Archive 2019
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Wednesday Nov 27th, 2019 noon-1pm | Classic Rewind Our student engineers are not on campus due to Thanksgiving so please enjoy this previously aired episode. |
Wednesday Nov. 20th, 2019 noon-1pm | Memory – In Sickness and in Health Annabelle Singer, of the Georgia Tech/Emory Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering discusses her reserch on how memory works in the healty and diseased state. |
Wednesday Nov. 13th, 2019 noon-1pm | Classic Rewind Pete is in Florida attending conferences on both Chemical Engineering and SCUBA Instruction so we present this previously aired episode |
Wednesday Nov. 6th, 2019 noon-1pm | Hemp – Plant for the Planet Franz Caranza, president and founder ot Therasolv joins us to discuss cannabidiol (CBD) production and therapies. |
Wednesday Oct. 30th, 2019 noon-1pm | Buzz No, this is not a show about Jennifer’s latest honey bee event, nor is it about Georgia Tech’s mascot of the same name. We are chatting with Ken Carter, of the Psychology Dept. at the Oxford College of Emory University and author of Buzz, a new book about thrill seekers, daredevils, and adrenaline junkies and what makes them tick. |
Wednesday Oct. 23rd, 2019 noon-1pm | Blinded by the Light Solar astronomer, Stephen Ramsden, director of the Charlie Bates Solar Astronomy Project joins to discuss how to safely observe the fascinating behavior of our sun. |
Wednesday Oct. 9th, 2019 noon-1pm | Putting the Communication Back in Science Communication Jory Weintraub joins to discuss the importance of educating scientists to communicate their work to society, and what they are doing about this at the Duke Initiative for Science & Society. |
Wednesday Oct. 2nd, 2019 noon-1pm | Listener Call-In Show Today we discuss recent science discoveries and take listener calls. |
Wednesday Sept. 25th, 2019 noon-1pm | The Problem with Vaping Today we discuss recent health issues with vaping and take listener calls. |
Wednesday Sept. 18th, 2019 noon-1pm | Science for Georgia Amy Sharma, Vice President of Science for Georgia joins us to discuss this organization’s efforts to build a bridge between science and the public. |
Wednesday Sept. 11th, 2019 noon-1pm | Making Cities Friendlier Clio Andris, who holds joint faculty appointments in the Georgia Tech Schools of City and Regional Planning and Interactive Computing joins us to discuss her research on using social distance, instead of geographic distance, to learn more about how people and the plant works. |
Wednesday Sept. 4th, 2019 noon-1pm | Return to Learning Katy O’Brien, from the Communication Sciences and Special Education faculty of the University of Georgia joins us to discuss her research on preparing students to return to learning after brain injury or concussions. |
Wednesday Aug. 28th, 2019 noon-1pm | Science at the Con For most of its history Dragon Con has provided an excellent program in the Science Track. Stephen Granade, the Science Track Director, joins us to discuss this year’s exciting program. |
Wednesday Aug. 21st, 2019 noon-1pm | International Year of the Periodic Table Mike Evans from the Georgia Tech School of Chemistry joins us to celebrate the International Year of the Periodic Table, and explain why this chemistry concept is so important. |
Wednesday Aug. 14th, 2019 noon-1pm | What We Did Over the Summer We discuss what we did and read over the summer after returning from study abroad programs. |
Wednesday July 7th, 2019 noon-1pm | Classic Rewind Our hosts are teaching in study abroad programs this summer, but please enjoy this previously-aired episode. |
Wednesday July 31st, 2019 noon-1pm | Classic Rewind Our hosts are teaching in study abroad programs this summer, but please enjoy this previously-aired episode. |
Wednesday July 24th, 2019 noon-1pm | Classic Rewind Our hosts are teaching in study abroad programs this summer, but please enjoy this previously-aired episode. |
Wednesday July 17th, 2019 noon-1pm | Classic Rewind Our hosts are teaching in study abroad programs this summer, but please enjoy this previously-aired episode. |
Wednesday July 10th, 2019 noon-1pm | Classic Rewind Our hosts are teaching in study abroad programs this summer, but please enjoy this previously-aired episode. |
Wednesday July 3rd, 2019 noon-1pm | Classic Rewind Our hosts are teaching in study abroad programs this summer, but please enjoy this previously-aired episode. |
Wednesday June 26th, 2019 noon-1pm | Classic Rewind Our hosts are teaching in study abroad programs this summer, but please enjoy this previously-aired episode. |
