# Marcus Chown

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Hotel Mars with Casey Dreier, John Batchelor, & Dr. Livingston addressing NASA science & mission cuts/cancellations.

John and I welcomed Casey Dreier from The Planetary Society to the program to discuss the proposed NASA space and science budget cuts and the elimination of several key projects. Casey suggested that the direction for these cuts likely originated from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), with…

The Space Show presents the declassified PARCAE satellite system including GPS & more with Richard Easton, Pete Wilhelm & Lee Hammarstrom

This was a special 2-hour, 16-minute Zoom program.On The Space Show website, the program is available in the audio-only format. Both video and audio are available on this Substack page. Our discussion focused on the development and evolution of GPS and the recently declassified PARCAE satellite tec…

Extra: The one thing you need to know about electricity

Guest: Marcus Chown, Science Writer and author of ‘The One Thing You Need to Know’

Why Some Ideas Change the World & Black Holes: Science’s Greatest Enigma - SYSK Choice

The lottery is one of the few games where everyone knows the odds are terrible—and millions of people play anyway. Why? It turns out there are some fascinating psychological reasons people buy lottery tickets, along with a few surprising facts about the odds and strategies that most players never c…

Gravity's Missing Particle With Marcus Chown (490)

Science writer and former astrophysicist Marcus Chown joins us to discuss the elusive graviton - the theoretical particle behind gravity. In this chat we dig into the four fundamental forces of nature, why gravity is so uniquely hard to pin down, and why detecting a graviton would require a detecto…

The Universe's Mathematical Twin With Marcus Chown [Bonus Episode] (491)

Science writer and journalist Marcus Chown returns for a shorter, more philosophical chat. When Einstein first proposed gravitational waves, atoms hadn't even been discovered, so who knows what the next century holds? We dig into the strange idea of the universe's "mathematical twin," and discuss t…