Dr Brian Greene is professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University and co-founder of the World Science Festival, an annual week-long series of seminars and panel discussions that has taken place in New York since 2008 (loads of those panel discussions are available to watch here)
Ahead of his live talk this Sunday - A Time Travelers Tale - Dr Greene spoke to Hugh Sundae about string theory and science in the age of Trump.
Was the 2020 US election conducted properly? Will mail-in ballots be counted and will that count be allowed to stand? Will the US Supreme Court decide the final outcome? And what, in any case, will become of American democracy? In this urgent and timely event, University of Auckland lecturers use the lenses of law, political science, and psychology to explain this contested election and discuss the implications of the final outcome.
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E-cigarettes were initially regarded as a smoking-cessation tool. But in recent years, the vape market has grown beyond this to include first time smokers.
This has raised alam from experts, who warn there is growing evidence vaping could be more harmful than expected.
Jess interviewed Dr Kelly Burrowes, who says we won’t know whether e-cigarettes are more or less harmful than conventional cigarettes until the long term health impacts are known.
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