Stephen Hawking moving to Canada?

Apparently Hawking is disgruntled with the current science funding cuts in place in Britain and may leave Cambridge to join the famous Perimeter Institute! If you don't know about the perimeter institute it's a Waterloo-based theoretical physics institution founded/funded by the RIM (of blackberry fame) maverick Mike Lazaridis, and it is known for its collegial atmosphere and high profile members. This is quite a coup. No word yet if he'll be back on the bayblab podcast...

Bayblab podcast Episode9

Finally available in all its glory..an epic two part series.

Part1: Steven Hawking presents... glycolysis and the Warburg effect in cancer and heart attacks, and road density in the United States.

part2: Pharming drugs and the production of interferon in transgenic tobacco plants and opportunities from advances in sequencing technology such as mapping the beer genome...

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Popularity in science

According to google trends, Richard Dawkins has just surpassed Stephen Hawking on the media whore popularity contest. We might just have to dump Stephen for Richard on the bayblab podcast...

Bayblab podcast Episode8

Episode 8 is now available (rss on the right)! It's a special podcast live from space with Stephen Hawking, as we discuss how you can make sperm cells from bone marrow, how plasma gasification may be useful for waste disposal, we expose a cancer quack and much more...Special thanks to Jaime Corinaldi for his most excellent music. MC Hawking better beware of this new scientist on the block. And a guest star appearance by Leigh Miller!

This may be the best one so far, lets see what the critics have to say: "The bayblab is so much better [than Science Friday]. It even has Stephen Hawking. All Ira Flatow can claim is that he’s interrupted people who are talking about Stephen Hawking." Ben Ferguson