This Is Science with Jess Phoenix
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The official podcast of the Union of Concerned Scientists. Host Jess Phoenix tells science stories & hosts conversations with science explorers, innovators, & change-makers.
This Is Science with Jess Phoenix is the official podcast of the Union of Concerned Scientists. Jess brings her experience as a volcanologist and science communicator to the mic through science storytelling and conversations with dynamic scientific explorers, change-makers, and innovators. Ignorance is the disease, and curiosity is the cure!
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Happy Halloween! Jess talks with UCLA librarian Megan Rosenbloom about the spooky science of uncovering what makes some old books extra rare.
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- Added: Oct 31, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Longtime Washington journalist Jesse J. Holland talks with Jess about changes in journalism and communicating science in the age of social media an...
- Added: Mar 19, 2024
- Length: 29:00
Jess talks about space, science, and the future of humans in our universe with Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, the award-winning authors behind the h...
- Added: Mar 05, 2024
- Length: 29:00
Hydrologist Dr. Karletta Chief of the Navajo Nation talks with Jess about the unique scientific problems facing indigenous communities in the Unite...
- Added: Feb 20, 2024
- Length: 29:00
Dr. Mindy Romero, founder of the Center for Inclusive Democracy at the University of Southern California, talks with Jess about current election sc...
- Added: Feb 06, 2024
- Length: 29:00
Jess talks with artificial intelligence experts Chris Mattmann of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Meriem Bekka of vmWare about the technologic...
- Added: Sep 19, 2023
- Length: 58:00
Jess talks with UCLA climate scientist and Weather West blogger Dr. Daniel Swain about this summer of extremes.
- Added: Sep 05, 2023
- Length: 29:00
Jess tells the stories of three invisible threats harming residents of major US cities with help from Julie McNamara and Darya Minovi of the Union ...
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- Added: Aug 22, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Jess speaks with Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse about the influence of fossil fuel dark money in politics today.
- Added: Aug 08, 2023
- Length: 58:00
UCS scientists have released new research linking fossil fuel companies to the explosion of wildfires in the west.
- Added: May 23, 2023
- Length: 29:00
Jess investigates what connects giant salamanders, community organizing, and fracking via a conversation with journalist Annie Roth and biologist J...
- Added: May 09, 2023
- Length: 58:00
Jess is joined by Amani Webber-Schultz and Jaida Elcock, shark scientists and co-founders of the nonprofit organization Minorities In Shark Sciences.
- Added: Apr 25, 2023
- Length: 29:00
In our inaugural episode, host Jess Phoenix talks with Alie Ward, science communicator and host of the podcast Ologies.
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- Added: Apr 11, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Jess visits actor and environmental champion Ed Begley, Jr. at his LEED Platinum-certified home to talk all things green.
- Added: Jun 06, 2023
- Length: 29:00
Exciting new research allows UCS scientists to gain insight into North Korea’s shadowy nuclear weapons program.
- Added: Jun 20, 2023
- Length: 29:00
Jess speaks from her experience conducting deep ocean research to answer questions raised by UCS scientists and staff about the recent disasters of...
- Added: Jun 30, 2023
- Length: 19:00
Jess speaks with Oppenheimer biographer Kai Bird about one of Earth's most influential humans and his scientific and political legacies.
- Added: Jul 25, 2023
- Length: 29:00
Science fictions are widely held dangerous beliefs that are not supported by science. Jess explores a few of these in anticipation of the continued...
- Added: Oct 03, 2023
- Length: 29:00
Jess digs into the science of soils and farming in the century of climate change with Dr. Rick Cruse of Iowa State University.
- Added: Oct 17, 2023
- Length: 28:49
Some science fiction authors have an almost uncanny ability to see what’s coming down the road. Jess talks with Chuck Wendig, whose writing is both...
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- Added: Nov 14, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
