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Dr. Avi Loeb is a professor of science at Harvard University. He Avi obtained his Ph.D. in physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He led the first international project supported by the Strategic Defense Initiative and was a member for many years of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. He was the longest serving chair of Harvard's Department of Astronomy and founded Harvard's Black Hole Initiative. Today he serves as the director of the Institute for Theory and Computation in the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and serves as the head of the Galileo Project. Avi has been elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Service as chair of the Board on Physics and Astronomy at the National Academy of Sciences and Service on the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology is widely published as the author of nearly 1000 articles and eight books. Today, we'll focus a bit on his 2021 book titled Extraterrestrial The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth. But our main focus will be on his terrific new book, Interstellar The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future in the Stars.

AMSE Science Report with guest David Kaiser

AMSE Science Report with guest Lydia Kang

Dr. Lydia Kang is a physician with degrees from Columbia University and the New York University School of Medicine, but making me feel extraordinarily lazy. On top of all that, she is a prolific author of young adult fiction, poetry and nonfiction, and with the latter with nonfiction. She has written several books, including Pseudoscience A Strange History of How Not to Think Quackery, A Brief History of the Worst Cures for Everything, and the book we're going to discuss today that she co-wrote with Nate Peterson, titled Patient Zero A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases.

Will Carol serves as the director of bio Analytics at Northstar as an advisory board member for Long Ball Labs and lead writer of Under the Knife and past years, he's held a number of roles in institutions like GM, Cox Media, Bleacher Report and Sports Illustrated. He's the author of Saving the Pitcher Preventing Pitcher Injuries and Modern Baseball The Juice The Real Story of Baseball's Drug Problems. And the two books are going to discuss today The Science of Baseball, the Math technology and data behind the Great American pastime and the science of football, the math technology and data behind America's Game.

Nina Kraus is the Hugh Knowles professor of communication Sciences, neurobiology and otolaryngology at Northwestern University with her B.A. from Swarthmore College and her Ph.D. in neuroscience from Northwestern.

Nina directs the Brain Bolts Laboratory. She's written over 400 articles and is the author of the book We're going to discuss today of Sound Mind how Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World.

AMSE Science Report with guest Marilyn Johnson

AMSE Science Report with guest Jack Riggs