From the Vault: The Mind of Douglas Adams, wi...

In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe discuss the saguaro cactus of the Sonoran Desert.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

In this episode of STBYM’s The Monstrefact, Robert discusses the Quasi-Motivational Destruct Organism from Marvel Comics, also known as… Quasimodo.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

In today's world of specialization, Alan Lightman is that rare individual who has accomplished remarkable things in two very different realms. As a physicist with a Ph.D. from Cal Tech, he's taught at Harvard and MIT and advised the United Nations. As a novelist, he's written awa ...  Show more

The discoveries the Simon Donaldson made in the early 1980s about four-dimensional spaces 'stunned the mathematical world', his research adviser Michael Atiyah later recalled. Donaldson was using the physicists' theory of particle interactions to study space itself – with truly r ...  Show more

Graham’s guest in this edition is the membrane pioneer Michael Duff. Soon after the Second String Theory Revolution, which began in 1995, membranes became widely acknowledged to be a crucial part of our understanding of the inner workings of Nature. This is one of a number of int ...  Show more

The work of Douglas Adams - comic genius, futurologist and erstwhile hitchhiker - is the subject of this episode of Backlisted, in particular The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts, first published by Pan Books in 1985. H2G2, as it is known to fans, was ...  Show more