Yesterday Mark and I recorded a dialogue for Bloggingheads.tv, which hopefully should appear tomorrow. The Bloggingheads people love science, and they are always looking for suggestions for new participants. In addition to Mark and me, we’ve already had Julianne appear. I can think of two other obvious ideas: JoAnne and John could discuss the LHC, and Daniel and Risa could discuss late-universe cosmology. I’ll get to work on those.
So — any other ideas? Who should BH.tv have on to talk about science? They need not be bloggers, although that’s always nice. They do need to be realistic — Richard Dawkins or Steven Weinberg would be great, but they have other outlets when they want to reach a wide audience. (Although it wouldn’t hurt to ask, I suppose.) Any suggestions?
Phil Plait, if he has time…
Harry Swinney or Mark Raizen, both at UT Austin usually give awesome talks. Not sure if they are interested in blogging though.
I think Phil has been on a few times. 🙂
Mike Brown & Alan Stern
Sara Seager & Greg Laughlin
Random names that popped into my head: Leonard Susskind, Lisa Randall, Paul Davies, Huw Price, Max Tegmark, Francis Everitt, Lawrence Krauss, Frank Wilczek
Brian Angliss at Scholars & Rogues
Lab Lemming has some great suggestions, I’d add Alex Filippenko and Greg Marcy.
Charles Seife, Lee Smolin
Alan Kostelecky on symmetry breaking!
Scott Aaronson
I also think Leonard Susskind would be great on bloggingheads. I enjoyed his book and find him interesting. With lectures on itunes/youtube and a talk on fora.tv he seems willing to dedicate the time.
Peter Coles! But they’d probably have to bleep him out at times…
David Montgomery, geomorphologist, MacArthur fellow, and author of the fantastic “Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations.” I’ve seen him lecture and I think he’d be good on bhtv.
I really enjoyed Paul Bloom when he was on. He’s a psychologist, and he’s doing some fascinating science studying our beliefs and how we form them. EDIT: I went on to the bloggingheads website and found that he was on a recent Science Saturday. I’m a bit wary because he’s debating someone from the templeton foundation, and I’m not sure how well that might fit in with the science. Well, I’m off to go watch it and decide.
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Many good suggestions so far and in addition, Paul Butler, Martin Rees and Malcolm Longair . Have heard all give fantastic talks.
Clifford Johnson, Jacques Distler, David B, Moshe
Brian Cox!
(I should prolly go check he isn’t there already …)