Thomas Levenson
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Thomas Levenson

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My day job has me professing science writing at MIT, where I teach in the Institute's Graduate Program in Science Writing. I continue to do what I did before I joined the professoriat: write books (and the occasional article), and make documentary films about science, its history, and its interaction with the broader culture in which scientific lives and discoveries unfold. I've written six books. "Money for Nothing" explores the connection between the revolutionary advances in science of th 17th century with the birth of financial capitalism by retelling the story of the first great stock market boom, fraud and crash: the South Sea Bubble of 1720. "The Hunt For Vulcan" tells the story of the planet that wasn't there -- and yet was discovered over and over again. It is both a tale of scientific undiscovery and breakthrough, and an investigation into how advances in science really occur (as opposed to what they tell us in high school). My previous books include "Newton and the Counterfeiter" -- which is a great story from a little-known corner of Isaac Newton's life -- and "Einstein in Berlin," which is, I have reason to hope, on the verge of reissue. Besides writing, film making and generally being dour about the daily news, I lead an almost entirely conventional life in one of Boston's inner suburbs with a family that gives me great joy.
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    • So Very Small

    • How Humans Discovered the Microcosmos, Defeated Germs--and May Still Lose the War Against Infectious Disease
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    • …And How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet, Discovered Relativity, and Deciphered the Universe
    • By: Thomas Levenson
    • Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
    • Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
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    • The True Believers, Grifters, and Cynics Who Convinced Us to Reject Vaccines
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