www.fqxi.org/community/podcast
Eagle-eyed visitors to the community homepage may have noticed that we have added a link to the shiny new FQXi podcast, available here:
www.fqxi.org/community/podcast
Two editions are up and available for your perusal (one from March and one from April).
Some items are related to FQXi grant winners: Markus Aspelmeyer talks about his proposed table-top test of quantum gravity, which could allow physicists to probe the Planck scale using current quantum optics technology; and Jeff Tollaksen describes time-symmetric quantum mechanics and the idea that laser experiments have shown the future influencing the past.
Other items you may be familiar with from the blog: If you liked Matt Roberts' review of the physics opera, The Astronaut's Tale, last month, then you'll enjoy the interview with Nancy Rhodes, the director of Encompass New Opera Theatre, who describes how chats with FQXi's Brian Greene, as well as with Ed Witten and Michio Kaku, helped her develop an opera about string theory. The podcast includes audio snippets from one of her operas too. Neuroscientist David Eagleman also talks about "neural relativity," the nature of time as constructed by the brain, and how schizophrenia may be related to a disorder in time perception.
We also have a bit of physics news: Jeroen van den Brink and Krzysztof Wohlfeld talk about how they have split the electron into two quasiparticles -- the spinon and the orbiton.
And, talking to us back in March, Nobel Laureate Frank Wilczek had a bit of a moan about the way the faster-than-light neutrino saga was handled by the media.
So please go ahead and have a listen, and tell us what you think. (There are also forum threads set up where you can discuss individual editions -- have a look at the podcast page for the link.)