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Dennis Overbye, “Confessions of a Cosmic Affairs Correspondent”

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Melinda Baldwin, “The Surprisingly Short History of Peer Review in the Sciences”

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Peer review collage

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Melinda Baldwin, “The Surprisingly Short History of Peer Review in the Sciences”

DEC 04, 2026

Dennis Overbye at desk

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Dennis Overbye, “Confessions of a Cosmic Affairs Correspondent”

NOV 04, 2026

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Fara Dabhoiwala, “Black Genius: Race, Science, and the Extraordinary Portrait of Francis Williams”

SEP 23, 2026

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Dava Sobel, “At Mme. Curie’s Lab: Radioactivity and a Place for Women in Science”

MAY 27, 2026

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David DeVorkin, “The Quiet Genius of George Carruthers”

APR 17, 2026

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Elise Crull, “Hertha Sponer and the Path from Electron Diffraction to Wave/Particle Duality”

MAR 20, 2026

Ramus quantum classical cartoon from Physics Today

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Olival Freire Jr., “Lessons from 100 Years of Quantum Mechanics”

AUG 08, 2025

Mobile Radioisotope Laboratory

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Gisela Mateos, “Physics on the Move: Technical Assistance in Latin America”

AUG 04, 2025

Peter Galison, Chandrasekhar Still from Shattering Stars film

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Peter Galison, “History and Philosophy in the Midst”

MAY 30, 2025

LIGO Detector

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Tiffany Nichols, “The Federal-Level Site Selection History of LIGO”

MAY 02, 2025

Initial Conditions Podcast

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Initial Conditions Episode 1: Eunice Foote: A Once Forgotten Climate Science Pioneer

JUL 21, 2022

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Initial Conditions Episode 2: Enter the Anthropocene: Climate Science in the Early 20th Century

JUL 28, 2022

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Initial Conditions Episode 3: Energy Crises and Climate Change in the 1970s

AUG 04, 2022

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Initial Conditions Episode 4: Quantum Counterculture

AUG 11, 2022

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Initial Conditions Episode 5: Was Einstein Wrong??

AUG 18, 2022

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Initial Conditions Episode 6: Historical Romance and LGBTQ+ Representation

AUG 25, 2022

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Initial Conditions Episode 7: The African American Presence in Physics

SEP 01, 2022

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Initial Conditions Episode 8: An Interview with Dr. Ronald Mickens

SEP 08, 2022

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Initial Conditions Episode 9: The Unexpected Hero of Light

SEP 15, 2022

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Initial Conditions Episode 10: The Newton You Didn’t Know

SEP 22, 2022

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Initial Conditions Episode 11: The Legacy of Ptolemy’s Almagest

SEP 29, 2022

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Initial Conditions Episode 12: Hawai’i and the Thirty Meter Telescope

OCT 06, 2022