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On each episode, Lau- ren and Colin chat with an- other brilliant scientist about the most vexing questions in the universe: What was the big bang? What's inside a black hole? How does quantum entan- glement work? One recent episode fea- tured astrophysicist Katie Mack, who has 400,000+ Twitter followers as @As- troKatie. She is Perime- ter's inaugural Hawking Fellow in Cosmology and Science Communication, a position named in honour of her scientific hero, Ste- phen Hawking. She also wrote the won- derful book "The End of Ev- erything (Astrophysically Speaking)," which outlines the most likely ways our universe will go kaput (spoiler: not for a very, very long time ... probably). The end of the universe may seem like heavy fod- der for a podcast, but the conversation between Ka- tie, Lauren and Colin made the topic surprisingly fun and accessible for curious non-scientists like myself. 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Marshall Ward is a freelance writer and artist. Check out his award-win- ning podcast "Bonn Park" with Sara Geidlinger on Apple Podcasts, Insta- gram, Twitter and Face- book. INSTITUTE'S PODCAST EXPLORES QUESTIONS OF THE UNIVERSE Colin Hunter, Perimeter Institute's communications director, and Lauren Hayward, a quantum scientist and lecturer at Perimeter, co-host "Conversations at the Perimeter," a new podcast from Perimeter Institute in Waterloo. Gabriela Secara photo OPINION MARSHALL WARD Column