It’s almost the end of the year, and that means it’s time for every blogger on the planet to come up with their Top Ten lists. For me, it’s the Top 10 Most Listened To Episodes of 2012. Before we get to the list, though, I want to give you the heads up that some… View Article
We asked you for questions about winter and the holidays, and you came back with some great ones. Less than the over 800 questions you submitted for the Mayan apocalypse and other disasters, but really, how can a jolly fat man with a beard compete with a full-on apocalypse? Naturally, there were questions about how… View Article
Have you seen the episode of StarTalk on the Nerdist Channel where Neil interviews GZA from the Wu-Tang Clan? If not, you can watch it below. I was lucky enough to be at the taping of that interview, and I wanted to share something with you that may not come out in the episode. In… View Article
One of the best things about StarTalk Radio is that, while we’re totally willing to discuss pop culture items like ghosts and Mayan apocalypses and killer meteors and whether Santa could actually visit houses around the world in a single night, we do so from a place of scientific fact, experimentation and indisputable data…. View Article
If you thought the Perseids were great this year, then you’re in for a treat, because the Geminids are coming this week and there’s every reason to hope they’ll be even better. In fact, many predict that it will be the best meteor shower of the year. The Geminids peak on the night of… View Article
If you were disappointed that you couldn’t see StarTalk Live at the Business Insider IGNITION Conference, I have some good news for you. We recorded it. In fact, it’s going to be this Sunday’s Podcast. I just listened to it, and I think you’re going to enjoy it when you get to hear it Sunday… View Article
As a result of our recent survey, we discovered something that we’d like to change. It turns out that we have more men in our audience than women. Considerably more. Now, this came as a bit of a surprise to me (Jeff), at least based on my interactions with our audience on Facebook, Twitter, Google+,… View Article
When Curiosity landed on Mars, it took the news 14 minutes to reach us because of the speed of radio waves and the distance Mars was from Earth at that moment. Back on May 3, 2012 I asked our audience to give us their questions for Alan Rickman, who Neil deGrasse Tyson interviewed for StarTalk… View Article
Warning: This post is going to be an effusive outpouring of geeky goodness. That’s because I just got to listen to this Sunday’s new episode, “The Best of Both Worlds”, where Neil deGrasse Tyson interviews Star Trek: The Next Generation stars LeVar Burton and Brent Spiner from the floor of San Diego Comic-Con 2012. It doesn’t… View Article
I’m lousy at remembering to wish people happy birthday. Even in the days of Facebook-assisted memory, I still forget birthdays. And now it seems that I’m not just lousy at remembering friends’ birthdays… I’m lousy at remembering the birthdays of guests on our show. November 13th was Whoopi Goldberg’s birthday, and I missed it. I… View Article
Is anyone else having a sense of déjà vu when watching StarTalk on The Nerdist Channel? Of course, it’s not déjà vu. As I watch the episodes, I’m not getting a phantom feeling that I’ve experienced it before, because I actually did experience it before. And if you’ve heard the podcast prior to seeing the… View Article
“Bosons like to party!” –Kyle Cranmer “I am so old I remember when there was no such thing as coherent light.” –Bill Nye “Answer me truthfully. Are you making mini black holes at CERN?” –Neil deGrasse Tyson “Are you moving so quick now that it seems like time has stopped?” –Eugene Mirman Some of our… View Article
