This week we're rerunning our 2024 episode with Maddie Stone, writer of The Science of Fiction blog, to celebrate the fact that Maddie has joined our team and The Science of Fiction now lives at Important, Not Important.

The Science of Fiction explores the real-world science behind fictional monsters and alien planets, and stuff like that.

Quinn and Maddie get into the reasons why The Science of Fiction was a perfect fit for Important, Not Important, and then we get into their conversation from last year.

More on Maddie:

Maddie is a prolific science journalist. She is a doctor of earth and environmental sciences. She's the former science editor of the technology website Gizmodo, and the founding editor of Earther, Gizmodo's climate-focused vertical.

Maddie has edited articles for The Verge, Polygon, and Grist, and her original and award winning journalism has appeared in National Geographic, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Grist, Vice, MIT Technology Room, Technology Review, and Drilled, and many other outlets we love and link to basically every day.

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INI Book Club:

Not The End of The World by Hannah Ritchie
The Right to Repair by Aaron Perzanowski
Find all of our guest recommendations at the INI Book Club: https://bookshop.org/lists/important-not-important-book-club

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Keep up with Maddie's writing, including her recent story holding Microsoft accountable to their sustainability pledges
Check out the Climate Reality Check report from Good Energy

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Produced by Willow Beck
Intro/outro by Tim Blane: timblane.com

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