WKSU, Kent State University’s award-winning radio station, will partner with the Institute for the Science of Origins on Exploradio Origins, a new segment airing Thursdays from 4 to 6 p.m. during local broadcasts of National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered.”
Exploradio Origins is a weekly series in which origins scholars and host Kellen McGee ponder some of the biggest questions in the universe in 90 seconds. McGee is a former CWRU research assistant in biophysics and structural biology now pursuing pursuing a PhD in nuclear and accelerator physics at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at Michigan State University.
The lineup for October will be:
“Meteorites and bigger things to come”
Oct. 4
Ralph Harvey, professor of planetary materials at CWRU, will explain how meteorites act as an early-warning system.
“We came from clay”
Oct. 11
Nita Sahai, researcher at the University of Akron, will discuss the origin of cellular structures in mineral matrices and argue that humans came from mud.
“Tracing the origins of high-altitude adaptation”
Oct. 18
Cynthia Beall, Distinguished University Professor and the Sarah Idelle Pyle Professor of Anthropology, will talk about how modern Tibetans may owe their adaptability to an extinct race of Middle-Eastern hominins.
“What is LIGO?”
Oct. 25
Leslie and Madeline Wade, professors at Kenyon College and researchers at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, will unlock the mysteries of gravity.
Installments will be posted, along with additional information, on the WKSU website.
Exploradio Origins is funded in part through Larry and Sally Sears’ support of science and innovation initiatives on WKSU.