The Global Lab: Recent Episodes
The Global Lab
The Global Lab is a podcast about cities, global connectivity and the impact of technology produced by the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (UCL-CASA). Founded by Martin Zaltz Austwick and Steven Gray with a UCL Beacon Bursary grant.
Faced with more and more unfamiliar hazards, planners and governments want to know whether their preparations are sufficient. Citizens are increasingly asking the same questions.
We hear from Dr Hitomi Nakanishi (University of Canberra) and Dr Sarah Wise (UCL CASA) on how new kinds of simulation can be used to help people understand evacuation, and how different approaches to crisis management might produce different outcomes.
We also hear from Rangga Wargadalam, a PhD student at the University of Canberra who also works for Indonesia's National Development Planning Ministry, on the future use of simulations as an analysis tool by government agencies, and how it can be used to help develop more data-driven planning policies. ___
GUESTS:
Dr Hitomi Nakanishi: https://researchprofiles.canberra.edu.au/en/persons/hitomi-nakanishi https://twitter.com/hitominakanishi (twitter)
Dr Sarah Wise: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/casa/dr-sarah-wise twitter.com/ComplexityWise (twitter)
Rangga Wargadalam: (National Planning Ministry, Indonesia & PhD Student, University of Canberra) ___
GLOBAL LAB TEAM:
Presenter & Interviewer: Dr Thomas Oléron-Evans https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/casa/people/dr-thomas-oleron-evans twitter.com/Mathistopheles (twitter) www.mathistopheles.co.uk (personal website)
Presenter & Editor: Dr Leah Lovett https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/casa/people/leah-lovett twitter.com/leahlovett (twitter) http://www.leahlovett.co.uk (personal website)
Our theme for this episode is “Seeing Cities”. We hear about two very different ways of looking at a city, making connections across space and time, and allowing us to understand the urban environment and its history in new and unexpected ways.
We visited Queen Mary University to talk to two art historians whose work is bound up with these issues.
We hear from Hannah Williams, on how digital mapping has allowed her to unearth surprising patterns in the art world of eighteenth century Paris (www.artistsinparis.org), and from Emilie Oléron Evans, on the unique perspective that the art and architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner brought to the buildings of England.
Links related to each of our guests may be found below.
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GUESTS:
Hannah Williams: twitter.com/DrHanWill (twitter) www.hannahwilliams.me.uk (website) www.artistsinparis.org (Artists in Paris)
Emilie Oléron Evans: twitter.com/bringyourownsun (twitter) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nikolaus-Pevsner-arpenteur-arts-britannique/dp/2354570880/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Nikolaus+Pevsner%2C+arpenteur+des+arts&qid=1571395200&s=books&sr=1-1 (book on Pevsner)
tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13602365.2014.930755 (A. Hultzsch article on Pevsner, mentioned in interview)
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GLOBAL LAB TEAM:
Interviewer: Duncan Hay twitter.com/walled_city (twitter)
Presenter: Sarah Wise twitter.com/ComplexityWise (twitter)
Editing: Thomas Oléron-Evans: twitter.com/Mathistopheles (twitter) www.mathistopheles.co.uk (personal website)
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IMAGES:
Louvre - commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Benh - Creative Commons Barbican Estate - commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Colin - Creative Commons
In February and March, many Universities across the United Kingdom were affected by the largest wave of industrial action to hit the sector for many years. For this episode of the Global Lab, we spoke to Tony Brown and Sean Wallis from UCL's University and College Union branch about why the strikes took place.
To give you a sense of what it felt like to be out on the streets during the dispute, we conducted interviews on the picket line and made binaural audio recordings of the two marches that took place in central London during the strikes.
Binaural recordings are recorded using two microphones to create the illusion of a 3D soundscape. Best listened to on headphones…
Produced by Valerio Signorelli and Duncan Hay
As part of a new strand for the Global Lab, this month's podcast features a roundtable discussion with researchers from CASA about the relationship between Science Fiction and technology.
The short story discussed in this episode, "The Gernsbach Continuum" by William Gibson, is available to read here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20070217183337/http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/it/1988/1/1988_1_34.shtml
Produced by Bonnie Buyuklieva, Thomas Oléron Evans, Duncan Hay, and Sarah Wise.
We spot some of the biggies hidden right before our eyes. Featuring Tim Causer, Max Colson, and Alex Mankoo.
Produced by Martin Zaltz Austwick, Hannah Sender, and Oliver Marsh.
Visit http://thegloballab.com or follow us on twitter @thegloballab.
We look at visions of future domestic bliss through the eyes of engineers, researchers, and historians. Peter Childs talks internet of fridges, Kaisa Puustinen helps us discover our emotional side, and Michael Hebbert sees the future through the eyes of the past. ___
Produced by Martin Zaltz Austwick, Hannah Sender, and Duncan Hay.
Our theme for this episode is "pinning it down", the importance of labelling, classification and definitions in the fields of cities research, mapping and technology, with a literary sidestep into the eighteenth century for good measure.
Our guests are Giles Rhys Jones, CMO of the innovative new mapping website what3words.com, Sophie Coulombeau, a specialist in eighteenth century literature who tells us about why botanical classification was once considered dangerously sexual, and Elsa Arcaute, a physicist here at CASA, who has been working on the surprising difficult task of how you actually define a city.
Links related to each of our guests may be found below.
