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From the Archives: "Oppenheimer" (Originally Aired 10/7/05)
The Fishko Files
October 03, 2008
When this Fishko Files first aired in October 2005, a new opera by John Adams and Peter Sellars about building the atomic bomb was having its first performances at the San Francisco Opera. The "Dr. Atomic" of its title is the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and, as Sara Fishko tells us, Oppenheimer’s rise and fall has been the stuff of dramas of ALL kinds. How do we see him, more than six decades after the bomb was built? Here is an encore podcast of The Fishko Files...
Janna Levin
Studio 360
September 19, 2008
Kurt checks in with a Columbia University physicist (and novelist) who’s anxiously awaiting the LHC’s first particle collisions. Janna Levin is the author of How the Universe Got Its Spots and A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines. (Originally aired: May 28, 2008)
What's Reality?
The Leonard Lopate Show
September 15, 2008
Find out how our understanding of the nature of reality has changed radically over the past 25 years. Leonard talks to physicist
Event: Frank Wilczek will be speaking Monday, September 15 at 6:30 PM New York Academy of Sciences 7 World Trade Center, 40th Floor 250 Greenwich Street at Barclay Street
Icarus Revisited
The Leonard Lopate Show
September 15, 2008
In his new book,
Event:
Brian Greene will be speaking and signing books
Monday, September 15 at 7:00 p.m.
Barnes & Noble Union Square
33 East 17th Street