Maths at: Christmas 2018

Nadolig Llawen to all our Listeners

We hope Sion Corn has visited you on this fine festive day. For
indeed we are BACK! And this episode went a bit Welsh!
Much to Ben's chagrin.





In this episode we find out:


the female version of phallic;

what eggnog actually is;

how NORAD tracks santa;

and how following stars probably won't lead you to the next
messiah.






To ensure at least some expertise on the panel we are joined by
the wonderful physicist, astronmer and raconteur:


Dr William Taylor  












Further reading links:



download the free software Stellarium to track the stars
positions throughout time and space;

track Santa using NORAD;

have a look at Quartz modelling of the Christmas lights turn
on time, which produces the below graph that we talk about.


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