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Adam Becker: How To Save Your PhD Supervisor

Adam Becker: How To Save Your PhD Supervisor

FromThe Story Collider


Adam Becker: How To Save Your PhD Supervisor

FromThe Story Collider

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Length:
19 minutes
Released:
Mar 6, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

When Adam Becker realizes a visiting film crew is made up of geocentrists, he has to prevent them from exploiting his adviser's work. Adam Becker is a cosmologist, a journalist, a programmer, and a science publishing troublemaker. He hails from a tiny town in northern New Jersey, and he has a PhD in physics from the University of Michigan. He strongly believes that scientific research should be open, that the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics is nonsense, and that David Tennant was the best Doctor. He lives in Oakland, California, with his fiancee, Elisabeth, who is a writer, and their pet rabbit Copernicus, who is not.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Released:
Mar 6, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Whether we wear a lab coat or haven't seen a test tube since grade school, science is shaping all of our lives. And that means we all have science stories to tell. Every year, we host dozens of live shows all over the country, featuring all kinds of storytellers - researchers, doctors, and engineers of course, but also patients, poets, comedians, cops, and more. Some of our stories are heartbreaking, others are hilarious, but they're all true and all very personal. Welcome to The Story Collider!