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GUESTS:
Giles Rhys Jones: https://twitter.com/gilesrhysjones (twitter) http://what3words.com (What3Words)
Sophie Coulombeau: https://twitter.com/SMCoulombeau (twitter) https://sophiecoulombeau.wordpress.com (blog)
Elsa Arcaute: https://twitter.com/ElsaArcaute (twitter)
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PRESENTERS:
Mike Fell: https://twitter.com/mikefsway (twitter)
Kaisa Puustinen: https://twitter.com/kaisaph (twitter)
Thomas Oléron Evans: https://twitter.com/Mathistopheles (twitter) http://www.mathistopheles.co.uk/ (personal website)
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Image: Yellow push pin - Slashme - Creative Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yellow_push_pin.jpg)
In this March episode of Global Lab, we take a look at two major events celebrated on 8 March: International Women’s Day and the 99th anniversary of the February Revolution in Russia. We have been inspired by the events of the February Revolution in Russia - when women took to the streets in protest for - and have, with the help of our interviewees, explored how women have reclaimed the urban streets and created, or are creating, change. Oliver Marsh speaks to Dr Philippa Hetherington (https://twitter.com/philippahether), Lecturer in Modern Eurasian History at UCL about the role women played in the February Revolution. Duncan Hay speaks to Professor Jane Rendell (http://www.janerendell.co.uk/) about feminism in city writing, and Hannah Sender interviews Dr Larissa Romualdo Suzuki (http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/l.romualdo/) about women designing smart cities.
The show was put together by Hannah Sender from UCL Institute for Global Prosperity (https://twitter.com/glo_pro?lang=en-gb), with help from Oliver Marsh (https://twitter.com/SidewaysScience) and Duncan Hay.
Bees, urban gardening in skips and the carbon footprint of a Valentine's Day feature in the 'Other side of St Valentine'. YouTube wildlife presenter Maddie Moate (twitter.com/maddiemoate) tells us about her passion for bees (see https://www.youtube.com/user/maddiemoate), Julia King (twitter.com/atjuliaking) talks to us about a mobile garden project in Central London, and Anna Ploszajski gives us a rundown of the environmental impact of a thoroughly celebrated Valentine's Day.
The show was put together by Kaisa Puustinen twitter.com/kaisaph with Oliver Marsh twitter.com/SidewaysScience and Anna Ploszajski twitter.com/AnnaPloszajski .
We’re slap bang in the middle of panto season, so this month The Global Lab becomes The Global Stage, looking at the connections between our usual themes of cities, space and global networks and the world of the theatre.
Treading the boards with us in this episode, we have playwright and academic, Dan Rebellato, telling us how the rising tide of globalisation has affected the theatre, live artist Anna Brownsted, who talks to Hannah Sender about her immersive site-specific performances, and theatre producer and broadcaster Nick Hennegan, who invites us to tour the historic drinking establishments of Bloomsbury and Soho on the London Literary Pub Crawl.
Links related to each of our guests may be found below, where you can buy Dan Rebellato's book 'Theatre & Globalization', find out the latest information on Anna Brownsted's live art installations, or book a place on Nick Hennegan's London Literary Pub Crawls.
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GUESTS:
Dan Rebellato: https://twitter.com/DanRebellato (twitter) http://www.danrebellato.co.uk (personal website) http://www.amazon.co.uk/Theatre-Globalization-Mark-Ravenhill/dp/023021830X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1450191861&sr=1-1&keywords=theatre+%26+globalization (Theatre & Globalization)
Anna Brownsted: http://www.annabrownsted.com/anna-brownsted.php (personal website)
Nick Hennegan: https://twitter.com/NHennegan (twitter) http://londonliterarypubcrawl.com (London Literary Pub Crawls) http://www.maverick-theatre.co.uk/ (Maverick Theatre)
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PRESENTERS:
Hannah Sender: https://twitter.com/HannahSender (twitter)
Thomas Oléron Evans: https://twitter.com/Mathistopheles (twitter) http://www.mathistopheles.co.uk/ (personal website)
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Image: King's Theatre, Brooklyn - Alexandra Silversmith - Creative Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kings_Theatre_Interior.JPG)
Mud, mud, glorious mud - and glorious dust, smells and mould too - feature in Dirty City. Kate McLean (http://twitter.com/katemclean) tells us about Smell Maps of cities (which you can see at http://sensorymaps.com), Jay Owens (http://twitter.com/hautepop) explores the social history of dust, and Anna Mavrogianni talks about the dirty dangers lurking within and without our homes.
The show was put together by Kaisa Puustinen twitter.com/kaisaph with Hannah Sender twitter.com/HannahSender and Martin Zaltz Austwick twitter.com/sociablephysics .
Our guests today sift the wheat from the chaff, the signal from the noise. Featuring Ian Rawes from the London Sound Survey http://www.soundsurvey.org.uk , Andy Linehan and James Tugwell from the British Library Sound Archive http://www.bl.uk/subjects/sound and Merijn Royaards from the Bartlett School of Architecture at UCL http://bit.ly/1NXuXzX .
The show was put together by Kaisa Puustinen https://twitter.com/kaisaph with Hannah Sender https://twitter.com/HannahSender and Martin Zaltz Austwick https://twitter.com/sociablephysics .
The Death of Distance arrives in the present day with Jen Kavanagh (@_jen_kavanagh) destroying distance between curators and audiences at the Science Museum, Xinyuan Wang (@amberwanguk)discovering the way that Chinese migrant workers use social media, and Nick Attree (@nick_attree) exploring space from the (relative) comfort of East London.
The show was put together by Oli Marsh (@sidewaysScience) with Hannah Sender(@HannahSender), Mike Fell (@mikefsway), Thomas Oleron Evans (@mathistopheles) and Martin Zaltz Austwick (@sociablePhysics).
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
Rumours of the death of distance have been greatly exaggerated since 1515. Chiara Ambrosio talks Clara the Rhino, Catherine Beck tells us about the perils of a Patron on the High Seas, and Javier Sajuria (@jsajuria) explores 21st century online political communities.
The show was put together by Oli Marsh (@sidewaysScience) with Misha Ewen (@MishaEwen) and Martin Zaltz Austwick (@sociablePhysics).
This month, we count heads with our experts - Carl Cullinane from Democratic Audit at LSE, Cecilia Lantana Briones (also from the LSE) and Duncan Smith from closer to home at CASA.
