Do you know where your electricity comes from? Dr. Anna Schneider does! She’s the co-founder and CTO of WattTime, a nonprofit that enables smart devices to automatically sync the times they use power from the energy grid to moments of very clean electricity. We chat about her journey from graduate school to running an eco-friendly energy start-up. Go listen. It’s […]
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All entangled up: Quantum physics for the average nerd
I don’t think I’d be wrong in saying that quantum mechanics, and quantum computing specifically, is not an easy topic for people to wrap their heads around. And I don’t mean for just non-science people, but even for those with Ph.Ds in equally complicated subject areas. But this week I got one step closer to […]
Girl meets STEM (and let’s hope she stays)
Confession time. I’ve never truly outgrown my tween-girl phase. Sure, by day I play a super serious aerospace engineering professor, but deep down, my true inner self is singing along to every Taylor Swift heartbreak song, dreaming about my future marriage to JC Chasez from *N SYNC. Justin Timberlake would be best man, of course. […]
The confidence factor
Here’s something that might surprise you: One of biggest hurdles we face getting guests on our podcast is not stage fright or scheduling conflicts but confidence. We send a lot of emails to friends, friends of friends and women we have some tangential connection to in order to convince them to take an hour out of […]
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(Micro)bio – Meet Tiffany Gasbarrini
Happiest of new years, dearest listeners! To ease in to 2016, we present to you another installment of our (Micro)bio series. It’s only three minutes! So grab a cup of coffee, sit back, and learn all about Tiffany Gasbarrini, Senior Editor for Power, Energy and Sustainability Engineering at Springer Nature.
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Herpes: The virus we may not want to hate so much
For decades we have known that microbes cause many diseases known to plague us as humans (did you see what I did there?). It’s easy to identify the microbes that cause disease but it’s harder to identify the microbes that do not harm us or more interestingly the ones that actually benefit our survival. Now some resourceful folks […]
Episode 14: The (High School) Science Fair
Lads and lasses, welcome back for another exciting episode. Today, for your listening pleasure, we delve into the world of high school science with Diana Gibson, a teacher at a Washington, D.C. charter school. Join our discussion about the differences between teaching teenagers and adults, Bigfoot, and 3D printing. Oh, and lots, lots more. Happy […]
Picture of the day: Hubble Uncovering the Secrets of the Quintuplet Cluster
Credit: ESA/NASA Although this cluster of stars gained its name due to its five brightest stars, it is home to hundreds more. The huge number of massive young stars in the cluster is clearly captured in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. The cluster is located close to the Arches Cluster and is just 100 […]
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Did you hear? Pentaquarks!
If you weren’t too busy waiting for photos of Pluto, you might have heard some news coming out of CERN, Geneva, this week. LHCb, an experiment based at the Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator there, announced that it had found evidence for a completely new type of particle – a pentaquark. That might sound slightly […]
Episode 9: The (Mars) Schedule Makers
Dearest listeners, we’re so happy to be back with a brand new episode. Today’s guest is Shannon Mihaly, a Mission Operations engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Shannon is a science planner and mission controller for the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). Want to know how Will.i.am plays a critical* role in NASA operations? Listen and […]