The Worst Thing About My Job?

2min Snip

00:00

Play full episode

Summary

Transcript

Episode notes

I'd probably feel bad and like leave a 20 on the cash register. I'm like, I'd sneak into the movies. You could dance up there as much as you wanted. No one would know unless you accidentally hip check the basis in which case you have a problem. And do you have any good advice? How to approach academia if you're a student or how to find what you're really kind of excited about? Yeah.

Invisibility cloaks. Transparent frogs. Stealth bombers. Gorilla mischief. Theoretical optical physicist and Invisible Photologist Dr. Greg Gbur joins Alie to chat about light, illusions, secret technology, science fiction inspiration, terrible camouflage, great movies, historical mishaps, and even a few great household life hacks – and why you should go read a book on your porch. Perhaps his book, Invisibility: The History and Science of How Not To Be Seen.

Visit Dr. Greg Gbur’s blogs, Skulls in the Stars and Science Chamber of Horrors, and follow him on Twitter, Mastodon, Instagram and TikTok

Buy Dr. Gbur’s book, Invisibility: The History and Science of How Not To Be Seen, on Bookshop.org or Amazon

His 2019 book, Falling Felines and Fundamental Physics, is also available on Bookshop.org and Amazon

A donation went to Doctors Without Borders