Wednesday June 19th, 2019 noon-1pm | Tunicates – Chordata without the Drama Alberto Stolfi, of the Georgia Tech School of Biology joins us to discuss his work on tunicates. These simple marine animals and their similarities with humans, provide useful insight into human biology. |
Wednesday June 12th, 2019 noon-1pm | The Academic Road Less Traveled By Lily Cheung, of the Georgia Tech School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering joins us to discuss how your college degree and career path don’t always match. She will share her own unique academic path and how this impacts her research and education activities |
Wednesday June 5th, 2019 noon-1pm | Classic Rewind Jennifer and Jon are out of town which means there is nobody to run the board. We’ll be back soon when Jennifer is back from teaching abroad. |
Wednesday May 29th, 2019 noon-1pm | Classic Rewind Jennifer and Jon are out of town which means there is nobody to run the board. We’ll be back soon when Jennifer is back from teaching abroad. |
Wednesday May 22nd, 2019 noon-1pm | Classic Rewind Jennifer and Jon are out of town which means there is nobody to run the board. We’ll be back soon when Jennifer is back from teaching abroad. |
Wednesday May 15th, 2019 noon-1pm | Classic Rewind Jennifer and Jon are out of town which means there is nobody to run the board. We’ll be back soon when Jennifer is back from teaching abroad. |
Wednesday May 8th, 2019 noon-1pm | Classic Rewind Jennifer and Jon are out of town which means there is nobody to run the board. We’ll be back soon when Jennifer is back from teaching abroad. |
Wednesday May 1st, 2019 noon-1pm | Classic Rewind It is Georgia Tech’s Finals week so please enjoy this previously aired episode |
Wednesday April 24th, 2019 noon-1pm | Summer Bees We have some special student guests in the studio to discuss the bees on campus |
Wednesday April 17th, 2019 noon-1pm | Laughing in the Science Classroom Katelyn Cooper, and Sara Brownell join us from Arizona State University, to discuss their recent paper To be funny, or not to be funny: Gender differences in student perceptions of instructor humor in college science courses |
Wednesday April 10th, 2019 noon-1pm | Black Hole Snapshots Our very own Ed Greco guides us through the first image of a black hole from the Event Horizon Teleschope. |
Wednesday April 3rd, 2019 noon-1pm | Ripping Off Mother Nature – Part II Marc Weissburg, Co-Director for the Georgia Tech Center for Biologically-Inspired Design, joins us after several years to discuss recent designs inspired by nature. |
Wednesday Mar. 27th, 2019 noon-1pm | What I Did on My Spring Break We are back from Spring Break and will discuss that and any questions our listeners have. |
Wednesday Mar. 20th, 2019 noon-1pm | Classic Rewind It is Georgia Tech’s Spring Break this week, so please enjoy this previous episode of Inside the Black Box. |
Wednesday Mar. 13th, 2019 noon-1pm | Thermodynamic Weirdness Physicist Don Lemons, author of the new book Thermodynamic Weirdness, joins us to discuss this important, but often misunderstood topic. |
Wednesday Mar. 6th, 2019 noon-1pm | Atlanta Science Festival We discussed our favorite events for the upcoming Atlanta Science Festival |
Wednesday Feb. 27th, 2019 noon-1pm | Classic Rewind Pete is out of town hanging out with microelectronics nerds this week, but please enjoy this previous episode of Inside the Black Box. |
Wednesday Feb. 20th, 2019 noon-1pm | Listener Call In Show We’re taking calls from our listeners on recent topics in science and technology |
Wednesday Feb. 13th, 2019 noon-1pm | The Secret Lives of Neutron Stars David Ballantyne, of the Georgia Tech school of physics joins us to discuss the dynamics of neutron stars. As the associate chair of the physics graduate program, David will also share some thoughts on graduate education. |
Wednesday Feb. 6th, 2019 noon-1pm | Scientist Storytelling Alex Ip, Georgia Tech student in environmental engineering, joins us to discuss The Xylom, his media site that shares scientists’ personal stories with the public. |
Wednesday Jan. 30th, 2019 noon-1pm | Policy Decisions in Our Data-Driven World Richard Barke , from the Georgia Tech School of Public Policy, joins us to discuss our struggle to prioritize and interpret the ever-increasing amounts of data in order to make informed policy decisions. . |
Wednesday Jan. 23rd, 2019 noon-1pm |
Shining a Light on Super Massive Black Holes Tamara Bogdonivic, of the Georgia Tech School of Physics, joins us to talk Super Massive Black Holes and her theories to explain their behavior. |