Episode 65: New Ways of Looking

<p>How does a camera work?<br /> <br /> no, a digital camera, I mean. <br /> <br /> yeah... yeah.. optics. I know all about lenses.<br /> how does the plate at the back.. the one the photons hit..<br /> how does it turn photons into electronic signals that turn into digital information?<br /> we're talking: CCDs,CMOS cameras, MKIDs, and superconducting bolometers!<br /> <br /> Dr. Danica Marsden and Dr. Suresh Sivanandam are here, and our guest today is award winning author Elizabeth Bear!</p>