Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDavid Strayer, "Beyond the Sea: The Hidden Life in Lakes, Streams, and Wetlands" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
Episode 198
Beyond the Sea: The Hidden Life in Lakes, Streams, and Wetlands (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024) is an exciting foray into Earth's inland waters, the remarka…
1 year, 5 months ago
Willingness for climate action in South Korea and Finland: A cross-cultural comparison
Climate change is among the most significant challenges facing modern society, and it impacts everyone across the world. How do people in different s…
1 year, 5 months ago
Cordelia Fine, "Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society" (Norton, 2018)
Episode 248
Many people believe that, at its core, biological sex is a fundamental, diverging force in human development. According to this overly familiar story…
1 year, 5 months ago
Other Minds with Peter Godfrey-Smith (EF, JP)
Episode 140
Peter Godfrey-Smith knows his cephalopods. Once of CUNY and now a professor of history and philosophy of science at University of Sydney, his truly c…
1 year, 6 months ago
Donald R. Prothero, "The Story of Earth's Climate in 25 Discoveries: How Scientists Found the Connections Between Climate and Life" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Episode 197
Over 4.5 billion years, Earth's climate has transformed tremendously. Before our more temperate recent past, the planet swung from one extreme to ano…
1 year, 6 months ago
Kostas Kampourakis, "Ancestry Reimagined: Dismantling the Myth of Genetic Ethnicities" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 490
Recent social and political psychological research indicates that increased access to ancestry testing has strengthened the notion of genetic essenti…
1 year, 8 months ago
Francisco Aboitiz, "A History of Bodies, Brains, and Minds: The Evolution of Life and Consciousness" (MIT Press, 2024)
Episode 138
Francisco Aboitiz is a professor at the Medical School and the director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Neuroscience at Pontificia Universidad Ca…
1 year, 8 months ago
Alan F. Blackwell, "Moral Codes: Designing Alternatives to AI" (MIT Press, 2024)
Episode 373
Why the world needs less AI and better programming languages. Decades ago, we believed that robots and computers would take over all the boring jobs …
1 year, 8 months ago
Bring Science to the Reviewing of Science: Evidence-Based Standards for Peer Review
Episode 194
Listen to this interview of Paul Ralph, Professor, Dalhousie University, Canada. We talk about what's wrong with peer review — and how to fix it!
Paul…
1 year, 9 months ago
Camilla Nord, "The Balanced Brain: The Science of Mental Health" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 32
There are many routes to mental well-being. In this groundbreaking book, neuroscientist Camilla Nord offers a fascinating tour of the scientific deve…
1 year, 9 months ago