AMSEcast

A noted professor of radio astronomy and astroparticle physics and led the inter- national effort that gave the world the first-ever image of a black hole. His new book is Light in the Darkness: Black Holes, the Universe, and Us.

Susan, who spends most of her time writing in her restored chicken shed and running her four companies and works as a faculty member at the College of William and Mary along with lecturing regularly on writing, education joins Alan to discuss her literary efforts.

Emily Gibson is a historian of science and technology and
a science policy analyst at NSF in Alexandria, Virginia. She
is currently writing a book on the history of the agency.

New York Times best-selling author of the Kopp Sisters series and, where our conversation begins, nonfiction titles include The Drunken Botanist, Wicked Plants, and Flower Confidential and host Alan Lowe chat about the fascinating world of plants and their many sciences.

Los Alamos National Laboratory Director Thom Mason shares
his early influences and discusses how experiments progress into the commercial market. Along the way there's some talk of physics, supercomputing, and the betterment of humanity.

Dr. Radenbaugh is a planetary scientist and professor at Brigham Young University.  She has teamed up often with NASA on projects such as the Cassini Mission to Saturn’s moon, Titan.  On this episode of AMSEcast, she discusses her research and her thoughts on Earth and other amazing planets.