Carl Cullinane can be found on Twitter at @CullinaneCarl. Read the Democratic Audit blog at www.democraticaudit.com, and check out Democratic Dashboard at http://democraticdashboard.com.
This month was led by Thomas Oleron Evans (@mathistopheles), Oliver Marsh (@sidewaysScience) and Martin Zaltz Austwick (@sociablephysics)
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IMAGE: Bondegezou, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Polling_station_sign_Hamsptead_Heath_2015.jpg (Creative Commons)
We explore The Third Age of humankind and of the internet, with the help of Yvonne Rogers, Russell Hitchings and Martin DeJode.
This month's episode was produced by Mike Fell (@mikefsway), Charlotte Johnson (@charloJohnson) and Oliver Marsh (@SidewaysScience), and presented by Martin Zaltz Austwick (@sociablePhysics).
This episode we go out in the field with Daniel Raven-Ellison telling us about http://GreaterLondonNationalPark.org.uk, Matt Pennells talks about his work for http://mapaction.org, and Anna Ploszajski talks about taking the hydrogen economy to the UK's favourite music festival (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucell/people/anna_ploszajski).
Hosted by Martin Zaltz Austwick (@sociablephysics) with help from Thomas Oléron Evans (@Mathistopheles) and Rob Levy (@aid_complexity).
In this episode, we look at love - from the point of view of a mathematician trying to figure out their love life, a film-maker exploring the way the state exploits love, and an energy expert researching how family ties can influence climate change. Martin Zaltz Austwick hosts and chats to mathematician Hannah Fry (who talks more about her new book on the Mathematics of Love here http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/feb/01/looking-love-wrong-equations-mathematics-sexual-partners), Charlotte Johnson speaks to director Lizzie Gillett (director of http://spannerfilms.net/undercovers) and Mike Fell interviews Jenny Love (http://www.element-energy.co.uk/2014/04/two-new-recruits-join-element-energys-cambridge-office/).
This episode, we look at Crossing Borders - with Rob Levy from CASA, anthropologist Tomoko Hayakawa, and Sadie Boniface from Epidemiology and Public Health. Produced by Martin Zaltz Austwick with interviews by Charlotte Johnson and Carina Schneider.
We explore disobedient cities with Marie Curie Fellow Shlomit Flint and her investigations into Whitechapel, University of Essex Lecturer Gavin Grindon and the Disobedient Objects exhibition at the V&A museum, and CASA PhD student Flora Roumpani's adventures with drones. Hosted by Martin Zaltz Austwick.
In this themed episode of Global Lab, neurogeographer Panos Mavros talks panic on the streets of London, James Kneale explains HP Lovecraft's fear of cities, and Thomas Oleron Evans chats to mathematician Peter Baudains about the mathematics of terror. Hosted by Martin Zaltz Austwick.
Physicist Damien George talks about visualising the cosmic microwave background(http://thecmb.org/) and the arxiv, Physics' open source behemoth (http://paperscape.org).
Damien George is a theoretical physicist at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences at Cambridge University.
You can get in contact with the podcast via our email address: thegloballab@gmail.com or if you prefer twitter, @thegloballab. Alternatively, visit our website www.thegloballab.com/ for news, views and all that jazz, or tweet one of our friendly presenters (below).
This week's host is Martin Zaltz Austwick, lecturer at CASA and course director on the MRes in Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualisation - you can tweet him @sociablePhysics.
Archaeologist Paul Wordsworth talks to Thomas Oléron Evans about how he uses spatial technology, including geographic information systems (GIS), on expeditions in Central Asia.
Paul Wordsworth is a research officer in the Oriental Institute at the University of Oxford. He is currently working on the Balkh Art and Cultural Heritage Project, studying the ancient city of Balkh in northern Afghanistan (http://balkhheritage.org).
He has also worked on the Karakum Routes Survey, part of the Ancient Merv Project (University College London), plotting ancient routes across the Karakum desert in Turkmenistan (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/merv/our_research/routes_medieval).
Find more details about his work at www.orinst.ox.ac.uk/staff/iw/pwordsworth.html or follow him on Twitter @PDWordsworth.
You can get in contact with the podcast via our email address: thegloballab@gmail.com or if you prefer twitter, @thegloballab. Alternatively, visit our website www.thegloballab.com/ for news, views and all that jazz, or tweet one of our friendly presenters (below).
This week's host is Thomas Oléron Evans, doctoral researcher in mathematics at UCL, former secondary teacher and amateur writer. Follow him on Twitter @mathistopheles.
Johanna Kieniewicz talks about her curation of the current Beautiful Science Exhibition at the British Library.
Johanna Kieniewicz works on the BL Science team, and is @johannaKz on twitter. The Beautiful Science science exhibition runs at the British Library in London until May 26th.
You can get in contact with the podcast via our email address: thegloballab@gmail.com or if you prefer twitter, @thegloballab. Alternatively, visit our website www.thegloballab.com/ for news, views and all that jazz, or tweet one of our friendly presenters (below).
This week's host is Martin Zaltz Austwick, an EPSRC Public Engagement Fellow and Course Director of the MRes in Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualisation at CASA. You can chat to him on twitter @sociablePhysics.
Ed Manley, from CASA, UCL, talks to Thomas Oléron Evans about his work modelling the way that people choose their routes for moving from place to place in a city.
Ed Manley is a research associate at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) at UCL. He specialises in the application of computational techniques to urban systems and works on the MECHANICITY project, investigating the movement of individuals on the London Underground. Read his blog at www.urbanmovements.co.uk or follow him on Twitter @edthink.
You can get in contact with the podcast via our email address: thegloballab@gmail.com or if you prefer twitter, @thegloballab. Alternatively, visit our website http://www.thegloballab.com/ for news, views and all that jazz, or tweet one of our friendly presenters (below).
This week's host is Thomas Oléron Evans, doctoral researcher in mathematics at UCL, former secondary teacher and amateur writer. Follow him on Twitter @mathistopheles.
