Janna Levin

Columbia University Physicist and Author

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A 70's psychedelic illustration of a moonscape, with a lion's head, an all see-eye, an obelisk, and a jellyfish.

Cheating Death

Friday, February 09, 2024

A battle against death, to the death, that comes face to face with the end of everything ever.

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Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu's Legacy

Monday, May 17, 2021

Janna Levin & Jada Yuan on Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu.

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Celebrating Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu

Thursday, March 11, 2021

Janna Levin and Jada Yuan celebrate physicist Chien-Shiung Wu, who helped work on the Manhattan Project and is featured on a new USPS stamp. 

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Super Cool

Tuesday, March 24, 2020

WNYC Studios
Walter Murch (aka, the Godfather of The Godfather), joined by a team of scientists, leads us on what felt like the magical mystery tour of super cool science.

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Super Cool

Tuesday, December 05, 2017

 Walter Murch (aka, the Godfather of The Godfather), joined by a team of scientists, leads us on what felt like the magical mystery tour of super cool science.
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How to Catch a Spacetime Wave

Thursday, December 08, 2016

Astrophysicist Janna Levin explains why it took scientists 100 years to confirm one of Einstein’s most outlandish predictions: gravitational waves.

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On Waiting For A Nobel Prize Announcement

Thursday, October 06, 2016

By Janna Levin : Columbia University Physicist and Author

There's a certain pride that the world will pause and reflect on a scientific endeavor: Today, I'm learning about topological states of cold strange matter, says author and physicist Janna Levin.

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Listening to the Sounds of Space

Monday, August 08, 2016

Theoretical cosmologist Janna Levin explores black holes and gravitational waves in her latest book. 

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The Physics of Time

Wednesday, December 03, 2014

Janna Levin, a professor of physics and astronomy at Barnard College, talks about how an astrophysicist would describe time.

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Illustration of a photophone receiver

Of Men and Myths

Thursday, October 31, 2013

A hat that goes viral, an idea that gives birth to computer science, and a life-saving maneuver.

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Turing's Machines

Thursday, October 31, 2013

Alan Turing's mental leaps about machines and computers were some of the most innovative ideas of the 20th century. But the world wasn't kind to him. Turing was a math genius, a hero of World War II, and is widely considered to be the father of artificial intelligence. But in ...

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Deceleration of Mars Science Laboratory in Martian Atmosphere, Artist's Concept

Watch our Hangout: Ring in the Mars Rover

Sunday, August 05, 2012

By Brenna Farrell

Thanks to everyone who tuned in to watch our first-ever Google Hangout. We had a blast!

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Alan Turing, sculpted by Stephen Kettle

The Turing Problem

Monday, March 19, 2012

Alan Turing's mental leaps about machines and computers were some of the most innovative ideas of the 20th century. But the world wasn't kind to him.
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Paradoxical sign

(In)completely Loopy

Tuesday, October 04, 2011

In the late 1800s, mathematicians fantasized about a machine that could answer any math question at all.

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Train spiral

Loops

Tuesday, October 04, 2011

The surprising ways that loops steer… and sometimes derail… our lives.

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Improvising the 12th Dimension

Friday, January 14, 2011

Wrapping your brain around the nature of time and the existence of multiple dimensions is a challenge, but comedian-musician Reggie Watts doesn't blink: he takes on mind-wrenching que...

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Reggie Watts

The Greene Space

Studio 360 Live: Our Universe Goes Up to 11

Monday, December 13, 2010

7:00 PM

Does the universe have ten dimensions, as superstring theory proposes, or eleven, as M-theory holds? Comedian Reggie Watts and astrophysicist Janna Levin settle it once and for all; Kurt Andersen referees. Join us for a live performance and geeked-out conversation.

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Janna Levin

Friday, September 19, 2008

Kurt checks in with a Columbia University physicist (and novelist) who’s anxiously awaiting the LHC’s first particle collisions. Janna Levin is the author of How the Universe Got Its Spots and A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines.

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Telford

Friday, September 19, 2008

Studio 360 commissioned the author Lydia Millet to write a short story inspired by the LHC’s “grand opening.” Her acclaimed 2005 novel Oh Pure and Radiant Heart was about the physicists who created the atomic bomb. Actor Martha Plimpton reads “Telford.” And ...

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Janna Levin

Friday, May 23, 2008

Kurt talks with a Columbia University astrophysicist who's eagerly awaiting data from the Large Hadron Collider. Janna Levin, also an author, wrote the historical novel A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines.

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