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Episodes

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 13, 2024

AMSEcast with guest Kate Winkler Dawson

Discover the life of the man who pioneered the science our legal system now relies upon–as well as the limits of those techniques and the very human experts who wield them.

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June 11, 2024

AMSEcast with guest Dr. Aarathi Prasad

At the intersection of science, history, and culture today we discuss Dr. Prasad's latest work, "Silk: A World History," which examines the impact of silk on human civilization and its potential future applications.

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June 10, 2024

AMSE Science Report with Charles Wheelan

Stripping the Dread from the Data

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June 3, 2024

AMSE Science Report with Jim Holt

Why is there something rather than nothing?

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June 3, 2024

AMSEcast with guest Dr. Eric Jay Dolan

The history of studying hurricanes in the United States, the advances that have been made in predicting and tracking them, as well as what we can expect from them in future due to our changing climate.

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June 3, 2024

AMSEcast with guest Dr. Richard Ellis

From the Hubble Telescope to work in observatories across the globe his recent book titled When Galaxies Were Born: The Quest for Cosmic Dawn, explores the moment in the history of the universe when galaxies first emerged from darkness.

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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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May 1, 2024

AMSEcast with guest Guru Madhavan

Author Guru Madhavan: Wicked Problems: How to Engineer a Better World

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May 1, 2024

AMSEcast with guest Jim Holt

Enjoy a comprehensive yet accessible look into the theories and thoughts that deliberate about the universe's very foundation.

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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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April 29, 2024

AMSE Science Report with guest Dan Falk

Science, science and science

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April 28, 2024

AMSE Science Report with guest Andrew Chaikin

Space historian, that should be enough to make you listen

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April 27, 2024

AMSE Science Report with guest Will Carroll

The science of baseball and football

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April 26, 2024

AMSE Science Report with guest Alanna Mitchell

The Electromagnetic Force that Created the Modern World – and Could Destroy It

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April 25, 2024

AMSE Science Report Bethany Brookshire

How Humans Create Animal Villains

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April 24, 2024

AMSE Science Report with guest Raphael Rosen

Math Geek: From Klein Bottles to Chaos Theory, a Guide to the Nerdiest Math Facts, Theorems, and Equations.

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April 1, 2024

AMSEcast with guest Peter Alagona

What happens when humans share their space and resources (habitats) with other species

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April 1, 2024

AMSEcast with guest Joel Levy

AMSEcast with guest Joel Levy

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April 1, 2024

AMSEcast with guest Kathy McCarthy

Next-generation fission technology is on its way!

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April 1, 2024

AMSEcast with guest Dr. Andrew Knoll

Natural History, Earth and Planetary Sciences, oh my!

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Feb. 6, 2024

AMSEcast with guest Dr. Paul Kearns

The Director of Argonne National Laboratory joins us on this episode of AMSEcast

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