In nineteenth-century America, astronomical observatories had become something of a craze and, despite an intriguing history of bold attempts to manifest a grand observatory in the bustling metropolis around Brooklyn and Manhattan, none succeeded. The rise and fall of the three largest never-built public New York metropolitan area observatories proposed between 1847 and the first world war—the Brooklyn Observatory, the New York Astronomical Observatory in Central Park, and the observatory of the Brooklyn Institute (now the Brooklyn Museum)—is a tale of great passion and mislaid dreams. In an inspired, Fitzcarraldian ambition, Pioneer Works plans to hoist a stunning observatory atop the former factory originally named Pioneer Iron Works. The Pioneer Works Observatory—a public observatory the likes of which New York City has never seen—will offer a magical experience, free and available to all. To honor the city’s history of false starts, the Broadcast team commissioned science writer, historian, and antique telescope enthusiast, Trudy Bell, to reflect upon New York City’s observatories that might have been. Read the full piece at the link in bio🔗🌃🔭🌠
In nineteenth-century America, astronomical observatories had become something of a craze and, despite an intriguing history of bold attempts to manifest a grand observatory in the bustling metropolis around Brooklyn and Manhattan, none succeeded. The rise and fall of the three largest never-built public New York metropolitan area observatories proposed between 1847 and the first world war—the Brooklyn Observatory, the New York Astronomical Observatory in Central Park, and the observatory of the Brooklyn Institute (now the Brooklyn Museum)—is a tale of great passion and mislaid dreams. In an inspired, Fitzcarraldian ambition, Pioneer Works plans to hoist a stunning observatory atop the former factory originally named Pioneer Iron Works. The Pioneer Works Observatory—a public observatory the likes of which New York City has never seen—will offer a magical experience, free and available to all. To honor the city’s history of false starts, the Broadcast team commissioned science writer, historian, and antique telescope enthusiast, Trudy Bell, to reflect upon New York City’s observatories that might have been. Read the full piece at the link in bio🔗🌃🔭🌠
In nineteenth-century America, astronomical observatories had become something of a craze and, despite an intriguing history of bold attempts to manifest a grand observatory in the bustling metropolis around Brooklyn and Manhattan, none succeeded. The rise and fall of the three largest never-built public New York metropolitan area observatories proposed between 1847 and the first world war—the Brooklyn Observatory, the New York Astronomical Observatory in Central Park, and the observatory of the Brooklyn Institute (now the Brooklyn Museum)—is a tale of great passion and mislaid dreams. In an inspired, Fitzcarraldian ambition, Pioneer Works plans to hoist a stunning observatory atop the former factory originally named Pioneer Iron Works. The Pioneer Works Observatory—a public observatory the likes of which New York City has never seen—will offer a magical experience, free and available to all. To honor the city’s history of false starts, the Broadcast team commissioned science writer, historian, and antique telescope enthusiast, Trudy Bell, to reflect upon New York City’s observatories that might have been. Read the full piece at the link in bio🔗🌃🔭🌠
In nineteenth-century America, astronomical observatories had become something of a craze and, despite an intriguing history of bold attempts to manifest a grand observatory in the bustling metropolis around Brooklyn and Manhattan, none succeeded. The rise and fall of the three largest never-built public New York metropolitan area observatories proposed between 1847 and the first world war—the Brooklyn Observatory, the New York Astronomical Observatory in Central Park, and the observatory of the Brooklyn Institute (now the Brooklyn Museum)—is a tale of great passion and mislaid dreams. In an inspired, Fitzcarraldian ambition, Pioneer Works plans to hoist a stunning observatory atop the former factory originally named Pioneer Iron Works. The Pioneer Works Observatory—a public observatory the likes of which New York City has never seen—will offer a magical experience, free and available to all. To honor the city’s history of false starts, the Broadcast team commissioned science writer, historian, and antique telescope enthusiast, Trudy Bell, to reflect upon New York City’s observatories that might have been. Read the full piece at the link in bio🔗🌃🔭🌠
In nineteenth-century America, astronomical observatories had become something of a craze and, despite an intriguing history of bold attempts to manifest a grand observatory in the bustling metropolis around Brooklyn and Manhattan, none succeeded. The rise and fall of the three largest never-built public New York metropolitan area observatories proposed between 1847 and the first world war—the Brooklyn Observatory, the New York Astronomical Observatory in Central Park, and the observatory of the Brooklyn Institute (now the Brooklyn Museum)—is a tale of great passion and mislaid dreams. In an inspired, Fitzcarraldian ambition, Pioneer Works plans to hoist a stunning observatory atop the former factory originally named Pioneer Iron Works. The Pioneer Works Observatory—a public observatory the likes of which New York City has never seen—will offer a magical experience, free and available to all. To honor the city’s history of false starts, the Broadcast team commissioned science writer, historian, and antique telescope enthusiast, Trudy Bell, to reflect upon New York City’s observatories that might have been. Read the full piece at the link in bio🔗🌃🔭🌠
