This is a two part show recorded at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico. In the first part of the show Neil talks to LANL historian Alan Carr at the Bradbury Science Museum in central Los Alamos about the history of the town and the labs central role in the Manhattan Project. The second part of the show looks […]
August 17, 2012
Charles Fernyhough is a writer and psychologist. The Baby in the Mirror, his book about his daughter’s psychological development, was translated into seven languages. He has also written two novels, The Auctioneer a A Box of Birds. He is a Reader in Psychology at Durham University and has written for the Guardian, Financial Times and Sunday Telegraph. His latest book is Pieces […]
August 17, 2012
This is the only interview in the Road Trip series conducted over the telephone. Neil was supposed to meet up with Ian Tattersall when he visited the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, but a late change in plans meant that the interview recorded from Neil’s hotel room in Chicago. Ian Tattersall was until […]
August 10, 2012
Andrew Blum writes about Architecture, infrastructure and technology for many publications, including the New Yorker, The New York Times, Slate and Popular Science. He is a correspondent for Wired and a contributing editor to Metropolis. His first book is Tubes: Behind the Scenes at the Internet.
August 10, 2012
While in New York City, Neil attended a few events at the World Science Festival, including one at which a speaker was astrophysicist Britt Reichborn-Kjennerud. Before the talk Neil met up with Britt at her office at Columbia University and recorded this podcast. Britt Reichborn-Kjennerud received her PhD from Columbia University in 2010. During her graduate […]
August 3, 2012
Neil visits the University of California, Irvine and talks with Francisco Ayala in this episode. Francisco Ayala is University Professor and Donald Bren Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. He received his Ph.D. in genetics from Columbia University. Ayala has been president and chairman of the Board of the American Association for the […]
August 31, 2012
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