Big Picture Science - Found in Space ENCORE If someone asks
where you get off, you can now respond with precision.
Satellites and computers spit out coordinates accurate to a few
paces. And digital maps stand the Copernican principle on its
head – putting you at the center of everything (how does it
feel?). Find out how today’s maps are shuffling our world view.
Also, how does a rat navigate a maze without GPS? Hear of the
plotting that goes on in that tiny rodent brain. Plus, mapping
the universe and pinpointing just where we are in cosmic time –
lucky for us, human evolution is right on schedule. - Josh Winn
– Astronomer, MIT - David Redish – Neuroscientist, University of
Minnesota - Mario Livio – Astrophysicist, Space Telescope
Science Institute and author of Is God a Mathematician? - Mike
Goodchild – Professor of Geography, Center for Spatial Studies,
University of California, Santa Barbara You can listen to this
and other episodes at http://radio.seti.org/, and be sure to
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