David Quammen is a recipient of the Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the author of several acclaimed natural history titles. His book, The Song of the Dodo, won the BP Natural World Book Prize in 1996. His most recent book is Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic.
February 8, 2013
On a warm spring day in Brooklyn, Neil attempts to interview astrophysicist Lucianne Walkowicz in the sculpture garden of the Pratt Institute, until the weather intervenes. Lucianne Walkowicz is the Henry Norris Russell Fellow in the Department of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton, and a 2012 TED Senior Fellow. She studies stellar magnetic activity and its effects on […]
February 1, 2013
Maria Konnikova was born in Moscow and grew up in the United States. She writes the weekly Literally Psychedcolumn for Scientific American, and formerly wrote the popular psychology blog Artful Choice for Big Think. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University, where she studied psychology, creative writing, and government. She also holds an MPhil in psychology and an […]
January 25, 2013
This is the first of a new monthly strand of Little Atoms interviews in which Neil Denny talks to the hosts of some of his favorite podcasts. Ken Plume is the proprietor of A Site Called Fred, and the host of numerous podcasts. An expert, some would say an obsessive, on British and American comedy, Ken […]
January 18, 2013
Caspar Henderson is a journalist and writer who has worked for the Financial Times, the Independent, and the New Scientist. From 2002 to 2005 he was a senior editor at OpenDemocracy. He received the Roger Deakin Award from the Society of Authors in 2009, and the Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award in 2010. Caspar Henderson […]
December 21, 2012
Aaron James holds a PhD from Harvard and is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Irvine. Aaron has published in several professional journals, including Philosophy and Public Affairs and Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, and has given numerous lectures at universities both in the US and abroad. He was awarded the Burkhardt fellowship from […]
December 7, 2012
Michael Nevin is one of the country’s most experienced and respected applied economists. After working as an economist for the Government of St Lucia in the late 1970’s, he worked as an investment analyst with the Commonwealth Development Corporation in London in the early 1980’s. He returned to the UK in 1986 to serve as Financial […]
November 30, 2012
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 […]
February 8, 2013
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