This episode, James Kneale from UCL Geography tells us about the festive curse: alcohol. We find out whether cities lead to alcoholism, what the gin craze was, and learn about Britain's own peculiar form of prohibition.
James Kneale is Senior Lecturer in UCL Geography; you can tweet him at @ jameskneale or find more about his work in literary geography at http://literarygeographies.wordpress.com/
You can get in contact with the podcast via our email address: thegloballab@gmail.com or if you prefer twitter, @ thegloballab.
This week's host is Martin Zaltz Austwick, who lectures at CASA in UCL, is course director of the MRes in Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualisation, and an EPSRC Public Engagement Fellow.
Thomas Oléron Evans is a PhD student at CASA, doing a PhD in the Maths department, on the CASA based ENFOLD-ing project.
Thomas works on the mathematical features of agent-based models, stripped back to the foundations. You can tweet him at @ Mathistopheles and find out more about him at: www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/casa/people/m…/Thomas_Evans
You can get in contact with the podcast via our email address: thegloballab@gmail.com or if you prefer twitter, @ thegloballab.
This week's host is Hrishi Ballal is a PhD student at CASA, and runs Urbanflow Engine, a site to facilitate participatory planning and discussion. You can find more about his work at urbanflowengine.com/ or on twitter at @ hrishiballal
John Burn-Murdoch from the FT Interactive team talks to Martin Zaltz Austwick about what Data Journalism is, and where it's heading.
John Burn-Murdoch is a data journalist at FT interactive, having previously worked at the Guardian datablog. You can see his recent work here http://blogs.ft.com/ftdata/author/johnburnmurdoch/ or follow him on twitter @jburnmurdoch too.
You can get in contact with the podcast via our email address: thegloballab@gmail.com or if you prefer twitter, @thegloballab. Alternatively, visit our website http://www.thegloballab.com/ for news, views and all that jazz, or tweet one of our friendly presenters (below).
This week's host is Martin Zaltz Austwick, who lectures on visualisation at CASA; you can chat to him at @sociablePhysics on twitter, and his blog is http://sociablePhysics.com .
Hrishi Ballal is a PhD student at CASA, and runs Urbanflow Engine, a site to facilitate participatory planning and discussion.
Hrishi Ballal is a PhD student at CASA, and runs Urban Flow Engine, a site to facilitate participatory planning and discussion. You can find more about his work at http://urbanflowengine.com/ or on twitter at @hrishiballal - I'm sure he'll be pleased to hear from you.
You can get in contact with the podcast via our email address: thegloballab@gmail.com or if you prefer twitter, @thegloballab. Alternatively, visit our website http://www.thegloballab.com/ for news, views and all that jazz, or tweet one of our friendly presenters (below).
This week's host is Martin Zaltz Austwick, who lectures on visualisation at CASA; you can chat to him at @sociablePhysics on twitter, and his blog is http://sociablePhysics.com .
Holly Hauser from Puget Sound Bike Share talks about the challenges of planning a brand new bike share for Seattle and beyond.
Holly Hauser is the Executive Director of Puget Sound Bike Share - you can find more about their work at http://pugetsoundbikeshare.org/.
You can get in contact with the podcast via our email address: thegloballab@gmail.com or if you prefer twitter, @thegloballab. Alternatively, visit our website http://www.thegloballab.com/ for news, views and all that jazz, or tweet one of our friendly presenters (below).
This week's host is Martin Zaltz Austwick, who lectures on visualisation at CASA; you can chat to him at @sociablePhysics on twitter, and his blog is http://sociablePhysics.com .
Mariam Asad from Georgia Tech talks to Martin Zaltz Austwick about citizen sensing and access to cycling in Atlanta.
Mariam Asad is a first year Ph.D. student in the Digital Media program at Georgia Tech. Her Master's research looked at rhetorical and formal qualities of modernist poetry and how they might be used in game design to make videogames more meaningful. Her current research focuses on how to co-design technologies to address the self-defined values, needs, and goals of local Atlanta communities. You can find her on twitter at @mimib0t.
You can get in contact with the podcast via our email address: thegloballab@gmail.com or if you prefer twitter, @thegloballab. Alternatively, visit our website http://www.thegloballab.com/ for news, views and all that jazz, or tweet one of our friendly presenters (below).
This week's host is Martin Zaltz Austwick, who lectures on visualisation at CASA; you can chat to him at @sociablePhysics on twitter, and his blog is http://sociablePhysics.com .
Adam Dennett, joint researcher in CASA and UCLDH talks to Martin Zaltz Austwick about the census and what "synthetic data" means to researchers.
Adam Dennett is a post-doctoral research associate in the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA), and the Department for Information Studies, University College London. At present he works across a variety of projects: he is lead researcher on the migration stream of the Explaining, Modelling & Forecasting Global Dynamics (ENFOLD-ing) project; Research Associate for the Census Support Flow Data Service, and a researcher / user support officer for the Centre for Longitudinal Study Information and User Support (CeLSIUS). He is @adam_dennett on twitter and http://adamdennett.co.uk/ on the world wide web.
You can get in contact with the podcast via our email address: thegloballab@gmail.com or if you prefer twitter, @thegloballab. Alternatively, visit our website http://www.thegloballab.com/ for news, views and all that jazz, or tweet one of our friendly presenters (below).
This week's host is Martin Zaltz Austwick, who lectures on visualisation at CASA; you can chat to him at @sociablePhysics on twitter, and his blog is http://sociablePhysics.com .
Kaitlin Thaney from Digital Science talks about copyright law, creative commons, sharing and what this has to teach us about open science and open data.
Kaitlin Thaney is a technologist, open advocate, and data enthusiast. She serves as the manager of external partnerships at Digital Science (http://www.digital-science.com/), responsible for the group’s external activities. She is a board member of the recently-launched http://datakind.org.uk/, an endeavour that aims to unlock open data for charity and community organisations.