In nineteenth-century America, astronomical observatories had become something of a craze and, despite an intriguing history of bold attempts to manifest a grand observatory in the bustling metropolis around Brooklyn and Manhattan, none succeeded. The rise and fall of the three largest never-built public New York metropolitan area observatories proposed between 1847 and the first world war—the Brooklyn Observatory, the New York Astronomical Observatory in Central Park, and the observatory of the Brooklyn Institute (now the Brooklyn Museum)—is a tale of great passion and mislaid dreams. In an inspired, Fitzcarraldian ambition, Pioneer Works plans to hoist a stunning observatory atop the former factory originally named Pioneer Iron Works. The Pioneer Works Observatory—a public observatory the likes of which New York City has never seen—will offer a magical experience, free and available to all. To honor the city’s history of false starts, the Broadcast team commissioned science writer, historian, and antique telescope enthusiast, Trudy Bell, to reflect upon New York City’s observatories that might have been. Read the full piece at the link in bio🔗🌃🔭🌠
In nineteenth-century America, astronomical observatories had become something of a craze and, despite an intriguing history of bold attempts to manifest a grand observatory in the bustling metropolis around Brooklyn and Manhattan, none succeeded. The rise and fall of the three largest never-built public New York metropolitan area observatories proposed between 1847 and the first world war—the Brooklyn Observatory, the New York Astronomical Observatory in Central Park, and the observatory of the Brooklyn Institute (now the Brooklyn Museum)—is a tale of great passion and mislaid dreams. In an inspired, Fitzcarraldian ambition, Pioneer Works plans to hoist a stunning observatory atop the former factory originally named Pioneer Iron Works. The Pioneer Works Observatory—a public observatory the likes of which New York City has never seen—will offer a magical experience, free and available to all. To honor the city’s history of false starts, the Broadcast team commissioned science writer, historian, and antique telescope enthusiast, Trudy Bell, to reflect upon New York City’s observatories that might have been. Read the full piece at the link in bio🔗🌃🔭🌠
In nineteenth-century America, astronomical observatories had become something of a craze and, despite an intriguing history of bold attempts to manifest a grand observatory in the bustling metropolis around Brooklyn and Manhattan, none succeeded. The rise and fall of the three largest never-built public New York metropolitan area observatories proposed between 1847 and the first world war—the Brooklyn Observatory, the New York Astronomical Observatory in Central Park, and the observatory of the Brooklyn Institute (now the Brooklyn Museum)—is a tale of great passion and mislaid dreams. In an inspired, Fitzcarraldian ambition, Pioneer Works plans to hoist a stunning observatory atop the former factory originally named Pioneer Iron Works. The Pioneer Works Observatory—a public observatory the likes of which New York City has never seen—will offer a magical experience, free and available to all. To honor the city’s history of false starts, the Broadcast team commissioned science writer, historian, and antique telescope enthusiast, Trudy Bell, to reflect upon New York City’s observatories that might have been. Read the full piece at the link in bio🔗🌃🔭🌠
In nineteenth-century America, astronomical observatories had become something of a craze and, despite an intriguing history of bold attempts to manifest a grand observatory in the bustling metropolis around Brooklyn and Manhattan, none succeeded. The rise and fall of the three largest never-built public New York metropolitan area observatories proposed between 1847 and the first world war—the Brooklyn Observatory, the New York Astronomical Observatory in Central Park, and the observatory of the Brooklyn Institute (now the Brooklyn Museum)—is a tale of great passion and mislaid dreams. In an inspired, Fitzcarraldian ambition, Pioneer Works plans to hoist a stunning observatory atop the former factory originally named Pioneer Iron Works. The Pioneer Works Observatory—a public observatory the likes of which New York City has never seen—will offer a magical experience, free and available to all. To honor the city’s history of false starts, the Broadcast team commissioned science writer, historian, and antique telescope enthusiast, Trudy Bell, to reflect upon New York City’s observatories that might have been. Read the full piece at the link in bio🔗🌃🔭🌠
In nineteenth-century America, astronomical observatories had become something of a craze and, despite an intriguing history of bold attempts to manifest a grand observatory in the bustling metropolis around Brooklyn and Manhattan, none succeeded. The rise and fall of the three largest never-built public New York metropolitan area observatories proposed between 1847 and the first world war—the Brooklyn Observatory, the New York Astronomical Observatory in Central Park, and the observatory of the Brooklyn Institute (now the Brooklyn Museum)—is a tale of great passion and mislaid dreams. In an inspired, Fitzcarraldian ambition, Pioneer Works plans to hoist a stunning observatory atop the former factory originally named Pioneer Iron Works. The Pioneer Works Observatory—a public observatory the likes of which New York City has never seen—will offer a magical experience, free and available to all. To honor the city’s history of false starts, the Broadcast team commissioned science writer, historian, and antique telescope enthusiast, Trudy Bell, to reflect upon New York City’s observatories that might have been. Read the full piece at the link in bio🔗🌃🔭🌠
