Ross Andersen is the deputy editor of Aeon Magazine.

“One of the things that’s been really refreshing in dealing with scientists—as opposed to say politicians or most business people—is that scientists are wonderfully candid, they’ll talk shit on their colleagues. They’re just firing on all cylinders all the time because they traffic in ideas, and that’s what’s important to them.”

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Show Notes:

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Andersen on Longform

[2:00] Aeon on Longorm

[5:00] "Zapped" (Mary H.K. Choi • Aeon • Sept 2013)

[5:00] "Awaiting Renewal" (Heather Havrilesky • Aeon• July 2013)

[5:00] "Brigid Hains on the Launch of Aeon" (Interview by Catherine Balavage • Frost Magazine • Oct 2012)

[11:00] "Are We Alone?" (Caleb Scharf • Aeon • June 2013)

[14:00] "In The Beginning" (Aeon • May 2015)

[15:00] Andersen’s Atlantic archive

[20:00] "Gravitational-Wave Detectors Get Ready to Hunt for the Big Bang" (Ross Andersen • Scientific American • Oct 2013)

[21:00] "Golden Eye" (Los Angeles Review of Books • Feb 2012)

[23:00] The Elegant Universe (W. W. Norton & Company • 1999)

[24:00] "Are We Disappointed with Space Exploration?” (The Atlantic • April 2011)

[27:00] "The Vanishing Groves” (Aeon • Oct 2012)

[29:00] "Talk Like an Egyptian” (Grayson Clary • Aeon • Dec 2014)

[30:00] "Exodus" (Aeon • Sept 2014)

[33:00] "Elon Musk: Triumph of His Will" (Tom Junod • Esquire • Nov 2012)

[35:00] Hamish McKenzie

[38:00] "Is Cosmology Having a Creative Crisis?" (Aeon • May 2015)

[44:00] Orion Magazine

[45:00] "Why Hawaiians are Protesting Construction of the World’s Second Largest Telescope" (Joseph Stromberg • Vox • May 2015)

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