You can get in contact with the podcast via our email address: thegloballab@gmail.com or if you prefer twitter, @thegloballab. Alternatively, visit our website http://www.thegloballab.com/ for news, views and all that jazz, or tweet one of our friendly presenters (below).
This week's host is Martin Zaltz Austwick, who lectures on visualisation at CASA; you can chat to him at @sociablePhysics on twitter, and his blog is http://sociablePhysics.com .
We're back! In this latest episode find out about augmented reality and museums, why we could be in for another dot com bust and we talk Digital Humanities with Dr Melissa Terras.
Here are your links for this week
QRator wins Museum Award: http://claireyross.wordpress.com/2012/05/17/qrator-wins-a-museums-heritage-award-for-excellence-innovation/ Science Museum and James May in your pocket: http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/reviews/software/3353745/james-mays-science-stories-app-review/ ICANN and linguistic computing: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/May2012/09052012-UCL-wins-contract-to-help-internationalise-the-internet
Dr Melissa Terras is the Co-Director of UCL Centre for Digital Humanities, and Reader in Electronic Communication in the Department of Information Studies at University College London (UCL), where she teaches Internet Technologies, Digital Resources in the Humanities, and Web Publishing. She can be found on Twitter; @melissaterras and you can see more of her research here: http://ucl.ac.uk/dh
Please let us know what you think about the podcast! You can find our online form here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEs2Zkdza3VsN2p1Qkh2bTAxNHhHVUE6MQ
You can get in contact with the podcast via our email address: thegloballab@gmail.com or if you prefer twitter, @thegloballab. Alternatively, visit our website http://www.thegloballab.com/ for news, views and all that jazz.
Steven Gray is a Research Associate in CASA; His website is http://www.stevenjamesgray.com and catch him on twitter; @frogo. Claire Ross is a PhD Student at UCL DH and you can catch up with her musings on twitter; @clairey_ross
This episode features a panel session featuring some of the top names in the world of spatial analysis talking about their own take on Smart Cities at UCL CASA's recent Smart Cities conference.
On 20th April 2012, UCL CASA hosted a one day conference focusing on the research of cities covering crowd-sourcing, participatory mapping, sensing using social media, data dashboards, public transport, visual modelling and more. This panel session was recorded live during this event. Featuring Carlo Ratti (MIT Sensible Lab), Professor Michael Batty, Dr Andrew Hudson-Smith, Professor Alan Wilson and chaired by Dr James Cheshire.
Please let us know what you think about the podcast! You can find our online form here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEs2Zkdza3VsN2p1Qkh2bTAxNHhHVUE6MQ
You can get in contact with the podcast via our email address: thegloballab@gmail.com or if you prefer twitter, @thegloballab. Alternatively, visit our website http://www.thegloballab.com/ for news, views and all that jazz.
Steven Gray is a Research Associate in CASA; his website is http://www.stevenjamesgray.com and catch him on twitter; @frogo. Claire Ross is a PhD Student at UCL DH and you can catch up with her musings on twitter; @clairey_ross
Another Special Episode of the Global Lab live from San Diego. We bring you the latest news from Museums and the Web along with an Interview with Jeanie Sinclair.
Jeanie Sinclair is a PhD Researcher, University College Falmouth and a Research Fellow, St. Ives Archive. You can read more about her research at http://theintangiblearchive.wordpress.com Some links of Jeanie's work can be found at: http://js101092.wordpress.com http://www.stivesarchive.ac.uk http://www.stivesarchive.co.uk http://www.stivesmemorybay.co.uk
or you can follow her on Twitter: @objectophilia
Please let us know what you think about the podcast! You can find our online form here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEs2Zkdza3VsN2p1Qkh2bTAxNHhHVUE6MQ
You can get in contact with the podcast via our email address: thegloballab@gmail.com or if you prefer twitter, @thegloballab. Alternatively, visit our website http://www.thegloballab.com/ for news, views and all that jazz.
Steven Gray is a Research Associate in CASA; his website is http://www.stevenjamesgray.com and catch him on twitter; @frogo. Claire Ross is a PhD Student at UCL DH and you can catch up with her musings on twitter; @clairey_ross
In this special episode we bring you from Talkfest and pick up the discussions about the the sounds of science. You can find out more about the event by visiting http://www.biochemistry.org/SciencePolicy/Events/TalkfestFebruary2012.aspx
You can get in contact with the podcast via our email address: thegloballab@gmail.com or if you prefer twitter, @thegloballab. Alternatively, visit our website http://www.thegloballab.com/ for news, views and all that jazz.
Steven Gray is a Research Associate in CASA; his website is http://www.stevenjamesgray.com and catch him on twitter; @frogo. Claire Ross is a PhD Student at UCL DH and you can catch up with her musings on twitter; @clairey_ross
In this episode we discuss how addictive Twitter actually is, we look at the new application of the Xbox Kinect and our brand new presenter Claire Ross talks to Peter Williams about his research in Information Systems for people with learning difficulties.
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Here are links to some of the topics we discussed on the show...
Peter Williams - UCL Information Studies
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Kinect Fusion and the CASA 3D Webcam
http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=152807 http://blog.mackerron.com/2012/02/03/depthcam-webkinect/
You can get in contact with the podcast via our email address: thegloballab@gmail.com or if you prefer twitter, @thegloballab. Alternatively, visit our website http://www.thegloballab.com/ for news, views and all that jazz.
Steven Gray is a Research Associate in CASA; his website is http://www.stevenjamesgray.com and catch him on twitter; @frogo. Claire Ross is a PhD Student at UCL DH and you can catch up with her musings on twitter; @clairey_ross
Today, Martin debates the use of the word ‘geek’, Hannah discusses the theory behind supermarket queues and our guest Jon Reades explains how data can help us improve our social, business & transport networks, and why we should all start shredding our rubbish.
