Episode 7: New Jersey Assemblyman Andrew Zwicker on Serving as a Physicist Legislator

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English - July 25, 2019 01:00 - 27 minutes - 18.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
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Shaughnessy talks with New Jersey Assemblyman Andrew Zwicker, a physicist at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and the only full-time STEM professional serving in the State Assembly. Assemblyman Zwicker talks about how being a scientist has made him a better legislator and some of the issues he is leading on in the state Assembly from election security to artificial intelligence.