Chanda Prescod‑Weinstein

speaker

185 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 21 Jul

Chanda Prescod‑Weinstein’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 1.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

The Nature Of with Willow Defebaugh · Exploring the Edges of the Universe With Chanda Prescod-Weinstein · 21 Jul 2026 podcast

So that was kind of a cool like, oh, the universe isn't what we thought it was.

And there's just like a lot of that in physics.

The universe isn't what we thought it was.

With this book, eventually where I landed was on the Akan proverb, an idea of Sankofa.

And this is kind of captured in this proverb, and

And this means it is not incorrect to go back and get what you may have forgotten.

And it is represented visually as a bird that has its head turned backwards.

So it's kind of moving forward while looking back.

I will say I wrote The Edge of Spacetime with a sense of urgency because I was looking around and realizing that the funding support for particle physics and cosmology and the stability that I had come of age with as a graduate student was evaporating.

And public support wasn't necessarily there for sustaining it.

And so there's an element of the book that was like, I need to convince my audience that this is something that matters to them politically, materially, spiritually, culturally.

And so the argument I make to my audience is we should go back and get our history.

And knowing our history includes knowing our cosmic history.

There was also an important tie in there for me as a Black person of reaching into my Black cultural reference points that are part of the way that I think about the doing of science and why my science matters.

I think of the edge of space-time as

as my vulnerable book.

I think a lot of people think that Disordered Cosmos, my first book, was my vulnerable book because in it I talk about things that are messed up in science and race and gender and how those shape people's participation in science.

But actually, like, those are easy criticisms to offer.

And for me, The Edge of Spacetime was very much like, let me just open, like, my Black, queer, Jewish, particle cosmologist brain and tell you what it's like to walk around inside.

And so the actual title, The Edge of Spacetime, is a phrase from a textbook about cosmology that was written by Stephen Hawking and George F. R. Ellis.

Showing 61–80 of 185 · page 4 of 10