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Alice Roberts kicks off the geek debate. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/9030938/Alice-Roberts-hits-out-at-science-geeks.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
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You can find Martin’s blogpost on the word ‘Geek’ here. Feel free to awe at its brilliance. http://sociablephysics.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/why-i-do-not-self-identify-as-a-geek/
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The #IamScience hashtag. Beware - link contains references to drink, drugs and other naughty stuff. http://deepseanews.com/2012/01/iamscience-embracing-personal-experience-on-our-rise-through-science/
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Hannah geeks out at a maths paper on the time to board an aeroplane: http://physics.aps.org/synopsis-for/10.1103/PhysRevE.85.011130
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Link to 12 great visualisations that changed history: http://owni.eu/2012/01/26/12-great-visualizations-that-made-history/
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You can visit Jon Reades website http://www.reades.com/ or follow him on twitter @jreades.
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You can get in contact with the podcast via our email address: thegloballab@gmail.com or if you prefer twitter, @thegloballab. Alternatively, visit our website http://www.thegloballab.com/ for news, views and all that jazz.
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Hannah Fry is a research associate in CASA; her website is http://HannahFry.co.uk and she is called @FryRSquared on twitter. Martin Zaltz Austwick is a lecturer at CASA; his website is http://SociablePhysics.com and his twittername, conveniently, is @SociablePhysics.
In this episode we talk to Emma McKay about the interface between science and policy. Martin explains why Wikipedia went offline and Hannah discusses toothpick statues and what it's like to work as a mathematician.
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Read an article about David Imus' spectacular map of the US here: http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2012/01/the_best_american_wall_map_david_imus_the_essential_geography_of_the_united_states_of_america_.html
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See Scott Weavers toothpick sculpture of San Francisco here: http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2011/04/one-man-100000-toothpicks-and-35-years-scott-weavers-rolling-through-the-bay/?src=footer
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Casa's latest contribution to crowd modelling may be found here: http://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(11)70287-0/fulltext
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And discussion on what it's like to be a mathematician can be seen on the Quora website: http://www.quora.com/What-is-it-like-to-have-an-understanding-of-very-advanced-mathematics
You can find out more about the British Academy via their website http://www.britac.ac.uk/ or follow Emma McKay @EmsMckay on twitter.
You can get in contact with the podcast via our email address: thegloballab@gmail.com or if you prefer twitter, @thegloballab. Alternatively, visit our website http://www.thegloballab.com/ for news, views and all that jazz.
Hannah Fry is a research associate in CASA; her website is http://HannahFry.co.uk and she is called @FryRSquared on twitter. Martin Zaltz Austwick is a lecturer at CASA; his website is http://SociablePhysics.com and his twittername, conveniently, is @SociablePhysics.
In this (vaguely) festive episode, Jason Dittmer talks Nationalist Superheroes, Hannah guesses the weight of a cake and Martin reads a map-themed comic book.
Please let us know what you think about the podcast! You can find our online form here:
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"I'm a scientist, Decipher my data" has its home here: http://deciphermydata.org.uk/ and includes results as they come in!
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You can find Solipsistic Pop and their special Maps issue here: http://solipsisticpop.com/
You can find more about Jason Dittmer at http://www.geog.ucl.ac.uk/about-the-department/people/academics/jason-dittmer or follow @RealJDittmer on twitter.
You can get in contact with the podcast via our email address: thegloballab@gmail.com or if you prefer twitter, @thegloballab. Alternatively, visit our website http://www.thegloballab.com/ for news, views and all that jazz.
Hannah Fry is a research associate in CASA; her website is http://HannahFry.co.uk and she is called @FryRSquared on twitter. Martin Zaltz Austwick is a lecturer at CASA; his website is http://SociablePhysics.com and his twittername, conveniently, is @SociablePhysics.
This episode we speak to Stephen Lorimer from the UCL Energy Institute about why your hangover is ruining the world, Hannah talks about WWII tweeters and JISC geodevelopers of the year, and Martin talks about Manuel Castells and hand-drawn maps.
Here are links to some of the topics we discussed on the show...
Manuel Castells' visit to the occupy London camp:
http://youtu.be/BS82Do3bU-w
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Million Dollar Blocks:
http://www.spatialinformationdesignlab.org/projects.php?id=16
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The JISC geodeveloper award going to the GEMMA team:
http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/casa/news/2011-11-28-gemma-prize
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WW2 Tweets from 1939: https://twitter.com/#!/RealTimeWWII
You can find the hand drawn map, organised by CASA students Alastair Leak and Ian Morton, here:
http://londonist.com/2011/12/ucl-students-create-hand-drawn-map-of-london.php and here: http://mappinglondon.co.uk/2011/12/05/ucl-hand-drawn-map-of-london/
Stephen Lorimer can be found at https://myportfolio.ucl.ac.uk/user/view.php?id=257
You can get in contact with the podcast via our email address: thegloballab@gmail.com or if you prefer twitter, @thegloballab. Alternatively, visit our website http://www.thegloballab.com/ for news, views and all that jazz.
Hannah Fry is a research associate in CASA; her website is http://HannahFry.co.uk and she is called @FryRSquared on twitter. Martin Zaltz Austwick is a lecturer at CASA; his website is http://SociablePhysics.com and his twittername, conveniently, is @SociablePhysics.
Featuring an interview with Anders Johansson, as well as news about FuturICT, Londonist's mapping event, and a shout out to other academic podcasters – get in touch!
Here are links to some of the topics we discussed on the show:
FuturICT: http://www.futurict.eu/
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Details of Londonist's mapping event can be found here: http://londonist.com/2011/11/london-maps-the-magical-the-methodical-and-the-multifaceted.php - they have also podcasted the event here: http://londonist.com/2011/11/londonist-out-loud-a-podcast-for-london-22-november-2011.php - and participant James Cheshire discusses the images he used here: http://mappinglondon.co.uk/2011/11/18/mapping-london-life/
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The NYT visualisation that Hannah talks about on the show can be found here: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/10/23/sunday-review/an-overview-of-the-euro-crisis.html
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Here is a blogpost from earlier this year that Martin wrote on podcasting: http://sociablephysics.wordpress.com/2011/05/30/get-podcasting/ - if you're an academic or research podcaster, please get in touch.
