Lux & Flux: The History and Philosophy of Physics Podcast

Teagan Phillips
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A podcast looking at the wonderful world of physics through the lenses of history and philosophy!

  1. Bonus 5: You Are My Sun-Line (Intelligent Speech Conference 2022)

    12/02/2022

    Bonus 5: You Are My Sun-Line (Intelligent Speech Conference 2022)

    Hello! It's been a while, but I'm back with some updates and with a new bonus episode for you all :) I was happy to be invited back to the Intelligent Speech podcasting conference, held on  June 25, 2022. I took part in the STEM roundtable discussion and also presented a talk entitled "You Are My Sun-Line: Solar Spectroscopy and an Early Spectroscope". I discuss the history of solar spectroscopy, from rainbows to Newton to intergalactic stellar analysis, as well as two 19th century spectroscopes held by the Whipple Museum of the History of Science at the University of Cambridge. How do we know what stars are made of? What have lines got to do with it? This talk will answer these questions and more, with the help of a 19th century spectroscope (or two!). You can watch the video recording on the Intelligent Speech Conference YouTube channel.

    42 min

  2. 12/31/2021

    Bonus 4: Stein a Little Light

    This bonus episode is about the photoelectric effect and features a couple revolutionary and Nobel prize winning concepts - the quantization of energy and of light. From the ultraviolet catastrophe to the revolutionary beginnings of modern physics. Grab a "quantum" coffee and give this episode a listen! (Also, Happy New Year!!)

    20 min

  3. 09/14/2021

    012: Where Are We, Anyhow?

    In this episode, I take a bit of a broader look at ancient Greece in the 7th - 4th centuries BCE (Archaic and Classical Greece) and discuss some of the reasons why natural philosophy arose here at this time.

    27 min

  4. 07/27/2021

    011: Mix and Mingle Like Nothing is Single

    This episode is about Anaxagoras of Clazomenae, the final Presocratic I'm planning on covering! He thought there was a little bit of everything in everything and that mind set the universe in motion. He also did some observational science and is credited as the first to correctly explain the cause of eclipses.

    26 min

  5. 06/21/2021

    010: It's Elementary

    This episode is about Empedocles, who tried to solve the Parmenidean problem in a different way than his near contemporaries - the atomists. Empedocles launched the ancient Greek theory of the four classical elements (earth, air, fire, and water).

    22 min

  6. 05/24/2021

    009: The Original Atomic Age

    Welcome to Season 2! This episode is on the original atomists, Leucippus and Democritus, and their original atomic theory from way back in the 5th century BCE. I discuss the nature of the void and ancient atoms, how they relate to the matter we can also sense, and how this theory relates to some of the work discussed earlier in the podcast (especially the work of Parmenides).

    26 min

  7. 05/03/2021 · BONUS

    Announcement - Season 2

    Hello again! It's been a while (sorry!), but I am finally back to producing podcast episodes and will start releasing them in a couple of weeks. This short announcement will have a bit more information about the (seasonal) release schedule for Season 2 and my exciting news about school next year :D

    4 min

  8. 11/25/2020 · BONUS

    Bonus 3: Gender and Sexual Orientation Among STEM Nobel Prize Laureates

    This is an audio-friendly version of the talk I gave at the UBC Gender Equity & STEM Virtual Conference on November 14, 2020. Abstract: One of the most famous awards in history, the Nobel prizes are given for the most important academic, cultural, and scientific advances around the world.  Nobel laureates are some of the top scientists worldwide, however, of the 624 prizes in science awarded to date, only 23 have gone to women.  The prizes also reflect the underrepresentation of other groups in scientific fields. There is a documented racial/ethnic disparity among laureates and there have been no LGBTQ+ Nobel laureates in science (though there have been 6 in Literature and 1 in Peace). Important groups of people are being left out of the prizes and their contributions to science are not being recognized through the Nobel program. In this short talk, I will discuss the Nobel prize statistics, some of the reasons for the disparities, as well as some actions that have been and can be taken to improve diversity among Nobel laureates.

    18 min
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A podcast looking at the wonderful world of physics through the lenses of history and philosophy!

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