# Scott Ransom
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Dr. Scott B. Ransom is a Partner in the Health & Life Sciences Advisory at Oliver Wyman. He serves as a consultant to hospitals, health systems, academic medical centers, physician groups, insurance companies, private equity firms, and universities on issues related to strategy-enabled transformation, organizational effectiveness and redesign, partnership and growth strategy, leading physician integration and engagement, restructuring and turnaround management, medical education, clinical and research operations, and mergers and acquisitions.
Pulsars, Globular Clusters, and the Best Clocks in the Universe
Astronomer Scott Ransom has discovered 30 pulsars and counting in a globular cluster known as Terzan 5. Learn more about these bizarre spinning neutron stars.
Invisible Worlds
You can’t see it, but it’s there, whether an atom, a gravity wave, or the bottom of the ocean … but we have technology that allows us to detect what eludes our sight. When we do, whole worlds open up.
Without telescopes, asteroids become visible only three seconds before they slam into the Earth. F…
BONUS - Soul-stirring Kilimanjaro Clinic (ft. Scott Ransom)
Listen as Ed shares his experience with Scott Ransom when they traveled to a clinic in Kilimanjaro. Their amazing and uplifting experience will make you want to visit yourself!
Cable Failures Endanger Renowned Puerto Rico Radio Telescope
Giant, aging cables that support one of the world's largest single-dish radio telescopes are slowly unraveling in this U.S. territory, pushing an observatory renowned for its key role in astronomical discoveries to the brink of collapse.
The Arecibo Observatory, which is tethered above a sinkhole i…
When Dinosaur Books Are More Dangerous Than Playboy Magazine
Scott Ransom’s mom grounded him from the nonfiction section of the library so that he would not be corrupted by evolutionary ideas from godless secular scientists. But the questions persisted and the fascination grew. Many years later, he wrote a book reconciling modern evolutionary science with an…
Millisecond Pulsars, Magnetars, and Black Holes: The Wickedly Cool Stellar Undead
The 9th Hintze Lecture delivered by Professor Scott Ransom The most massive stars burn the fastest and brightest and die spectacularly, exploding as supernovae and leaving behind some of the most fantastic objects in the Universe: neutron stars and black holes. These are fascinating objects themsel…
November 2014 Extra
Pulsars and Comets Everywhere. In the show this time, we talk to Dr. Scott Ransom about the International Pulsar Timing Array [13:53 - 30:18], Sally Cooper tells us about hunting pulsars with the LOFAR telescope in this month's JodBite [01:00 - 13:47], and your astronomy questions are answered by D…
Bringing R2-D2 from the screen to real life with Pacific Northwest Droid Builders
May the Fourth Be With you, because today is Star Wars Day!
For nearly 50 years, the Star Wars franchise has captured the hearts of SO MANY sci-fi and fantasy fans. And for a lot of people, it’s all about the droids… R2-D2 and C-3PO, to be precise.
This past weekend, that love of droids was on fu…
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