Videos

Barnard College’s Janna Levin and University of Southampton’s Jessica Whiteside talked about Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, and the progress made b…

Physics Professors Brian Greene and Janna Levin explored the origins and future of the cosmos. This program was part of the Wisconsin Book Festival, a virtual event hosted by the Madison Pub…

John Brockman, editor of Possible Minds: Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI, talked about the future of artificial intelligence with two contributors to the book, David Chalmers and Daniel De…

Computer scientist and philosopher Jaron Lanier argued against the use of social media.

Dava Sobel talked about her book, The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars, about women who worked for the Harvard College Observatory, stu…

Panelists talked about the science of time. Panelists included Alan Burdick, author of Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation; Jimena Canales, author of The Physicist and the Phil…

Professor Janna Levin talked about her book Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space, in which she recounts the project to record the gravitational waves created from colliding blac…

Ms. Levin talked about her book, How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time and a Finite Space, published by Princeton University Press. The book discusses what is known about th…