Awards for The Alchemy of Us
Winner, Connecticut Book Award (2021) • Finalist, LA Times Book Prize (Sci&Tech) (2021) • Winner, AAAS/Subaru Science Book Prize (2021) • Brown University Book Award (2021-22) • Amazon’s Best Science Books of 2020 • Smithsonian Magazine’s Ten Best Science Books of 2020 • Science Friday’s Best Science Books of 2020 • Science News Favorite Books of 2020 • AAAS/Subaru 2021 Young Adult Science Book Award Finalist • Big Think’s 10 Best Science and Technology Books of 2020 • Behavioral Scientist’s Notable Books of 2020
General
BBC Wales The Idea (March 23, 2021)
Scientific American (Dec. 3, 2020)
Brown Daily Herald (Oct 27, 2020)
Brown Alumni Monthly (Oct. 23, 2020)
Science Rules! with Bill Nye (Sept. 24, 2020)
The New York Times: Acrostic (Sept. 12, 2020)
Science for the People (Sept. 7, 2020)
Chemical & Engineering New (Aug. 29, 2020)
Undark Magazine Book Review (Aug. 21, 2020)
The Hindu Business Line (Aug. 14, 2020)
Star Talk: Technology and Us, with Ainissa Ramirez (July 13, 2020)
The Economist: Babbage podcast (July 8, 2020)
WNPR: How Inventions Have Transformed Us (June 26, 2020)
Edge: Interrogating & Shaping the World Through Science
The Pen Pod: Putting Tech Under the Microscope (June 16, 2020)
Lab Out Loud: How Inventions have Shaped Us (June 8, 2020)
WSHU: The Alchemy of Us (May 26, 2020)
Kirkus Reviews: The Inventions that Changed Us
Kirkus Reviews: STARRED REVIEW
NPR ShortWave (Aired: April 28, 2020)
Science Friday (Aired: April 24, 2020)
NPR(Dallas)/KERA (Aired: April 8, 2020)
Science Reads! (Aired: April 9, 2020)
CBC Spark (Aired: April 3, 2020)
WYBC: Sarah Boone—A Black Woman Inventor (Aired: Feb 18, 2019)
CGTN: Ainissa Ramirez talks the future of STEM education (Aired: Oct 5,2017)
NPR: This Teacher Wants to Excite Your Inner Scientist (Aired: September 3, 2015)
Ainissa Ramirez and the Importance of STEM Education (Aired: August 10, 2015)
SciTech Now
How Leaves Change Color (Aired: April 29, 2019)
The Internet and Our Brains (Aired: January 28, 2019)
Twitter and the Telegraph (Aired: January 14, 2019)
The Hidden Life of Magnets (Aired: October 15, 2018)
The Engineering Behind the Ironing Board (Aired: September 10, 2018)
Genetic Markers for Concussions (Aired: August 7, 2018)
Tires Made From Lettuce (Aired: June 18, 2018)
How Atoms Keep Time (Aired: January 29, 2018)
Spacesuit Secrets (Aired: December 18, 2017)
Women in the Space Industry (Aired: December 11, 2017)
How Plants Know Which Way Is Up? (Aired: October 16, 2017)
Magnets from Lightning (Aired: December 19, 2016)
Invisibility Cloaks (Aired: November 26, 2016)
The Physics of Ketchup (Aired: November 1, 2016)
Can Origami Save Lives? (Aired: July 27, 2016)
How Do Snowflakes Form? (Aired: April 27, 2016)
Could Bubbles Aid NASA in Catching Comets? (Aired: March 30, 2016)
The Power of the Nose (Aired: February 24, 2016)
Deflate Gate
Fox Business with Stuart Varney: Deflate-Gate (Aired: January 26, 2015)
Inside Edition: Deflate-Gate (Aired: January 26, 2015)
Time Magazine: Watch a Scientist Put ‘Deflategate’ Under the Microscope (Aired: January 22, 2015)
NPR: The Science Behind Deflate Gate (Aired: January 20, 2015)
NPR: Scientists Say the NFL “Deflate-Gate” Isn’t Hot Air (Aired: January 20, 2015)