UN Reform (2:25) by James O’Malley (ft Sir Jeremy Greenstock)
Twitter Joke Trial Appeal (12:36) by Carl Gardner (ft David Allen Green)
Moon Bases (16:56) by Alex Fitch
Women’s History Month (25:53) by Jessica Metheringham-Owlett
Filibustering (30:41) by Craig Lucas (ft Christopher Chope)
Challenge Sally (38:40) by Tom Williamson (ft Michael Marshall)
Electric Lullaby (47:15) by Sarah Angliss

• David Allen Green interview courtesy of Carl Gardner

Women’s History Month:

• Full Programme
• First Event
• Second Event

Sarah’s Links:

• Spacedog’s Bandcamp page where you can hear the Electric Lullaby in full
• See Sarah at Brighton Science Festival
• See Sarah at QEDCon next month!
• More on Electric Lullaby

CFI Blasphemy Conference (2:04) by James O’Malley & Liz Lutgendorff
(ft Andrew Copson, Austin Dacey and Maryam Namazie)
Welfare Reform (15:17) by Steven Sumpter
UniLad (25:44) by Dean Burnett
Deaths in Custody (34:52) by Georgia Gale Grant
Nuclear Theatre (41:27) by Liz Lutgendorff (ft Nicholas Kent)
The sketch at the end is by David Lovesy & Brian Two

• The Future of Blasphemy by Austin Dacey
• Rally to defend free expression
• Listen to podcasts from the CFI Blasphemy Conference here
• Deaths in custody stats
• The Tricycle goes nuclear
• Liz’s full interview with Nicholas Kent:
  

New Douglas Adams Audio (1:51) by Jon Treadway (ft Stephen Fry, Mark Carwardine and Douglas Adams)
Julian Huppert on LibDem Science Policy (11:56) by James O’Malley & Liz Lutgendorff
Jesus & Mo at the LSE (23:45) by James O’Malley (ft Chris Moos)
Adam Rutherford Interview (31:26) by Liz Lutgendorff
Technological Progress (40:58) by Drew Rae
My Little Brony (50:00) by Salim Fadhley (ft Coder Brony)
The sketch at the end is by David Lovesy and Brian Two

Follow-Up Links

Douglas Adams Links:

• Douglas Adams: The Party at Hammersmith Apollo
• Save The Rhino
• Douglas Adams Animation Competition
• Listen to our Douglas Adams tribute documentary here

Other Links:

• Preparing the Ground: The new LibDem digital policy
• To contribute to Julian Huppert’s LibDem science policy, e-mail: libdemsciencepolicy@gmail.com
• BHA Darwin Day lecture with Adam Rutherford
• Brony Herd Census

SOPA Blackout (2:05) by Georgia Gale Grant
Behind the scenes at the Wikipedia blackout (9:33) by Tom Morris
Figshare (17:58) by Jon Treadway (ft Mark Hahnel)
Teletubbies Scandal (27:36) by Salim Fadhley (ft Dave Thompson)
The Sex Party (39:33) by Chris Huang-Lever
Scotland and Tory England (45:17) by Keir Liddle
A Bugs’ Life (50:16) by Adam Jacobs (ft Matt Shardlow)
Videogames and Morality (60:16) by Trent Burton
The sketch at the end is by David Lovesy and Brian Two

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Follow-Up Links:

• Figshare
• The Sex Life of a Comedian by Dave Thompson
• Dave Thompson’s website
• Chris’s full interview with Fiona Patten:
  
  

Georgia’s SOPA Links:

• Pirates at Sony and Fox
• Khan Academy Explains SOPA
• Reddit’s technical examination of SOPA
• CDT on SOPA
• A day without PZ Myers
• xkcd on SOPA

Adam’s neonicotinoids links:

• Adam’s Interview in full:
  
• The PLoS One paper on neonicotinoids
• The review of neonicotinoids by Kindemba, commissioned by Buglife in 2009
• Cresswell 2010
• Interaction between Nosema infection and neonicotinoids in bees
• Bug Life

Jesus, Mo and UCL (2:13) by James O’Malley (ft Dave, the guy behind Jesus & Mo!)
Spartacus Report (9:36) by Steven Sumpter
Obscenity Trial (21:10) by David Allen Green (ft Myles Jackman and Michael Peacock)
Wind Farms (24:22) by Pete Hague
The LHC is valuable (33:40) by Kash Farooq, Peter Silk & George Hrab
Death Penalty & Assisted Dying (40:44) by Sean Ellis
Christian Nightmares (47:16) by Salim Fadhley (ft Christian Nightmares guy)

Follow-Up Links:

• Jesus and Mo
• Jesus and Mo books
• The Spartacus Report
• Civitas Windfarms Report
• Pete’s Civitas Blog
• Merrill Womach
• “20 minutes to go”

