Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMeasure for Measure Episode 8: Star Ladder
Episode 67
Scientists discovered that some stars have heartbeats and that some of them can be used to measure the longest distances that exist.
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3 years, 3 months ago
Measure for Measure Episode 3: Mohs
Episode 62
We’re hitting up against the very nature of measurement: How can we best describe the world around us, in its infinite complexity, with finite measur…
3 years, 3 months ago
Gravity's Kiss: The Detection of Gravitational Waves
Episode 5
The detection of gravitational waves in 2015 rocked the science community. In this episode, Chris Gondek spoke with author Harry Collins, whose book …
3 years, 3 months ago
Measure for Measure Episode 0: Birds
Episode 59
Could you pick a white-breasted nuthatch out of a lineup? We explore the value - and limits - of birdwatching, categorization, and measurement.
This e…
3 years, 3 months ago
Adrian Bejan, "Time and Beauty: Why Time Flies and Beauty Never Dies" (World Scientific, 2022)
Episode 90
Poets and philosophers are fascinated by time and beauty. They are two of our most visceral perceptions. In Time and Beauty: Why Time Flies and Beaut…
3 years, 4 months ago
Philippe Schlenker, "What It All Means: Semantics for (Almost) Everything" (MIT Press, 2022)
Episode 110
In What It All Means: Semantics for (Almost) Everything (MIT Press, 2022), Philippe Schlenker takes readers on tour of meaning, from the animal kingd…
3 years, 4 months ago
Making Meaning Episode 21: Throbbing with Life
Episode 54
Science often draws a picture of the world as a giant machine, a meaningless mechanical clock ticking and tocking forever. But religion and poetry of…
3 years, 4 months ago
99* Gael McGill Visualizes Intracellular Data (JP, GT)
Episode 99
What’s actually going on in a cell–or on the spiky outside of an invading virus? Gael McGill, Director of Molecular Visualization at the Center for M…
3 years, 4 months ago
Seeing Truth in the Archives
Episode 58
Joel Sweimler, Exhibition Specialist at the American Museum of Natural History, talks about his career at the museum, working on Seeing Truth, and wh…
3 years, 4 months ago
The Future of Nuclear Fusion: A Discussion with Sharon Ann Holgate
Episode 49
How useful will nuclear fusion be? In a major breakthrough last year at the National Ignition Facility in California, 192 lasers achieved fusion – an…
3 years, 4 months ago