Little Atoms Road Trip

In this episode, Neil visits the University of Chicago and spends some time in the company of Jerry Coyne. Jerry Coyne is a professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Chicago, where he works on diverse areas of evolutionary genetics. His research focuses on the origin of new species, using the fruit fly (Drosophila) […]

In this episode, Neil pays a visit to the BEYOND Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. BEYOND is a pioneering center devoted to investigating the big questions of science and philosophy. Things like how the universe came to exist, where the laws of nature came from, how life began. The center is […]

While spending the day at Caltech, in Pasadena, CA. Neil spent some time talking with the former Director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Edward Stone. Edward Stone joined Caltech as a research fellow in physics after receiving his Master of Science degree and Ph.D. in physics at the University of Chicago. Over the years, he held a variety of […]

The annual conference of the Orange County Freethought Alliance took place over the weekend of May 19th and 20th 2012 at the University of California, Irvine. Neil Denny attended the conference on the Saturday 19th May and talked to some of the speakers. This podcast features five short interviews.  Richard Carrier is a writer for Internet Infidels and a historian of the […]

In this episode, Neil visits the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, and talks to theoretical physicist Sean Carroll. Sean Carroll has written papers on Dark Energy, Dark Matter, the physics of extra dimensions and alternative theories of gravity. He is also one of the founders of the group blog cosmicvariance, named one of the five top science […]

While still in Oakland, California, Neil visits the office of science writer Mary Roach. Mary Roach has written for the Guardian, Vogue, GQ, Salon, Wired, National Geographic and the New York Times Magazine. She is the author of Stiff: The Curious Life of Human Cadavers, Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife and Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Sex and Science. […]

In this week’s podcast, Neil Denny travels to Oakland, California, to the headquarters of the National Center for Science Education to talk to Eugenie Scott. Eugenie Scott is Executive Director of the National Center for Science Education. She has written extensively on the evolution-creationism controversy and is a past president of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. […]

Andrew Snelling has a degree in applied geology from the University of New South Wales, and a doctorate in geology from the University of Sydney. He worked for the Australian mining industry for a number of years, before devoting his life to the study of “creation science“. He joined the Institute for Creation Research in 1998, and began […]

In this episode, Neil gets a guided tour of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and talks to JPL scientist Kevin Hand. Kevin Hand is Deputy Chief Scientist of Solar System Exploration at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He is an astrobiologist and a planetary scientist, most concerned with studying the Jovian moon Europa. This has […]

In the first Interview of the Little Atoms Road Trip series, Neil Denny travelled to Mountain View, In the heart of Silicon Valley, to the SETI Institute, to meet Seth Shostak. Seth Shostak is Senior Astronomer at the SETI (The Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence) Institute. He is a frequent presenter of the Institute’s work in the […]