party they believe will offer a better future. Aiming for competence is not a compelling vision, although admittedly at the last election it was sufficient given the circumstances!

In person tickets are full, but online viewers still very welcome for tomorrow's Gresham lecture.

Brexit makes no sense in a world dominated by Trump. Britain’s place is back in the EU | Jonathan Freedland From defence to trade, the incoming US president is upending the old order – and standing apart from our neighbours leaves us dangerously exposed, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

🚨🚨 "Brexit makes no sense in a world dominated by Trump. Britain’s place is back in the EU". Great column by @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social on #brexit and the election of Donald Trump which I think has been widely misconstrued in some quarters. /1 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I don’t agree. I can’t see the big picture - what is the U.K’s place in the world? Are we to regain our place in Europe or attempt to be a lower-tax, deregulated country which is more US facing? The big strategic questions can’t be dodged much longer.

It’s called Titanic.

Yes. I’m pretty fed up with ‘red lines’.

I still agree with myself - I think that was 2014!

I would add that Labour’s relaunch reads as a list of policies they would like to enact if the plan works. But I don’t see a plan. In 2025 (in my view) they will have to either set the country on trajectory to rejoin SM and CU or align more closely with US. Rudderless mid-Atlantic is unsustainable.

Every dumb thought I have ever had about Christmas songs Ho ho bleedin’ ho.

"Chris Rea is from Middlesbrough. This means that Driving Home For Christmas is essentially a song about being stuck in a traffic jam on the A1(M)."

Anyway, it's December, and you know what that means.

It is the same, yes. Which leads to the twins paradox. The resolution is the symmetry between the clocks is broken when one accelerates (changes direction) to return and meet the other. If you google it, note that the AI summary is wrong. You don’t need General Relativity to deal with the problem.

Everyone has to have the same protection going down there whether they are mining or not - so I suppose it’s to do with mining!

It’s a very impressive operation. The first time I went down was in the late ‘90s. Maybe he was as manager then?

Spent the day at Boulby Underground Lab near Whitby - 1.1km underground. Dark matter searches, neutrino physics, very low cosmic ray and background radiation suitable for (amongst many other things) quantum computing. It’s a pretty unique facility and the mine is remarkable - over 100km of tunnels!

I finally started watching The Last of Us (I know I’m very late) and now I’m paranoid about getting athletes foot.

This is really good
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Greenfield originally. I used to live in Lydgate.

My family are from Saddleworth which really should be thought of as the West Riding of Yorkshire. Although I was born in Oldham and that is certainly Lancashire.