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AMSE Science Report Episodes

Dec. 21, 2024

AMSE Science Report The Physics of Santa

Santa's madcap meteoric flight

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Dec. 14, 2024

AMSE Science Report with guest Eric Jay Dolin

Author Eric Jay Dolin discusses topics from his book, A Furious Sky: The 500 Year History of America’s Hurricanes

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Dec. 3, 2024

AMSE Science Report with guest Camper English

Doctors and Distillers: The Remarkable Medicinal History of Beer, Wine, Spirits, and Cocktails by author Camper English

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Dec. 3, 2024

AMSE Science Report with Carl Zimmer

The Search for What It Means to Be Alive with author Carl Zimmer

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Nov. 4, 2024

AMSE Science Report with guest Luis Elizondo

A truly incredible, candid, eye-opening conversation with Luis Elizondo

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Nov. 4, 2024

AMSE Science Report Sava Sobel

Dava Sobel is an American writer of popular expositions of scientific topics. Her books include , about English clockmaker ; , about 's daughter ; and The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the...

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Nov. 4, 2024

AMSE Science Report with Ian McNeely

The collection and use of knowledge

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Oct. 1, 2024

AMSE Science Report with author Seirian Sumner

Author of The Secret World of Wasps

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Oct. 1, 2024

AMSE Science Report Sally Adee, author of We Are Electric: Inside the…

explores the ways our bioelectrical makeup is central to our lives

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Sept. 3, 2024

AMSE Science Report with guest Jon Butterworth

Higgs Boson and the world of particle physics

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Sept. 3, 2024

AMSE Science Report with guest Kate Winkler Dawson

The forensic tools and methods of today

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Sept. 3, 2024

AMSE Science Report with guest author Andy Weir

The Martian author talks sci-fi influences

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Sept. 3, 2024

AMSE Science Report with Author Andrew Knoll

A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters.

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Sept. 2, 2024

AMSE Science Report with guest Guru Madhavan

Guru Madhavan discusses his newest book titled Wicked Problems: How to Engineer A Better World.

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Aug. 17, 2024

AMSE Science Report with Giulio Boccaletti

We discuss Giulio Boccaletti's book, Water: A Biography which shows how water has helped shape our lives and our civilizations

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Aug. 10, 2024

AMSE Science Report with Jon Gertner

A brief discussion with with Jon Gertner about his book, The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation

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July 20, 2024

AMSE Science Report with guest Ernest Freeberg

AMSE Science Report with guest Ernest Freeberg

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June 16, 2024

AMSE Science Report_ with guest Steve Olson

Steve Olson, the author of Mapping Human History: Genes, Race and our Common Origins is the guest.

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June 3, 2024

AMSE Science Report with Jim Holt

Why is there something rather than nothing?

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May 2, 2024

AMSE Science Report with Laurence Smith

An exploration of the timeless yet underappreciated relationship between rivers and civilization as we know it.

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May 1, 2024

AMSE Science Report with Ben Goldfarb

The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter

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April 30, 2024

AMSE Science Report with Angela Creager

Life Atomic: A History of Radioisotopes in Science and Medicine

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April 30, 2024

AMSE Science Report David Rooney

Spaces of Congestion and Traffic, Politics and Technologies in 20th Century London Mathematics How It Shaped Our World.

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