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This episode will be released on June 2nd 2021.
Aoife McLysaght is a Professor in the Molecular Evolution Laboratory of the Smurfit Institute of Genetics at the University of Dublin in Ireland. Her research has been published in world leading science journals such as Nature and Nature Genetics. She is also a promenient figure in science outreach speaking regularly at the Science Gallery in Dublin and the Electric Picnic. She has appeared on The Infinite Monkey Cage numerous times and has been frequently onstage at Shambles events such as Nine Lessons and Carols for Curious People and Brian and Robin's Christmas Compendium of Reason. In 2018 she co-presented the RI Christmas Lectures with Professor Alice Roberts on the topic of evolution.
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Once the meaning of it all was simple, if at times also cruel and/or barbaric. The Universe was made by a god, sometimes omnipotent, sometimes fractious, sometimes both. Now, as we explore the Universe and start to explain ourselves, the Universe has started to lose it single meaning and we have to find individual meanings ourselves. This is Tips for Existence where Robin Ince talks to cosmologists, composers, astronauts and authors about what gives them meaning.
Check out more films, podcasts, live events and more at the home of curious entertainment http://cosmicshambles.com
If you’d like to directly support what we do at the Cosmic Shambles Network visit patreon.com/cosmicshambles
Produced by Trent Burton of Trunkman Productions: http://trunkman.co.uk
Background art by William Marler - wmad.co.uk/
Aoife pic by Natalie Shaw, Robin pic by Steve Best
To listen to Tips for Existence subscribe at patreon.com/cosmicshambles
This episode will be released on June 2nd 2021.
Aoife McLysaght is a Professor in the Molecular Evolution Laboratory of the Smurfit Institute of Genetics at the University of Dublin in Ireland. Her research has been published in world leading science journals such as Nature and Nature Genetics. She is also a promenient figure in science outreach speaking regularly at the Science Gallery in Dublin and the Electric Picnic. She has appeared on The Infinite Monkey Cage numerous times and has been frequently onstage at Shambles events such as Nine Lessons and Carols for Curious People and Brian and Robin's Christmas Compendium of Reason. In 2018 she co-presented the RI Christmas Lectures with Professor Alice Roberts on the topic of evolution.
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Once the meaning of it all was simple, if at times also cruel and/or barbaric. The Universe was made by a god, sometimes omnipotent, sometimes fractious, sometimes both. Now, as we explore the Universe and start to explain ourselves, the Universe has started to lose it single meaning and we have to find individual meanings ourselves. This is Tips for Existence where Robin Ince talks to cosmologists, composers, astronauts and authors about what gives them meaning.
Check out more films, podcasts, live events and more at the home of curious entertainment http://cosmicshambles.com
If you’d like to directly support what we do at the Cosmic Shambles Network visit patreon.com/cosmicshambles
Produced by Trent Burton of Trunkman Productions: http://trunkman.co.uk
Background art by William Marler - wmad.co.uk/
Aoife pic by Natalie Shaw, Robin pic by Steve Best
