Episode 149: Ross Andersen

Published: July 8, 2015, 5:02 p.m.

b'Ross Andersen is the deputy editor of Aeon Magazine.\\n\\n\\u201cOne of the things that\\u2019s been really refreshing in dealing with scientists\\u2014as opposed to say politicians or most business people\\u2014is that scientists are wonderfully candid, they\\u2019ll talk shit on their colleagues. They\\u2019re just firing on all cylinders all the time because they traffic in ideas, and that\\u2019s what\\u2019s important to them.\\u201d\\n\\nThanks to TinyLetter and AlarmGrid for sponsoring this week\'s episode.\\n\\nShow Notes:\\n@andersen\\nAndersen on Longform\\n[2:00] Aeon on Longorm\\n[5:00] "Zapped" (Mary H.K. Choi \\u2022 Aeon \\u2022 Sept 2013)\\n[5:00] "Awaiting Renewal" (Heather Havrilesky \\u2022 Aeon\\u2022 July 2013)\\n[5:00] "Brigid Hains on the Launch of Aeon" (Interview by Catherine Balavage \\u2022 Frost Magazine \\u2022 Oct 2012)\\n[11:00] "Are We Alone?" (Caleb Scharf \\u2022 Aeon \\u2022 June 2013)\\n[14:00] "In The Beginning" (Aeon \\u2022 May 2015)\\n[15:00] Andersen\\u2019s Atlantic archive\\n[20:00] "Gravitational-Wave Detectors Get Ready to Hunt for the Big Bang" (Ross Andersen \\u2022 Scientific American \\u2022 Oct 2013)\\n[21:00] "Golden Eye" (Los Angeles Review of Books \\u2022 Feb 2012)\\n[23:00] The Elegant Universe (W. W. Norton & Company \\u2022 1999)\\n[24:00] "Are We Disappointed with Space Exploration?\\u201d (The Atlantic \\u2022 April 2011)\\n[27:00] "The Vanishing Groves\\u201d (Aeon \\u2022 Oct 2012)\\n[29:00] "Talk Like an Egyptian\\u201d (Grayson Clary \\u2022 Aeon \\u2022 Dec 2014)\\n[30:00] "Exodus" (Aeon \\u2022 Sept 2014)\\n[33:00] "Elon Musk: Triumph of His Will" (Tom Junod \\u2022 Esquire \\u2022 Nov 2012)\\n[35:00] Hamish McKenzie\\n[38:00] "Is Cosmology Having a Creative Crisis?" (Aeon \\u2022 May 2015)\\n[44:00] Orion Magazine\\n[45:00] "Why Hawaiians are Protesting Construction of the World\\u2019s Second Largest Telescope" (Joseph Stromberg \\u2022 Vox \\u2022 May 2015)\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'