Little Atoms 673 - Sara Seager's The Smallest Lights in the Universe
Little Atoms26 Helmi 2021

Little Atoms 673 - Sara Seager's The Smallest Lights in the Universe

Sara Seager is an astrophysicist and a professor of physics and planetary science at MIT. She talks about her new memoir The Smallest Lights in the Universe, about juggling being a MacArthur award winning astrophysicist with being a widowed single-mother, and brings Neil up to speed with the latest news in the hunt for exo-planets.

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472: Elena Lappin's What Language Do I Dream In?

472: Elena Lappin's What Language Do I Dream In?

Elena Lappin is a writer and editor. Born in Moscow, she grew up in Prague and Hamburg, and has lived in Israel, Canada, the United States and – longer than anywhere else – in London. She is the autho...

18 Heinä 201743min

471: Rachel McCormack's Chasing the Dram

471: Rachel McCormack's Chasing the Dram

Rachel McCormack is a regular panellist on BBC Radio 4s The Kitchen Cabinet, and has also broadcast on the station's From Our Own Correspondent, the Food Programme and appeared as an expert guest on B...

11 Heinä 201743min

470: Jean Hanff Korelitz & Kanishk Tharoor

470: Jean Hanff Korelitz & Kanishk Tharoor

Jean Hanff Korelitz was born and raised in New York City and graduated from Dartmouth College and Clare College, Cambridge. She is the author of the novels A Jury Of Her Peers, The Sabbathday River, T...

4 Heinä 201746min

Little Atoms 469: John Grindrod's Outskirts

Little Atoms 469: John Grindrod's Outskirts

John Grindrod grew up on 'the last road in London' on Croydon's New Addington housing estate, surrounded by the Green Belt. He is the author of Concretopia: A Journey Around the Rebuilding of Postwar ...

27 Kesä 201756min

468: Jason Hickel's the Divide

468: Jason Hickel's the Divide

Jason Hickel is an anthropologist at the London School of Economics. Originally from Swaziland, he spent a number of years living with migrant workers in South Africa, studying patterns of exploitatio...

20 Kesä 201758min

467: Beau Lotto's Deviate

467: Beau Lotto's Deviate

Beau Lotto is Professor of Neuroscience at University of London Goldsmiths, and a visiting scholar at NYU, where he specialises in the biology and psychology of perception. He has conducted research o...

13 Kesä 201731min

466: Hari Kunzru's White Tears

466: Hari Kunzru's White Tears

Hari Kunzru is the author of the novels The Impressionist, Transmission, My Revolutions and Gods Without Men, and the story collection Noise. His latest novel is White Tears. Hosted on Acast. See acas...

6 Kesä 201740min

Little Atoms 465 - Ottessa Moshfegh & Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Little Atoms 465 - Ottessa Moshfegh & Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from Boston. Her novel Eileen was awarded the 2016 Pen/Hemingway Award and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Her short fiction has earned her the Paris Rev...

30 Touko 20171h 5min

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