Monthly Archives: January 2015

New Books in Astronomy: Bill Sheehan and Chris Conselice, Galactic Encounters

Posted on January 29th, 2015

This past month has been really crazy with all of the podcasts, but I’m finally catching up with my New Books in Astronomy interviews. In the latest episode, I talked with William Sheehan and Christopher Conselice, co-authors of a new book called Galactic Encounters: Our Majestic and Evolving Star-System, From the Big Bang to Time’s End.  I really enjoyed […]

Posted in Extra Credit, NBN Episodes

Manh(a)ttan Brings Nuclear Physics to Primetime (Physics Central Podcast)

Posted on January 28th, 2015

Of all the new television shows to premiere last fall, my favorite was Manhattan, a fictionalized retelling of the development of nuclear weapons at Los Alamos during WWII.  As a historian of 20th-century science and as the curator for the Tolman/Bacher House at Caltech (both Tolman and Bacher played large roles in the Manhattan Project […]

Posted in Extra Credit, Physics Central

New Books in Astronomy: David Rothery, Planet Mercury

Posted on January 22nd, 2015

With one spacecraft coming to an end of its mission in March, and another set to launch in 2016, it’s an exciting time for Mercury.  I sat down with David Rothery of the Open University last month to discuss his new book, Planet Mercury: From Pale Pink Dot to Dynamic World for New Books in Astronomy. The […]

Posted in Extra Credit, NBN Episodes

Citizen Science: Answering the Call (Physics Central Podcast)

Posted on January 21st, 2015

The last two months have been really busy, and I’m just beginning to catch up! Here’s a podcast I did for Physics Central on a few physics-themed citizen science projects that are enlisting the help of the public to sift through large datasets. In the case of Planet Hunters, the quarry is extrasolar planets that […]

Posted in Extra Credit, Physics Central