While in Cambridge, Massachusetts, home of Harvard University and MIT, Neil spent an afternoon at the home of Ig Nobel Prize founder Marc Abrahams.  Marc Abrahams is editor and co-founder of the science humour magazine Annals of Improbable Research and its website Improbable.com. He is the founder and master of ceremonies of the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, honouring achievements […]

This is a two part show recorded at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico. In the first part of the show Neil talks to LANL historian Alan Carr at the Bradbury Science Museum in central Los Alamos about the history of the town and the labs central role in the Manhattan Project. The second part of the show looks […]

This is the only interview in the Road Trip series conducted over the telephone. Neil was supposed to meet up with Ian Tattersall when he visited the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, but a late change in plans meant that the interview recorded from Neil’s hotel room in Chicago. Ian Tattersall was until […]

While in New York City, Neil attended a few events at the World Science Festival, including one at which a speaker was astrophysicist Britt Reichborn-Kjennerud. Before the talk Neil met up with Britt at her office at Columbia University and recorded this podcast. Britt Reichborn-Kjennerud received her PhD from Columbia University in 2010. During her graduate […]

Neil visits the University of California, Irvine and talks with Francisco Ayala in this episode. Francisco Ayala is University Professor and Donald Bren Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. He received his Ph.D. in genetics from Columbia University. Ayala has been president and chairman of the Board of the American Association for the […]

During his visit to Caltech in Pasadena, Neil spoke briefly to Theoretical Physicist Kip Thorne. Kip Thorne was a student of the late John Wheeler, the renowned Princeton physicist who coined the term ‘black hole’. he was the Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) until 2009 and one of the world’s leading experts on the astrophysical […]

While in New York City, Neil pays a visit to the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History, where he talks with Neil deGrasse Tyson. Neil deGrasse Tyson was born and raised in New York City where he was educated in the public schools right through to his graduation from the Bronx High School […]

This episode sees Neil making a visit to Asheville in North Carolina and talking with writer DeLene Beeland. DeLene Beeland is a freelance writer on science and nature, and the author of The Secret World of Red Wolves: A True Story of North America’s Other Wolf. This explores the natural history of red wolves from their evolutionary origins, to their […]

In this episode, Neil Travels to Glen Ellen, in Northern California and meets with musician and naturalist Bernie Krause. A former member of seminal folk band The Weavers, (he replaced Pete Seeger as guitarist), Bernie Krause became a pioneer of electronic music, studying at Mills College under Karlheinz Stockhausen and Pauline Oliveros, and later popularised the Moog synthesizer. As part of the duo […]

In this Road Trip podcast, Neil Denny pays a visit to Leonard Susskind in Palo Alto, California. Leonard Susskind has been the Felix Bloch Professor in theoretical physics at Stanford University since 1978. He is a member of the National Academy of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the recipient of numerous prizes including the […]