Episode 037 - Jill Pasteris: Christian scientist

3:00 Jill's career 5:00 Finding companionship as Christian scientists (not Christian Scientists...that's different...) 7:00 "Spiritual beings having a human experience" 8:00 Bioapatite; clearing up "loose ends" making a 20 year career arc 9:00 Apatite and phosphate: environment 13:00 Flint, Michigan: lead and protective minerals 14:00 Raman spectroscopy 16:00 Raman on the Mars 2020 rover; Alian Wang 17:00 Laser pointers, cat videos [the brave new world we live in] 18:00 The physics of Raman 19:00 Why lasers and Raman went hand in hand 20:00 Rayleigh vs. Raman scattering 21:00 Raman spectra 22:00 Raman: a (usually) nondestructive technique 23:00 The lecture example and the ease of sample prep for Raman 25:00 Raman peak heights and thermodynamics 26:00 Fingerprinting vs. understanding