Interview w/ Dr. Alex Himmel from FermiLab,CRISPR Babies, Climate Bugs, Star People, Whale Wax, Zombie Spiders, Climate Assessment, InSight, Ion Wind Power, Passing Legos, And Much More…

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DISCLAIMER, DISCLAIMER, DISCLAIMER!!!

Depending on how you arrived at this moment

you may have been told

that your existence was preceded by one or more of the following events…

A lump of clay fashioned just so

An extra rib put to better use

A delivery stork (that’s the one my grandmother told me)

A bolt of lightning into a pool of muck

A sperm an egg and an ancient ape

Or…

That you are simply made up of star stuff

As Carl Sagan once put it…

“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars.”

And while the answers to what we are made of and where we come from

are both mysterious to many and mostly known to science…

There are still gigantic questions left un answered

Often at the most minuscule of scales…

And tonight, we will find out once and for all, what some of those questions are

Here on

This week in science,

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Interview w/ Dr. Alex Himmel:

Dr. Himmel is an Associate Scientist at FermiLab on the NOvA and DUNE projects, and a Wilson Fellow, having received a 2017 DOE Early Career Research Award to optimize neutrino oscillation deciphering software. And, he’s been at this particle physics thing for a while now –...