Introduction

The first episode of the Cool Worlds podcast is with Dr. Rebecca Charbonneau, a historian of science and especially astronomy. David Kipping: We often think of history as critical to understanding the modern conflicts, wars, politics, economies. But we rarely apply that same thinking to science,. So I was excited to sit down with Rebecca and dive into that. She: Science is ultimately a human enterprise. And people, we're flawed, we're not perfect. Sometimes we can be brilliant by the times egotistical. Moments we could be heavily biased and then the next inspired.