UPDATE: This production has been cancelled due to recent advances with the COVID-19 Outbreak. Please see “Important Update About Ada and the Engine” for more information.
Join us Thursday, April 30 for a post-show conversation with two fellows from the Knights of Science Journalism.
KSJ Fellows are experts at raising questions at the intersection of science, technology and our daily lives.
Anil Ananthaswamy is an award-winning journalist, and former staff writer and deputy news editor for the London-based New Scientist magazine. He has been a guest editor for the science writing program at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and organizes and teaches an annual science journalism workshop at the National Centre for Biological Sciences in Bengaluru, India. He is a freelance feature editor for PNAS Front Matter. He writes regularly for New Scientist, Quanta, Scientific American, PNAS Front Matter and Nature, and has contributed to Nautilus, Matter, The Wall Street Journal, Discover and the UK’s Literary Review. His first book, The Edge of Physics, was voted book of the year in 2010 by UK’s Physics World, and his second book, The Man Who Wasn’t There, was long-listed for the 2016 Pen/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. His most recent book,Through Two Doors at Once was named one of Smithsonian’s Favorite Books of 2018 and one of Forbes’s 2018 Best Books About Astronomy, Physics and Mathematics.
Andrada Fiscutean is a science and technology journalist from Romania. She often writes about women in technology, Eastern European hackers, or journalists attacked with malware. Her work has been featured in Nature, Ars Technica, Wired, Vice Motherboard, and ZDNet. Passionate about the history of technology, Fiscutean owns several home computers made in Eastern Europe during the 1980s.