ENCORE If someone asks where you get off, you can now respond with precision. Satellites and computers spit out coordinates accurate to a few paces. And digital maps stand the Copernican principle on its head – putting you at the center of everything (how does it feel?).
Find out how today’s maps are shuffling our world view. Also, how does a rat navigate a maze without GPS? Hear of the plotting that goes on in that tiny rodent brain.
Plus, mapping the universe and pinpointing just where we are in cosmic time – lucky for us, human evolution is right on schedule.
Guests:

Josh Winn - Astronomer, MIT
David Redish - Neuroscientist, University of Minnesota
Mario Livio - Astrophysicist, Space Telescope Science Institute and author of Is God a Mathematician?
Mike Goodchild - Professor of Geography, Center for Spatial Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

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