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Recent Guests

Andrew Jaffe
Cosmologist, Director of the Imperial Center for Inference and Cosmology
Imperial Astrophysics
Episode: Andrew H. Jaffe, "The Random Universe: How Models and Probability Help Us Make Sense of the Cosmos" (Yale UP, 2025)
Carl Benedikt Frey
Dieter Schwartz Associate Professor of AI and Work at the Oxford Internet Institute
Oxford University
Episode: Carl Benedikt Frey, "How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Dr. Jonas Enander
Science journalist, science writer, and author of 'Facing Infinity'
Episode: Facing Infinity: Black Holes and Our Place on Earth
Craig Hogan
Astrophysicist at the University of Chicago and former director of the Fermilab Center for Particle Astrophysics
University of Chicago
Episode: Craig Hogan, "The Unlikely Primeval Sky" (American Scientist, November-December)
Eduardo Mercado III
Professor of psychology at the University of Buckeye, SUNY, and author of Why Whales Sing
Johns Hopkins University Press
Episode: Eduardo Mercado III, "Why Whales Sing" (JHU Press, 2025)
Shobita Satyapal
Co-author of Supermassive: Black Holes at the Beginning and End of the Universe
George Mason University
Episode: James Trefil and Shobita Satyapal, "Supermassive: Black Holes at the Beginning and End of the Universe" (Smithsonian Books, 2025)
Marcus Chown
Formerly a radio astronomer at California Institute of Technology and current cosmology consultant for New Scientist.
Apollo
Episode: Marcus Chown, "A Crack in Everything: How Black Holes Came in from the Cold and Took Cosmic Centre Stage" (Apollo, 2025)
Vlatko Vedral
Professor of physics at the University of Oxford, known for his theoretical work and experimental collaborations on quantum information and entanglement.
University of Oxford
Episode: Vlatko Vedral, "Portals to a New Reality: Five Pathways to the Future of Physics" (Basic Books, 2025)
Brian Potter
Author of The Origins of Efficiency and senior infrastructure fellow at the Institute for Progress
Institute for Progress
Episode: Brian Potter, "The Origins of Efficiency" (Stripe Press, 2025)

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Gregory McNiff
Host of New Books Network and New Books in Science.
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Jon Willis, "The Pale Blue Data Point: An Earth-Based Perspective on the Search for Alien Life" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Q: Why did you write The Pale Blue Datapoint and who is the target reader?
I wrote it to explain what an astrobiologist does on a day-to-day level and to address questions about the search for alien life. The target readers are public audiences, students, and anyone interested in astrobiology.
Andrew H. Jaffe, "The Random Universe: How Models and Probability Help Us Make Sense of the Cosmos" (Yale UP, 2025)
Q: What is the relationship between a scientific theory and observation?
A scientific theory is not just about collecting data; we all have built-in models that help us interpret and understand the world around us.
Andrew H. Jaffe, "The Random Universe: How Models and Probability Help Us Make Sense of the Cosmos" (Yale UP, 2025)
Q: Why did you write 'The Random Universe' and who is the target reader?
I wrote this book for non-scientists who want to know about cosmology and how we do science in general.
Eduardo Mercado III, "Why Whales Sing" (JHU Press, 2025)
Q: Can you explain what the scientific community consensus is regarding whale songs and why?
The general consensus is that humpback whales sing as a sexual display, mainly for males seeking to attract females, though there are differing opinions on the exact goals of these songs.
Eduardo Mercado III, "Why Whales Sing" (JHU Press, 2025)
Q: Could you talk a little bit about your background?
I began my career in electrical engineering at IBM but shifted to studying how different systems process information, which eventually led me to explore dolphin and whale cognition.

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