Ep. 163 Pushing the Boundaries of Understanding with Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Today we're joined by Chanda Prescod Weinstein, a theoretical physicist specializing in early universe cosmology. She is the author of The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred. We talk today about science anxiety, the ways politics play into science, and how the cosmos are part of all of our lives.

The Stacks Book Club selection for May is Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. We will discuss the book with Jenny Lee on Wednesday May 26th.

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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes and on Bookshop.org and Amazon

• The Disordered Cosmos by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

• I Heart Huckabees (David Russell, 2004)

• Kiese Laymon

• Virtual Event Harvard Bookstore: Chanda Prescod-Weinstein and Kiese Laymon (March 9, 2021)

• Malcom and Marie (Sam Levinson, 2021)

• Pete Garceau

• Scrivener

• Aspen Center for Physics

• Häagen-Dazs Strawberry Ice Cream

• Shonda Rhimes

• The Dialogues by Clifford V. Johnson

• The MIT Press

• Dear Science and Other Stories by Katherine McKittrick

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