Jesse Bering is a regular contributor to Scientific American and Slate, and his writing has also been featured in many other sources, including New York Magazine, The Guardian and The New Republic. Jesse is the former director of the Institute of Cognition and Culture at Queen’s University, Belfast and began his career as a psychology professor […]
November 27, 2012
This show was recorded behind the scenes at the American Museum of Natural History at Central Park West in New York. There are three interviews with curators working at the museum. Ross MacPhee is a curator of Vertebrate Zoology in the Department of Mammalogy at the American Museum of Natural History. Known for his paleomammalogical research on island extinctions, he […]
November 23, 2012
Matthew Hutson has a degree in cognitive neuroscience from Brown University and a Masters in science writing from MIT. He’s written for The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, Wired, Discover, Scientific American Mind, Popular Mechanics, The Boston Globe,and Psychology Today, where he spent four years as an editor. Matthew is the author of The 7 Laws of Magical […]
November 22, 2012
In Cambridge, Mass. on his last day recording interviews, Neil paid a visit to writer Leslie Brunetta. Leslie Brunetta is a freelance writer whose articles have appeared in the New York Times, as well as on NPR and elsewhere. An English graduate of both Princeton and St. Catherine’s College, Oxford, she is the co-author of Spider Silk: Evolution […]
November 17, 2012
While passing through North Carolina, Neil paid a visit to Duke University in Durham, and spent a great afternoon talking to geneticist Misha Angrist. Misha Angrist is an assistant professor at the Duke University Institute for Genomic Sciences and Policy. His doctoral and postdoctoral work was in human genetics, and he was formerly a board-eligible genetic counselor. Misha […]
November 16, 2012
Jonnie Hughes is a filmmaker in the BBC Natural History Unit and Head of Development for BBC Earth. His documentaries have been shown on the BBC, Discovery and National Geographic Channel. He studied ecology and evolution at the University of Leeds. Jonnie’s first book is On the Origin of Tepees: Why Some Ideas Spread While Others Go […]
November 11, 2012
While in Boston, Neil spent an afternoon at the Church Lab at Harvard Medical School. George Church is a Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Health Sciences & Technology at Harvard and MIT, As well as a director of the U.S. Department of Energy Center on Bioenergy at Harvard & MIT and Director of the Center for Computational […]
November 9, 2012
Conor Woodman is an economist, author, film-maker and presenter. He is the author of Around the World in 80 Trades – which had an accompanying four-part television series for Channel 4. His most recent book was Unfair Trade: How Big Business Exploits the World’s Poor – and Why it Doesn’t Have to, which we discussed on a previous episode of Little […]
November 2, 2012
Giles Sparrow studied Astronomy at University College London, and Science Communication at Imperial College. He is the author of The Universe and How to See It, The Planets and Hubble:Window on the Universe, which was published to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope, and which we talked about on a previous Little Atoms. His latest […]
November 30, 2012
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