Daily Mail Justice (1:58) by Martin Robbins
Hungary for Constitutional Change (7:45) by Dave Landon Cole
Open Primaries (14:08) by Cory Hazlehurst
Pro-Assisted Dying (22:16) by Jennie Kermode (performed by Melinda Burton)
Anti-Assisted Dying (33:21) by William Lee
The Cost of Physics (40:38) by Adam Jacobs
Apocalypse Soon? (50:06) by Leila Johnston
Just World (60:29) by Dean Burnett
Blogger of the Year (67:02) by David Allen Green

Follow-Up Links:

• William Lee’s Assisted Dying Survey of Doctors
• Review of similar surveys
• Survey of medical students
• Falconer Report
• 2005 House of Lords Report

Congratulations to Tim Ireland as Bloggerheads is our blog of the year 2011!

Obit (0:49) by Dave Cole
Hitch and religion (8:40) by Cory Hazlehurst
Hitch the Historian (15:46) by Rich Godbehere 6:36
Post-9/11 Hitch (23:42) by Mohammed Fahad (read by Alex Foster) 5:36
Regime change? (30:03) by David Eastman 4:14
Twitter Censorship? (35:40) by Dave Cross 6:12
Tweet inserts are by Sean Ellis
Music by Milton Mermikidies

Higgs Update (2:26) by Kash Farooq (ft Jon Butterworth)
Comic Sans (11:50) by James O’Malley (ft Vincent Connare)
BBC Micro (19:05) by Salim Fadhley (ft Steve Furber)
Anti-Vax Folk Fest (26:54) by Andrew Gould
Solar System: From iPad to book (33:40) by Liz Lutgendorff (ft Marcus Chown)
Sesame Street Socialists (42:47) by Tom Hodden
Festival of the Spoken Nerd (47:48) by Liz Lutgendorff (ft Matt Parker, Helen Arney & Steve Mould)
Science Cabaret (55:38) by Dean Burnett
The sketch at the end is by David Lovesy & Brian Two

Help deputy-editor Liz!

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• James’s blog thanking you for supporting Liz
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Follow-Up Links:

• Salim’s interview with Steve Furber in full:
  
• Liz’s interview with Marcus Chown in full:
  
• Buy Marcus Chown’s new book here
• Dean’s full Science Cabaret report:
  

Festival of the Spoken Nerd Tickets

You can buy FOTSN tickets online here.

To get tickets for £10 instead of £12, you’ll have to call the Bloomsbury box office on 020 7388 8822 (or visit in person) and quote “GEEK PARTY” to get the discount. This has to be before December 31st.

Kepler-22b (2:55) by Kash Farooq (ft Robert Simpson)
NHS Data Sharing (13:22) by David Eastman
Virtual Models at H&M (17:41) by Steven Sumpter
Voyager’s Final Frontier (22:30) by Liz Lutgendorff (ft Ed Stone)
Corporate Responsibility (33:06) by Adam Jacobs
Declining Education Standards (39:10) by Peter Rowlett
Tribal Scientist (45:11) by Kylie Sturgess (ft Michael McRae)
Humans Are Amazing (54:44) by Drew Rae
The sketch is by David Lovesy & Brian Two
The Godel Song is by Ben Jones

Help deputy-editor Liz!

• Liz’s CV and contact details – can you help?
• James’s blog thanking you for supporting Liz
• Make a donation to the Pod Delusion
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Follow-Up Links

• Full interview with Ed Stone from NASA on Voyager:
  
• Historical Maths Quotes
• Mathematics at the Transition to University: A Multi-Stage Problem?
• The Tribal Scientist

URGENT: Our deputy editor, Liz Lutgendorff has lost her job. We live together in London and are at risk of losing our home if she is out of work. Can you help? Find details of her skills and qualifications here. Please spread the word.

Canadian Air & Space Museum (1:39) by Liz Lutgendorff (ft Rob Godwin)
Economic Woe (10:59) by Pete Hague
Venus Transit Expedition (19:25) by Kash Farooq (ft Huw James)
Confidence & Class (28:59) by Dean Burnett
Timetravellers (39:22) by Leila Johnston
Christmas Traditions (45:16) by Tom Hodden
The sketch at the end was by David Lovesy, Brian Two and Steve Clark

Follow-Up Links:

• Canadian Air & Space Museum
• Full Interview with Huw James:
  (Coming soon)
• Venus Transit Expedition

Pod Delusion Extra:

• Ada Lovelace Day Live
• Graeme Archer at Westminster Skeptics
• A Walk On Part – Politics and the Arts Debate
• CineSci6: The Science Behind Moon

Various Plugs:

• PubSci Christmas Pub Quiz on Tuesday
• We’re coming to Portsmouth in January!
• We’re coming to QEDCon in March!