“I don’t want to talk about my films.” It was quite a proviso, coming from legendary German filmmaker Werner Herzog, at the start of his conversation with Janna Levin at Pioneer Works in October. Known for producing, writing, and directing more than 60 feature and documentary films, including Nosferatu, Fitzcarraldo, and Grizzly Man, Herzog wanted to focus instead on his long standing writing practice—specifically, his new memoir, Every Man for Himself and God Against All. Long-awaited, the book is as inventive and daring as Herzog is, and tells the story of his epic artistic career in his inimitable voice. Luckily for everyone, Herzog did end up discussing his films (if only as a means to return to poetry), as well as his childhood of poverty in Germany, the “murderousness” of nature, and surviving against all odds. Watch more on #PWBroadcast at the link in bio🔗🎥📚
Werner Herzog is a poet (and he knows it). The iconic filmmaker joined me as part of our Science vs. Fiction conversation series to talk writing as survival, and the madness of nature. @pioneerworks Published on Pioneer Works Broadcast https://pioneerworks.org/broadcast/werner-herzog-janna-levin-science-vs-fiction
Werner Herzog is a poet (and he knows it). The iconic filmmaker joined me as part of our Science vs. Fiction conversation series to talk writing as survival, and the madness of nature. @pioneerworks Published on Pioneer Works Broadcast https://pioneerworks.org/broadcast/werner-herzog-janna-levin-science-vs-fiction
Werner Herzog is a poet (and he knows it). The iconic filmmaker joined me as part of our Science vs. Fiction conversation series to talk writing as survival, and the madness of nature. @pioneerworks Published on Pioneer Works Broadcast https://pioneerworks.org/broadcast/werner-herzog-janna-levin-science-vs-fiction
Werner Herzog is a poet (and he knows it). The iconic filmmaker joined me as part of our Science vs. Fiction conversation series to talk writing as survival, and the madness of nature. @pioneerworks Published on Pioneer Works Broadcast https://pioneerworks.org/broadcast/werner-herzog-janna-levin-science-vs-fiction
Werner Herzog is a poet (and he knows it). The iconic filmmaker joined me as part of our Science vs. Fiction conversation series to talk writing as survival, and the madness of nature. @pioneerworks Published on Pioneer Works Broadcast https://pioneerworks.org/broadcast/werner-herzog-janna-levin-science-vs-fiction
Werner Herzog is a poet (and he knows it). The iconic filmmaker joined me as part of our Science vs. Fiction conversation series to talk writing as survival, and the madness of nature. @pioneerworks Published on Pioneer Works Broadcast https://pioneerworks.org/broadcast/werner-herzog-janna-levin-science-vs-fiction
Werner Herzog is a poet (and he knows it). The iconic filmmaker joined me as part of our Science vs. Fiction conversation series to talk writing as survival, and the madness of nature. @pioneerworks Published on Pioneer Works Broadcast https://pioneerworks.org/broadcast/werner-herzog-janna-levin-science-vs-fiction
Werner Herzog is a poet (and he knows it). The iconic filmmaker joined me as part of our Science vs. Fiction conversation series to talk writing as survival, and the madness of nature. @pioneerworks Published on Pioneer Works Broadcast https://pioneerworks.org/broadcast/werner-herzog-janna-levin-science-vs-fiction
Space is hard. The commercial lunar lander launched today may be lost. Along with 20 payloads including human remains (and the remains from one dog). Go @nasa and @astrobotictechnology. Still cheering you on. @nbcnews @nbcnewsnow
Traumatic events can overwhelm the brain, hijack the body and distort one’s sense of self. Author of The Body Keeps the Score Bessel van der Kolk (@bessel_van) joins Rachel Yehuda (@RachelYehudaPHD) and Janna Levin (@JannaLevin) to consider the impact of trauma on our bodies and brains and the possibility and promise of our resilience. Watch the full conversation today on #PWBroadcast at the link in bio 🔗💊
We hope to see some of you at the Sundance Film Festival ✨ next week. Pioneer Works will present “Science vs. Fiction” featuring famed director and screenwriter Jonathan Nolan in conversation with @jannalevin, astrophysics professor and Chief Science Officer of Pioneer Works. The two will explore his catalog of imaginative works from Memento to The Prestige to Westworld to The Peripheral. This event is presented by Pioneer Works and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation with support from the Simons Foundation. The event takes place on Tuesday, January 23rd, 2024, at 4:30pm MST at the Filmmaker Lodge in Park City, Utah. It’s free and open to the public—a festival pass is not needed to attend. The event will also be filmed and published on Pioneer Works Broadcast. Link in bio for more details. @jannalevin @Sundanceorg @sciencesandbox @kilterfilms
In the wee hours of the morning a commercial flight launches to the moon carrying @NASA payloads and some human remains (plus the remains of someone’s beloved dog) @nbcnewsnow @nbcnews
In the midst of a seizure, a young man falls onto the subway tracks as a train barrels into the station. In a split second, a bystander throws himself off the platform to flatten the young man down between the rails with his own body in the hopes the train will pass overhead without killing either of them. They both survive. Altruism, the subject of my first episode as co-host on The Joy of Why, a podcast from @quantamag with incredible guest Stephanie Preston, our fab editors @7homas and @johnrennie87, co-host Steve Strogatz there in spirit, and the awesome team @prxofficial Tune in here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-did-altruism-evolve/id1608948873?i=1000645435174
