S01 Episode 3: Two Minutes to Midnight

Whenever you walk to your class in Pupin Hall, you’re strolling on top of nuclear history. Yet unlike the other institution famously involved in the Manhattan Project, the University of Chicago, Columbia has made little effort to commemorate its role in the creation of nuclear power, even destroying the main artifact of atomic research from the 1940s. In this week’s episode of The Ear, reporter Arminda Downey Mavromatis endeavors to understand Columbia’s erasure of its nuclear past. Music Credits: A List of Ways to Die - Lee Rosevere; Expectations - Lee Rosevere; Small Steps - Lee Rosevere; March - Podington Bear; Steps - Podington Bear; Across the River - Podington Bear; The Cyclotronist’s Nightmare - Arthur Roberts, physicssongs.org; The End is Near - Gunnar Olsen.