116 Work Harder

Rob and Grant talk about volcanoes, LEGO, and planets around Tau Ceti. There’s also plankton, and image metadata issues, on the ISS.
Links:

Iceland is gonna blow up again. Book train tickets: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-28843968


Herschel observes planets around Tau Ceti: http://astrobites.org/2014/08/18/herschels-view-of-a-neighboring-planetary-system/


Hints of elusive early stars found: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-28885991


NASA wants to crowdsource Earth at images frm the ISS: http://www.citiesatnight.org


New Zooniverse project: http://www.floatingforests.org


The (female) LEGO acaemic have their own Twitter feed now: https://twitter.com/LegoAcademics


Diversity and bigotry in Science Fiction: http://io9.com/star-trek-writers-defense-of-diversity-in-sci-fi-is-dam-1620002206


Bubble my Page: http://www.infocaptor.com/bubble-my-page

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