The Edge of Space Time, this time on Planetary Radio Book Club Edition.

Welcome. I'm Matt Kaplan, Senior Communications Advisor for the Planetary Society, with more of the human adventure across the solar system and beyond.

It was our May's selection for the Society's Book Club. It encompasses literally everything in the universe, from quarks to galaxies, along with the dark matter that holds those galaxies together.

It also has one of the most enticing and intriguing titles anyone in our universe could hope for.

The Edge of Space Time, Particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie.

The Los Angeles Times called it astonishing.

And I'm inclined to agree.

I've read a lot of books about physics and cosmology,

but never before one that so astoundingly ties these fields to culturally aware.

Poetry, hip-hop, the prescient cosmologies of ancient thinkers, and the dire challenges

faced by science and scientists in 26.

Let's meet its author, Dr. Chanda Prescott Weinstein.

She is an associate professor of physics and astronomy and a core faculty member in

women's and gender studies at the University of New Hampshire. She conducts award-winning

theoretical physics research on dark matter and neutron stars and also does research on

black feminist science studies. Her first book, The Disordered Cosmos,

A Journey into Dark Matter, Space Time, and Dreams Deferred, won the 2011 Los Angeles Times

Book Prize in Science and Technology and the 2022 Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science.

And she is also a columnist for New Scientist magazine.

So please help me welcome Dr. Prescott Weinstein.

Welcome, Chanda.

Hi. Thank you for having me.

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