Anders Johansson can be found on the web at http://www.ajohansson.com/, or on twitter at @AFJohansson
You can get in contact with the podcast via our email address: thegloballab@gmail.com or if you prefer twitter, @thegloballab. Alternatively, visit our website http://www.thegloballab.com/ for news, views and all that jazz.
Hannah Fry is a research associate in CASA; her website is http://HannahFry.co.uk and she is called @FryRSquared on twitter. Martin Zaltz Austwick is a lecturer at CASA; his website is http://SociablePhysics.com and his twittername, conveniently, is @SociablePhysics.
Find out how Occupy London is linked to NASA, wearable computing, and UCL's Suzy Moat talks about her work in FuturICT and analysing Google search volumes.
Here are links to some of the topics we discussed on the show:
FuturICT: http://www.futurict.eu/
Chris Harrison: http://www.chrisharrison.net/index.php/Research/OmniTouch
ScratchInput Project: http://www.chrisharrison.net/index.php/Research/ScratchInput
Telegraph Thermal Imaging Articla and Video: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/8847357/Telegraph-evicted-from-St-Pauls-Occupy-London-camp-as-the-mood-turns.html
You can follow Suzy Moat on Twitter at @suzymoat or visit her website at http://www.suzymoat.co.uk/
You can get in contact with the podcast via our email address: thegloballab@gmail.com or if you prefer twitter, @thegloballab. Alternatively, visit our website http://www.thegloballab.com/ for news, views and all that jazz.
Steven Gray is a researcher at UCL-CASA: his personal website is http://www.stevenjamesgray.com/ or you can follow @frogo on twitter. Martin Zaltz Austwick is a lecturer at UCL-CASA; his website is http://sociablephysics.com and his twittername, conveniently, is @sociablephysics.
News from Science Question Time, Siri and 3D printing, and UCL's Claire Ross talks about QRator and Jeremy Bentham.
Here are links to some of the topics we discussed on the show:
For funny things Siri says google "funny things siri says". Some are not safe for work, exercise your judgment.
You can find information about the latest Science Question Time, and the event in general, here: http://www.biochemistry.org/SciencePolicy/Events/ScienceQuestionTimeOctober2011.aspx
For information about 3D printing, visit http://payitforwardprinting.com/ http://reprap.org/ http://oshug.org/
You can visit Claire Ross' blog at http://claireyross.wordpress.com or find @clairey_ross on twitter.
You can get in contact with the podcast via our email address: thegloballab@gmail.com or if you prefer twitter, @thegloballab. Alternatively, visit our website http://www.thegloballab.com/ for news, views and all that jazz.
Steven Gray is a researcher at UCL-CASA: his personal website is http://www.stevenjamesgray.com/ or you can follow @frogo on twitter. Martin Zaltz Austwick is a lecturer at UCL-CASA; his website is http://sociablephysics.com and his twittername, conveniently, is @sociablephysics.
This week features two interviews from ECCS 2011: Nicolas Perony on what animal behaviour can teach us about human society, and Pauline Cotelle talking about crime and security in Post - Hurricane Katrina New Orleans.
Here are links to some of the topics we discussed on the show:
European Conference on Complex System: http://eccs2011.eu/
Nicolas Perony is based at ETH Zurich in Switzerland, and you can find more details of his research here: http://www.sg.ethz.ch/people/peronyn
Pauline Cotelle is based at the Universite Paul-Valery in Montpellier, France.
You can get in contact with the podcast via our email address: thegloballab@gmail.com or if you prefer twitter, @thegloballab. Alternatively, visit our website http://www.thegloballab.com/ for news, views and all that jazz.
Steven Gray is a researcher at UCL-CASA: his personal website is http://www.stevenjamesgray.com/ or you can follow @frogo on twitter. Martin Zaltz Austwick is a lecturer at UCL-CASA; his website is http://sociablephysics.com and his twittername, conveniently, is @sociablephysics.
News on Vitruvian Man on Ice, visualising the Eurozone crisis, Faster than Light Neutrinos and the European Conference on Complex Systems, and we speak to Erica Fille Legara about Media Framing in the Phillipines.
Here are links to some of the topics we discussed on the show:
Faster than Light Neutrinos: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/sep/23/faster-light-neutrinos http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20961-fasterthanlight-neutrino-claim-bolstered.html
BBC visualisation of the Greek debt: http://youtu.be/U7FZ9T8xsZ0
Icy Vitruvian Man: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-14905988 http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/picture/2011/sep/07/da-vinci-sketch-arctic-sea-ice
European Conference on Complex System: http://eccs2011.eu/
Erika Fille Legara has just completed her PhD at the National Institute of Physics in the Philippines; her website is here: http://sites.google.com/site/imerikafille/
You can get in contact with the podcast via our email address: thegloballab@gmail.com or if you prefer twitter, @thegloballab. Alternatively, visit our website http://www.thegloballab.com/ for news, views and all that jazz.
Steven Gray is a researcher at UCL-CASA: his personal website is http://www.stevenjamesgray.com/ or you can follow @frogo on twitter. Martin Zaltz Austwick is a lecturer at UCL-CASA; his website is http://sociablephysics.com and his twittername, conveniently, is @sociablephysics.
This week we talk about a recent citizen science project involving school children and get to grips with 'Necrogeography'. Our featured guest is Hannah Fry talking about her research in global modelling and modelling people's actions during riots.
