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- With Lieven Scheire, Jeroen Baert, Bart Van Peer, Els Aerts, Stephanie Dehennin, Hetty Helsmoortel and special guest Dara Ó Briain
- Recorded in Zoom call on 07/05/2021
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Topics & Timecodes
- Introducing Dara O Briain – 00:00:50
- The story of Phineas Gage – 00:05:00
- Dara took an arrow to the knee – 00:08:46
- Ambulance stories – 00:12:06
- The woman from Fota Wildlife – 00:13:50
- Dara does a podcast tour – 00:15:15
- Musk news – 00:17:47
- Electric cars and Dara – 00:18:48
- Stargazing and Starlink satellites – 00:20:44
- Dara was invited to bid on New Shepard seat – 00:24:17
- Hetty for space – 00:26:09
- Cosmonauts have to watch White Sun of The Desert – 00:29:00
- Blue Origin and the 10 minutes of space – 00:30:30
- Dara went on the Vomit Comet – 00:31:11
- Bart also went on a parabolic flight – 00:33:10
- Let’s talk maths – 00:37:48
- How to make a TV show about video games – 00:43:50
- Good cooperative games – 00:47:20
- Video games are still treated a niche – 00:49:02
- Goodbye and thank you – 00:55:30
Shownotes
- If you don’t know who Dara Ó Briain is: shame on you, but check out his website, twitter, wikipedia page and/or check out some of his best standup on Youtube
- Good interview with Dara about his science education
- Some of our favorites are about science and about videogames
- Latest time he performed in our country was in Antwerp, with the show ‘Brain Tickler’
- The story of Phineas Gage and the spike: Wikipedia
- The unbelievable story of the Belgian “harpoon murder” – Article HLN – Interview Humo (paywall) – Article about sentencing
- Know Your Meme: “I took an arrow to the knee”
- Could have saved a guy from drowining: Phil Collins
- The Fota Wildlife Park in Cork
- Dara tweeted that he had some time before the tv season starts again and could come on podcasts – we immediately jumped!
- MUSK NEWS
- Dara owns a Tesla and a Jaguar I-Pace
- Dara – as a stargazer – doesn’t like the Starlink satellites messing with observations – Article Sciencemag
- Lieven used to watch Irridium Flares – Wikipedia – Youtube
- Dara was invited to bid on the very first seat on Blue Origin’s New Shepard
- #hettyforspace! – Hetty is applying to be an ESA astronaut
- Well known pilots-astronauts: Tim Peake and Chris Hadfield
- Every cosmonaut launching from Russia has to pee against the bus and watch the old-timey movie White Sun of The Desert (it’s on Youtube)
- Dara did a parabolic arc flight – Youtube (excerpt from Stargazing)
- Our very own Bart Van Peer and maker extraordinaire Henk Rijckaert also did one! – Series on Youtube
- MATHS TALK
- Dara talks about the Sylow theorems (24 pages of proof when written down)
- The Golden Ratio is a myth – Article Maths
- Dara’s show about maths: “Dara Ó Briain: School of Hard Sums” – Original format by Takeshi Kitano (see also: Takeshi’s Castle)
- VIDEO GAMES
- See Dara Ó Briain’s Go 8-bit – See clips of it on Youtube – also see Dara’s Buttery Spuds
- Space Team – A Cooperative Shouting Game (similar to Star Trek Bridge Crew)
- Relationship tests: Overcooked and Keep Talking And Nobody Explodes
- Once again, because it’s awesome: Teaching a Robot Dog to Pee Beer
