Discussing The Beasts of the East: AMSEcast with Andrew Moore
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On this episode of AMSEcast, podcast host and Oak Ridge Discovery Foundation executive director Alan Lowe sits down with environmental writer Andrew Moore to discuss his book, The Beasts of the East: The Fall and Rise of America's Eastern Wilderness.
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AMSEcast with Jean-Luc Palayer at NOW 2026
AMSEcast
AMSEcast host and ORDF Executive Director Alan Lowe interviews notable figures in the science world at the ETEC NOW conference in Knoxville, TN! Learn about what exciting things are coming in the world of science, engineering, and industry! This episode features Jean-Luc Palayer.
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AMSEcast with Jason Hatfield at NOW 2026
AMSEcast
AMSEcast host and ORDF Executive Director Alan Lowe interviews notable figures in the science world at the ETEC NOW conference in Knoxville, TN! Learn about what exciting things are coming in the world of science, engineering, and industry! This episode features Jason Hatfield.
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AMSEcast with Deniece Thomas at NOW 2026
AMSEcast
AMSEcast host and ORDF Executive Director Alan Lowe interviews notable figures in the science world at the ETEC NOW conference in Knoxville, TN! Learn about what exciting things are coming in the world of science, engineering, and industry! This episode features Deniece Thomas.
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AMSEcast with Chuck Hope at NOW 2026
AMSEcast
AMSEcast host and ORDF Executive Director Alan Lowe interviews notable figures in the science world at the ETEC NOW conference in Knoxville, TN! Learn about what exciting things are coming in the world of science, engineering, and industry! This episode features Chuck Hope.
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Discussing Dinner With King Tut: AMSEcast with Sam Kean
AMSEcast
On this episode of AMSEcast, host and Oak Ridge Discovery Foundation executive director Alan Lowe sits down with author Sam Kean to discuss his Dinner With King Tut, a literary recreation of the sounds, tastes, smells, and other senses of history's most rich historical locations through an especially exciting first-person lens.
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AMSEcast with Chuck Fleischmann at NOW 2026
AMSEcast
AMSEcast host and ORDF Executive Director Alan Lowe interviews notable figures in the science world at the ETEC NOW conference in Knoxville, TN! Learn about what exciting things are coming in the world of science, engineering, and industry! This episode features Chuck Fleischmann.
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AMSEcast with Brandon Williams at NOW 2026
AMSEcast
AMSEcast host and ORDF Executive Director Alan Lowe interviews notable figures in the science world at the ETEC NOW conference in Knoxville, TN! Learn about what exciting things are coming in the world of science, engineering, and industry! This episode features Brandon Williams.
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AMSEcast with Ben Jordan at NOW 2026
AMSEcast
AMSEcast host and ORDF Executive Director Alan Lowe interviews notable figures in the science world at the ETEC NOW conference in Knoxville, TN! Learn about what exciting things are coming in the world of science, engineering, and industry! This episode features Ben Jordan.
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How Chemistry Shapes Us and Our World: AMSEcast with Dame Ijeoma Uchegbu
AMSEcast
On this episode of AMSEcast, host and executive director of the American Museum of Science and Energy Alan Lowe sits with Dame Ijeoma Uchegbu to discuss her new book "Chain Reaction" and how it involves every single one of us, even you! Get a fascinating glimpse at her life leading up to what has become a fruitful career of research, science, and passion on this week's episode of AMSEcast.
info_outline(2:00) What forces are and how they underly everything
(8:47) What bosons are and how they fit into the Standard Model
(11:33) The importance of symmetry in physics
(13:40) Which concepts Dr. Butterworth found most difficult to present in Most Wanted Particle
(16:39) The mission of the Large Hadron Collider
(20:23) How scientists interpret data from the Large Hadron Collider with certainty
(22:47) What makes the Higgs boson special
(27:01) Why searching for the Higgs boson and other basic research is so important
- Atom Land: A Guided Tour Through the Strange (and Impossibly Small) World of Particle Physics https://www.amazon.com/Atom-Land-Through-Impossibly-Particle/dp/1615193731/
- Most Wanted Particle: Inside the World’s Biggest Experiment https://www.amazon.com/Most-Wanted-Particle-Inside-Physics/dp/161519245X/