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Martin Rees

Martin Rees

@LordMartinRees

Astronomer Royal • Co-founder @CSERCambridge • Emer. Prof. @cambridge_astro • Fellow @TrinCollCam • 10+ books & 500+ papers • 60th President @royalsociety

Cambridge, UK Katılım Nisan 2020
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the Lord Speaker is doing a series of wide-ranging interviews with members of the House of Lords. This is my contribution youtube.com/watch?v=L6NJTE…
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it was a pleasure to be paired with the prolific SF writer Una McKendrik in this discussion at the Cambridge union youtube.com/watch?v=FKT5lO…
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this article to commemorate the 250th anniversary of Thomas Young's birth was written partly to 'advertise' the re-issue of the fine biography of Young written by Andrew Robinson physicsworld.com/a/thomas-young…
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This is the link to a wide-ranging interview I did with Brian Greene in evening of October 27th, Not a very fluent performance from me, but we touched on interesting themes youtube.com/watch?v=BYVMul…
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This is a 15-min talk from the 'space economics summit', organised by the 'Economist'. i spoke about the diminishing economic case for human spaceflight -- themes elaborated in my recent book 'The End of Astronauts', co-authored by Don Goldsmith we.tl/t-utXrv6LXbo
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here's a short article [basiclly an extract from my book 'if Science is to Save Us' arguing that it would be better if Nobel prizes were reformed or lost thir mistique theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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Martin Rees@LordMartinRees·
I had the chance to speak briefly on the BBC 'Today' programme, to celebrate the 1000th edition of 'in Our Time' and express admiration for Melvyn Bragg and all he's done to promote culture, Here's what I said: blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/1000-editions-…
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Martin Rees@LordMartinRees·
This interview emphasised why i think humans are not the culmination of evolution, and that the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is worthwhile -- even though i'm utterly sceptical of all clams that it's been found already youtube.com/watch?v=kiAkqI…
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This is a recording of a fairly informal discussion with Haydn Belfield which took place at a student conference in Cambridge on 'Effective Altruism' youtube.com/watch?v=zLv0LL…
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Martin Rees@LordMartinRees·
I've done a lot of interviews but in tis one Rory Griffin went to immense trouble to embed my comments in a lively commentary and fascinating videos, youtu.be/X542Plsd75U
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Martin Rees@LordMartinRees·
This semi-serious essay was motivated by the fact that serious scientists (some in Cambridge) have joined a new billionaire-funded Altos Laboratory aimed at extending the human lifespan. newstatesman.com/ideas/2023/06/…
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