Podcast Episodes

Julian Guthrie Discusses Alpha Girls (#024)

Co-Director of the Clarke Center Professor Brian Keating interviews bestselling author Julian Gurthrie about her latest book Alpha Girls. The stories of 4 women who achieved prominence in the male-do…

Published on 6 years, 3 months ago

Matthew Stanley & Einstein’s War (#023)

How history can shape science, and how science can change the tide of history? NYU Professor Matthew Stanley is our guest, here to discuss about his latest book: Einstein's War: How Relativity Triump…

Published on 6 years, 3 months ago

Journalist & Author Annalee Newitz (#022)

Meet Annalee Newitz, nonfiction and fiction author, science-journalist, and co-host of the podcast series Our Opinions are Correct. Winner of the Lambda Literary Award and nominee for the Nebula and …

Published on 6 years, 4 months ago

Beyond 10,000 Hours (#021)

On this episode, we explore physics, education, and what it takes to train imaginative scientists with Carl Wieman, Nobel Prize winning physicist with joint appointments as Professor of Physics and P…

Published on 6 years, 6 months ago

The Second Kind of Impossible (#020)

THE SECOND KIND OF IMPOSSIBLE: The Extraordinary Quest for a New Form of Matter is the exciting, first-hand story of how Paul Steinhardt, the award-winning physicist and Albert Einstein Professor in …

Published on 6 years, 8 months ago

Nature Has More Imagination (#019)

In a ranging conversation, associate director Brian Keating interviews the preeminent scientist and thinker Freeman Dyson, discussing his career in science and letters, the role of creativity and sub…

Published on 6 years, 11 months ago

Internet of All Kinds of Things (#018)

Episode 18

How is the internet changing our humanity, and what can we do about it? We explore these questions and more with Antonio Garcia Martinez (author of Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure i…

Published on 7 years, 4 months ago

Graphic Science (#017)

On May 8th, the Clarke Center will host an evening of Graphic Science: Comics Engage the Cosmos. In advance of that, associate director Brian Keating chatted with Jorge Cham, creator of PHD Comics, a…

Published on 7 years, 4 months ago

Alien Contact: Part 2

We’re continuing our conversation from episode 14 about alien contact by focusing on language barriers: barriers betweens humans and aliens, humans and animals, and, in what some consider the most al…

Published on 7 years, 5 months ago

Bonus Episode: Remembering Stephen Hawking (#15b)

In 2007, Erik Viirre, Associate Director of the Clarke Center, was fortunate to share a unique experience with the great Stephen Hawking: taking him into zero gravity. He shares his remembrance of th…

Published on 7 years, 5 months ago