GETTING CURIOUS | How Does The Universe Get It On? with Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

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Science, Self-improvement, Comedy, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 28 June 2023

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Is life one big cosmic orgy? To wrap up our Pride Beyond Borders series, we’re going big… with an episode all about our universe! Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein joins Jonathan to discuss why spacetime isn’t straight, what quantum spin can teach us about gender expression, and why the key to understanding the cosmos may just be (wait for it) the world’s biggest dental dam. Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is an Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy and Core Faculty in Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of New Hampshire. She is a researcher in particle cosmology and author of the award-winning book for general audiences, The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred. She is working on her next book, The Edge of Space-Time. You can follow Dr. Prescod-Weinstein on Twitter @IBJIYONGI, on Instagram and TikTok @chanda.prescod.weinstein, on Bluesky and Substack @chanda, and at cprescodweinstein.com. Curious for more? Here are some resources Dr. Prescod-Weinstein recommends: lgbt+physicists Astronomy and Astrophysics Outlist The Milky Way: An Autobiography of Our Galaxy by Moiya McTier The Dialogues: Conversations about the Nature of the Universe by Clifford V. Johnson The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking) by Katie Mack Risa Wechsler: The search for dark matter -- and what we've found so far | TED Talk Chanda Prescod-Weinstein: The search for the invisible matter that shapes the universe | TED Talk You can find more episodes about space (including one with Dr. Moiya McTier!), and the rest of our Pride Beyond Borders series, here. Follow us on Instagram @CuriousWithJVN to join the conversation. Jonathan is on Instagram @JVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Find books from Getting Curious guests at bookshop.org/shop/curiouswithjvn. Our executive producer is Erica Getto. Our producer is Chris McClure. Production support from Julie Carrillo and Emily Bossak. Our theme music is “Freak” by QUIÑ; for more, head to Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Getting Curious
0:06.0	Getting Curious, I'm Jonathan Van Ness, and every week I sit down for a gorgeous conversation
0:10.0	with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.
0:13.2	All month we've been celebrating Pride Beyond Borders and today we are like going like beyond
0:18.6	all the borders that you could ever even go through because we're going into
0:21.4	space time.
0:22.6	But if you want to go back into our other episodes
0:24.7	from Pride Month, because they really
0:25.7	have just been on point if we do say say ourselves,
0:28.3	you can get into some Haitian Voto,
0:30.4	you can do some global drag culture,
0:31.9	or queer communities in China.
0:34.0	We've really just been doing the most and having the most fun this month.
0:38.0	But to wrap up the series, we are going into an episode all about our universe.
0:41.0	So welcome to the show Ch Chonda Prescad Weinstein, who is a theoretical
0:46.4	physicist specializing in early universe cosmology. She is a tenured associate professor of physics and core faculty and
0:55.0	women's and gender studies at the University of New Hampshire. She's also the
0:59.2	author of The Disordered Cosmos, A Journey into Dark Matter, space time, and dreams deferred.
1:05.0	Chonda, my biggest question is, how gay is space?
1:10.6	That's really what I wanted to ask, and just how queer, like how LGBTQIA is space.
1:16.0	You're the most exciting person to ask about this, and we're so excited that you're on getting curious.
1:20.5	Sidebar, the earring game is so on point.
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