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A podcast about the big numbers, the hard sums, the mathematics that defines, runs, shapes, changes, begins, ends, every things our lives and the world around us. Hosted by Colm O'Regan. An award-winning radio broadcaster, comedian, novelist and it turns out lapsed engineer who is trying to feel useful again. Each episode sheds light on a tiny corner of a giant subject with entertaining guests and accessible talk.
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Signup to Generate a PitchA podcast about the big numbers, the hard sums, the mathematics that defines, runs, shapes, changes, begins, ends, every things our lives and the world around us. Hosted by Colm O'Regan. An award-winning radio broadcaster, comedian, novelist and it turns out lapsed engineer who is trying to feel useful again.
The Function Room is hosted by GoLoud. The show has published 53 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "53 The High Seas with Olive Heffernan" (15 July 2025, 41 minutes), "52 This Number Could Save Your Life One Day with Lewis Dartnell" (7 July 2025, 50 minutes), and "51 Great xPectations with Paul McDonald." (3 August 2024, 49 minutes).
The Function Room publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 50 minutes across 53 episodes.
Booking probability for The Function Room is 22%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Function Room requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Function Room's contact route on record: verified email.
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GoLoud hosts The Function Room, a science podcast with 53 episodes published.
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Episode #39
<p>The last episode - and a great way to go out. By taking the ultimate trip on the Z-axis and exploring the sea. We fuss so much about exploring outer space and going to Mars when a whole other planet exists just...
Episode #38
<p>The penultimate episode before an offical hiatus. (the last year was just me hiding and ghosting) .This is a cracker though. Lewis Dartnell author of The Knowledge - which tells how you rebuild a civilisation from...
Episode #37
<p>This week I do some basic drills, some shuttling runs on the massive world of statistics in sport. Former accountant Paul McDonald has many hats, but he is now a sports stat specialist, company founder and originator...
Episode #36
<p>This week I’m joined by another returnee to the function Room, a lecturer at the Maynooth University Department of Geography and we’re talking about voting systems and the numbers they generate. We catch an STV...
Episode #35
<p>This week in the function room, the hole shebang. A bit about Black Holes with Dr John Regan. Royal Society - SFI University Research Fellow in the Department of Theoretical Physics. we caefully scrape the surface of...
Episode #34
<p>My guest is Katie Steckles, Mathematician, presenter and communicator. She has written seven books about mathematics, hosts the brilliant Mathemetical Objects podcast where she and her co presenter Peter Rowlatt...
Episode #33
<p>Matt Kenzie is one of the Science advisors on the hit Netflix show Three Body Problem.</p><p>The show and the book is about what happens when aliens want to say hi. Aliens called the San Ti, from a planet in a system...
Episode #32
<p>This week in the function room, Census Sensibility with . A glimpse into the work of Ireland's Central Statistic office, the CSO with Statistician Jess Coyne. Yes it's been a little while since the last one. The...
Episode #31
<p>Another episode title Im jealous of becuase I didn't pick it, it's the work of Keith Houston a writer and software engineer who has made a habit of writing about things that are there in plain sight. He has written...
Episode #30
<p>My first replay! Given what we've been hearing about Google and their Gemini code disaster and bias and all sorts, time to revisit one of my favourite episodes, with Cathy O'Neil author of Weapons of Math destruction...
Episode #29
<p>This week my guest is Hannah Daly, Professor of Sustainable Energy at University College Cork. It's the third of a trilogy about energy - a sort of trilogy there was another episode in between (a sort of Rogue One of...
Episode #28
<p>My guest is John Fardy, presenter of Newstalk's Radio (and GoLoud's) movie show ScreenTime. He has watched a lot of movies which means, statistically he's seen a lot of mathematics in movies. Therefore a lot of tall...
Episode #27
<p>A look at some of the stories behind the massive sums of an energy revolution. </p><p>My guest is David Volts, energy journalist and writer of the Volts newsletter and host of the volts podcast. After Catherine...
Episode #26
<p>Catherine Sheridan, an engineer and systems thinker who after 20 years working on water, roads, energy is focussed on a tiny powerful magic little molecule: Hydrogen.</p><p>We talk 5th year Physics experiments...
Episode #25
<p>Function Room 39 There's Been a Breakthrough with TJ Hegarty. </p><p>TJ Hegarty is the founder of Breakthrough Maths an online maths tutoring company based in Ireland. We talk about small farmers, not letting your...
Episode #24
<p>13th December, on the day of the earliest sunset in Dublin, my guest is Eibhear OHanlon, who more than anyone else knows how to call it a day. He has been the curator of theauldsthretch twitter account, now on...
Episode #23
<p>This week we look at the maths of conspiracy theories with physicist, cancer researcher, science writer author of the Award-winning The Irrational Ape why flawed logic puts us all at risk. how to tell if one most...
Episode #22
<p>Kjartan (pronounced Jartan) Poskitt is a maths book phenomenon. Author of Murderous Maths a series of, funny books for children about maths, they've been published in 25 countries. We talk about duels, how a fencing...
Episode #21
<p>The mysterious world of the Riemann Hypothesis. This is about an unsolved problem relating to prime numbers.</p><p>Bernhard Riemann was a German mathematician who lived in the 19th century and along with a lot of...
Episode #20
<p>My guest is Joanna Donnelly meteorologist and author of From Malin Head to Mizen Head, a lovely book about the almost meditative experience that is Irish Sea Area Forecast. Hers is the voice Irish radio listeners...
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Research Fellow in the Department of Theoretical Physics, Royal Society - SFI University Research Fellow in the Department of Theoretical Physics
author, ORCAA
Presenter of Screentime on Newstalk, Screentime
Business Coach, Non-Executive Director, Chairman, Chair of the Institute of Directors (IoD) North Wales, Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds
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