{"id":32869,"date":"2011-03-20T15:43:05","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T15:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/intelligence-squared\/"},"modified":"2011-03-20T15:43:05","modified_gmt":"2011-03-20T15:43:05","slug":"intelligence-squared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/intelligence-squared.php","title":{"rendered":"Intelligence Squared"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is very short notice but I think will be well worth listening to.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Journey Into Outer Space<\/strong> with Brian Cox<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Are we alone in the universe? How will we ever find out?<\/li>\n<li>How did the universe begin?<\/li>\n<li>Will we ever find the mysterious &#8220;God particle&#8221;? What would it mean if we did?<\/li>\n<li>How soon will we all become space tourists?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Just some of the questions to be explored today by a gathering of the world&#8217;s leading scientists and hosted by Brian Cox, BBC presenter and Particle physicist.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speakers include:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Brian Cox<\/strong>, Professor of Particle Physics at the University of Manchester<\/p>\n<p><strong>Richard Holmes<\/strong>, Biographer whose latest book, The Age of Wonder, chronicles the scientists of the Romantic age who laid the foundations of modern science<\/p>\n<p><strong>Colin Pillinger<\/strong>, Planetary scientist best known as leader of the Beagle 2 project, the attempt to land a British built spacecraft on Mars in 2003<\/p>\n<p><strong>Martin Rees<\/strong>, Astronomer Royal<\/p>\n<p><strong>Charles Simonyi<\/strong>. Software architect and spaceflight participant who has twice been aboard the International Space Station<br \/>\nChair<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rick Stroud<\/strong>, Film-maker and author of The Book of the Moon<\/p>\n<p>Want to listen in?\u00a0 The event is going to be live-streamed the stream link and more information can be found on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intelligencesquared.com\/events\/space\">intelligencesquared.com<\/a> site including Facebook and Twitter links.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NOTE: The talk is scheduled to begin at about 18:45 UTC that is 2:45 PM EDT. Be sure to check in a little earlier than that so you don&#8217;t miss anything.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is very short notice but I think will be well worth listening to. &nbsp; A Journey Into Outer Space with Brian Cox Are we alone in the universe? How will we ever find out? How did the universe begin? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/intelligence-squared.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32869"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}