Comedians Interview Experts:Comedians Interview Experts: Understanding elections with Andrea Jones-Rooy and Lindsey Cormack (in NYC)
This week: How ignorance drives science
This show is exactly what it says. Every week one of your favorite comedians interviews an expert on a topic they’ve always wanted to know more about. Every Sunday come hear the funniest interviews about neuroscience, astrophysics, mental health, and more!
This week Andrea Jones-Rooy interviews Lindsey Cormack about elections, civic engagement, and how to participate in politics at a time when civic knowledge is alarmingly sparse.
Andrea Jones-Rooy Ph.D. is a data and political scientist whose life mission is to get a lot more thoughtful, creative, curious people involved in science. Come see The Data Science Spectacular and How to Win an Election at Caveat for more of her work!
Lindsey Cormack is a political scientist and associate professor at Stevens Institute of Technology. She is the author of How to Raise a Citizen (And Why It’s Up to You to Do It), host of the podcast Government That Doesn’t Suck!, and spends an unusual amount of time trying to convince people that government and politics are actually not that bad to get into.
Starts 7:30PM ET