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Mon, 12/15/2014 - 10:15am to 11:00am
How current environmental concerns affect us on an atomic level.
What do atoms have to do with your life? And how is it that even after we die we continue to exist for eternity through our atoms as they disperse back into the universe?
On this episode of Locus Focus we talk with Curt Stager, author of YOUR ATOMIC SELF: The Invisible Elements that Connect You to Everything Else in the Universe. In the course of a conversation that may cover just about everything, we'll look at how atoms provide a link between the physical world and the biosphere and how that connection informs our relationship as biological beings to the physical universe. We'll also talk about how current environmental concerns, like climate change and fossil fuel pollution, affect us on an atomic level.
Curt Stager is an ecologist, paleoclimatologist, and science journalist who has published over three dozen peer-reviewed articles in major journals including Science and Quaternary Research, and has written extensively for general audiences in periodicals such as National Geographic, New York Times, Fast Company, and Adirondack Life. Since 1990, he has also co-hosted Natural Selections, a weekly science program on North Country Public Radio that is syndicated internationally. He currently teaches at Paul Smith's College in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York, and holds a research associate post at the University of Maine's Climate Change Institute, where he continues to investigate the long-term history of climate in Africa, South America, and the northeastern United States.
On this episode of Locus Focus we talk with Curt Stager, author of YOUR ATOMIC SELF: The Invisible Elements that Connect You to Everything Else in the Universe. In the course of a conversation that may cover just about everything, we'll look at how atoms provide a link between the physical world and the biosphere and how that connection informs our relationship as biological beings to the physical universe. We'll also talk about how current environmental concerns, like climate change and fossil fuel pollution, affect us on an atomic level.
Curt Stager is an ecologist, paleoclimatologist, and science journalist who has published over three dozen peer-reviewed articles in major journals including Science and Quaternary Research, and has written extensively for general audiences in periodicals such as National Geographic, New York Times, Fast Company, and Adirondack Life. Since 1990, he has also co-hosted Natural Selections, a weekly science program on North Country Public Radio that is syndicated internationally. He currently teaches at Paul Smith's College in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York, and holds a research associate post at the University of Maine's Climate Change Institute, where he continues to investigate the long-term history of climate in Africa, South America, and the northeastern United States.
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