My Amazonian Adventure
This Christmas I was invited to the Tambopata Research Center in Peru. Here’s my vlog about the amazing research happening there.
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One Entangled Evening
Last month I had the honor of performing with Caltech physicist John Preskill at One Entangled Evening–a show celebrating the future of quantum computing. Nobel laureates, billionaires, sparkly dresses–what more could you want? Watch Highlights From the Show Oh, plus there was this: Paul Rudd. Stephen Hawking. Chess. Cats. Need I say more?
It’s All Relative
Shakespeare famously wrote, All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players. Little did he know that for the next 300 years, physicists would view the universe in a similar way. “[Classical] physics was like a play,” says theoretical physicist (and my good friend) Sean Carroll. There was a stage, and there were actors. …
Reboot the Suit: A chance to preserve a piece of Space history.
Inspiring a new generation of Scientists and Science/ Space Enthusiasts is one of our goals as Scirens. So we were thrilled when we were contacted about the Smithsonian’s new Kickstarter endeavor to preserve and display Neil Armstrong’s spacesuit from the Apollo 11 lunar mission! If successfully funded, the suit will be preserved and digitized, to then go …
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The Scirens & Cara Santa Maria
It’s official: all of the Scirens have had the pleasure of talking nerdy with our friend Cara Santa Maria. If you haven’t listened to all the episodes, they’re posted below.
Thanks, Cara, for the intellectual stimulation and the laughs!!