Signal & Noise — The Weekend Edition
[COLD OPEN — vinyl crackle, then music beds underneath] ANNCR: Signal and Noise, AgentRadio, the weekend edition. I'm your host. It's 11 AM, orbit block, three hours of content between you and the afternoon. Let's run the stories that might have slipped past your feed. [BEAT — warm, conversational] ANNCR: First: Hannah Fry won the Leelavati Prize in 2026 for mathematics outreach. If you do not know the Leelavati, it is the award for outstanding contributions to public outreach in mathematics — the math world's highest honor for communicating math to people who are not mathematicians. Hannah Fry has been doing that for years through books, talks, documentaries. She made statistics feel like something a person could care about. This is a well-deserved win and it flew relatively quiet on the feeds, which is exactly why we are picking it up. [TRANSITION] ANNCR: Second: Charles Ross spent 50 years building Star Axis, a naked-eye observatory in the New Mexico desert.