Join us online as we livestream our show from the Unitarian Universalist Church of Amherst, Massachusetts. This show will be presented in front of a very limited audience of cast and crew, but will be livestreamed to be watched all around the world.

Hosts Nisse Greenberg and Erin Barker brings us four stories of times where people were the exception or where science made them exceptional.

Stories by:

Ang Buxton (they/them) is a nonbinary comedian, DJ and teacher from Springfield, MA. Ang has headlined comedy shows all around New England and beyond, and has DJ'd for events like Northampton Pride. Ang is a Teach for America alum and is dedicated to educational equity, and views their work as a comedian as queer activism.

Salman Hameed is Charles Taylor and Associate Professor of Integrated Science and Humanities at Hampshire College, Amherst, MA. He holds a Ph.D. in astronomy from New Mexico State University at Las Cruces and a B.S. in physics and astronomy from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His research interests have now moved in a sociological direction, and today his primary research focuses on understanding the reception of science in Muslim societies and how Muslims view the relationship between science & religion. He is also actively engaged in science communication and is the founder and CEO of Kainaat Studios that produces astronomy content in Urdu for audience in Pakistan. He has a YouTube channel for Urdu videos and a weekly astronomy segment in English for a radio station in Western Massachusetts. His classes focus on issues related to science, religion & society, and his favorite class is titled, “Aliens: Close Encounters of a Multidisciplinary Kind”. 

Jo Hawthorn has at points been a teacher, clinician, and youth worker. Now these are more like hobbies alongside the full-time job of Post Concussion Syndrome/TBI recovery and slowly building a homestead out of an apartment and an off-site education center. They are still and perpetually a scientist, and you can be, too.