Space Rocks, Star Stuff, and Tom Selleck's Mustache with Greg Brennecka
b'More than a hundred million people watched the Netflix movie Don\\u2019t Look Up, which focused on our fear that something could crash into our planet from space and destroy it. But what if things that come from space don\\u2019t just have the potential to destroy life but also to create it? That\\u2019s Greg Brennecka\\u2019s argument, and he joins Indre on today\\u2019s episode to talk all about it. Greg is a staff scientist and cosmochemist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, whose research has appeared in Science, Nature, and The Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS). He won the prestigious Sofja Kovalevskaja fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to study the early solar system and is a leader in understanding how things from space affect us down here on Earth. His new book is Impact: How Rocks from Space Led to Life, Culture, and Donkey Kong, and he discusses it and so much more (including Tom Selleck and his famous mustache) with Indre here today.\\nShow Links:\\nInquiring Minds Podcast Homepage\\nSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/inquiringminds\\nSee https://omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.\\nImpact: How Rocks from Space Led to Life, Culture, and Donkey KongSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/inquiringminds'