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American Museum of Science and Energy

Produced from the American Museum of Science and Energy, AMSEcast invites guests from the world of science, literature, and technology to share unique perspectives from the realm of the highly trained and curiously minded.

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55:35

AMSEcast with Dewaine Speaks and Ray Smith

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2022/01/17

On this episode we discuss the incredible efforts of East Tennesseans and the inhabitants of the former “Secret City” during the Manhattan Project, World War Two, and beyond. Dewaine Speaks, and Ray Smith, they are long time associates, both authors and historians on their own. In this discussion we dive into the characters, efforts, and vitalization of a region and the nation.

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01:09:12

AMSEcast with guest Paul Sen

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2022/01/10

After studying engineering at Cambridge University, Paul Sen became an award-winning television and film producer of science programs such as Triumph of the Nerds and Gravity and Me. He is the author of Einstein’s Fridge: How the Difference Between Hot and Cold Explains the Universe.

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24:53

AMSEcast with guest Karen Lloyd

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2022/01/03

Associate Professor at the University of Tennessee – Knoxville, Department of Microbiology College of Arts & Sciences. Dr. Lloyd’s Deep Subsurface biosphere research is vital to determining where and how subsurface microorganisms exist, consume and produce energy on the fringes of survivability.

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01:06:30

AMSEcast with guest John Tresch

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2021/12/27

Professor and Mellon Chair in History of Art, Science, and Folk Practice at the Warburg Institute, John Tresch is the author of The Reason for the Darkness of the Night Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science. This book peels back the curtains on Poe’s life as someone whose life has been surrounded and formed by his passion and fascination for the sciences. A debunker and sometimes fraudster himself, science was always Poe’s first mistress.

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41:18

AMSEcast with guest Raphael Rosen

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2021/12/20

Author of Math Geek: From Klein Bottles to Chaos Theory, a Guide to the Nerdiest Math Facts, Theorems, and Equations, Rosen is a science communications associate at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and was inspired to write while working at the San Francisco Exploratorium.

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01:02:25

AMSEcast with guest Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson

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2021/11/19

The author of Extraordinary Insects The Fabulous, Indispensable Creatures Who Run Our World, shares the marvels of the insect world.

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47:12

AMSEcast with guest Ryan North

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2021/11/08

In this episode, Ryan North, author of How to Invent Everything, and the creator and author of Dinosaur Comics, along with haven written for the comic series of Adventure Time and Marvel Comics' The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, while his works have won multiple Eisner Awards and Harvey Awards, manages to drop in to chat about the wonders of having the ability to invent everything.

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28:05

AMSEcast with guest Allen Packwood

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2021/10/25

Allen Packwood OBE is a Fellow of Churchill College at Cambridge University and Director of the Churchill Archives Centre. He has authored and edited many publications related to Churchill and has lectured extensively in the United Kingdom and the United States. IN this conversation with American Museum of Science and Energy Director, Alan Lowe discuss one of their favorite Brits, Winston Chruchill.

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35:45

AMSEcast with guest Nathalia Holt

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2021/10/11

Nathalia Holt, Ph.D. is the New York Times bestselling author of The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History, two other books, and numerous publications.

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38:42

AMSEcast with guest Andy Weir

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2021/09/27

The son of a physicist and electrical engineer, at 15, he began working as a computer programmer for Sandia National Laboratories. In 2016 Andy Weir received the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer for his story the Martian.

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57:18

AMSEcast with guest Joyce Chaplin

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2021/09/13

Author of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius (2006), Joyce E. Chaplin has written three other nonfiction books and finds herself at Harvard University as the James Duncan Phillips Professor of History.

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45:18

AMSEcast with guest Paul Bookout

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2021/08/23

Paul Bookout has been a manager at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center since the early 2000s with extensive work in deep space habitats and rocketry, including the Space Launch System currently being developed by NASA.

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41:12

Kit Chapman

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2021/08/09

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53:36

AMSEcast with guest: Denise Kiernan

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2021/07/26

An award-winning journalist and historian, Denise talks with us about her wonderfully insightful book The Girls of Atomic City, which was a New York Times bestseller in its first week of publication.

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01:15:52

David Hanson

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2021/07/12

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36:28

AMSEcast with guest Jim Walther

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2021/06/28

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41:21

AMSEcast with Jay Hakes

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2021/06/14

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43:46

AMSEcast with guest Heino Falcke

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2021/05/24

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.

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52:37

AMSEcast with guest Susan Wise Bauer

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2021/05/10

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.

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50:56

AMSEcast w/ Emily Gibson from NSF

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2021/04/26

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.

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