SoniCambridge!

Unusually public radio from the Cambridge Science Festival!

If you could understand one thing about how the world works, what would it be? We asked budding school-age scientists what they want to know -- and then we took those questions to some of the brightest scientists in Cambridge.

Have a listen!

       Cambridge Science Festival Feature broadcast

      

SoniCambridge is produced by three Boston-based radio producers. 

Pien Huang is a producer for NPR/WBUR's On Point with Tom Ashbrook. She's curious about a lot of things, including why birds have tongues, why the universe expands, and how things get carbonated.

After earning his Ph.D. in oceanography a couple years ago, Ari Daniel Shapiro turned to radio and multimedia to tell stories about all types of science. He knew the audio software from his graduate work on the vocal communication of whales. Once he started recording people (instead of marine mammals), he actually understood what his subjects were saying. These days, Shapiro produces pieces about science for public radio programs and for academic, research and nonprofit organizations.

Emily Corwin produces and hosts The Neighborhood, a radio program at MIT's WMBR. She also works at the Public Radio Exchange (PRX.org), and moonlights as a private cello teacher. Emily spent a good part of her pre-school years incessantly asking "mom? Why are trees called trees?"