Join us this spring for the sixth annual nexus, the Northeast's largest conference dedicated to critical thinking and science education.

It's all going down in New York City the weekend of April 11th through 13th, 2014.

We're excited to feature a keynote by physicist Lawrence Krause, who's authored bestsellers like the Physics of Star Trek,

and who just starred with Richard Dawkins in a new film last year called The Unbelievers.

This is in addition to a great lineup of other speakers like Paul Offutt, expert on vaccines and infectious disease, and Katie Coleman, veteran astronaut for NASA.

Of course, Massimo and I will be there taping a live episode of the rationally speaking podcast,

and so will the cast of The Skeptics Guide to the Universe. Get your tickets now at nexus.org. That's

nec-s-s-S-S-org. Get your tickets today. Rationally speaking is a presentation of New York City Skeptics

dedicated to promoting critical thinking, skeptical inquiry, and science education.

For more information, please visit us at nCCEPTICs.org.

Welcome to rationally speaking, the podcast where we explore the borderlands between reason and nonsense.

I'm your host, Massimo Piliucci, and with me as always, is my co-host, Julia Galev.

Julia, what are we going to talk about today?

Well, Massimo, today I'm pleased to welcome our guest, Edward Frankel.

Ed is a professor of math at the University of California at Berkeley working on representation

theory, algebra, geometry, and mathematical physics. And he's most well known among the general

public for being the author of Love and Math, the Heart of Hidden Reality, which has been

reviewed in, as far as I can tell, like all of the major media outlets this year.

I was named one of the top ten books of the month by The New Yorker and The Guardian

and one of the best science books of the year by Amazon.

So we're going to talk about love and math, among other delightful topics with Ed.

Welcome to the show, Ed.

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