Brian Cox

I've written the column.

And it's interesting because I had the wonderful opportunity to speak to Professor Brian Cox about all things scientific.

And I said, so, I mean, I told you my boo-boo.

I spoke to Artemis just recently.

I

think you do yourself a disservice.

Brian Cox said, well, I don't blame you, but I said, why is my brain full of that? Why isn't it full of your stuff? And he said, it's because it's what we get served up.

He makes the point, I said, but does it matter? And then he made a really quite gripping point that he quoted his mate, Carl Sagan.

And so I was devastated.

And then I met him some 24, 25 years later when I was invited down to a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage with Professor Brian Cox.

And Brian's wife, Gia, as you know, is a great pal of mine, been a great pal of mine for all eternity.

And she knows I'm a big track fan.

You've got to come down.

We're going to hang.

So I went and hung out with Brian Cox, Gia, and Patrick Stewart and Patrick's wife.

And we went to the Soho Club together.

Hello, I'm Professor Brian Cox.

Welcome to this second series of A Question of Science recorded at the Francis Crick Institute in London.

Today's topic is sport and we're asking, is sport science just for athletes? Sport's always been a way of exploring the limits of the human body.

He's also writing articles in Macmillan's magazine and Fort Niley Review.

So this was very much a Brian Cox level of public understanding of science, making sure that his ideas were out there for people to get.

Sure.

Just, you know, as the BBC, Professor Brian Cox, not eugenicist, a brilliant scientist, much beloved.

But I mean, he's

in terms of like, he is a scientist, but he's also his own hype man really well.

So like some of the creepy noises you hear are actual things that we've captured, um, which is, uh, pretty intense to think about that.

Uh, But yeah, we've spoken about Arrival and Interstellar last episode, and this is another movie that had a scientific advisor, Brian Cox.

And if you're unfamiliar with him, I think he's, like, he obviously... is a scientist and very well known for his work, but I don't want to diminish him and saying this, but like I put them, I call it a scientific like influencer almost, which probably not the right term to use, but like I put them up there with Neil deGrasse Tyson.

Like you probably, if you don't, if you're unfamiliar with him, you've probably seen a video of him speaking about something.

Yeah.

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And Killian Murphy for this film actually was heavily involved with Brian Cox and went to the CERN facility in Switzerland.

And I think Brian Cox actually commented that he was amazed at how well Killian Murphy was able to pick up on like mannerisms and how certain scientists act.