#25 Matt O'Dowd - PBS Spacetime, Science on YouTube, Quasars

About this episode

David is joined by Matt O'Dowd to discuss science communication and quasars.

Use code coolworldspodcast at https://incogni.com/coolworldspodcast to get an exclusive 60% off. In this week's episode, David is joined by Matt O'Dowd, Professor of Physics at Lehman College, CUNY. Matt is the host of the phenomenally successful PBS Spacetime show and an avid communicator of science. To support this podcast and our research lab, head to https://coolworldslab.com/support Cool Worlds Podcast Theme by Hill [https://open.spotify.com/artist/1hdkvBtRdOW4SPsnxCXOjK]

People in this episode

Host: David

Guest: Matt O'Dowd

Topics covered

• science communication
• quasars
• YouTube science
• PBS Spacetime
• physics

Keywords

• Matt O'Dowd
• PBS Spacetime
• science communication
• quasars
• YouTube

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Organizations: PBS Spacetime, Lehman College, CUNY, Cool Worlds Podcast, coolworldslab

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