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Little Atoms 242 – Road Trip 21 – Marc Abrahams

September 7, 2012

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While in Cambridge, Massachusetts, home of Harvard University and MIT, Neil spent an afternoon at the home of Ig Nobel Prize founder Marc Abrahams.  Marc Abrahams is editor and co-founder of the science humour magazine Annals of Improbable Research and its website Improbable.com. He is the founder and master of ceremonies of the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, honouring achievements […]

Little Atoms 241 – Road Trip 20 – Los Alamos National Laboratory

August 31, 2012

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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 […]

Little Atoms 239 – Road Trip 19 – Ian Tattersall

August 17, 2012

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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 […]

Little Atoms 237 – Road Trip 18 – Britt Reichborn-Kjennerud

August 10, 2012

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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 […]

Little Atoms 236 – Road Trip 17 – Francisco Ayala

August 3, 2012

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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 […]

Little Atoms 235 – Road Trip 16 – Kip Thorne

July 27, 2012

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During his visit to Caltech in Pasadena, Neil spoke briefly to Theoretical Physicist Kip Thorne. Kip Thorne was a student of the late John Wheeler, the renowned Princeton physicist who coined the term ‘black hole’. he was the Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) until 2009 and one of the world’s leading experts on the astrophysical […]

Little Atoms 234 – Road Trip 15 – Neil deGrasse Tyson

July 24, 2012

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While in New York City, Neil pays a visit to the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History, where he talks with Neil deGrasse Tyson. Neil deGrasse Tyson was born and raised in New York City where he was educated in the public schools right through to his graduation from the Bronx High School […]

Little Atoms 232 – Road Trip 14 – DeLene Beeland

July 17, 2012

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This episode sees Neil making a visit to Asheville in North Carolina and talking with writer DeLene Beeland. DeLene Beeland is a freelance writer on science and nature, and the author of The Secret World of Red Wolves: A True Story of North America’s Other Wolf. This explores the natural history of red wolves from their evolutionary origins, to their […]

Little Atoms 231 – Road Trip 13 – Bernie Krause

July 13, 2012

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In this episode, Neil Travels to Glen Ellen, in Northern California and meets with musician and naturalist Bernie Krause. A former member of seminal folk band The Weavers, (he replaced Pete Seeger as guitarist), Bernie Krause became a pioneer of electronic music, studying at Mills College under Karlheinz Stockhausen and Pauline Oliveros, and later popularised the Moog synthesizer. As part of the duo […]

Little Atoms 229 – Road Trip 12 – Leonard Susskind

July 8, 2012

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In this Road Trip podcast, Neil Denny pays a visit to Leonard Susskind in Palo Alto, California. Leonard Susskind has been the Felix Bloch Professor in theoretical physics at Stanford University since 1978. He is a member of the National Academy of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the recipient of numerous prizes including the […]