Reasonably Spontaneous Conversation

Mike P. Burton grew up in North Carolina and Delaware, listening to George Carlin, Eddie Murphy, and Steven Wright. He moved to New York after college with a Theatre Arts degree in hand.  He did some off-off-off Broadway shows while waiting tables and bartending but comedy was always something he wanted to do but never followed through with so one day he woke up and decided to stop talking ab...

Dr. James Crowe is Director of the Vanderbilt Vaccine Center and the Ann Scott Carell Professor of Pediatrics, Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology at Vanderbilt.  His laboratory studies the human immune response to infection for a wide variety of major human pathogens, including many emerging infections. Dr. Crowe is the Director of the HUMAN IMMUNOME PROJECT, an ambitious effort to identi...

Dr. Don Thomas is an astronaut, scientist, professional speaker, educator, and author of Orbit of Discovery about his STS-70 mission aboard space shuttle Discovery.  A veteran of four flights, Don has spent 44 days in space and orbited the Earth nearly 700 times.  Don’s mission is helping to inform and excite the public about our future in space and preparing our next generation of scien...

This "A Conversation with..." was recorded on April 8, 2020 Sara MacSorley started her career as a super cool science major with a degree in marine biology. Working in science education and outreach led her to pursue a graduate degree in business, which led to a new role as the director of a community-based program bringing arts and science to children and educators.  It was at this special p...

Recorded April 9, 2020.   Marnix Pauwels is a writer and coach based in Amsterdam.  Here is Marnix in his own words: Yeah, I know the dark side. I did the booze and the drugs and the cigarettes. I suffered through years and years of depression, anxiety, self-pity, anger and other devastating crap. And one day while the pain seemed unbearable, I realised I wanted to quit, you know, r...

This conversation was recorded in 2014 was Kevin was coming to Austin Texas for the ATX Television Festival to promote his series, "Enlisted", we had this conversation in advance of the festival.  Among other many other television projects, Kevin created and was show runner for Cougartown, the series starring Courtney Cox.

Dr. Adam Frank and Dennis talk personal histories, astrophysics, spirituality, Zen Buddhism, and more... Adam Frank is a Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Rochester as well as a popular science writer. He is the co-founder of NPR's 13.7 Cosmos and Culture Blog.  He also does regular on-air commentaries for All Things Considered and has two books on science culture published (the...

Clifford and Dennis have a conversation the early years in Clifford's life.... Clifford Johnson April 16 2020.  Professor Clifford V. Johnson’s work in science ranges from teaching and research into black holes, particle physics, string theory, and cosmology, to public outreach where he strives to put science back into the general culture. He helps artists, writers, and filmmakers incorporate...