Here are links to some of the topics we discussed on the show:
Science Online 2011 Conference - http://www.scienceonlinelondon.org/
Kids pubish academic paper on bee's ability to distiguse colour patterns - http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2010/12/22/bee-blackawton-science-journal.html Full Publised Paper: http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2010/12/18/rsbl.2010.1056.full
Patent Laws in the mobile space - who's suing whom! - http://mashable.com/2010/10/08/lawsuits-mobile-infographic/
Necrogeography overview - http://cml.upenn.edu/nola/14history/L2historypgnecro.html
Jeremy Beadle's Grave on OpenStreetMap - http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.5648607909679&lon=-0.144638121128082&zoom=18
Hannah Fry's research can be found at and http://enfolding.blogs.casa.ucl.ac.uk/ and on You can follow her on Twitter: @FryRsquared.
You can get in contact with the podcast via our email address: thegloballab@gmail.com or if you prefer twitter, @thegloballab. Alternatively, visit our website http://www.thegloballab.com/ for news, views and all that jazz.
Steven Gray is a researcher at UCL-CASA: his personal website is http://www.stevenjamesgray.com/ or you can follow @frogo on twitter. Martin Zaltz Austwick is a lecturer at UCL-CASA; his website is http://sociablephysics.com and his twittername, conveniently, is @sociablephysics.
Martin reports back on Einstein's Garden at the Green Man festival and Steve talks AI and internet security. Our guest is James Cheshire, talking about mapping surnames in the UK.
Here are links to some of the topics we discussed on the show:
Einstein's Garden at The Green Man Festival: http://www.greenman.net/node/3994
Bright Club ("the thinking person's variety night"): http://www.brightclub.org/
Nokia hacking story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14706810
Chat bots chatting: http://youtu.be/WnzlbyTZsQY
James Cheshire's research can be found at http://spatialanalysis.co.uk/ and http://mappinglondon.co.uk/
More information about CASA's MRes course can be found here: http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/courses/mres/index.asp
You can get in contact with the podcast via our email address: thegloballab@gmail.com or if you prefer twitter, @thegloballab. Alternatively, visit our website http://www.thegloballab.com/ for news, views and all that jazz.
Steven Gray is a researcher at UCL-CASA: his personal website is http://www.stevenjamesgray.com/ or you can follow @frogo on twitter. Martin Zaltz Austwick is a lecturer at UCL-CASA; his website is http://sociablephysics.com and his twittername, conveniently, is @sociablephysics.
This week we talk about mapping unrest in the wake of recent UK events, social media mapping and the potential of IBM's Watson project. Steve talks to Dan Lewis from UCL's Geography department about his work on access to healthcare in London.
Here are links to some of the topics we discussed on the show:
Maps of unrest: Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/8689355/London-riots-all-incidents-mapped-in-London-and-around-the-UK.html Guardian (including data sources): http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/interactive/2011/aug/09/uk-riots-incident-map Twitter hashtag map from Richard at CASA: http://genesis.blogs.casa.ucl.ac.uk/2011/08/11/twitter-maps-and-ukriots/ And a more sober BBC version: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14436499
This is the wikipedia page on Deep Blue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Blue_(chess_computer) And IBM have their own page on the Watson project: http://www-03.ibm.com/innovation/us/watson/
Daniel Lewis' website can be accessed here: http://danieljlewis.org/
You can get in contact with the podcast via our email address: thegloballab@gmail.com or if you prefer twitter, @thegloballab. Alternatively, visit our website www.thegloballab.com/ for news, views and all that jazz.
Steven Gray is a researcher at UCL-CASA: his personal website is www.stevenjamesgray.com/ or you can follow @frogo on twitter. Martin Zaltz Austwick is a lecturer at UCL-CASA; his website is sociablephysics.com and his twittername, conveniently, is @sociablephysics.
This week we talk about the State of the Map EU conference, Richard Dawkins and Sexist Skeptics, InterFace and digital humanists and why we prefer the BBC to Fox News. Tom Brughmans explains what Network Science is and what it means to Archaeology.
Here are links to some of the topics we discussed on the show:
The State of The Map conference: http://lanyrd.com/2011/sotmeu/
Open Street Map: http://www.openstreetmap.org/
The BBC review of science coverage starts here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2011/07/bbc_science_review.html
Dawkins weighed in via a series of comments here: http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/07/always_name_names.php There are links to the original video via PZ Myers' blog.
The InterFace conference and digital humanities: http://www.interface2011.org.uk/
Tom Brughmans works at the University of Southampton - his website is here: http://archaeologicalnetworks.wordpress.com/ and you can find more about next year's Connected Past conference here: http://connectedpast.soton.ac.uk/
You can get in contact with the podcast via our email address: thegloballab@gmail.com or if you prefer twitter, @thegloballab. Alternatively, visit our website http://www.thegloballab.com/ for news, views and all that jazz.
Steven Gray is a researcher at UCL-CASA: his personal website is http://www.stevenjamesgray.com/ or you can follow @frogo on twitter. Martin Zaltz Austwick is a lecturer at UCL-CASA; his website is http://sociablephysics.com and his twittername, conveniently, is @sociablephysics.
This week we talk about two major conferences, Google I/O and Where Camp EU, and Martin De Jode talks about his work linking smartphone technology to the act of storytelling. You can find out more about Google I/O here: http://www.google.com/events/io/2011/index-live.html and info about Where Camp is here: http://wherecamp.eu/ .Martin de Jode works at UCL-CASA on The Tales of Things and Electronic Memory (ToTEM) project; you can participate in the project here: http://www.talesofthings.com/
You can get in contact with the podcast via our email address: thegloballab@gmail.com or if you prefer twitter, @thegloballab. Alternatively, visit our website http://www.thegloballab.com/ for news, views and all that jazz.
Steven Gray is a researcher at UCL-CASA: his personal website is http://www.stevenjamesgray.com/ or you can follow @frogo on twitter. Martin Zaltz Austwick is a lecturer at UCL-CASA; his website is http://sociablephysics.com and his twittername, conveniently, is @sociablephysics.