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Science Of The TimesPlanet Hunters: Secrets of the Exoplanet BoomTim and Syma talk to Ray Pirrehumbert, author of Planetary Systems: A Very Short Introduction, about planets orbiting far away stars. They learn how these distant objects that we will never visit are detect, a little bit about a few of them, and how we might detect life on a far-away planet. If you are interested where aliens might live, this is the podcast episode for you.Ray's Book:https://global.oup.com/academic/product/planetary-systems-9780198841128?cc=gb&lang=en&Ray's Bluesky:https://bsky.app/profile/climatebook.bsky.socialOur sponsor...
2025-07-3140 min
ClimateGenn hosted by Nick BreezeThe Damocles World: Professor Raymond Pierrehumbert on the Dangers of Solar GeoengineeringIn this ClimateGenn episode I am speaking with Professor Raymond Pierrehumbert, who is the Halley Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford about solar geoengineering. He and Professor Michael E. Mann from Pennsylvania University coauthored an article in The Guardian on the 12th March 2025 titled:‘The UK’s gamble on solar geoengineering is like using aspirin for cancer’."We shouldn't be actively creating harm. And the first line of defence is to actually not at least have governments and philanthropy funding these outdoor experimentations."Professor PierrehumbertHere we delve deeper into Ra...
2025-04-0340 min
Inquiring Minds48 K Clancy, R Nelson, J Rutherford, & K Hinde - The Epidemic of Harassment in Scientific Field WorkOne of the most difficult parts of getting a Ph.D. is finishing your dissertation. Beyond the mountain of work a dissertation requires, graduate students also have to face feelings of inadequacy, disappointment, and anxiety about the looming job search. Sometimes, they need a gentle, supportive push to quit stressing about every last comma and—after years of blood, sweat, and tears— finally turn it in.So when Kate Clancy, an anthropologist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, chided an old friend who was still a graduate student about taking that last step to finish her thesis, she...
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