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Initial Conditions Podcast

Keck Telescope

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

Aristotle, Ptolemy, and Copernicus

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

An image of a green lion devouring the sun, commonly used in alchemical texts.

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

Allegheny Observatory

Initial Conditions Episode 9: The Unexpected Hero of Light

Portrait of Ronald Mickens

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

A photograph of Ron Mickens at his graduation from Fisk University in 1964.

Initial Conditions Episode 7: The African American Presence in Physics

Mechanism of the Heavens and The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics

Initial Conditions Episode 6: Historical Romance and LGBTQ+ Representation

Einstein outdoors with a pipe.

Initial Conditions Episode 5: Was Einstein Wrong??

Niels Bohr (left) and Werner Heisenberg (right) outside in the snow, circa 1932.

Initial Conditions Episode 4: Quantum Counterculture

Lester Machta sitting outdoors.

Initial Conditions Episode 3: Climate Change Science in the 1970s

Guy S. Callendar sitting outdoors.

Initial Conditions Episode 2: Arrhenius, Callendar, and Keeling

Eunice Foote Illustration

Initial Conditions Episode 1: Eunice Foote

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