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omega tau - science and technology in headphones ( omega tau for short ) is a podcast by Nora Ludewig and Markus Völter that appears several times a month . More than 300 episodes have appeared since August 2008 (as of July 2019), with around half of the episodes being published in German and the remaining episodes in English. All contributions to the podcast are published under a Creative Commons license .
concept
omega tau is an interview podcast. The editors speak to one or more experts in the area covered in the episode by phone, Skype or on site. In addition, omega tau also publishes reports recorded on site, for example flights on planes or rides on a locomotive, as well as visits to factories, construction sites and research facilities. As with CRE , the episodes are often several hours long in order to be able to explain the topic in due depth. The topics of the new episodes will be announced in advance on Twitter and Facebook . Listeners can use these channels to propose their own questions and topics or interlocutors.
In April 2020, Markus Völter published an English book called Once You Start Asking , in which he detailed some of the topics recurring in the podcast, including gravitational waves , telescopes , the LHC and the discovery of the Higgs boson , the use of models in science and engineering.
Thematic focus
The main focus of omega tau lies in the sciences, above all on the natural sciences, but computer science and economics are also regularly topics. In the subject area technology the focus is on engineering topics, such as engines or track construction, as well as air and space travel , in which case many interviews with engineers or pilots appear on specific aircraft and spacecraft.
reception
In a survey by the German version of the technology magazine Wired on Twitter, the podcast reached seventh place among 254 respondents in 2015.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Creative Commons license. In: omega tau - science and technology in headphones. Retrieved November 14, 2016 .
- ↑ Archive of all episodes. In: omega tau - science and technology in headphones. Retrieved November 14, 2016 .
- ↑ Participate. In: omega tau - science and technology in headphones. Retrieved November 14, 2016 .
- ↑ ONCE YOU START ASKING - Markus Voelter. Retrieved April 13, 2020 .
- ↑ omega tau: episode on complex systems. In: heise Developer. Retrieved November 14, 2016 .
- ↑ omega tau - or how science gets into the headphones. In: Fliegergruppe Donzdorf. Retrieved November 14, 2016 .
- ↑ Issue 0915: The favorite podcasts of WIRED readers. (No longer available online.) In: WIRED Germany. August 25, 2015, archived from the original on March 9, 2016 ; accessed on November 14, 2016 .